Initially we were thinking something along the

‘Industrial’ genre and had taken inspiration

from Nine Inch Nails but choosing something

a little more Neo-Industrial we went with

‘Innerpartysystem’. We asked permission for

the song ‘Don’t Stop’.

However after seeing the new release ‘Misery’

Maroon Five we decided we wanted to do this

song as we found the Video original and the

song catchy; something a wider genre would

be appealed by. We then requested song

permission for this song and started plotting

our coursework around this; doing an

audience profile and audience profile around

the alternative pop genre (most fitting to

Maroon Five).

Personally I took inspiration from

the farce like video ‘I Write Sins

Not Tragedies by Panic! @ The

Disco’. The use of costume and a

clown theme to represent the

destruction of innocence appealed

to me greatly. I also looked at a

range of costumes from bands like

‘Muse’ to ‘David Bowie’ and

‘Queen’ as from them it is quite

apparent that appearance means

something and that eccentricity

usually gets publicity.

When researching the industrial genre I took

heavy influence from the video ‘Don’t Stop’

as aforementioned. The reason for this is I

found the use of stop motion and combined

film to represent insanity and the heavy use

of iconography to be quite moving and it got

the message of the song through very

clearly, seeming to highlight the points and

even make it better.

Because of our liking of the song ‘Moves Like Jagger’ we thought we would do this song when researching

Maroon 5, however after seeing the video we decided to choose

the less known song ‘Misery’ in the hopes of making it more original.

We looked at many types of genre, from Industrial to Rock, pop

dance electronic and all in-between, eventually we decided

On a alternative Pop video simply because this is the most

popular genre of the moment making ideas present in pretty

much every Video we watched, ideas we could use to help

produce our own.

As a final stage of research we had to choose

between our two preferred bands ‘The Feeling’ and

‘Maroon Five’, due to the fact ‘The Feeling’ were

playing live at Metro the week we had to decide we

choose to go and see them play live, however after

seeing ‘The Feeling’ we decided that because their

album was older than Maroon 5’s we wanted to do

something that was new and this eventually was the

reason we choose to use Maroon Five’s song,

however if we had not choose this song we would

have done ‘Set My World On Fire, The Feeling’ as this

video too was one of the lesser known singles and

therefore easier to make our own and a bit more

unique.

David

Leighton