My initial idea

To say I'm excited to do this project would be the biggest understatement of the century. Even the biggest understatement of all time. Since Mr Earl presented the task of creating a music video, with the print products, I have been constantly thinking and trying my best to get the ideas and images from inside my head down onto paper. For my AS course, I created a music video and several montage videos with music as part of my planning, and I have always been passionate about music, so this task is definitely something that I am going to enjoy doing.

When I heard the words "music video", I immediately thought of one of my favourite bands: Bastille - an alternative rock/synthpop band from London.

I've always been fascinated with their music videos and have watched several interviews where the lead singer, Dan Smith, has stated that the band loves film and believes that their passion for it is obvious in their videos. I love the narrative driven style that their videos follow, meaning they break away from the typical perfomance/lip-sync based videos that are swarming the charts nowadays. Each video has its own story, which relates to the lyrics of the single perfectly. Ideally, I would like to use Bastille's song "Things We Lost In The Fire" for my project, as it is one of the songs off the band's debut album that does not have a music video. This means that I will not copy their ideas in any way and the work I produce will be entirely designed by me.

Of course, I cannot focus on Bastille alone, so I have created a list of related acts (not necessarily based on music genre but definitely the style of their music videos):

• Of Monsters And Men
• Foster The People
• Imagine Dragons
• Two Door Cinema Club
• Bombay Bicycle Club
• Florence and the Machine
• Lana Del Rey
• Biffy Clyro
• Fall Out Boy
• Panic! At The Disco
• White Lies
• You Me At Six
• Haim
• Ellie Goulding

I will look at the above artists, their image, their music and their videos in more depth as the course goes on to help create a suitable music video for the genre that Bastille are in. I can't wait to get started!