How we came to the decision for choosing our artist

Despite the trouble we have gone through with our group and the fact that we have now split into 2 separate groups, myself and Tyra got down to buisness and chose the song 'Lost' by Paper Aeroplanes. We came to this decision by drawing out a minf map of all the potential ideas of songs and artists we could use, and this helped both of us to cut down our choices from the five and to pick just one of the songs to use in our official music video

Firstly, despite originally picking Snow Patrol’s ‘Set fire to the third bar’, we came to a joint decision that this band is far too famous and popular, meaning our individualistic and unique ideas for our music video would be overshadowed and restricted as we would be far too influenced by the band and their original video. We were then, therefore left with four songs to choose from. Our next discussion was on the song ‘Tik Tok’ by Kesha. Again, we felt that this singer/song writer was vastly renowned for the music she produces as well as it being a difficult task to get her permission in order for us to use one of her songs. Regardless of us both liking the song ‘Better Together’ by Jack Johnson, we both agreed that we are more influenced by female artists and can relate to them more, therefore we removed him from our list of options in order to make our music video of a higher standard.

We were then left with just Kina Grannis’ song ‘Valentine’ and the song by Paper Aeroplanes, ‘Lost’. After listening to both songs repeatedly and after a lengthy deliberation, we both agreed that we can create more distinctive ideas and could visualise the formation of our music video by using the song ‘Lost’. .