AS Preliminary Activity

"Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked."
-Gwen Stefani

Music: 'Mama Who Bore Me' Spring Awakening Original Cast Recording
Actress: Lana Moses
Created By: Ezra Veng, Adam Line and Lana Moses

Through filming this video, I learned many techniques and methods into how I should film and edit my music video-as well as skills I had not experimented in before, such as connecting lip-syncing with audio. This was a rewarding experience, and I was able to learn how to handle the camera whilst filming a singer, as well as how to edit the clips together to make an effective video.

Introduction

"Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."
-Andy Warhol

Upon our groups being decided, me and Lana instantly made the decision to present the electro-pop genre within our work. Electro-pop in itself was originally an alternative genre, but due to the increased awareness towards the electronica genre worldwide, the style of music has become mainstream. Lana and I had many ideas, specifically in regards to using electro-pop artists such as Róisín Murphy and Lady GaGa. Artists such as these present a level of performance art within their music, an aspect of music we wanted to show in our music video. Unfortunately, we were informed that we could not use copyrighted music, which caused complications with our original idea of using either of those artists.

Regardless of the circumstances, we wanted to continue working towards our initial idea, of a pop performance art video with electro-pop as the foundation. I had personally taken interest in writing a pop/electro-pop song in the past, so I found a copyright free instrumental by Kevin MacLeod. Kevin's website was easily accessible and very helpful, and both Lana and I will credit him accordingly, as noted in his terms and conditions.

After choosing the song 'Rocket' provided on Kevin's website, I used it as the foundation for our song: 'Perfect Circle'.