Music video ideas

For our music video that we are creating, it has to be a song that doesn't already have a video so that we don't get any ideas from the existing one, and we've been advised to do an artist that is unknown or unsigned so that it's unique. I have in mind the style of artist I will choose to create my video for and I have based this on the genre of music I listen to and that I think is quite a popular, modern style of music so that it is quite popular with the audience. 

At the moment, the type of artist's I'm looking at are pop, R&B and hip hop because as mentioned on another part of my blog, these are the genres I am most interested in. I have looked into unsigned artist's and have listened to a girl band called 4Flava who are a R&B/Pop/Rock group and so far their music sounds quite good to create a video for. In particular, I like their song called 'this ain't over' and 'so complicated' because they are quite unique sounding songs and they sound like songs which could have a really original video. Also, because they don't already have a video, it means I can explore with ideas easier and make a video I think would fit- I don't have a video to compare to or make it similar to- in order for the video to serve a purpose I will do a lyric analysis of the song and see what ideas I come up with from that on what kind of video to make for it. The URL below is a link to the webpage where you can listen to their songs...

http://www.unsigned.com/4flava

4Flava

Many people discover new artists through YouTube, however I don't tend to explore songs or artists on YouTube, therefore I'm finding it quite hard to find artists to do that aren't already well-known and have existing videos, so I'm having to research into it a bit more to find artists that people haven't heard of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl-wDJIxHhA- If I Die Young
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipdbAFsiBDg - Barefoot and Buckwild
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wPYu31VLw8 - Eighteen inches

These are songs by an artist called Lauren Alaina. I researched artists that are similar to Taylor Swift because I really like her music and think it would be a good genre to do and this was one of the artists that came up. I don't think she's that well known but has lots of songs but no videos, just lyric versions or live versions so I thought that I could create a video for one of her songs. She's a born country singer so has a similar tone to her voice like Taylor swift. Below is the link to Lauren's official site where you can listen to her songs on spotify.

http://www.laurenalainaofficial.com/music

Lauren Alaina

Year	Association	Category	Result
2012	CMT Music Awards	USA Breakthrough Video of the Year	Nominated
	Teen Choice Awards 2012	Choice Female Country	Nominated
		Choice TV: Female Reality Star (American Idol)	Nominated
	Inspirational Country Music Awards	Inspirational video — "Like My Mother Does"	Nominated
	American Country Awards	New Artist of the Year	Won

These are the awards that Lauren Alaina were nominated for and she won "New Artist of the Year" too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Alaina

Another artist is 'Lights' and she has a new song out called 'My boots' which fits under the category of pop and indie style and is quite similar to Ellie Goulding in some ways. This would be another good song to create a video to. Lights is a Canadian artist and won Indie Awards in the Favourite Solo Artist and Astral Media Radio Favourite Single categories during Canadian Music Week in March 2009 in Toronto. 

She also won in the best new artist category at the 2009 Juno Awards

In 2010, she was nominated in the Indie Awards for "Video of the Year" (Drive my soul) "Pop Artist of the Year" and in the Juno Awards for "Pop Album of the Year" (The Listening).

In November 2010 her debut album The Listening was given a gold certification by the Canadian Recording Industry Association for sales of 40,000 units.

http://www.last.fm/music/Lights
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_(musician)

Lights

I think out of these three artists the one I'm most likely to do is either 'Lights' or 'Lauren Alaina' because I think they are most like the music I listen to and the songs they do would be better to create videos for. These two artists would be fairly easy to choose costumes for because they are both quite indie so once I have decided which artist and song I am going to do I can start exploring outfits and doing a lyric analysis to get some ideas for what kind of video I will create. Now that I have made progress with the type of artists I will do I am looking forward to the progress I will make as I develop my ideas further.