Song Research

 Here is my song researches and we will look my group's song choices, which is Telephones by Vacations (2020)

Song Background

Telephones were made by an Australian indie band called Vacations, where the song was uploaded to Youtube on 2020, and is a part of the album Changes. The song is telling us about the power of connection that exists between two individuals. Even when they are apart from each other, they can still feel for each other's presence in their mind.

Why we chose it

My team have decided to choose this song because not only it is an Indie song where it could be created by independent artist with limited budgets, but we're also familiar with the implicit meaning behind this song. To which this leads us to be more familiar on what kind of scenes that are needed to be shooted, how is it going to be modeled, what are the techniques needed, and how is it going to be edited.

How our music video will be different

There is no music video for this song, however they are some fans of this band that creating their own music videos for this music. Most of them have static camera shots, which we'll be using less static shots as it may feels monotone and less appealing for the audience to watch. To challenge the existing conventions of static shots, we will use less static shots and encourage more camera movements and edits to the song.

Self Reflection: I don't feel any regrets choosing this song, as I am completely understand what the vibe of the song would be for the music video. More importantly, listening to this song really match my persona, so I am expecting to perform well here. Since it's an indie song, also known as the genre that requires minimum of budget, we can choose to perform lip-syncing of the singer or slow band playing, matching the pace of the song. But either way, both of them is correct.