Pitch - Group

This is the pitch we did to our teacher detailing the song choice, the initial idea for the video/storyline, the two possible endings of our video, the actors that will be used in the video, the different locations we intend to film the video at, the costumes/outfits the artists will be wearing and the props/aides we will be using to help us film the video.

Music Video Pitch

Below you can see pictures of us presenting our ideas.

The main feedback that we received was that our overall idea for the video was good, and the locations and costumes would work well in the style of video that we wanted to create. There was however one problem that was suggested by students and the teacher in the room, being that the original song that we had chosen was too slow and downbeat to be linked with a chase scene. When looking back over our ideas and listening to the track again we could understand what our peers and teacher were saying, but felt the types of editing we were intending to use would still work well.



Me and the rest of my group did take some time out to think about the comments we had received and started to think of some other ways that we could make our music fit to the video, but the only plausible option that we could come up with was to try and speed up the track ourselves. My partner James used the program 'Audacity' to try and speed up the tempo of the song, but all ended up sound unnatural and unprofessionally done and we didn't feel this would work well for our music video.



In the end we decided to start looking for a new song with the hope of using Madeon's 'Finale' nearly all gone. Fortunately for us and the work we had done on analysing the lyrics of the song and working them into the plan of our video, we came across a drum and bass remix of Finale by the belgian drum and bass artist Netsky. This was effectively the same song, only with an increased tempo and bassline and a longer duration, exactly what we needed for our video.



We then discussed the possibility of using this song for our music video and our media teacher seemed to prefer this version of the song. We did however worry that this would bee too long as the duration has increased from 3:24 long in the original to 4:54 in the remix. We now need to consider the possibilitis of cutting this down to make our video shorter, or just leaving the song at it's current length and filming more content for the video.

Below you can listen to the remixed version of Finale that we have now chosen to use: