Music, Lyrics and Visuals

No Rest - Dry the River

Diary of Today:

The first thing we did today was listen to the song above, without watching the video.  We then wrote down notes of who and what we would do to create a music video for this particular song.  After this, we then shared our ideas with the rest of the class.  We then read a print out of the lyrics and this changed some peoples ideas of what they would include in their music video.

We then watched the actual music video for the song and compared it to the ideas we originally came up with and then contemplated whether we would then change our music video idea or keep it the same.  Some of the ideas did link in with the lyrics and the music video, however others were the complete opposite.

My Idea:

My idea was to have an everlasting corridor with pictures on the wall all the way down, displaying the love story of the lead singer's relationship with the girl he is apparently singing about. There will be some rocky parts of the video where the relationship was at risk of failing, this will be during the rock music feel of the song also, so the visuals, lyrics and music will all be parallel at that time.  The idea of the everlasting corridor is to give the impression that the relationship of the lead singer and the girl he is singing about will last forever, but there will be times in the relationship which aren't ideal.  This will hopefully make the song relateable to people listening to it.

Classmates Ideas:

Megan Thomas
Megan's idea was to have a house in the middle of no where with a couple arguing inside the house.  She would then intertwine choreography in the video reflecting the couples relationship (close then distant) then it would flashback to the narrative.

Jordan Fowler
Jordan's idea was a performance of the lead singer in a field with his guitar.

Tez
Tez's idea was the lead singer and his girl he is singing about in a desert with a traditional white wedding setting.

Evan
Evan's idea was a street performance with flashbacks of the mans life as a little boy growing up to be the person he is now whilst walking along the street, also playing the guitar.

Max's
Max's idea was the lead singer stalking the women he loves, yet he can see her but she cant see him.  He will be following her life and watching over her as they are going through a break up.
So he will be seeing her move on in her life and watching her every step as if he cannot let her go.

Clare
Clare's idea was to have a montage of the lead singer and the women's relationship and the camera zooming into each part of the montage and showing the memories of the relationship.

Alex
Alex had the idea that the band were singing in their gig, which switches back to the man following the women.

Jono
Jono's strange idea was the band sitting around a campfire, switching back to a sunflower field with the lead singer on his own singing with his guitar surrounded by dinosaurs.

Preferred Idea I preferred Max's idea out of everyone's, it was very similar to mine and i feel as if it will be a music video which people connect to deeply and people may also be able to relate to the video and the lyrics along with it.  I liked Max's idea of the man being able to see the women but the women cannot see the man, as she is moving on from their breakup yet the man cannot seem to let her go.  Many people would be able to relate to this as so many people have gone through breakups when one person finds it easier than the other which inevitably makes it a lot harder.

I have learnt a lot during this task today.  Mainly that it is interesting to see an insight from everyone's different perspectives.  It goes to show how different people imagine and think of complete different things when it comes to analysing a songs visual picture.