Finding The Right Song!

My group has formed and have been selecting song choices, originally we planed to do a narrative video and so we was originally looking on how to use our videos to create a nice story. But after a discussion on how we knew more people with connections to musicians that we found making a live music video is a better choice. So we have agreed with the choices of:
1) The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
2) One Republic - Secrets
3) Bon Jovi - It's My Life

The reason we have chosen these three songs is because we wanted nice lyrics of which we could explore, but since we chose live performance we also looked into how we could present this live. With 'Bittersweet Symphony' we could picture how it would be videoed, with violins opening the video, how it could pan out to a wider image E.t.c. And so we went through a list of things we could do for the video which is posted below:

With 'Secrets' we straight away loved the lyrics and liked how we might be able to play with this, since it used a unique set of instruments which aren't normally videoed live. But with this in mind we came up with the idea of scenery. But again more ideas shown below:

Lastly we have 'It's My Life' which we agree would be great live. We thought of lots of energetic shots of the performers and how we could incorporate the band in one room, maybe an audience. But we started to select ideas which may find to difficult.

But in the end we found that Bon Jovi and The Verve are way to big for us to pull off due to how people would already recognize the song and then put the original artist in recognition of the song, therefore turning our own song into a fake look-a-like. So the final choice was One Republic - Secrets.

With this song we chose to do a live band due to its simplicity which we wanted to uphold after looking at our favorites, we also thought we could make this more interesting than if we did a narrative. After this we quickly listened to the song and worked out that the instruments within the song are as follows:


- Cello
- Drums
- Vocals
- Keyboard
- Violin

With this in mind we started a brain storm of people we knew who could play these parts:

As you can see we left ourselves with a wide range of people to choose form just encase one fails to make it to a shoot or can't due to circumstances. This is in an attempt that we are not backed into a corner without performers.