What interests me about this music video is that the composition and movement of the camera compliments the length of each line of lyrics. It represents the thoughts, new ideas and reflects the constant and consistancy of her feelings. I also like the fact that the main focus is on the artists face and body, this exaggurates and personalises the lyrics with the artist creating an emotional atmosphere towards the audience, allowing them to relate to the song.





I love how this video uses unusual visual aspects in terms of the lyrics almost contradicting the visuals. The lyrics talk about a girl being taken away to paradise, yet you see no girl in the video. Although, looking deeper into the meaning behind the use of the animal, this could represent the feeling like she needs to be free with the other animals, and the generic dream like location also reinforces this. The use of the cultural signifiers of London at the beginning also makes the video more personal and realistic, targeting an emotional response from the audience and engaging them, I think using a cultural signifier in our video would help reach the audience a little bit more.

Initial Band Ideas.

Rampant Horse - Local, unsigned band situated in Tasburgh that play modern rock music. They have three original songs, but I have selected 'Wonderful Life' because of the unique story behind the lyrics, and thought an interesting video could be made out of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A21Sz5IwdF8&feature=relmfu

The clock blinks, 19 hours since the crash. 
My mind thinks, I cant believe I cant remember that. 
You're so warm, yet you're stifled by the cold. 
Your hearts torn, yet you'd rather hide than let me sew. 

We got a Wonderful Life. 

Your eyes stare, as you hide the pain for pleasure. 
You're made scarce, by the sudden foggy weather. 
Overpowering's, the one thing I cant be. 
But if it beats for you, I guess it beats for me. 

We got a Wonderful Life. 

You wont take me, 
you wont bring me down. 
You wont break me, 
wont screw me around.


After repeating the song over and over, we found it difficult to portray any of the lyrics within the composition, this lead us to move on. This helped us to decide that we wanted to use the similar idea of Cold Plays 'Paradise'  to include more of a less obvious internal idea behind the lyrics and a more 'in your face' song to help with this idea.

Through researching through bands of similar genre on the internet via google me and my partner came across a band named Dora Nadine and after listening to the song numerous times we instantly came up with a basic idea, so we emailed the band instantly and they granted us the permission to use them and the song for our project.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oYRZx6O9QI


Stay Young

My eyes are heavy,
But there is so much left unsaid.
I'll wait for the moment,
To get this confession off my chest.

For now I'll just byte my tongue,
We're getting older but tonight were young,
We'll make mistakes along the way, But we'll learn,
In time we have to grow up, for now we'll just stay young.

My glass is empty 
But I'll toast the night away to friends,
Because these moments mean nothing
If they can't be shared

For now I'll just byte my tongue,
We're getting older but tonight were young,
We'll make mistakes along the way, But we'll learn,
In time we have to grow up, for now we'll just stay young.

So raise your glasses, Here's to friends!

This night is ours and ours to keep
Always singing our hearts out over the beat
So far from familiarities
Living life as it was meant to be 
So close your eyes and let go of the wheel
Trust in fate to take control and steer
The sands of time is there for us to steal
Someday I'll tell you how I feel,

For now I'll just byte my tongue,
We're getting older but tonight were young,
We'll make mistakes along the way, But we'll learn, 
We will live and learn!
We'll make mistakes along the way, But we'll learn,
In time we have to grow up, for now we'll just stay young.

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