Why I Chose Rock/Pop Genre for my Music Video and Conventions

I decided to Go with 'I Want You To Know' which belongs in the rock/ pop genre and is also an original song written by me and my old band 'HeadRush' in 2011 and later recorded in 2012 with a producer where we completely re-worked the song in terms of changing the verse and lyrics in in the chorus but keeping the hook of the song. We even added a middle 8 and our own guitar solo. The song means a great deal to me mainly because of the journey of creating the song, a lot of work and hours were put into that song as we had a lot of faith in it that it could do well. As a band we rehearsed and perfected it weekly even getting input from from producers and parents that had been in the music business. When my producer heard the original version of the song on YouTube he immediately began working on the song and brainstorming ideas as well as getting rough tracks down with his software 'Reason'. The producer got in touch with me in late 2011, having broken up with the band at the end of the summer i explained to him that we were no longer writing songs, nether the less he was very keen for me to come visit to see what he had done with the song. We eventually met up in January 2012 and i was immediately taken away by how much work and effort he had put into the song, it was remarkable. We began working on the song together whilst laying down 2 other tracks and one cover that would end up on my EP 'No Room For Beauty'. Even though 'I Want You To Know' was the song that we started on it was also the last song we finished in our 4 months of working together. I began gigging frequently and honing my skills as a musician and more recently began writing music to follow up my EP. I thought it would be a great opportunity to film a music video for the song considering it had been such a massive part of my life this year and I felt I could do a lot of justice to it whilst promoting myself online.

Typical conventions of the Rock/Pop genre include use of heavy guitar, perhaps a solo, relatively heavy drums use of synth and melodic poppy vocals. I intend to bring these conventions to life with my music video with the use of filming a live performance that will be dubbed with the actual track as well as more storytelling scenes like a pop video.

Here is link to the song: http://soundcloud.com/tchengiz-siddiqi/i-want-you-to-know