Choosing the right song

The group wanted to do a video in the Hip Hop/Rap genre. Similar to 'Written in the Stars'. We wanted rap verses and a singing chorus with different artists for each. We have considered all of the following for our video:

• Magic - B.o.B featuring Rivers Cuomo
• Dead and Gone - T.I featuring Justin Timberlake
• Cross My Heart - Skepta featuring Preeya Kalidas
• Fireworks - Drake featuring Alicia Keys
• Love the Way You Lie - Eminem featuring Rihanna
• Airplanes - B.o.B featuring Hayley Williams

Of all the songs we found, we have selected 'Fireworks' by 'Drake' as the one for our video. The reasons we chose this song over the others were down to things such as popularity, practicality or incompatibility with our ideas. 'Magic' by B.O.B is popular in the charts and is sung by two men, and we wanted to use a male and a female as we have people who can play the roles; 'Dead and Gone' had the same problem, as well as being popular.

'Love the Way You Lie' 'Airplanes' were both fitting to our ideas, but both songs have had a place at the top end of the UK charts recently, and any video we created would not compare to the real ones.

'Cross My Heart' was a suitable song as it is not to popular and contains a woman and a man, however we felt that the overall pace and feel of the music just didn't quite fit. So we have settled on 'Fireworks' as it has a male and female combo, isn't too popular and fit the ideas we have in mind.