No rest, dry the river.

In class today we was asked  by our teacher to listen to a music video without watching what happens in the video. we closed our eyes to listen to the lyrics in the music video to help us answer the question as to what we could picture when listening to the music and listening to the lyrics. we was asked a series of questions about the music video.

What are the emotions it stirs?
When i was listening to the music and lyrics in the video i visualised a relationship problem between a male and a female and the male singing was trying to win the women back. i picture the man following the female till she would understand what the man had to say about the relationship.
What images are conjured up in your mind when you hear the song?
When i listened to this song i thought of images that related to an end of a relationship. i thought this because of the lyrics that were sung such as the man feeling he has been left and that he now has no one else to make him happy. i got images that the man was trying to make the women feel like he now cant be happy and that he only wants that one women to be in a realtionship with and to make him happy.
Intertextuality, voyeurism, performance, narrative, abstract? A combination?
i would personally think that this video is a narrative video and that the band would do alot more to show the audience what the lyrics meant to him, but at the same time the video is more performance as sometimes through the video the band doesnt show a narrative.

What did others say about their ideas for a music video?

• shots from different situations eg, arguing, fighting. This would show a end of someones relationship.
• A wedding with photos of both people at the wedding as single people, then a future picture of a leading divorce.
• Roman soliders.
• Man walking away from camera along a road in a differnt country.
• urban/london. Man walking along pavement walks past another man with a girl he is heartbroken about.
• Bad singing live at a performance.

What is the connection between music, lyrics, and visuals?
At first the music starts calm and softly there isnt much connection between the lyrics and how you would visual the song to be without seeing the video. As the music starts to get a lot faster when instruments are then involved, such as the guitar, the lyrics start to relate more to what you can hear and what you would think is going on in the video. the lyrics ' i could see how still i'd between' relates to the visuals as you see the men laying in the rocks still throughout the video.