After watching and analysing the music video for Paradise by Coldplay, I became interested in the lyric cards that are used in that music video (albeit in a slightly original way, by using them to also progress the narrative of the music video) and several other music videos and decided that we should try them in our music video for Tonight I Let You Go by The Colours. To put our own mark on the technique, I also thought that using different colours for the lyric cards could help to strengthen our use of colour in the mise-en-scene to connote different emotions and situations.
The verse we have chosen to write onto the lyric cards is the chorus - this is due to the chorus often being the most striking part of a music video, and the part that is focused on most. In our chosen song, it also contains many emotional references that work well with the colours of the lyric cards - for example, the first lyric card talks about "heart break" and love is often associated with the colour red, so we used red card for this lyric card.
Note that Coldplay's "Paradise" in packed with British cultural signifiers. I suggest you add another post analysing the purpose of cultural signifiers in this music whilst also explaininghow genre is communicated.
ReplyDeleteIt will be interesting to see how your shoot using lyric cards works - keep text minimal as Dylan does.