As I've said before, one of the main concerns when choosing an artist/band is how you fit their image - by image, I mean their genre, sound and the more obvious factors such as male/female vocal singers and the requirement of X number of band members etc... Picking a boy-band for instance would entail the recruitment of X number of male step-in actors, most of whom would have to look like boy-band members (unfortunately, not all of us have this opportunity). This brings us to the issues one can face when considering the feasibility of artist/band choice with regards to the actors that we'd have to hand. There's also the issue of organising filming sessions, where I'd be relying on people who are not being payed to give up their spare time and help me film. (As you can imagine, they're not likely to be the most enthusiastic bunch).
After deciding on the kind of music genre I'd like to select from (See Explaining Music Choice Post), I toyed with the idea of picking a solo artist; a solo artist would be ideal as I could use myself as the main actor, only needing a camera man to work behind the scenes. I decided to act on this idea when searching through unsigned artists on unsigned.com, finding indie artists whose style centred primarily around acoustic, solo performances that were well in my ability to reproduce as a music video.
I chose Accidental Hero as my artist as his songs are pleasant to the ear and realistically achievable as something that could be produced as a zero-budget music video. I selected the song Thank God I Don't Believe In God as its humor appealed to me and I thought that if I attempted to reflect this humor in my music video, I would be creating a music video that would be unique in its style through its unorthodox nature.
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