Chosen Track

We decided as a group to go with the song Now by Paramore. This fits in with the genre of alternative rock and will also fit in well with location and props we are able to use.

Now by Paramore

"Now" - lyrics

Don't try to take this from me
Don't try to take this from me
Now-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow

Don't try to take this from me
Don't try to take this from me
Now-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow

Feels like I'm waking from the dead
And everyone's been waitin' on me
'Least now I'll never have to wonder
What it's like to sleep a year away
But were we indestructible?
I thought that we could brave it all (all)
I never thought that what would take me out
Was hiding down below

Lost the battle, win the war
Bringing my sinking ship back to the shore
Starting over, we'll head back in
There's a time and a place to die but this ain't it

If there's a future, we want it
(Now-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow)
If there's a future, we want it
(Now-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow)
If there's a future, we want it
(Now-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow)
If there's a future, we want it
(Now-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow)

Don't try to take this from me
Don't try to take this from me
Now-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow

Don't try to take this from me
Don't try to take this from me
Now-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow

Wish I could find a crystal ball
For the days I feel completely worthless
You know I'd use it all for good
I would not take it for granted (granted)
Instead I have some memories... For the days I don't feel anything
At the least, they will remind me not to make the same mistakes again.

Lost the battle, win the war
I'm bringing my sinking ship back to the shore
We're starting over, we'll head back in
There's a time and a place to die but this ain't it

If there's a future, we want it
Now-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow
If there's a future, we want it
Now-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow
If there's a future, we want it
Now-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow
If there's a future, we want it
Now-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow

There's a time and a place to die
There's a time and a place to die
And this ain't it
There's a time and a place to die
And this ain't it, this ain't it
This ain't it

There's a time and a place to die
There's a time and a place to die
But this ain't it, no

If there's a future, we want it
Now-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow
If there's a future, we want it
Now-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow
If there's a future, we want it now
Nooow!
(Now-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow)

If there's a future, we want it
Now-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow
Now-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow
Now-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow

Letter to Music Label - Warner Music Group

Dear Fueled By Ramen, Warner Music Group
We are writing to ask permission to use the song Now by Paramore to create a non-profit music video for our A2 Media Studies coursework. It will purely be for educational purposes but will be made public for a short amount of time for examination purposes. We chose this song because we believe it is the best song for us to reach our highest potential grades.

Thank you for your time.

Kind regards, Molly Wade, Michael Owens, Christian Potter.

Music Video Synopsis

Our music video is going to be mainly performance based. Most of it is going to be footage of our band playing in the wood both during the day and during the night. We are also going to have shots of our lead female singer walking through the woods singing. We are also going to film the band riding bikes through the woods and along a road at night, while the singer leads them and sings. Towards the end of the song, when it is night time we are going to have a shot of one of the drums with a light underneath it and powder paint on top so when it is hit all the powder fly’s up into the air. Throughout the video we will have various shots of each member individually playing their instrument/singing as well as shots of them all performing as a group.

Music Video Pitch

Possible Track

After deciding we wanted to do Alternate Rock, we decided we wanted a band with a female singer, this narrowed our search a great deal. There are no where near as many female led alternate rock bands as there are male led ones.

Some of our possible choices were as followed.

Evanescence - Bring Me To Life, This song was an obvious choice, it had the rock guitars and drums and the female singer, the only problem we had, it also incorporated a male singer and it is a really well known song, most people know this song even if they don't like this type of music.

The Pretty Reckless - Make Me Wanna Die- This song is sung completely by a female singer, so it is already more suitable for our choice, but it's slightly too heavy for a song we want to do, it's more rock than alternate rock.

Paramore - Now - Paramore are fairly well know and very alternate but some of their songs like now from their latest album are not as well known, Paramore have had a few strong images over the years, but due to their changing image it would be easy to create a new image for them without ruining or people have preconceived ideas about their image.

Chosen Genre

After some discussions in our group we have chosen to do Alternative Rock.

As a group we have conflicting music tastes, one of us favoured electronic, one pop punk and the other rock.
We discussed how electronic generally has little words and therefore would be hard to learn and even harder to make a performance based video to, pop punk and rock are too well known, we wanted a song which was known by some to not too widely know that everyone will know, we want to be able to create a band and image instead of using a bands pre created image, we decided making an alternate rock music video would be best for us as a group as we already have ideas of how to create this new image and know we will be able to make the video performance based. 

Genre Research