When it came to choosing an artist we knew that we wanted a female singer for obvious reasons but we were quite open to genre. These are just a few artists we considered and read on to find out more on our final decision.
Natasha Bedingfield
The Natasha Bedingfield song "these words" seemed like a great choice, mostly because it allowed so much creative freedom. We all had ideas and different interpretations, all of which would have leant themselves well to a student project. Alas the song in question already has a pretty successful video and we felt that it would reflect negatively upon on our own work whenever someone was to make comparisons between are amateur production and a professional one.
The Tingtings
There were several reasons I thought The Ting Tings would be a good choice of artist. Take for example the song above, "That's not my name", the artist enunciates very clearly and I thought it would be a very suitable song to lip sync. I also liked the pace of their music which I think would allow for some interesting to the beat editing. This song has a video but it's very minimalist and we thought we could make a video and it would be impossible to compare the two as they would be very different. Another song "Hands" doesn't yet have a video and would have given us a lot of freedom. However as a group we were sure that if we were to make a video for either of these songs it would be completely illustrative, which would compliment the song but we wanted to explore other tunes that we might be able to do something more interesting with.
Josh stone
Josh Stone is a lovely female singer and her voice would have suited our Sylvda very well, the predominant reason we decided against using her songs was that the actual style of singing would be hard to get the same every time, the stress on the syllables and the drawn out notes are all things I imagine would make lip syncing more frustrating and hard to achieve.
So we eventually decided on...
Lily Allen - Mr Blue Sky
This song is actually a cover of the 1977 hit by ELO or the Electric Light Orchestra. We thought this song had the most potential; it worked well illustratively and suggested amplification, of course their is no video giving us completely blank starting point, It would be easy to sing due to Lily Allens clean singing style and musically it was very interesting. That is, that you'll noticed that the timing changes a few times throughout the song giving us room to edit in many different way. The mix of synthesised sounds and vocal singing give us a lot to work with. Lilly Allen herself has a distinct accent you might find in London which seems really appropriate considering our probable filming locations.
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