Here is the discussion me and my team had to pick our song.
Before we can even begin to plan, we had to pick a song for our project. Since the very beginning, it was clear we all wanted to do a pop song and agreed to avoid romantic narratives as we didn't feel too comfortable with the idea of it. Aurel had been the first to suggest her list in our Whatsapp groupchat which included of;
- I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME - Leave Me Alone
- Pavement - "Harness Your Hopes"
- Will Wood - Tomcat Disposables
- girl in red - rue
We shared our thoughts on this in regards to the visuals that would be paired with the audio. In the meantime, Cheryl and I also suggested some songs.
By discussing this back and forth, we were able to eliminate most songs, leaving it to 4 options. Here I will detail each option and their reasoning for their consideration, rejection and approval from the team:
- Tulus - Tujuh Belas [REJECTED]
- An Indonesian song popular amongst teen (especially highschool seniors) thus would be directly targeting our ideal target audience
- Song related to highschool life, would be very easy to film as we have access to a school setting. However, our teacher had told us we'd be filming during our break thus we might not have access to the school building during that time.
- girl in red - rue [REJECTED]
- A song we all enjoyed
- We weren't too sure on how we would subvert from the already-existing music video
- Pavement - "Harness Your Hopes" [REJECTED]
- A song we all enjoyed
- We weren't sure of what narrative to take and did not want to take the risk of a vague storyline that may confuse audiences
- Rina Sawayama - Catch me in the air [APPROVED]
- A song we all enjoyed
- Clear idea of the narrative in mind that we all agreed to
- We believe the song is within our capabilities (in terms of ability and budget)