Deciding on a Genre and Song

We have finished the research stage and it's now time to plan our own music video. 

First we needed to pick a genre:
We looked at various different genres, such as Folk, and were thinking about doing Let her go by Passenger. However, one of the main conventions of the Folk genre is instruments in the music video. Since none of us can play an instrument we decided it would be very difficult to sync the audio with the video, so we eventually decided to pick a different genre.

We also discussed Mad World by Gary Jules, as it didn't have a very complex music video and it would have been extremely easy to create something new and original, but eventually decided it was too slow and depressing.

In the end we chose Pop as our genre, since musical instruments don't tend to appear in Pop music videos. This means we only need to worry about lip syncing.

Next we needed to pick a song:
After agreeing on the genre, we quickly decided on a song. Cops and Robbers by the Hoosiers. This is because it has male vocalists (we are all male) so we can easily lip sync, doesn't require instruments as it belongs to the Pop genre, and has a narrative which we can explore in our music video.