“Holy Ground” by Taylor Swift
Idea:
The narrative of a story is about a happy couple. We see the
girl being happy in love with her boyfriend. However, we noticed that the
lyrics of the song are all in past tense (“I
was reminiscing just the other day”, “And darling, it was good, never looking
down/ And right there where we stood was holy ground”). This gave us the
idea that what if all this happy moments are all just imaginary. In the bridge
part (“Tonight I'm gonna dance, like you
were in this room/ But I don't wanna dance, if I'm not dancing with you”),
it is revealed that the girl is all alone and the boyfriend is a ghost. AT the
end, we see her walking towards a graveyard and toating a glass of champagne to
the grave.
Pros
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Cons
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It will be easy to get the characters that will play
the part of the lovers. We could just get the members of our group to act the
part.
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The rhythm of the song is both slow and fast-paced.
The editing will be very efficient as it’s a mixture of long and short takes.
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The story line of the story is too cliché. It is too
common.
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“Monster” by Imagine Dragons
Idea:
In this song, we plan to make an intertextual reference to
the epistolary novel of Bram Stokes and the movie coming out this year “Dracula”.
The narrative centres on a male character, in which he is confused and
struggling to “fit” in the world (“Everything
inside of me/ Just wanted to fit in”). Then, we present a love interest to
make him feel more human. At the end, the character cannot resists and
transforms into a vampire. The love interest confides with him, told her to
stay away but ignores this. (“If I told
you what I was/ Would you turn your back on me?/ And if I seem dangerous/ Would
you be scared?”)She then becomes the first victim and become a vampire as
well.
Pros
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Cons
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It will be relatively easy to create different ideas
with all the vampire films coming out such as Twilight Saga, Dracula Untold,
Dracula (1998), Dracula novel. It will be accessible to get inspirations from
other forms of media.
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The main theme of this video is death. It will be
very difficult to represent death, as no one has an absolute idea what it is.
Also, we will use a lot of ambient setting but we need a low key lighting in
this video.
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“Youth” by Daughter
Idea:
The narrative that we plan to do in this song is about a
dying old woman, looking at her pictures in her past. Then it backtracks to her
past when she was still young, having fun, falling in love, falling out of
love, being hurt, succeeding, failing and just living. At the end, we see her
being left alone by a man, as she passes away with all those memories being
burned – with the pictures accidentally falling out her hand and landing in a
fire place.
We also had an alternative idea in which we compare lives of
the old people when they were young and fast forwards to the present and how it
is different now to the young people living their lives.
Pros
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Cons
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The advantage of this is creating a binary opposition
– Old VS Young. It will also benefit our exam questions as the controversy of
young and old is already present in the media industry.
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It will difficult to find a person who is willing to
play the part of the dying.
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(ATHENA)
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