Track Selection

I shall be working with Frank James to produce my final music video. We worked together successfully on producing a two minute film opening last year and so saw no reason not to work together this year.

When thinking about what track to produce a video for, we first told each other the types of genres we both like listening to, in order to see if we both enjoy a certain genre, having agreed that it will be hard to work with a track that we don't particularly enjoy listening to for the length of time we will be required to. The genres, it turned out, that we had a mutual liking of were Dubstep and R'n'B.Our primary thought when considering what tracks we could use from the R'n'B genre was that many of the tracks we prefer are produced by black artists and so we would need a black person to perform in our video to make it look authentic. As neither us knew of anyone who 'fitted the bill' so to speak, we decided to look more into the Dubstep genre.

When thinking about artists and songs we like, it quickly emerged that we both enjoy the music of the band Nero, who recently released an album earlier this year called Welcome Reality, from which has come five singles, one of which was even number one in the UK charts for a small period.

We both liked the thought of producing a video to one of the singles from the album but were weary that our production could be compared with Nero's own. Having watched the videos of each single on YouTube though, it occurred that one video was of the animation genre. This video was for the track 'Innocence' and so we decided to write to MTA Records, the record label with whom Nero are signed and ask for their permission to use this track.