Album Cover Prototype

I have designed a prototype for the album cover. To do this, I first decided on using the name of the song name for the music video we are making, as the title for the album. Also, as the music video is set on the beach in whilst the sun is setting, with a beach fire, I have decided to use this imagery for the album cover. The fire is important as it is a symbol for the "Light" mentioned in the lyrics and song name. For the writing I decided to make the writing to glow (like a light) to fit in with the theme. I think this works well with the font I have used for the title as it looks as if it could have been spelt out by writing with a sparkler.

Narrative/Plot of Music Video

After interpreting the meaning of the lyrics, we decided on a rough idea for the plot. Below is a simple version of the plot, along side the lyrics:

Meaning of Lyrics

To help plan the narrative/plot for the music video we decided to interperate the meaning of the lyrics to the song. To do this we asked the artist, George Brook, what he was thinking about when he wrote the song. We also used some of our own interpretations.

I have made a mind map to show what we came up with:

Video 3 - Conventional

This is a more conventional music video. This is because it focuses on dance moves which go simultaniously in time with the rhythm of the song. Many conventional music videos involve dancers that move to the music. This is also an example of a music video in which there is no visual narrative as such.

Video 2 - Unconventional

This music video is rather different to most music videos, it coulod een be described as weird. Rather than having a narrative to go with the lyrics, the video focuses on movement; this is common for many music videos, but the use of treadmills to do this singles the video out as 'one of a kind'.

Video 1 - Liked

I like this music video because it has a comidic side to it. The characters in the music video help construct this comidic settiong which i thnk helps keep the audience amused. Another thing I like about the video is that it starts off ordinary and rather un-technological, then suddenly the characters surroundings keep changing. This makes the video exciting, and look rather professional.