Creating a music video: Arts Award project for college

Hi there,

For college, we had to do something creative for a qualification called 'Arts Award'. We had to organise and create something, it could be anything we liked, an event such as a photoshoot etc. It had to either show that we had practised skills we already had or tried something new. Me and my friend Kirsty decided to try something new! So we teamed up and came up with the idea to create a music video. Neither of us had a clue about filming but we were both pretty good at photography. We both like a band called 'Dive Bella Dive' (now called 'The Dive'), they are quite alternative and they have a song called 'Animal'. We didn't want a high profile song, nor did we want a complicated song with a deep story behind it as this would limit our ideas of what we could do for the video. 'Animal' is a really catchy, fun song so we decided to use it.

We did originally have another idea for it but we needed people to help us film, edit and we needed a place to do it. We didn't want to keep waiting on people to get back to us so we scrapped the idea and came up with the idea to make a lyric video! This we could easily do ourselves without having to rely on anyone and we could also edit it without any help. We would take individual photos of people holding up the signs and then put them together with the music.


We wrote the lyrics on pieces of A4 card, this took a couple of days between us. We then contacted a few friends asking them if they could help out and be in the video and we arranged times and dates. We decided to take the photos at random places around London. We planned to have more people in the video but it only ended up being myself, kirsty and another friend as no one else could make it. As the song is called 'Animal' we brought knitted animal hats to wear and some cuddly animal toys to hold in the photos.

It was a really fun day in London, and it took a good day to take all the photos. I love London and although its quite tiring travelling all over it I never want to leave! But we managed to get all the photos done, and got a few strange looks as well! It made us realise how much organisation is needed for such a small project, but it did help on the day because we could get through the pieces of card quite quickly. 


I really enjoyed the experience and we were so pleased with the result. We've had so many good comments about it and the band even said they loved it so its definitely an accomplishment!

I'll link the video below, please give it a watch and we would really appreciate it if you shared it if you like it! Thank you :)
- Beth