Initial group Ideas

As soon as the group came together we thought of 3 songs that we would like to make our music video to; Panic at the Disco 'Lying Is The Most Fun', The Used 'Earthquake' and Taking Back Sunday 'Cute Without The E'. Panic at the Disco already has an official music video so to avoid copyright issues we decided not to do this song. We listened to The Used and Taking Back Sunday several times and all decided that Taking Back Sunday was the best band for us to study.
After deciding on the band and the song we researched the artist, finding out their target group, this is teenagers from 15-20 and the genre of music is 'rock' however the band is quite 'emo'. As we are wanting our music video to be successful we made a questionnaire targeting the same age group and asked them 10 questions about music videos in order to widen our knowledge of what rock fans would expect to see within a music video.
Costume and mise en scene is very important within our music video as this was stated by our target group. The boys in the group are going to wear black suits with white shirts, and the girls are going to wear big black eyelashes, dark makeup, black tutu's and ripped tights and ripped black tops, this is to make them look mysterious and scary in order to fit the genre of music.
As our target group specified in the questionnaire, it is important to have some performance footage within the music video. As 32/80 stated this was important we are going to include us as the band playing instruments on the school stage with an audience. The camera will be panned around the room showing the crowd go crazy for the band. This would make it seam like it is a real gig. We are going to film most of our video outside as we can achieve natural darkness, this would also fit in with the genre of music.