JP: Song Choices & Synaesthesia

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AIDEN GRIMSHAW - MISTY EYE (2012)

- Dark scenes with low-key lighting

- Shadows, experimenting with light, reflection and partial obscuring of faces (noiristic style)

- Urban locations for example the streets/avenues of London (featured in the music video for 'Is This Love' - Aiden Grimshaw)

- Flares/colourful lighting especially on accented beats like the 'heavy' sound at beginning

- Schizophrenia theme with the voices during the song (at the start)

- Narrative based video focussing aruond the lyric 'you build your memories from your biggest fears' - memories of love are now dark and broken especially with the lyrics 'night air' 'moon's glow' and 'the dark comes out you say'

 

A HOPEFUL TRANSMISSION/DON'T LET IT BREAK YOUR HEART

COLDPLAY - MYLO XYLOTO (2011)

- Establishing shots during the 30 second intro 'A Hopeful Transmission' with slow pans across the location or slow tracks in

- Explosion of colour and energy at the start of 'Don't Let It Break Your Heart' with the beat

- Cutting rate with the beat of the song

- Concept/disjuntive video with energy, possibly some energetic performance reflecting the song

- Lots of bright, vibrant colours echoing the band's meta-narrative

- Graphic/animation/effects

- Urban location/warehouse with paint/grafitti all over the walls

- Semiotics (using signs and symbols) - Coldplay's symbols for each song on the album

- Visuals die down at the end with reverb and echo, fades and slow pans - back to reality

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THE TEMPER TRAP - CONDITIONS (2009)

- Heavy drum beat echoed in the visuals using drums as props or the focus

- Stylistic, low-key lighting on drums in a dark room

- Drums could have lights or neon colours inside

- Use colour with the drums, so when they are beaten they light up

- Possibility of paint on top of the drums and when they are beaten it could fly up (such as in the video 'Treatment' - Labrinth and the West-End show 'The Blue Man Group'

- Song is heavy, but when it picks up and slows down the visuals echo this

- Mainly concept based, artistic and indie

- Disjunctive, there is no relationship between lyrics/music and the visuals

- Black and white to start with (like in 'Cough Cough' - Everything Everything)