In today's lesson we were set a task of analysing our music video and show how we followed Andrew Goodwin's theory. As we decided as a group to do the music video for Lego House when we looked over our music video we found that we had only 1 of the 3 types of relations between songs and videos; illustration, amplification and disjuncture.
The one we followed for our music video is 'Illustration' this is where the music video tells the story of the lyric. Dance is often used to express the feelings/mood but in our case no shots of dance was used.
The reason we decided our music video only followed one of the types of relation was because our music video reflects the lyrics of the song. We first went about using illustration through making a narrative for our music video that goes/connect with the lyrics.
How we connected lyrics and music video:
We came up with a couple who are in love with each other, but unfortunately the girl has passed away and the boy is left all alone. Through out the music video there are different scenes where they are both living their moments together, the boy returning to places where the memories were shared and remembering the girl by going to the graveyard where the girl was buried. In some shots the girl disappears where its revealed that in fact the girl has passed away and i's just the boy remembering everything.
Examples that show this:
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| In our music video this shot is used where we recorded a student draw a portrait of the girlfriend and when it came to editing we sped up the pace of the drawing to fit in with a verse of the lyrics. 'Am gonna paint you by number, then colour you in, if things go right we can frame it, and put you on a wall.' Through doing this we are following Goodwin's theory of illustration. |
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