During one of my Media lessons I was given the task of listening to a piece of music that I hadn't heard before (without watching the video) and creating an idea for a video relevant to the music I had heard. The music we listened to was by a band called Soundgarden called 'Black hole sun'. The idea I came up with with Fran Harris contrasted with the official video significantly, below is the idea we came up with:
Set in the early 90's Soundgarden are playing on stage at a senior school prom. The music video opens as the camera focuses from a high angle on a boy and girl slowly dancing together at the prom. As the camera tracks and zooms into the couple, the music begins to develop and we recognize their intimate relationship. Eventually in the video there are a series of flash backs between the boy and girl and the relationship they have shared during high school; meeting, spending time together, falling in love...
However, as the music becomes more fast paced, the characters grow older and begin to bicker and argue which is repetitively shown as flash backs on the video whilst the music is becoming similarly repetitive. Towards the end of the video when the music returns to it's slower pace as we heard at the beginning, we are taken back to the school prom where the boy and girl are dancing together. The video concludes with both the boy and girl driving in separate cars and going their separate ways to new colleges.
After watching the official video to this song, you will notice that the idea above is very different, however also very relevant - as the era is accurate to when this song was produced - and the lyrics appear to be appropriate as the 'Black hole sun' metaphorically takes away the happiness and love shared between the teenagers.
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