Shortlising Bands

Our initial choice of 5 bands/artists needs to be narrowed down to 1. After deliberating ideas and brainstorming we looked at what kind of genre would fit best with them and what kind of sound it would agree with.

Lewis Watson, Bribry and Kankouran, were our final choices. After emailing each of the artists and looking on their websites to double check that they were unsigned, and also permission to use their songs. (EMAILS BELOW)



KANKOURAN



BRIBRY



LEWIS WATSON



After reading these emails we saw that we had the best overall response from Kankouran and their producer, Tarek Musa. He seemed extremely passionate about what he does and therefore made us like the band even more and want to make a video for their song 'Rivers', and they also said they would love to see the music video when we had finished it.

We asked him what the song meant to him, personally, and he replied with:

“Rivers for me personally is about life and death. Growing up, things changing. Nothing stays the same. Life is always changing, there is no certainty from day to day. That kinda vibe... it's also about sharing that with somebody; that whole experience...it's really a dark song, but it's been done in a uplifting way.”

              -Tarek Musa (Kankouran)

This inspired us even more and gave us many ideas of using different characters and locations to show time and place and the movement of life. So we quickly decided to use 'Rivers' by 'Kankouran'. (BELOW)

We both personally love the song and would listen to it normally so we thought it would be great to do a song we wouldn't eventually get bored of. Also, we thought that the pace and sound of the song was quite original, quite folk-rock/indie with a slight electro vibe and the chance of pace in the song gives rise to a great variety of editing techniques, e.g. jump cuts. We love the style and look of the band and think we could use that as a basis and it will work extremely well with some ideas we've already had.