Chosen Song.

Chosen Song

Because the choice of songs to choose from to do my music video was so vast I decided to quickly focus on the mood I wanted to express in the video and a rough idea of what kind of story I wanted to show.

I wanted to do a music video about a love story, but to make this particular love story unique I wanted it to be the boy being hurt emotionally by a woman rather than the other way round that normally happens in typical love stories.

After deciding on this rough idea I thought it would be best to choose a song I know pretty well and also enjoy listening too, I thought this would be the best idea as to how to choose my song as I know I would understand the lyrics more to a song I listen to frequently and the fact that I actually enjoy this particular track will help me to not get bored or loose enthusiasm with my song choice.

The song I have chosen isn’t the most well known song and I feel this will work in my favour as people won’t have any or very little pre conceived ideas of how the video should look as they will probably be hearing the song for the first time and therefore see only my ideas featured in the music video throughout.

My chosen song is called ‘Your Eyes’ and is by the band ‘Bombay Bicycle Club’. The link to the song on YouTube is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UEnZNuxEUA . Bombay Bicycle Club are an English indie rock band from Crouch End, London. The band is made up of Jack Steadman (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Jamie MacColl (guitar), Ed Nash (bass) and Suren de Saram (drums).

The band was asked to play the opening performance of 2006's V Festival after winning Channel 4's "Road to V" competition. Following the release of two EPs and their debut single "Evening/Morning", the band recorded their debut album, I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose. The album was released on 6 July 2009. The band released their second album, Flaws, on 9 July 2010 and their third album, A Different Kind of Fix, on 26 August 2011. The bands label is ‘Island Records’.