New Ideas!!!!

We are currently creating new ideas as we all did not think the last ideas we created did not suit the Lights essence so we have decided to generate more "MAD" ideas.

-GERDY

Paper Boat scene

This will be similar to our idea of a paper boat sailing down a river throughout our music video.
This clip is from the film "It the Clown" and begins at 9.40.

-Dean

Related Artists...

After looking on Last.fm, Owl City seems to be an artist which has a similar style of music to our chosen artist Lights. 'Vanilla Twilight' seems to be a slower tempo song, which we may be able to draw some inspiration from for our music video.



Another recommendation from Last.fm, this is the side project of the artist behind Owl City. It's a nice wee acoustic song, with a really simple animated video which seems to fit in with the theme of the song.

-Clare :)

Update!

Gerdy and Deborah have both contributed different ideas for our music video and as a group we are all trying to combine and contribute more ideas to create a diverse video. We seem to all be in agreement on the idea of the main backdrop for the video being along a river, which ties in with the lyrics of the song. We're coming up with storyboards and trying to work out how to use the website-creating software, Dreamweaver, which means we'll hopefully have started creating our website for our product by the end of the week.

-Clare :)

Exploring similar artists

I've posted on the Lights forum under media (http://board.iamlights.com/index.php?/topic/7998-music-video-for-river-acoustic/) about what bands her avid listeners would tune into it's difficult to determine though because Lights' genre is normally electronic - synth pop however, we're using an acoustic version of her song River that was released on a one-off acoustic ep. So whilst most people are saying that bands like Owl City and Postal Service are what they would listen to, these bands sound nothing like this acoustic ep but rather, like her actual album which is all electronic.


The research I've carried out on Last Fm however, has allowed me to determine what artists people are listening too that have added River (Acoustic) to their libraries. It seems that The Maine and
The Ready Set are bands that others are listening to which are related to River.


Her album cover for the acoustic ep is completely basic possibly reflecting the simplicity of this ep compared to her other album which would require much more detail with all the different instruments etc.

- Deborah

Opening shot location

This is Fanum House on Great Victoria Street where we intend on using to create our opening shot. We would be shooting a panoramic shot from the top floor, which has an amazing view overlooking Belfast and the surrounding area, particularly at night, which is when we are planning to shoot the opening.


-Clare :)

Ideas for our video...

Posting this video as we discussed the possibility of using Lego and even stop-motion animation in our coursework, this is a good example of this and would definitely be very different to use.

-Clare :)

Interview!

For the rest of the group who want to know what she's all about here you go :) :



- Deborah

Lights

Some background information on our chosen artist:


Lights Valerie Poxleitner (born Valerie Anne Poxleitner; 11 April 1987), known professionally as Lights was born in Timmins, Ontario. She was raised by missionary parents and spent much of her childhood in various parts of the world, ranging from the Philippines to Jamaica. Lights indicated her primary influence as Björk, whom she has said she would like to work with someday. She also spoke glowingly of Phil Collins's songwriting and Abba's music, and particularly enjoys the European production-based music the such as The Knife.




"It was Lights' online profile that really solidified her fan base. Between the singer's MySpace page, her personal web site iamlights.com and her passion for web-based fantasy games like World of Warcraft, the artist's online identity is as evolved as your nerdiest teenage boy's and this is something she's very proud of."


- Deborah

The River By Lights- Lyrics

Out across cities I see buildings burn into piles,
And watch the world in wonder, as mountains turn into tiles,
And trees losing their leaves and their faces becoming tired
I wish I could discover something that doesn't expire;
Come and stumble me

Take me river, carry me far
Lead me river, like a mother
Take me over to some other unknown
Pull me in the undertow

Such are the things that make a kingdom rumble and shatter,
The same dynamic that another day would never matter,
It really just depends on who's giving and who's receiving,
And things that don't make sense are always a little deceiving;
Come and stumble me

Take me river, carry me far
Lead me river, like a mother
Take me over to some other unknown
Pull me in the undertow

Take me river, carry me far

Lead me river, like a mother

Take me over to some other unknown

Pull me in the undertow

I wanna go where you're going
A follower, following
Changing, but never changed
Claiming, but never claimed

Take me river, carry me far
Lead me river, like a mother
Take me over to some other unknown
Pull me in the undertow

Take me river, carry me far
Lead me river, like a mother
Take me over to some other unknown
Pull me in the undertow

-Dean

We are the Kings

In my opinion our group is the king of the groups. This is evident due to our wide variety of music tastes between me , deano, deb and clare. we are gonna rule!!!

Paramore Playing God

This is another Paramore Influence for me. I love this song and as there is currently no music video for it it could be another option for us for creating a music video.



- GERDY

Lights - River

This is my favorite song ever!!


I don't even know how to explain it, the lyrics are so true and the simple acoustic guitar in the background compliments it perfectly! It tells the story of how nature is being replaced by material beings and nobodies appreciating it anymore. Ahh it's amazing, please listen. :)



- Deborah

Bruno Mars The Other Side

This is another influence for us in creating our video. This song allows us to create a variety of ideas about how to set up the music video. the other side could imply the difference between life and death, wealth and poverty, fame and being ordinary.



- GERDY

Sia - Buttons

I adore this video! This clearly wouldn't cost much to make so we could definitely re-enact something along the same lines of this. This shows that the song doesn't necessarily have to match the video. We're thinking along the lines of the acoustic genre at the moment and I can't really see this video matching into the genre we're going to use but it's still unreal and should be shared so yeah!


- Deborah

The Frames Falling Slowly

All four of us agreed that this may be an option as a song for our music video.



- GERDY

The Strokes

Thought the first few opening shots were pretty good, with all the people rushing past and I like the noir effect. Not much happens in the video but there are still some good shots and locations.

-Clare :)

Kanye West - Heartless

The cartoon effect in this video totally makes it. I love the story it tells and just the whole look of it is class, I don't particularly like this genre of music but the video makes up for it.



- Deborah