Choice of Songs

The shortlisted songs we are choosing between for making a music video for are 'Rat Race' by Skindred, and 'The Man Comes Around' by Johnny Cash. The reason for having 'Rat Race' as an option is because of the convergence of different musical genres, being Metal and Reggae, allowing for different styles and conventions to be played with in the production. This choice would allow us a fairly wide selection of possible video themes to follow, be it connecting the images to the lyrics or to use props and costumes that conform to the style of the band. 'The Man Comes Around' is an option because it is quite a different style to most songs which get music videos, so it would allow us to be more creative with the ideas for the video. Also many of the lyrics of the song are bible quotes from the Book of Revelation which would allow for us to include a lot of religious symbolism in the video, which can help with giving us ideas for shots and events.