I instantly knew I wanted to create something comedic when we began planning our music video at the very beginning. Since I am a big fan of the pop-punk genre, I thought it would be exciting if we made out video as cliche as possible and make a friendly parody towards the majority of famous pop-punk songs. The original video by Luke Cutforth and Patty Walters was funny and cliche, so I wanted out version of A Song About A Girl to take things even further. Since there were only two people starring in the original version, I thought it would be interesting to include other people and also involve different people playing musical instruments. First of all, we needed some inspiration to help make this happen, so we researched the most famous pop-punk bands and albums of all time and their music videos.
Blink-182's What's My Age Again? music video released in 1999.
The Offspring's
Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) music video released in 1998. This song was in fact going to be our original music video choice, but since The Offspring are already signed we didn't want to be involved in violating the copyright terms of the artist. Interestingly though, the song we've chosen is quite similar to this one in terms of comedy.
All Time Low's Weightless music video released in 2009.
Jimmy Eat World's The Middle music video released in 2001.
Sum 41's In Too Deep music video released in 2001.
These are some of the videos we viewed to get some inspiration from. One thing they all have in common is that they're fun, comedic and they all fit within the stereotypical pop-punk genre of music. They all involve live bands playing instruments and people looking like they're having a good time just by dancing around, and we decided as a group that we wanted to adapt all of this in our music video.
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