Artist and Concepts

After looking through YouTube and garage band we contacted a few artists that we liked. However, some artists seemed uninterested in making a music video with us and those that were interested were not situated in London, the distance was a problem. As a last resort I asked a few friends whether they knew any musicians and eventually made contact with Cory Edwards, a guitarist who started a small band with a group of his friends, to express themselves and talk about day to day issues and problems that working class students may face. The song that we wanted to make a music video for was about a break up from a relationship and how this made the person feel. From here we began planning our Music Video.

Ideas

• The song being slow and about a relationship breaking up we thought we would have a narrative in our music video. So we decided that at the start of the video the couple would be together and by the end of it they would be split up. However not everyone in the team agreed with this idea as it seemed a bit basic.
• Our second idea was also a narrative, this time just of girl going about her day to day activities while Cory follows he around playing his guitar, only we can see Cory, the girl cannot. At the end of the day she gets ready to go out with her boyfriend however he never turns up.
• Our third idea was of Cory proposes to a girl but she walks away from him leaving him heartbroken, he goes for a walk and ends up in a pub, after a few drinks he gets drunk and the bartender refuses to serve him, he walks out the bar in a drunken state through some well  known locations in central London, for example the London eye or tower bridge. During his walk he sees couples holding hands or kissing, he has flashbacks of his relationship with his girlfriend. At the end of the video he passes out.

From the feedback we received it was clear that the most popular concepts were the second and third one. Personally, I preferred the third idea but the rest of my group thought the second idea would fit better with the music, so we agreed to go for that.