Picking the Song

As a part of our research and planning process my partner and I began by listening to the album and making our choices about the song that would be most suitable in our final music video. These were the two songs which we thought about seriously Ode to the Industry (Cough Syrup) and I’ll Call You When I've Made It. To help us in making a decision, we reheard both songs a number of times and jotted the ideas and potential scenes that may suit the lyrics and the general feeling of both songs.

We talked it over and came to the decision of doing I’ll Call You When I’ve Made It. The key factor behind my selection of this song is that we could come up with a more coherent narrative and visual concepts behind it in comparison to the other choice. Although both songs were good, this one offered us more possibilities to create a story and develop various scenes, which can be compared to the moods of the lyrics. As you will see in the image below we braindumped on this document on ideas and nothing is really official but we had more ideas for this song.

Annie LeMasters is based in Nashville so our project will have to be entirely storytelling as opposed to a promotional video that the artist performs in it. This initially complicated the process of planning a bit since most of our initial thoughts were about performance scenes. But now we are dwelling on the narration with images and symbolic episodes rather.