Group decisions

For my A2 Media Studies Music Video project, I am in a group with Kerry Costello (her blog is here) and we both agreed on creating a female pop artist for our music video artist. After long discussions we realised that we didn't want to use an overly fast song for our music video as we knew that it would have to be less artistic and more dance routine and performance based. We both went through our ipods and discussed our music tastes and which artists we like, then when we realised we have Marina and the Diamonds and Lana Del Rey in common, we decided that we wanted our artist to be similar to them. We decided to then focus on which song we'd make a music video for and we decided that we definitely wanted a Lykke Li song, but we didn't know which one.

It took us a while to decide and agree on one song. We both went away and listened to Lykke Li's albums and came back with different songs, except for two which we both considered, Rich Kid Blues and Youth Knows No Pain. 

We then listened to both songs a few times and realised that Youth Knows No Pain would be a better choice as it was a bit slower and the lyrics would be more ideal to relate the visuals to. We kept in mind all of Goodwin's analysis when we discussed and decided our song choice. We knew that a big factor of a good music video was the relationship between music and visuals and we thought that Youth Knows No Pain would be the best song to choose in order to make that relationship successful.