Lyric Analysis

Lyric Analysis

We wanted to look into the lyrics in more detail, to understand how the narrative of our music video would be constructed around the different lyrics, so that we could include a relationship between the lyrics and visuals in some areas of the video. We thought the best way to do this would be to find the lyrics to the song online and print them off. We then separated the lyrics into smaller sections which made it easier to analyse them. We played the song and stopped it after each section and shared ideas of what we imagined to be happening in the video at that time. We also read the meaning of the lyrics and came up with ways of interpreting them into the visuals, for example:

'I got my red dress on tonight'- we didn't want to just show the artist stood signing with a red dress on as this seemed to obvious, however we thought it would be more interesting to show her having a flashback to when she was wearing a red dress with her summertime love, and then return to a shot of the artist in a different costume, so that the visuals linked to the lyrics but in an unusual way.

We also considered the different locations which the sections of the songs would be shot in, and the positions that the actors would be in during the shot. We had to also think about when our actress would be singing to the camera to connect with the audience, and found that a section which has a slightly different pace and style to it would be a good idea to show the artist looking at the camera as it separates it from the narrative.