Lyric Moodboard

Here I have created a moodboard of how I visually imagine the lyrics. The images convey the mood of the lyrics and give an insight into how I interpret the song. 

Lyric Analysis

Originally, the lyrics of the song were wrote by Chris Martin to his wife Gwyneth Paltrow who had recently lose her dad. It is about him trying to be there for his wife not matter what and wanting to comfort and protect her.

Therefore, many people relate to the lyrics as them wanting to be there for someone else, in particular aloved one. Therefore their interpretations of the lyrics are about the persona wanting to be there for someone and help them.

However, I wanted to present the lyrics in a different way, by focusing more on the individual and more psychological pain rather than pain of missing someone else.Therefore, my own lyric analysis consists of someone who is suffering interanlly with themselves and about them wanting to help fix themselves, to be happy again. Also with the lyrics and the chorus repeating, this demonstrates the continuous cycle of neverending pain that she feels.

Storyboard

StoryBoard

Final Song Choice

I came to the conclusion that my final song choice would be 'Fix You' by Coldplay, as it is one of my favourite songs and I felt that by listening to the song, it encouraged me to think creatively of video ideas that I could produce for it.





However, I decided to record the song as an original, of my friend singing a cover of the song. This is because I feel it will enhance my creative abilities and more reliable as my own music video.

Second Initial Idea

Beyoncé - Pretty Hurts

 

Another idea that I had, was to perform a narrative music video with elements of performance in it, to the song 'Pretty Hurts' by Beyoncé. The concept of the video is a girl who struggles with self-esteem and has no confidence with her appearance. In the first two minutes of the video, the shots are slow which matches the slow pace of the song, and a variety of cross cuts will take place to show the girl constantly obsessing over her appearance and weight etc, whilst compring other girls in society. However, for the second half of the video, when the tempo increases; the narrative of the video goes on to portray the extremity of how much the girl is depressed and will connote how she is feeling on the inside. A range of editing will take place, including slow motion of her smashing a mirror and crying, foregrounding how she feels on the inside. 

My first Initial Idea

Initially, I spent many hours researching through Youtube and social media a range of different songs to find inspiration to create my own music video. After several hours, I came across the song 'Grow old with me' by Tom Odell, which I immediately enjoyed and created images and ideas that I could create which would match the lyrics to the song. 

I then found inspiration from the music video, as I liked the theme of young love between the two children and felt that I could develop on this idea and create my own narrative to the song. 

The concept of the video tells the story of a girl and boy who grow up together from toddlers to old age and how they fell in love. It would begin with an old woman who finds a box of old photos and begins to look through them, showing photogrpahs of a girl and boy together at a range of different ages. Then, a zoom from the camera would go to the photograph and would begin by featuring recordings of them playing together through fields and being best friends. Then a variety of fast paced cross cuts would show the two of them growing up at different ages and how they develop from friends to lovers. Then at the end of the video, it would go back to the old woman who turns out to be the girl from the photographs and it concldes that she lost her husband to the war, yet the memories of them together will live on.

Idea mindmap

Here is a mind map that I created of the initial ideas that I have developed from the inspiration of other music videos, to help me decide on the music video that I would like to create and to decide on the narrative or abstract element.