Lyrics

As our band is very niche and not with a famous label, the lyrics to the song aren't online. As well as this the artist sings with an Italian accent which has made it a little difficult to properly work out what he's singing; but I've done my best to work them out and this is what I've got (any missing lyrics will be filled with a - ):

I gave you my reason
You don't understand
I gave you my secrets
I'm trying to forget

You gave me your deepest -
There's no more -
It's easy for you to fool me
I've no more regrets

Don't try to speak
Don't try to say a word
Don't try to speak
-

There's so much love to give
There's so much pain too            [x2]

Remember your candy kisses
Or right my wrong
You pick me with your -
Now leave me alone

Don't try to speak
Don't try to say a word
Don't try to be my
Kind of perfect love

There's so much love to give
There's so much pain too           [x4]


In my own interpretation, these lyrics depict a love hate relationship between a man and a woman, and it is the man who is singing the song in retaliation to how the woman has acted or treated him. Our video will display a conflict between three men and three women, which does reflect the lyrics. Despite this, the scenario we create will be loosely based on the lyrics; instead of taking an aggressive, troubled relationship aspect and focusing on the torment between two people, we've decided to take a lighter, more humourous approach. The food fight will illustrate the conflict between the characters, yet because the ammunition is just coloured food, we know nobody is really getting hurt, and we can enjoy the struggle between them without cringing at the sight of physical injury. By bringing in the school photo day context, we're trying to show that the fight fits in with something else and isn't just a fight for the sake of it- as well as this, incorporating something jeuvanille accentuates the fact that the relationship being portrayed, is potentially childish, and at the end of the day this song could be about two naive and fickle teenagers.

To justify our choices, the lyrics themselves are quite vague, there is no distinct narrative behind them which gives us creative freedom to interpret the lyrics as we choose. We developed our video concept on more than the lyrics, we tried to remember the nature of the genre we chose, and wanted to make sure that our video reflected the fun-loving, light hearted image of modern-day, pop-rock bands.

To conclude; though our video plot may not seem too grounded, it actually fits very well with Andrew Goodwin's theory of music video.

• We have established an (albeit seemingly loose) relationship between the lyrics and the visuals
• We have established a relationship between the music and the visuals
• We have definitely looked into the genre of our music and tried to understand the type of video conventions associated with it
• And we have attempted to fabricate a band image through our visuals to make it appear like our group is developing some form of iconography in their video.