Song Ideas.

We want the video to be a mixture of narrative and performance scenes. The performance should be set in a setting where the band can perform “naturally” and not be put off by not only the camera but also the artificial setting. Our initial thoughts for the performance setting were either a rehearsal studio (outside of college) or a room in college (that would have to be heavily disguised).

The narrative should involve the band members (mainly vocalist Dave) lip-syncing to the song throughout. The narrative section should be filmed in either two settings and from two extremes, in a very urban setting or a very secluded setting. The mood of the song suggests a dark setting but we can always order the contrast during the editing process and make the captured material black and white for a “trendier” approach.

Once again regarding narrative, the woman indirectly referred to in the song, shouldn’t be filmed as we are never told if the man (in the song, presumably the vocalist) eventually finds and gets the girl. The song doesn’t have a “story-like” plot and therefore we could just include certain aspects of the lyrics for eg. In verse two when we hear “running across the bridge running out of, out of time”, we could illustrate this through the visuals.

I think this idea (above) is one that we should go ahead with, however there are many other options we’ve considered at first thought.

We thought about filming the female and create a visual sense of the male and her before the song began, however this would involve us reading between the lines and presuming things about the song we don’t know to be true, therefore creating a miss-conception if untrue. Not only that, but it would also be deviating away from the lyrics and what they mean therefore exploring disjuncture.

Other thoughts we had, prior to the one at the top, was the have purely a performance based video but we wouldn’t be able to explore be marked on understanding narrative.

A very early idea was to amplify the lyrics and to have a narrative involving a blind person but this would be too literal and wouldn’t take advantage of the metaphorical opportunities within the lyrics.

We also considered different places where the performance could be set, the rehearsal room in studios (costs would be incurred, but probably our best option, because of how “rock and roll” they look), The performance rooms available in college but these would not look real enough and a great deal of work would be involved in just disguising it to look natural.

Outside in the same place as the narrative (yet to be decided) seemed a very plausible idea, but with lots of pros and cons. The good points being that the two sections (narrative and performance) both have a common thread the band points being, that there may not be enough of a contrast between the two sections, also we can predict the weather and we don’t want to chance getting equipment (cameras and musical equipment) being ruined by thoughtless planning.