Task 3- Mind mapping of initial ideas (Pheobe Ryan)

When looking for possible artists and songs in the planning stage of my A2 production, myself and Darcy started off by looking at quite famous, mainly British artists. However, every song we seemed to listen to didn't quite fit our idea for what we would like our narrative to be about. Most of the lyrics we analysed seemed to be very similar and didn't have the resolution at the end of the song we were looking for. We decided that we should start looking at songs that still had a similar message but were more upbeat to add to our range of song choices. We also thought that we should begin looking for less well known artists so that we could make our video more distinctive. Darcy then told me about Phoebe Ryan, an American singer who had recently brought her debut album out that i had never heard of. Darcy told had found out about her when her YouTube recommendations had advertised the following video:

After watching her cover this mash up of R.Kelly's 'Ignition' combined with Miguel's 'Do you like drugs?' Darcy listened to a few more of Phoebe Ryan's songs from her album. Once i had found out about Phoebe Ryan i listened to a few of her songs including 'Mine' and 'Dead'. We chose not to use 'Dead' as it was harder to relate the lyrics to the idea's we had for our narrative. 

We found that 'Mine' fitted perfectly with what we had wanted for the narrative. It has room for a resolution at the end of the narrative, the lyrics aren't specific to a certain story line so we could bend the to what we would want and it is fast paced and not downbeat like the other songs we had listened to. Using Phoebe Ryan for the artist also has it's advantages, she isn't that well known so our production won't be compared to the original video very much. In addition to this it would mean that we wouldn't feel we would need to copy many aspects of the original video to make it successful and therefore we could create it in a way we feel would be best rather than following certain conventions which we may have had to should we have used another song/artist.

These are the original music video and the lyric video:

When looking at both of these video's we decided that the original video is more of the style that we would like to incorporate into our production. We had already decided that we want a mixture of narrative and performance much like the first video. The lyric video is more like Johnny Cash's 'Hurt' which i felt didn't have enough of a narrative and therefore wouldn't connect with the audience as much should we use that style. 

When looking at the lyrics for 'Mine' I made the following annotations in order to begin to make connections with an idea for a narrative.