30.09.2009

(Morning lesson)
We were shown previous students work of music videos to help us get more ideas of what we should be looking for and doing. One was a narrative, while the other was a montage. Originally before this I was set on doing a narrative text, but on seeing the student’s film, I am now wondering if a montage would have more effect, based on the atypical manner we want to achieve from ours. This I put across to my partners, but both still liked the narrative idea. So to compromise we have come to a decision that we will use both types.

(Afternoon lesson)
We started by listening to our chosen song. The narrative of the song is of a man who wants to go and do things his girlfriend/wife doesn’t want him to do, but he goes anyway with the suggestion if he doesn’t go he will regret it for the rest of his life. This is something he needs to try no matter what.
From this we wrote down what we thought were key words which we could focus our pitches around. These are what we came up with;
· Dust
· Leaving
· Time
· Failing to do what you want to do- go places
· Her voice behind him
· Too scared to look back
· Lonely
· Died on the road
· Waves
· Walking
· Nothing
The first word that jumped out at us was ‘Lonely’. We brainstormed a few rough and basic ideas;
- A montage of a man walking down deserted roads and through fields
- A montage of how his life used to be
Because this narrative is quite a strong one (the meaning is clear) we have found that this isn’t to our advantage as we thought previously it might. As if our text is too abstract it won’t fit into the song, so we’ve had to rein in on how ‘wacky’ we want to be so the video ‘makes sense’.