DH Track Choice

We have decided to go for the track `Short Change Hero` by The Heavy, its genre is alternative rock.

-We had narrowed the choice down to Short Change Hero and Fake Your Death by My Chemical Romance, however we decided against Fake Your Death due to the fame of the band, and because it did not have much variation.
-We chose Short Change Hero because it has lots of sections, such as the introduction, verses, chorus and other easily identifiable changes.
-As well as this, it has a strong beat which gives us plenty of points to cut.
-It is not a very well known song or band which means we can take it in any direction without the viewer having expectations.
-It does not have much of a story in the song, again giving us more freedom in our interpretation.

Observations of track
-The artist has a distinctive grain of voice, this could potentially make it difficult to convincingly lip-sync, however there is the option of changing the pitch of track or other small modifications.
-The overall tone of the piece is very bleak, therefore we may decide to use a filter or filters over the whole video.
-As well as this we are going to try and keep characters to a minimum for ease as well as expressing the isolation of the main character.

Initial Track Ideas
-We would like to have a strong performance element in this song as well as a narrative.
-The themes of the song are lies, and heroism/antiheroes, however we may decide to make the piece more disjunctive as long as the narrative is interesting and fits the style of song.
-One idea is to have the artist performing on stage throughout, this would be intercut with flashbacks to the artist thinking about his previous lover who lied and betrayed him, the video would then show him writing this song and at the end to show him performing but to an empty audience.
-Another is to have the central character mourning the loss of a loved one, visiting places they have been together, finally moving on by the end.