Music choices

As a group we agreed to use an unsigned British artist called Vanilla, who describes himself as a 'hip hop and electronic producer'. I would say that the tracks we have considered, and the one we have chosen fit more into the electronic genre.
The album we looked at is called 'For What It's Worth', and was released in 2011. This particular album of Vanilla's has a much more jazzy vibe to it, and he experiments with samples of soul and motown songs, which I think is an interesting and unique twist. reminiscent of  musique concrète.

The first track we considered using is called 'Better With U', we considered using this track firstly because of the upbeat beginning (a motown sounding sample),as well as the effective use of the trumpet which again gives more of a jazz vibe, both of these elements of the track really encompass the whole soul focused feel.

As for possible ideas about the central ideas of our music video, nothing sprang to mind in particular although I think the subject matter of it would definitely have to be light to compliment the track.

The main problem with this particular track is that it is only 1 minute 33 seconds, which is too short, so we decided to look for another track.

The track we have ended up choosing is called '2gether.'

Like 'Better With U', it uses samples of soul music and combines it with typical electronica sounds made by synthesisers. It is around the appropriate length (2 minutes 46 seconds), and if it ends up being too long we can easily cut it.

As for the possible subject matter of the music video if we used this track, I think we could film ordinary activities we do as teenagers, but use the repetition of the soul sample followed by the synthesiser noise to repeat clips or edit in a certain way that would compliment the changes in the music.