Research into our track

Although this post is fairly late it's still worth writing about. The choice for our track stemmed from our inspirations and general music taste. As a group, the four of us have wildly varying music tastes. Elliot being into rock, Becky being into metal and Eddie being into pop made for an interesting contrast. To compromise we decided we would go for something particularly catchy rather than go for genre. We figured this because a lot of people might only be watching the video once, therefore we want the song to stick in people's head, if the song is catchy then they will be reminded of the video.

To start looking for unsigned artists we looked on www.unsigned .com. Which hosts a number of unsigned artists showing their work. We started looking on the rock page and getting a few ideas for songs. The rock genre sprang to mind almost immediately due to the fact that we (I) have all the instruments to make a rock band out of whatever cast we may choose.

Early ideas for artists were:
Sons of Kal-El - A local band that have just released their first unsigned record that we have contact with. However at the time of conception the album was so early in deelopment there was no useable music in it.
http://www.sonsofkal-el.com/

Albion - Another local band with a number of good songs to use, however due to uncomfortability between members of the media goup and the band we decided against using them

Chasing Mercury - A rock group inspired by sounds of the 40's while it sounds like an odd combination it makes for some very catchy rhtyhms in a modern spin. We decided against them due to them being too heavy. If we were to have chosen them we would have used the track: 'Midnight at The Ball'.

In the end we chose the band Scar. Once we heard their first track labelled 'Fences' we knew that this is the band we wanted to use, we just didn't know which track. We finally settled on 'As long as you know' as soon as we heard it we were reminded of Carly Rae Jepson's 'Call me Maybe' which was possibly the catchiest song of 2012 so we figured that would have to be a good thing. It also felt very reminiscent of Blink-182 which was a good sign.

The track was doubly good in that it had serious lyrical tones while being a very uplifting piece. This meant we could use it in either a serious or comical way in the video, giving us a huge array of options to work with. The level of versatility combined with the general easyness of the track to work with made it a clear choice for us to go with.