Production Blog: Finding Music

Before editing the project together I decided I wanted to get one more piece of media to show who I am. This final piece of media would be music. My music taste is very diverse. I like rap, pop, electronic, but mostly indie music. Since my music taste is as diverse as it is I wanted to try and stick to one genre so that the general mood of the commercial is the same throughout. So, I first went to Spotify to search for specific albums I like. The first album I looked at was “Is This It” by The Strokes. Is This It is one of my favorite albums so this was a very obvious place to get a song from. After listening to the full album I narrowed the choices down to “The Modern Age” “Soma” and “Hard To Explain”. I’ll decide which one to use when I start editing the project so I can see which song fits the best with the video. Next, I went through one of my favorite artist’s discography for my next few songs. This artist is called Good Kid and I’ve been a big fan of them for several years now so I really wanted to include them in this project. First, I looked through their first EP. I want to try and find at least one song from each EP so I can have a good variety of songs to choose from when editing. In the first EP I picked the song “Nomu” as that was the song that introduced me to Good Kid in the first place. Next, I went through the second EP and decided on “Down with the King”. Finally, from their third EP I chose the song “Mimi’s Delivery Service”. Finally, I wanted to pick one miscellaneous song from my playlist from an artist I don’t listen to often but still really love that specific song. The first song I picked was “Fiona Coyne” by Skylar Spence as that is my current favorite song and I’ve been listening to it on repeat for the past few weeks. The next and final song I chose was “Like or Like Like” by Miniature Tigers because that song has been one of my consistent favorites for the past year. Now I feel I have a good variety of choices and will be able to pick good songs to do into my final project. 

(This is the cover of Good Kid’s first EP)