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Solitude

In the music video ‘Solitude’ there is a wide variety of people from all different all ages, genders, backgrounds, ethnicity and time periods. This is done to show that solitude is universal and can be experienced by all as either a negative or positive thing.

No Body To Love

The Music video No Body To Love is set in Cape Town South Africa, the video features; locals, workers and school children. The protagonists are two young white women. By the end of the video all the characters are dancing and happy. The video is diverse and features characters of varied ethnicity.

I Know

In the Music Video ‘I Know’ there are two characters the artist and a figure of a women who’s face has been blurred out. Both of the characters are white and of English origin.

 SOLITUDE – RYUICHI SAKAMOTO:

• Characters: Lots of different people from all ages, genders, backgrounds, and time periods. All are alone and in isolated locations.  
• Settings: Majority are in black and white. Isolated/deserted landscapes or empty buildings. Fog and Mist in many. Generally, miserable and depressing. Locations include Forests, beaches, woods, mountains, abandoned railways etc.  
• Shots/Angles: Shots slowly zoom in and out of the photographs and the images fade as the next one appears.

Narrative Structure:

• Beginning (Equilibrium): Slow piano music, first image fading in is a man sitting on a rock reading.
• Middle (Disruption): A combination of images (photographs, postcards etc.) of people looking isolated and solitary. They are alone and are in empty rooms/isolated landscapes.
• End (New Equilibrium): Music fades out and it ends with a lady looking out of a window.

NOBODY TO LOVE – SIGMA:

• Characters: The protagonists are two young women, evidently friends (This is reactionary for music videos. They conform to stereotypes). Other characters include locals, workers and school children playing on swings. Generally, groups of one to three people all happy and dancing or playing.  
• Settings: Cape Town South Africa. Shots of sunny isolated rural locations such as beaches, lakes, empty buildings.
• Shots/Angles: Shots are in slow motion then quicken with the music. There are various shots of a Driving car. The video starts with shots of locations then of the protagonists and other characters.  

Narrative Structure:

• Beginning (Equilibrium): Starts with shots of scenery such as sun through leaves, a road with a car driving, a beach, and a beach ball flying. Protagonists are introduced driving and going to the beach.
• Middle (Disruption): Protagonist travel around to various locations dancing and generally having fun.
• End (New Equilibrium): Ends with various shots of people all now dancing and being happy.

I KNOW – TOM ODELL:

• Characters: The protagonist is the artist, the video revolves around him walking/taking a journey through the isolated, rural location while miming the lyrics to the song. At the very end of the song there is a figure of a lady, who’s face is blurred out, it is suggested this is who the song is directed towards.
• Settings: Desolate forest and road alongside it. Dark lighting likely dusk or dawn. There is fog and the landscape is generally gloomy.
• Shots/Angles: Shots of the trees, empty streets, and the forest. Distance shots of artist walking/running. Close ups of artist miming.

Narrative Structure:

• Beginning (Equilibrium): Fades in, shots of the ground, then cuts to a lonely, single figure walking along a road alongside a dark forest. The camera zooms in to the side of the artists/protagonists face as he walks. He is wearing dark clothing.
• Middle (Disruption): Shots of him walking, and of the setting. He begins to run towards a figure with a blurred out/no face, it is implied the figure is who he is directing the song to.
• End (New Equilibrium): The camera Zooms out from figure with the blurred face.

I have been listening to this song a lot recently and have decided I would like to use it for my own music video.

With Morf being a street artist none of his versions of his song are the same.This version is the best he has done in my opinion, but with it being a live performance you can hear him thank people for giving money.

A version I did see on Spotify was of the same song but created slightly differently.

This is another song which I think could work, a cover of John Lennon’s Imagine.

This is another song I am thinking of using as the lyrics have a soul filling meaning and the beat for the beginning whilst being up beat has quite a mellow feel, which is perfect for my video idea with bikes, as you can start off chill and gentle and have parts which are exciting and hair raising.