Ideas for music video..

Our target was to achieve and settle on a simple song and to produce something unconventional. As a group I think we have reached our objective in agreeing on a song by Snow Patrol-Chasing Cars for our main music video.
Although this is an open love song, I think ‘chasing cars’ by ‘snow patrol’ is not the standard and predictable love song that you will come across in your contemporary music videos, it is in fact quit different to your ordinary song, and I believe we can establish a video with some originality. This song contains influential lyrics therefore our aim is to produce a video where the visuals link with the lyrics.
The intertextuality is very limited in the snow patrol video, because it has an original idea, so lacks any intertextuality at all. The original video is quit dreary and the codes and signs we capture from this are very uninteresting, so therefore our target is to re create a more attention-grabbing video.
‘’Show me a garden that’s bursting into life.’’ This line demonstrates how he only wants to see the optimistic things in life. This song is positive and to us it is about ignoring reality. Everyone wants to escape from all the bad things in life and I think the lyrics illustrate this. In the original video it is about snow patrol sharing his feelings about how this girl has helped him overcome all these bad effects. This song is to a great extent about memories, therefore the idea that we have come up with, is to portray the good memories in colour and the bad memories in black and white.
There is going to be 2 main characters throughout our video, with the female acting out the most dominant role. We are going to base our video on two couples who are madly in love but do not have consent from their families. When they’re together nothing matter, but as soon as they go home there is lots of confrontation and their parents cannot bear the thought of their offspring seeing each other. These symbolic codes will grasp the viewer’s awareness and it will make them think about the couple’s situation, and hopefully feel some emotion for them.
We want to have the female performer to have the most leading part in lip singing. It will be rather unusual to have a female, singing along to a tune sung by a male as it rarely happens. So it is quit risky. However we believe it’ll be interesting to continue with this idea as it will be exciting to watch the female side of the relationship.
The original video has one man throughout, which doesn’t do much justice to the song because the lyrics are very powerful. I think it will visually look better and exciting if the female stars as the main character, I believe it’ll captivate the audience’s attention more and make them focus on the lyrics.

By Taslima Begum