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« on: February 09, 2009, 02:32:18 AM »

I need to do a music video of a song for my IT class at school, and I wanna do a STG song. I need some suggestions. I wanna do one of these songs:

Stripped
Love Or Something Like It
Shaken
Starts With One
Photograph

... but I have no idea where to start.

Only serious suggestions please, and don't drag this topic down to the depths of offtopicness.
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« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2009, 09:10:05 AM »

Ok. In all seriousness.

When I did my video, I didn't know where to start either. I was watching videos and saw a clip of people actually dancing on fire. And I decided I wanted to use that. Then I tried to imagine what I'd want to portray in each phrase. I spent hours and HOURS watching hundreds of videos looking for the right clips. I probably had about 40 videos to work from.

12 hours of editing later.. I had my video. Smiley

I would suggest Photograph or Shaken. Good subject matter and interesting lyrics, so you have a lot of options. Plus the drum beats and variations in melody will make it intense if you use the impact of black/white to sudden color, as well as slow motion to fast paced.
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« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2009, 11:04:05 AM »

Photograph. And then make a video of nothing but stills mashed together.

ex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24hR6j-x4fU#noexternalembed
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« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2009, 02:30:28 PM »

Okay, so I'll do Photograph. But what's the song about?

EDIT: Here's some lyrics I just typed up. I'm 99% sure they're all correct.

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All the stars watch over you,
night and day,
when you can't stop turning...

Where'd you go mysterious?
So ashamed...
You've lost the way again.

When did we all start living the world in a photograph?
Where I'll find you waiting for something.
Hiding in places, the shapes of the faces in photographs...
When the dreams are done,
Look how your tears run,
Through my eyes.

You danced upon the mirror glass,
On the floor,
When the sky was falling...

Where'd you go, my curious?
Insecure...
You've lost my way again.

When did we all start living the world in a photograph?
Where I'll find you waiting for something.
Hiding in places, the shapes of the faces in photographs...
When the dreams are done,
Look how your tears run,
Through my eyes.

[[I tried so hard...
To show them that I'm stronger...
But now I run...]]

Yeah...
Once went through my head,
Once was in my head.
Waiting, waiting to go again...
Once went through my head,
Once was in my head.
Through, through my eyes.
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« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2009, 05:35:45 PM »

Okay, so I'll do Photograph. But what's the song about?

EDIT: Here's some lyrics I just typed up. I'm 99% sure they're all correct.


I got out my CD with the lyrics in the cover and I just fixed the few errors. Very minor, mostly single words. And honestly, I'm not sure they actually performed it as they wrote it. Because I don't hear it the way they write it myself. But, it's up to you. Smiley

"All the stars watch over you,
night and day,
when you can't stop turning...
Where'd you go mysterious?
So ashamed...
You've lost the way again.

When did we all start living a world in a photograph?
Where I'll find you waiting for something.
Hiding in places, the shapes of the faces in photographs...
When the dreams are done,
Look how the tears run,
Through my eyes.

You danced upon the mirror glass,
On the floor,
When the sky was falling...
Where'd you go, my curious?
Insecure...
You've lost my way again.

When did we all start living a world in a photograph?
Where I'll find you waiting for something.
Hiding in places, the shapes of the faces in photographs...
When the dreams are done,
Look how the tears run,
Through my eyes.

[[I tried so hard...
To reflect their hearts
To show them that I'm stronger...
And now I run...]]

Once went through my head,
Once was in my head.
I'm waiting,
I'm waiting to go again...
Once went through my head,
What once was in my head.
Is through my eyes."
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« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2009, 02:59:58 AM »

Mmm, I've never heard "to reflect their hearts". Wasn't that in Joel's Theme or an early We Are Pilots?
I can't remember...

Anyway, what does the song mean?
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« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2009, 08:08:06 AM »

I always supposed the song to mean something along the lines of people are so focused on trying to capture moments and keep them forever, they are sort of missing them. And when they feel like they've lost something, they look at all the pictures of the past and don't focus on the moment. And it's lost again. And again. And that you can remember it all, truly, if you just look around.

Or something..

I'm guessing the to reflect their hearts bit was intended to be in it, but just didn't work out. Because I just don't hear it in the song.
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« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2009, 12:12:06 PM »

Is the video going to be of film you made yourself or music edited into clips from videos/movies...?
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« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2009, 12:39:10 PM »

I always supposed the song to mean something along the lines of people are so focused on trying to capture moments and keep them forever, they are sort of missing them. And when they feel like they've lost something, they look at all the pictures of the past and don't focus on the moment. And it's lost again. And again. And that you can remember it all, truly, if you just look around.

