one way to view this word in media terms is the visual representation of a medium, such as music, through another medium such as light or colour. Synaesthetics (people who have the condition Synaethesia) make conections in their brains between seemingly unrelated senses. For example, some synaesthetics see colour explosion of red when they hear a C sharp played on the keyboard, or taste strawberries when they hear the word "Hello". It's a strange and imaginative condition that allows the people who have it to see the world in a different way.
In thinking about music video in this way, we hope to be able to create the best visual representation of the song that we happen to choose. As a class group, we listened to two contrasting songs - Red by Phoria and Never Gonna Let You Go by Tina Moore and armed with pens and paper, drew what the song influenced us to. We did this for the duration of the song, interpreting each part of the music as we went. Thisn resulted in what looked liked a piece of paper with a mass of scribbles filling it's space. But when we looked at what it was we had drawn and found something quite valuable and interesting.
The styles of what we had doodled throughout the songs progression varied emmensly. For the first track, Never Gonna Let You Go (an upbeat, dance style track), the shapes that we could see were angular, jumpy and quite erratic. Lines ended and began quickly and abruptly, were straighter, contained break off points that transfigured into dots etc. Conversely, the page for Red (echoing and slow, yet powerful) consisted of long, flowing lines, curves looping them around each other and swirls overlapping. Whilst there were the odd few occurances that seemed to represent when the beat changed tempo or intensity, it surprisingly reflected the melodies and rhythms of the song very accurately. Using this, we could then begin to brainstorm some ideas for themes and shots that could potentially be used in a music video for the song. Our immeadiate thought on this occasion was water, possibly brought on by the patterns and swirls that were present from our visualisation process.
Thinking of the music in this perspective gave us some new things to think about for it when it comes to approaching our own song. Making a visual representation of the song such as this will undoubtably allow us to create a video that is far more visually dynamic and impressive, with definite links and connections to both the lyrical content and the instrumentation and timbre of the song.
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