Research...

We decided to look at the existing video for our song, not only for inspiration (if any) but to see how the artist wanted to represent her song. We didn't like the original video as it seems plain and uninteresting, it is just a series of shots of the singer herself.>>

Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek (Official Music Video). Watch more top selected videos about: Imogen Heap">

Planning Ahead!

We knew getting a recording session would be difficult; we had to think about when a room would be free and if there was any noise outside that would interfer with our recording, when it would be suitable for Lara and if any recording equiptment would be available. We decided to set out a general plan, while we were contacting Lara so we all knew the situation, if it needs to be changed it doesn't matter as it is a guidline to keep us all on track.

Our chosen song...

All of us liked a song by Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek.

We like the lyrics as there is lots of imagery and the music does not distract from the lyrics like some songs that we looked at. We all also thought that a lot could be done to improve the original video. However none of us liked the the fact that the singer has electronically modified her voice, Emily suggested that we ask her friend Lara to record her singing the lyrics with piano as the background music.

We started to make a plan for the up and coming weeks and brainstorming the lyrics along with research for inspiration etc.

Starting out....

Once we had sorted out our groups (Me, Katy and Emily) we started thinking about what sort of song we wanted to base our music video on. We knew the most popular songs would be more up-beat and have changes in tempo etc. We decided to choose songs that had less of a fast pace and instead of being rock or pop etc. we wanted songs that had a slower tempo and beat. Obviously this will affect our theme and mise-en-scene but as with all music videos we will plan this once we have studied the lyrics and music of our chosen song.