Possible single

The song:
At the moment this is the song that most appeals to me to make a music video for. The song meets the criteria and i think it is a good choice as it would allow a lot of creativity in terms of making the video.

The song is called Make You Smile by a band called +44:



Unfortunately the sound quality on this video is not particularly good but the others on youtube were videos created by fans. I do have the mp3 and cd at home so that wont be a problem for production.


The band:
The band's genre is indie rock and there are 2 guitarists, a drummer and a bassist/lead singer. At the time when this song was written and recorded in 2006 the band was without the guitarists and more electronically produced alongside vocals from Carol Heller. Her featuring in this song makes it potentially a more interesting song to work with for the video and potentially something that seperates +44 from other indie bands which would also make marketting easier and more interesting. There has not been a video of this song created despite it's sucess presumably because Carol Heller is no longer involved with the band.

Early creative thoughts:
The main reason for my gravitation towards this song is due to the interplay between the male and female vocalists and the strong story played out by the simple lyrics. Therefore i think the video would be sucessful if it drew on this and a possible idea could be to film with two seperate bands, either with different members altogether in each- one with a female lead and one iwth a male lead, or the same band but just have one male lead and one female lead to switch between the two during the video but have them meet or merge in someway at the end. In terms of cutting and relating the shots to the music the song is very good as it has a strong drumbeat throughout and often the guitar chords are only played once on the fourth beat- potentially this would make it easy and effective to cut between shots in the video.