Or something..

I'm guessing the to reflect their hearts bit was intended to be in it, but just didn't work out. Because I just don't hear it in the song.

 Shocked Shocked Shocked

that is so my life right now like omigawd... *runs off and listens to Photograph*
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« Reply #9 on: February 10, 2009, 05:44:32 PM »

Is the video going to be of film you made yourself or music edited into clips from videos/movies...?

It's gonna be filmed/directed by me, and I'm gonna try and get other actors...
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« Reply #10 on: February 10, 2009, 06:16:37 PM »

Okay, I just had a brainwave.

I think the song is about how everyone grows up wanting to be someone else, a big movie star or a rock star or something. How they think they'll make something really big out of their lives, but eventually their dreams are shattered.

"All the stars watch over you, night and day, when you can't stop turning". It means that while your life goes on, you have your own personal dreams and beliefs, which you will try and get as close to as possible, and all the while the heavens will constantly watch over you.

"Where'd you go, mysterious? So ashamed, you've lost the way again". I reckon the song is written from a parent's perspective, and this part is referring to when the kid has grown up a bit and the dreams are already shattered. Where did the mystery of your goals and dreams go? When did you decide to just let happen what will come to you? When did you decide to be just a normal person? The parent is ashamed that they didn't support you more ALONG THE WAY to accomplishing your dreams, so you've lost the way and gone off on a tangent.

"When did we all start living the world in a photograph?" It means that since when did kids start looking at magazines and movies and think: "one day, I'll be that big". Everyone just went about with their daily jobs and never really had many dreams pre-1900, or so I've heard.

"... where I'll find you waiting for something." You're waiting to be seen and recognized.

"When [your] dreams are done, look how the tears run, through MY eyes". It would be much more emotional for a parent to realize that their child has given up on a dream, and has just accepted that they'll be a standard nobody. Or it could mean that the child would want to take out his emotions on his mum or someone close to him. Run and cry, I mean. "Oh I'll never become as big as those singers and actors".

"You danced upon the mirror glass, on the floor, when the sky was falling." Perhaps a bit melodramatic. You danced around with your goals and dreams which came from "mirror glass" (maybe a TV or computer screen, where you see all this celebrity bullsh*t), trying to accomplish them and be something, while the "sky was falling", or, the world was turning without you noticing. Everyone else abandoned the concept ages ago and are getting on with their lives, but you're still wasting your time trying to become a somebody. As for "on the floor", it means that you're still very small, and it's adults controlling the world (eg. their heads are in the sky, another word for the top of the world, which they're bringing down with their actions; "the sky was falling". This might refer to the more powerful figures in society).

"Where'd you go, my curious? Insecure, you've lost the way again". Could just a rewording of the previous sub-stanza, but the "insecure" refers to the kid finding out that their dreams are shattered, and are off the "way" to becoming someone big.

The next stanza refers to the kid being a bit more mature now.

"What once went through my head, once was in my head". It means that the dreams are all just memories now, and all you can do is remember your ecstatic fantasies.

"Through my eyes". You can still see the celebrities, but that's all. You watch them, but you don't have motivation to become one of them any more.

WOW THATS A LONG DEFINITION Grin
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« Reply #11 on: February 10, 2009, 07:01:00 PM »

I like Alli's interpretation better. Kitty face
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« Reply #12 on: February 10, 2009, 08:58:46 PM »

I don't think I read the whole thing... I shall reread it when it is not a million forevers past late.
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« Reply #13 on: February 10, 2009, 09:27:04 PM »

I don't blame you. It took a 50 minute lesson plus a 15 minute lunchtime at school to think about it then write it up.
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« Reply #14 on: February 10, 2009, 09:41:04 PM »

A+ for putting time into a post.
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« Reply #15 on: February 11, 2009, 01:56:32 AM »

Thanks, miss. Can I go to the bathroom, please?  Cheesy
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« Reply #16 on: February 11, 2009, 10:14:20 PM »

huh... what?
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« Reply #17 on: February 12, 2009, 12:48:35 AM »

You gave me A+...
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« Reply #18 on: February 12, 2009, 03:55:28 PM »

and then... I think you asked me to let you go the bathroom...

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« Reply #19 on: February 13, 2009, 03:24:52 AM »

Yep, cause you acted like a teacher...

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