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 a

song by the band‘Innerpartysystem’ (Who are

also of the industrial genre). 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

chose 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 chose 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

From the Innerpartysystem video we hope to recreate a few

aspects such as ‘Don’t Stop’ the use of Stop Motion in film

to create a jerky almost electric feel to the Video that

seemed to give it an energy. Also the use of high speed

cuts and match on action speed this video up and it gives it

a high speed action like feeling; for some parts of our video

(particularly the verses) we wish to recreate this to give it a

uniqueness and energy.

From ‘I Write Sins Not Tragedies’ by Panic! @ The Disco we wish to recreate

the symbolism shown in the video and how the use of set and character can

help reinforce the message or lyrics of the song. Furthermore in this song I

believe the use of mise-en-scène particular costume adaptation creates a very

eccentric style which creates significant visual impact; whilst the dress style

used in our video may not be the same as this I hope to recreate the

individuality through costume within ours.

Furthermore although we only researched ‘The

Feeling’ by seeing them live I have recently

looked through their music video’s and songs

and have noticed how their music is all rather

‘PG’ in the sense that it could be watched by all

members of the family. However

‘Innerpartysystem’s music is a lot more

controversial, so I hope to combine the

techniques used In some of the music by

‘Innerpartysystem’ whilst retaining the family

orientated pop friendly genre used by bands

like ‘The Feeling’ and ‘Maroon Five’.