For the most part this task was easy to complete as we were able to work as a team to create it. The only problem we ran through whilst making it was choosing a song but thankfully we were able to choose one quite quickly as our teacher let us do Official covers which we all agreed to. Another issue was due to the shorter deadline as before we had months to do our statement of intent now we only had 3 days which meant that we weren't able to write and spend as much time as we wanted and honestly some parts might reflect the rushed nature. Another issue was discussing representations and what to include but the way we solved this was by implementing diffrent aspects from each other in a compremise. I think next time we should work together more and finish the statement of intent faster and with more quality although I wish we had more time atleast a week.
This was our process and our decision making behind choosing our song for the Music Video Project
For the Music Video Project our teacher limited the song selection to songs from the last 5 years so songs released between 2021 - 2026 in hopes of keeping things contemporary. This made it difficult to find songs in our genre as alot of our favorite songs in the alt-rock genre are older than 5 years and as well there was not alot of new popular alt-rock songs that fit our tastes. This meant that we had to keep searching essentially from scratch as we did not anticipate this rule when we were thinking about songs over the break.
However we had found a good number of songs that were released in the past 5 years now we had to just sort through them and find the best one. I tasked every member of the group to suggest 5 songs they liked from there we sorted again. Sadly theres no footage of this discussion as it was held in class where phone use was not permitted at that time. However we were able to screen shoot our lists.
Then we began listening to the songs then striking through ones we didn't like which helped narrow the selection.
At the end we all championed one song and came up with ideas and as well gave a hefty description of the song's meaning and style from there we gave reasons on why or why not to choose said song.
From this we choose Karma Police By Pierce the Veil after confirmation from our teacher that this song was allowed as we were unsure if covers were eligible. We choose this due to its political and authoritarian theme which would allow us to create a unique and interesting story. As well liked the beat and style of the song as it is very familiar to what we like whilst being energetic yet still dark. Another factor is the simplicity as we had a clear idea of the scenes and where to shoot which made it easier to make the storyboard and statement of intent and as well find people to be actors.
Speaking of coming up with the idea, the song had appeared in my queue when I was listening to music. I then had the idea after watching a Youtube web documentary about the meaning of the song which them inspired the narrative which the idea I sent to my groupmate Sagara over Whatsapp.
Reflection:
At first it was somewhat hard as the 5 year gap really threw us off and as well that made it harder to find songs in our genre. However after we found some songs we ran into another problem which was finding the right one or at least narrowing it down but using the decision making systems mentioned above we were able to narrow it down to Karma Police By Pierce the Veil which I suggested as I am a big fan of Radiohead and thus was able to understand the meanings of the song and thus make a clearer image/narrative.
For me researching the rock/altrock/artrock genre was overall pretty fun as I got to search for deeper meanings in my favorite songs and analyse their hidden symbolism and easter eggs. The most challanging part about completing the researching was my time management because I have a bad habit of procrastinating and aswell this term my schedule was pretty packed with retaking psycology exam and school events. Next time I try to manage my time better and better focus on doing media studies tasks. I will probably add to this research as there are many things I wanted to say but couldn't right in time, also I feel like my writing is inconsistent due to the time constraits I put on myself and for some I might have wrote to much and its wordy and hard to understand whilst others are far to short.but nonetheless I hope I get a good score and was able to share my passion with anyone reading.
