Now that we have decided on our sing, I have been looking at music videos on a similar topic to our final song choice- 'The Funeral'. Amy Winehouse's song 'Back to Black' refers to death very frequently as does our song.
The video is very gothic and dark, it emphasises all things morbid and melancholy. There are many shots of the singer casually singing the words, dressed in clothing suited to a sad event such as a funeral.
The singer's lack of eye contact with the camera really intrigued me as she is almost detaching herself from the audience, with an emotionless facial expression.
The entire video has a very serious tone, nothing is taken lightly and the repetitive image of the hurse travelling through the graveyard really does set the tone for the entire video.
This is my favourite extract from the video. There is a short pan of a few graves from the graveyard. This is definitely something I would like to include in our music video as it sets the scene whilst also showing the harmonious nature of the home of the resting. I feel it is important to pay respect to the graves that would be filmed as the topic will always be sensitive. Our video will be one of great seriousness and the entire plot will be taken seriously.
As a group we have been discussing using a symbol throughout our music video, and we thought about using a rose. Roses are an indication romance and love, and incorporating this idea into our video could only improve the strength of the storyline.
Coincidentally Amy throws a rose upon the grave in the video. I feel that our group can gain a lot of inspiration from this video as it holds almighty relevance.
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