RESEARCH Lyrics

Closure Lyrics

Where did you go?

Where have you been?
I need to know. You are my friend.
Did I do something wrong to hurt you?
Left in the dark now I am blind.
Suffering from burn out and brokenness.
Ill go back and retrace my footsteps.
Ill do anything to hear your voice
And see your face again.

I wish we could talk now
Now that it’s over.
I see that you moved on
But I need some closure
It’s weighing heavy on my chest
It’s all that I have left
I know that it’s over,
But I need some closure.

It’s been a year
Not one call from you
I heard you moved on but what should I do?
See all my friends tell me to let go
But I can’t to get you out of my mind
Pacin’ back and forth just wondering
Why this chapter in my life had a sudden end
But now it’s too late to hear your voice and see your face again.

I wish we could talk now
Now that it’s over.
I see that you moved on
But I need some closure
It’s weighing heavy on my chest
It’s all that I have left
I know that it’s over, but I need some closure.

I’ve tried and I’ve tried to understand why
Why did she leave like that?
Me not knowing, it makes me feel less of a man
Time and time again, I fought with myself
Thinking that she could be with someone else
The truth is that she’s gone.

I wish we could talk now
Now that it’s over.
I see that you moved on
But I need some closure
It’s weighing heavy on my chest
It’s all that I have left
I know that it’s over,
But I need some closure.

I wish we could talk now
Now that it’s over.
I see that you moved on
But I need some closure
It’s weighing heavy on my chest
It’s all that I have left
I know that it’s over,
But I need some closure.

These are the lyrics to the song which we are making for the music video J.R.A Closure. When reading through these lyrics we all really liked and drawn to them because we came up with a lot of ideas which were really good. They also give of a lot of area to move between narrative and performance based video.

RESEARCH Mood-board of Digipak Covers

Here is two mood boards which I put together. The idea of this is to help us as a group to try and get inspiration for the music video and the designing of the digipak and advert. The first mood-board is representing all of the generic and stereotype features for the music genre and type which we picked as a group. The sort of things which I have tried to include are clothing worn, scenery used, instruments, colour patterns, album covers and outlay of images.

RESEARCH Digipack Deconstruction

When looking into digipacks, we were trying to pick the same genre as the song which we have chosen to make a music video to. The genre which we picked was Pop/Acoustic, so the Digipacks which i am going to deconstruct are James Morrison Undiscovered and Paolo Nutini These Streets.

James Morrison

Undiscovered

This is the digipack for James Morrison debut album undiscovered. This fall under the genre which we are doing for a actually music video which is the reason why i am deconstrucing it.

Looking at the digipack personally I believe that it is very dull when considering the type of genre which it is. The colours of green and gray are not really attracive colours to try and draw the audience into want to buy the CD. However on the other hand this could be portraying the feelings and emtions which we trying to get across within his music, a lot of the music which is on this album is very personal and emtional, so he would not try to put across the album with loads of vibrant colours because that would be the total opposite of what he is trying to get across within his music. The thing which we have is a big close up of James Morrison him self so it sort of gives the audiences the feeling of more close to the artist because it is himself on the front not an image of something.

The writting on the digipack is big and bold, obviously done for the sole purpose to make it stick out more for the audiences especially the front with his name and title of the album. We also have the track list on the back but this is on pretty much most albums covers. When we go to inside the digipack it sticks to the same sort of colour patern, however the CD sort of stands out abit because it is more of a darker green compared to the rest of the CD. The CD also looks like it has just had dirt and paint splashed over it, maybe it sort of goes with the title of the album which is Undiscoverd and thats what the CD is.

Paolo Nutini - These Streets.

This is Paolo Nutini debut album these streets, the same as the James Morrison this falls under the same categorise as J.R.A song which we are doing for the final music video which we are doing.

This digipacks contrast to the James Morrison digipack this is very different when it comes down to the way the artist is shown and portrayed to the buying audience.

The album on a whole is very vibrant and attractive covers which makes the album more appealing to the buying audiences because they are a lot more attractive colours. The colour coordination very well thought through, and having the image of the artist on the front within each of the stripes makes him stand out more. Also as I said about the James Morrison digipack having the artist on the front of the magazine makes it more appealing to the audience because they feel like they are more connected to the artist and get more familiar with them. Also he stands out because he is a contrast in colour to the rest of the album being black, however the colour of him goes with the CD so they have look at the colour coordination for that as well. The cover and back gets across to the audiences what type of music it is which is on the album which is up beat acoustic but the there is a sense of sadness as well within the music, and you get this hint from the artist being put across as a very dull colour on the front.

The Font on the digipack all fits in together, with it all black which is the same colour as Paolo Nutini on the front cover, the writing also stands out because it is black and then it goes onto a really bright back ground as well which makes it stand out even more. Also we have the track list which is always on album covers there in black as well to make it stand out. One of the other things which make this digipack standout is the sticker on the front because it goes on about his singles, people may see that and want to buy the album because they love the single.

RESEARCH Song Choice

This is the mind map which we came up for song which we were going to create a music video for. The way which the process started was having a group discussion about which songs we thought we should do as a group. We all came to a agreement that wanted to do a pretty slow beat song because it would be easier to create a music video for, so the sort of genre which we have settled on is easy listening and a bit of acoustic.

The songs which we were looking to do at the beginning was a lot of John Mayer songs but we decided against due to the reason that it would be to hard to try and make a music video for them because the song and tempo of it. Our second choice was When We Say by AJ Rafael we were certain that we were going to do this but then decided against it because it had a music video and we did not want to get influenced by it. So after we decided against it we wanted to find a song which we all agreed on that we could make a music video for which didn't have a current music video.

The song which we decided on was Closure by J.R.A, the reason why we chose this song is because it does not have music video and it is a perfect song for what we are looking for, which is slow easy lyrics to try and portray within the music video and a song which is not really well known. The artist J.R.A is not signed to a record label so we had to get in contact with him personally so we contacting him through his YouTube channel. Here is a copy below of the message which we sent him asking him for permission to use his song for our music video.





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Choice of Groups

Within my group there is (Thomas Blakey), Oliver Brookes and Ellie Ross.

The first reason why we chose to go in the same group is because we are all close friends and see each other most of the time so it is good to help with getting the work load done. Also the other reason why we chose to go in a group is that we all have different skills which we can contribute to the group. Such as Ollie is good at working with the camera's and Ellie is really good at ensuring that we have the right amount of time spent on each shot and she tries to make sure that the mise en scene is good enough. Then I am the one who is good at working and editing the film because have become quite familiar with Apple's Imovie.