I have decided to focus on my third song choice which is a cover of 'the Scientist' by Natasha Bedingfield, originally written and performed by Coldplay, this cover of the song is slower and I think more intimate as it sounds more delictae and fragile which links in with my ideas of a severe loss of love in some way.
I decided to listen to the song and write down anything that came to mind when I listened to it as a starting place to really think about what the song brings across, this is what I wrote:
Sunshine, flashbacks, slow motion, brightness increase on 'good times/beginning', flowers, fields, Hippy, bright colours, love, notes, letters, pictures, spinning camera effect, letting go, walking down a street alone, go to dull colours, re-winding to start getting faster and faster, complex storyline/plot, death?, science intigrated, screwed up paper with messages, singing to camera, running to a 'significant place' but its empty, Emptyness, desperation, beach scene, 3:05 properly re-run to start of relationship, walking in black clothing, searching, contrast between happiness and sadness, hunting trying to find him, lost, wanted posters, 'have you seen this...', upset, hurt.
From this list of things I came up with 3 ideas for the narrative of the songs storyline.
1) A simple, typical couple break up. Flashbacks to happier times in fields, alone together, meeting places and the 'good times', however ended for some reason that doesn't necessarily have to be covered in the video, has a lot of singing to the camera about the girls feelings and how she wants to return to the beginning of the relationship. Eventually the video will re-wind to the very beginning of the relationship and it is perhaps played in fast motion from there or just stops at the beginning so it ends on a positive note.
2) First appearences makes the audience think the couple had a bad break up with the girl in pieces over it. However by the end realises the lover has been killed or died and so that is the reason she wants to return to the start. I have ideas of the singer walking down a deserted street, dressed in a black coat and it maybe raining also in slow motion to make it more atmospheric and upsetting. Then when she reaches the end of her journey she's in a grave yard or on the beach laying a flower on a grave or in the sea, (Beach scene would depend on whether or not I could arrange to get to a beach and film on an appropriate day) Then at 3:05 the story re-winds through her buying the flowers, through her getting ready to leave her house, through the mourning and takes her back to the start of her nightmare just before he dies or right back to when they were happy. This may have to happen sooner than 3:05 to fit it in.
3) My last idea is that the singer has lost her lover, in the sense that she is searching for him and wants to return to the start when she had him. It will see the singer move through different scenes which once meant something to the couple and when she comes to them it flashes back to what happened there and then fades out to it being empty and no sign of him. Her journey takes her to all sorts of places searching for him. There are shots of her wondering aimlessly around, spinning and then looks through pictures of film footage of when they were together and then is played as a full screen on the video. Perhaps she looses him through a game of blind mans buff as he dispappears, this would mean that the video could have odd themes attached to it linking in with un natralistic sets and odd and Indie like outifts which are more symbolic than practical.
Here are the lyrics to the song:
Come up to meet you, Slow mo. if possible
Tell you I'm sorry walk down street looking around
You don't know how lovely you are
I had to find you,
Tell you I need you Camera straight on
And tell you I set you apart
Tell me your secrets,
And ask me your questions Look at Camera
Oh let's go back to the start Fade off to sky
Running in circles, Coming up tails
Heads on a silence apart Flashback to relationships
Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part At home, cup of tea, box of clothes, watching tv
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard Alone on sofa
Oh take me back to the start Fade to black object
take me back to the start Fade up to flashback
I decided to listen to the song and write down anything that came to mind when I listened to it as a starting place to really think about what the song brings across, this is what I wrote:
Sunshine, flashbacks, slow motion, brightness increase on 'good times/beginning', flowers, fields, Hippy, bright colours, love, notes, letters, pictures, spinning camera effect, letting go, walking down a street alone, go to dull colours, re-winding to start getting faster and faster, complex storyline/plot, death?, science intigrated, screwed up paper with messages, singing to camera, running to a 'significant place' but its empty, Emptyness, desperation, beach scene, 3:05 properly re-run to start of relationship, walking in black clothing, searching, contrast between happiness and sadness, hunting trying to find him, lost, wanted posters, 'have you seen this...', upset, hurt.
From this list of things I came up with 3 ideas for the narrative of the songs storyline.
1) A simple, typical couple break up. Flashbacks to happier times in fields, alone together, meeting places and the 'good times', however ended for some reason that doesn't necessarily have to be covered in the video, has a lot of singing to the camera about the girls feelings and how she wants to return to the beginning of the relationship. Eventually the video will re-wind to the very beginning of the relationship and it is perhaps played in fast motion from there or just stops at the beginning so it ends on a positive note.
2) First appearences makes the audience think the couple had a bad break up with the girl in pieces over it. However by the end realises the lover has been killed or died and so that is the reason she wants to return to the start. I have ideas of the singer walking down a deserted street, dressed in a black coat and it maybe raining also in slow motion to make it more atmospheric and upsetting. Then when she reaches the end of her journey she's in a grave yard or on the beach laying a flower on a grave or in the sea, (Beach scene would depend on whether or not I could arrange to get to a beach and film on an appropriate day) Then at 3:05 the story re-winds through her buying the flowers, through her getting ready to leave her house, through the mourning and takes her back to the start of her nightmare just before he dies or right back to when they were happy. This may have to happen sooner than 3:05 to fit it in.
3) My last idea is that the singer has lost her lover, in the sense that she is searching for him and wants to return to the start when she had him. It will see the singer move through different scenes which once meant something to the couple and when she comes to them it flashes back to what happened there and then fades out to it being empty and no sign of him. Her journey takes her to all sorts of places searching for him. There are shots of her wondering aimlessly around, spinning and then looks through pictures of film footage of when they were together and then is played as a full screen on the video. Perhaps she looses him through a game of blind mans buff as he dispappears, this would mean that the video could have odd themes attached to it linking in with un natralistic sets and odd and Indie like outifts which are more symbolic than practical.
Here are the lyrics to the song:
Come up to meet you, Slow mo. if possible
Tell you I'm sorry walk down street looking around
You don't know how lovely you are
I had to find you,
Tell you I need you Camera straight on
And tell you I set you apart
Tell me your secrets,
And ask me your questions Look at Camera
Oh let's go back to the start Fade off to sky
Running in circles, Coming up tails
Heads on a silence apart Flashback to relationships
Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part At home, cup of tea, box of clothes, watching tv
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard Alone on sofa
Oh take me back to the start Fade to black object
take me back to the start Fade up to flashback
I was just guessing
at numbers and figures Sorting through things
Pulling the puzzles apart
Questions of science, science and progress
Do not speak as loud as my heart Emotional
And tell me you love me,
Come back and hold me
Oh and I rush to the start
Running in circles, Chasing tails flashback - Something to do with flowers
Coming back as we are
Nobody said it was easy In car or train?
it's such a shame for us to part In the dark walking down?
Nobody said it was easy Street to grave
No one ever said it would be this hard Street
I'm going back to the start
I’m going back to you
Take me back x2 Massive re-wind through events of past few days
Take me back to you
Take me back to
Aah oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh (x4) Eventually back with him
Timeline of places:
Street -- FLASHBACK -- House -- FLASHBACK -- Rooms -- Window -- FLASHBACK -- Car -- Street -- Grave -- RE-WIND
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