Before being able to begin creating my own storyboard for how I want my music video to look, I needed to analyse the lyrics of my chosen song to be able to gain a deeper insight into what exactly the song means - especially to the artist.
This does not have a video for it yet, so I really had to dig deep into these lyrics to gain the perfect image in my mind of how exactly I would portray the message of this song in a video. By using my knowledge of GLARN, as well as terminology taken from being an English Language student, I have analysed this song as though it were a poem; picking different lyrics apart and trying to gain an understanding ogf the deeper layers of meaning.
The main message I get when I listen to this song (and more so when I analyse the lyrics) is the idea of enjoying and appreciating your life every single day. Being able to look back on good memories with a smile and not letting those moments fade - no matter how old you are or how your situation has changed.
My favourite lyric within this song has to be "Time can never break your heart, but it will take the pain away" purely becuase of how true it is in its meaning. It is a common collocation of our society that time heals all things. So even if some of your past memories aren't good, it doesn't matter because it's about looking forward and shaping the future by remembering the good times that made you happy. Below are images taken of my analysis, and I have typed them up as well, to make it clear what I said. Also, any added words in parenthesis are extra words or pieces of analysis I thought of as I was typing this blog post up.
“I found a pile of
polaroids in the crates of a record shop” – creates imagery/in a music
video format I would film this as a flashback.
“They were sex-sexy looking back, from a night that time forgot” – past tense stative verb emphasises the storyline.
“Carafes of blood red wine” – common concrete noun and abstract noun forms a description of the image and highlights the deeper layers of meaning (part of the subject’s past).
“Oh don’t you wonder when the light begins to fade” – interrogative symbolises the process of a day and the idea that people (can be) hidden in darkness.
“And the clocks just make the colours turn to grey” – Therefore this metaphor symbolises how time is constantly running out and all things come to an end/(but) you can’t let the past determine now/make every day count.
“We’ll stay drunk, we’ll stay tanned, let the love remain” – dynamic and stative verbs.
“Golden days, golden days” – semantic field of colour/links to the metaphor of time draining colour/good memories.
“The air was sauna hot” – theme of summer.
“The decades might’ve washed it out” – age/idea, as you get older (good memories may) fade.
“Forever younger growing older, just the same” – staying young, even as you grow older.
“They were sex-sexy looking back, from a night that time forgot” – past tense stative verb emphasises the storyline.
“Carafes of blood red wine” – common concrete noun and abstract noun forms a description of the image and highlights the deeper layers of meaning (part of the subject’s past).
“Oh don’t you wonder when the light begins to fade” – interrogative symbolises the process of a day and the idea that people (can be) hidden in darkness.
“And the clocks just make the colours turn to grey” – Therefore this metaphor symbolises how time is constantly running out and all things come to an end/(but) you can’t let the past determine now/make every day count.
“We’ll stay drunk, we’ll stay tanned, let the love remain” – dynamic and stative verbs.
“Golden days, golden days” – semantic field of colour/links to the metaphor of time draining colour/good memories.
“The air was sauna hot” – theme of summer.
“The decades might’ve washed it out” – age/idea, as you get older (good memories may) fade.
“Forever younger growing older, just the same” – staying young, even as you grow older.
“Time can never break your heart but it will
take the pain away” – the idea that the past can be paniful, but time heals
it eventually/the past can also hold the best memories, and those are the ones
to remember.
As a result of this piece of analysis, I have already gained an image in my mind of how I wish my ideal final product to look. I myself shall be the main artist and will be lip-synching the whole song. Despite the fact that the artist who sings this song is a male, I do not believe this really matters for my video. There are many videos where various people lip-synch the lyrics - not just the main artist, and the main focus in my video will be on the two main subjects anyway, not myself.
Like the song implies, I will be using cutaway shots as flahbacks within my video, to show memories of a young girl and her best friend and their happiest moments together. I will portray this stoyline with a series of tracking shots, mid shots and medium close-ups. For the performance-concept of my video, I will use close-ups and extreme close-ups of my face to really emphasise my lip-synching, adn allowing an audience to read my facial expressions.
Like the song implies, I will be using cutaway shots as flahbacks within my video, to show memories of a young girl and her best friend and their happiest moments together. I will portray this stoyline with a series of tracking shots, mid shots and medium close-ups. For the performance-concept of my video, I will use close-ups and extreme close-ups of my face to really emphasise my lip-synching, adn allowing an audience to read my facial expressions.
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