Initial Research

 Initial Research

When initially researching this, I consulted a friend and explained the concept of the project. He said that he would help me to find a song and we spent the next 30 minutes to an hour searching through user generated playlists on Spotify and iTunes until we came across this song. 

While we were searching, we came across some good options, but most were too depressing and slow for what I wanted to do. 'Hey Julie' has just the right tempo for it to not be depressing, but not too fast for it to be 'Nightcore'-esque - if the song was too fast, I would need to record double to amount of footage just so that the video doesn't feel too slow paced. Additionally, after listening to the song and looking at the lyrics, I began to formulate some ideas, and wrote them down. 

After this, I did some more research on the band that recorded this song - the Fountains of Wayne. I found that the album that 'Hey Julie' comes from was released in 2003, and includes many other upbeat love songs.