Changing Our Song For The Music Video (OD)

When we began planning our music video we all come together as a group and decided to use the song 'Agape' by Bears Den. Once we knew what song to do Matthew emailed the production company to get access of the song legally. However, they took a while to email back, therefore we all agreed we needed a back up song. When we planned what song we would use a few weeks back we chose three songs we might use, one being 'Agape, the other two being 'Parklife' by Blur, and 'Hey Ya' by Outkast. However, both of these videos did not fit with the video that we had planned to make, and we wanted to chose a folk song. I made the suggestion that we use a Ben Howard song as I listen to him a lot and the genre of his music is folk. We wanted a song that was quite slow to begin, but then gradually became faster paced, as this conformed to the video we want to achieve. Therefore I chose the song 'Old Pine', which is in fact my favorite Ben Howard song. With this in mind I emailed the production company about possibly using the song for educational purposes.

Once this was done I just simply had to wait for a response. Eventually I got an email back, and it was good news, as it was confirmed that we can use the music video as long as we follow their strict guidelines.

This was great news, however we had quite a dilemma, the other production company, who owned the song 'Agape', also emailed back and said we could use this, and so we were back to square one and as a group had to decide what song to use between the two.



We came to a final decision, and we all agreed that 'Old Pine' was a much more suited song for a our music video. The music video is also very influential and we have also took ideas from it and we will use some of the styles and techniques from this video, make it our own, and then put it on our music video.
You can view the video and listen to the song 'Old Pine' on this blog!