Lryical analysis

Off by heart...

The stars are aligned, but they don't align for us
Excuse me for I am the ocean, and I will starve for you.
Will you know how to stay brave?
Such fragile moments we share
You are my everything
Even with nothing to say

I see these lyrics as being about two people that love each other "The stars are aligned" but cannot be together for whatever reason "But they don't align for us"

"I will starve for you" sounds like he is prepared to do anything to make the relationship work and "Will you know how to stay brave?" is asking the girl to stay strong in the relationship.

"Such fragile moments we share You are my everything Even with nothing to say " Even though he knows the relationship is over but he still holds onto the memories he has of it


The Girl

I wish I could do better by you, 'cause that's what you deserve
You sacrifice so much of your life in order for this to work.
While I'm off chasing my own dreams, sailing around the world
Please know that I'm yours to keep, my beautiful girl.
And when you cry a piece of my heart dies, knowing that I may have been the cause
If you were to leave, fulfill someone elses dreams, I think I might totally be lost.
But you don't ask for no diamond rings, no delicate string of pearls
That's why I wrote this song to sing, my beautiful girl.

I'd say the general meaning of this song is that he feels guilty because he is always away with his carreer and leaving his girlfriend or wife at home alone. "I wish I could do better by you, 'cause that's what you deserve" "While I'm off chasing my own dreams, sailing around the world"
He promises to stay faithful to her "Please know that I'm yours to keep, my beautiful girl." He realises that he knows he can trust her and that she is a genuine person "you don't ask for no diamond rings, no delicate string of pearls"

Pictures taken for ancillary texts

Dallas Green interview

The reason I have uploaded this interview is to show that although my artists music is uplifting and positive, the meanings behind most of the songs are negative. This is shown in his videos and I wanted to incorporate this sort of saddening feel to my video.

City and colour video analysis

Because I have changed my idea to an accoustic song I am now going to analyse some music videos from my chosen genre. The first video I am analysing is City and colours 'the girl'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGTm4u1UWvg&feature=related

The video starts with different shots from inside a forest, this connotes the natural and peaceful element to this genre of music. Most of the shots used in this video last for a long time (at least ten seconds) which is extremely long compared to the speed of the editing of my previously analysed music videos. This also reflects the slow paced and relaxed nature of the music. Most of the transitions used between clips are fades, this suits the style of music as it is a soft edit, rather than using a harsh cut. Alot of the shots are tracking shots or panned, and much like in my song it features an 'ooooooooh' verse. Majority of the video is quite pale and make the setting look very cold and uncomfortable, this represents the emotional nature of the music. The shots used in this section are continious pans and tracks and go well alongside the continious speed of the vocals. In the second half of the video the song takes a turn in the opposite direction, the song is sped up and is alot more catchy and uplifting. The video style changes with the song, the narrative features the artist playing to a large group of his friends and the picture goes black and white. The screen shrinks down and is played alongside clips of the previous half of the video along with shots of the forest and various other settings of the video.

The last point I made is something I would of liked to incorporate into my own video but because of the fact I was the only crew member and my video features only one actor, I think I would not have been able to make the idea long enough and therefore not worthwhile. Also at the end of the video after the song has finished, it cuts to a clip of the artist playing a section from the song and breaking a string, he then jokes with a few of the crew members about it. I would of also liked to do something like this in my video but without doing a direct rip off I could not think of anything similar.

Cd poster

This is the picture I am going to use for my magazine advert, I chose to add tour dates because I feel it filled out the image more.

Final pictures

This is the picture that will be behind my cd in the case

This is the picture that will be on the back of the booklet in the cd case

This is the front cover of my CD case

This is the back of my CD case

And this is my magazine advert

I edited my pictures to make them lighter and darker where needed. I used a scriptive font as this is a convention of accoustic music. The darkened borders behind the text on the front cover were inspired by Sky Eats Airplanes 'Everything perfect on the wrong day' album cover.


I used these pictures because they all fit in well with the mise-en-scene used in my video and I think it is important to continue that link. I decided not to feature my artist in any of the prodcuts as I found no examples of this being used and I wantedto follow the conventions of the genre very strictly.

Pictures

These are pictures I have decided to use for my; front cover, back cover, left inside, right inside and magazine advert