LYRICS

Listen close she said well there's mouths here in the walls 
listen close they whisper half true to names and songs
and it's been fifteen days since you ran away with me
now it's time to send you back back across the sea
hold me close oh there's shapes here in the dark
move in close one kiss and we'll be compromised 
and it's been fifteen days since you ran away with me
I know I should but I don't want to set you want to set you free
blindfold don't you walk away
cover your eyes and fall into 
blindfold don't you walk away 
cover your eyes and fall into
its always closed she said and you cant get back again
leave them closed 
and don't be polarised or atomised
and its been fifteen days since you crumbled in my hands
and now it's time to send you back across, across the desert sands. 

Goodwin's theory of lyrics and visuals suggests that the lyrics often have an association with the video, there are a few lyrics that could possibly be used as a reference in music video. The line 'There's shapes here in the dark' could possibly go with our idea of the edit creating a distorted scene, e.g through the use of split screen and mirroring. 
The lyrics also present a break-up, 'you ran away', it may be an interesting idea to explore the idea of being alone. This would link to our intertextual reference of Amelie.

IDEAS FOR FILMING

COLOUR

Because we had so many different locations we needed a way in which we could link each one in order for our video to not seem like a montage of broken clips. We decided the best way to do this would be both through the edit of similar shots, e.g a train leaving and a moving shot of a railing, and also through the colour of each of the locations.

The first location that we filmed in was Cambridge and so this was where the initial colour shots formed, immediately we saw that red, blue and green would be the best colours to use as there were many places we could film with variations of these colours e.g the Fitzwilliam museum had a red interior or the river that was surrounded by grass and trees.

We also needed the other locations for our corresponding colours, and so the filming in Norwich of the Antique hall and Elm Hill would be layered either behind or in front of the red inside the museum. The green of the river would be paired with the green shots from Cromer and also the Plantation garden shots. The blue clips from the river and the other areas within the museum would correspond with the sea from Cromer and also the blue coloured houses.

REQUEST FOR SONG USE- EMAIL

POSSIBLE LOCATIONS / COLOUR

 As a group we decided the best idea for locations for our video would be to have many different locations that would fit together. We had a few small locations and also some bigger 'main' locations.

Immediately we decided that our main locations should be somewhere that had interesting architecture or unusual things, due to the low quality of the Lomokino, and the good quality of the Canon 600D we knew it would be good to film using both cameras somewhere that would be interesting to look at alone. 
We decided on a few locations: 

Cambridge

 This location will be our main filming spot as there are many different areas we can film.
Fitzwilliam museum: the red and green interior.
River: the surrounding greenery.

The beach (Cromer and Great Yarmouth)

We knew that we wanted a location that would feel secluded, away from the cities we had been filming in and so decided the beach would be the best option. This location we felt would be good to film both in the daytime and at night due to the simplicity of it. 
The sea and sand/blue houses surrounding it. 



 As a group we decided that the best locations to use for our music video would be within a city, we knew a few places in Norwich that would be good to film in as 'fill in' shots such as: 

 St Gregory's Church Antiques 




We felt this location would be good  because it has a variety of different things to make it interesting.
The orange lighting inside.






Elm Hill

This location could be filmed both with the Lomokino, due to it's simple but interesting layout of houses, and the Canon 600D, at nighttime the orange lights from within the buildings makes a pretty and simple location to film in. 






The Plantation Gardens 

The plantation gardens, like the previous locations, has many interesting features such as the Victorian gardens themselves and the large house behind. With lots of different aspects we felt this location would fit well with the music we have chosen. 



St James Mill

Although originally we would have liked to film inside this building, we found the outside would be equally as good to film, due to the hidden feel to the surrounding area, and the river just next to it this place would be for our daytime filming. 


 

The Train/Station
On our way to our main locations we will have to get the train and so we thought this would be another great location to film, often films will use trains as a simple yet interesting shot and so we felt we would do the same.
The blue trains/red seating.

 

FINAL SONG CHOICE

James Edge - Closed
Looking back at our possible song choices (Vanilla-Better with u) we decided that the track didn't have the right sound to fit with the locations that we would be filming, the track also felt too much like a film track and so would be difficult to film something of the same quality. This track, James Edge- Closed, has a smaller scale feel to it that would be much easier to find locations to film with and has many links to other songs and films that we can get inspiration from. 

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