Starting to think about the song for my music video

Even though it is still early days, I am far too excited to not start planning and brainstorming ideas for my music video. I want to break away from the norm of using popular original songs that are upbeat and are mainly in the rock genre. Instead, I have been researching covers of songs whereby artists have completely changed the songs and have made them their own.

Firstly, I came across the artist, Lo Fang who sang his own version of "You're the One That I Want", originally from the film/musical, Grease. I found that there was something about the key change in his version that made it sound slightly eerie and this was extremely intriguing. The fact that he slowed down the song completely and changed it to a minor key made me want to explore other artists who did the same.

From looking at this artist's song on YouTube, I came across an A2 media students music video for this song and just had to watch it. I was immediately inspired by the use of extremely dim lighting and the editing techniques with the overlays of different scenes into one. I especially liked how they used the change into a minor key as a way to create a sort of persona for their character, making him seem abusive and possessive. This further inspired me to research other songs that have been covered and changed into a minor key and potentially use them to create a possessive persona for the character in my video.

From researching covers that have been changed into a minor key, I discovered an artists named Chase Holfelder who just so happens to change his cover songs from their original major keys into a minor key. I listened to his songs with a member of my group and we decided that his style was perfect for our video and we short listed 3 of his songs.

The first, being "Every Breath You Take", originally by Police. We also really liked the way he edited this video with the overlays, making his hands to appear as if they were shaking, and his head moving quickly. However, we decided that the song included too much shouting and would not be appropriate for our video.

The second video was "Over The Rainbow", originally by The Wizard of Oz. However, we came to a conclusion that it was too slow and left the build up too late.

Lastly, we were a fan of his cover of "Kiss The Girl", originally from the film, The Little Mermaid. The build up is perfect and and the beats are so effective, especially with the slightly dub-step style of editing. Although it is still not our final decision, we would like this to be our song for our music video.

In Chase's videos, he uses an overlay effect to make his video more effective and slightly eerie. I would like to somehow incorporate this into my music video to give a cool effect.