The lyrics in the song being used for the music video have a very large effect on what happens visually throughout the music video. The lyrics will help get across a message to the audience and engage them with the video. They can also aid the narrative and set the scene of the video by explaining what is happening or why. The video can follow the lyrics meaning literally or use them to create a hidden meaning within the video and in some cases the video can have nothing to do with the lyrics at all, but this is uncommon. In order to understand how this would work I analysed the lyrics for Leave Right Now by Will Young which I hadn't seen the music video for before and planned my own music video based around the lyrics then compared it to the actual thing. This would help me by allowing me to test how the lyrics can be adapted to create an effective music video so I can apply these skills to my own chosen song and music video.
I ended up creating a very symbolic literal representation of the lyrics which involved the artist falling into a pool and sinking. Then the heart shaped pool cracks in half and they fall downwards before landing in a giant hand and is wet and trembling, a girl then walks over to him and he stands for her.
This turned out to be a much more exaggerated portrayal of the song's lyrics to how it did in the official music video which features a POV view throughout the video facing the artist who sings towards the camera.
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