R+P Post 18: Analysis of my track's lyrics and instrumentation

Once we had decided on our song we wrote out the lyrics on a piece of sugar paper and annotated it with our original shot ideas for each line as well as our interpretation of the lyrics.

Lyric Analysis and initial ideas

As our lyrics lend themselves to creating a narrative, we have come up with a loose narrative involving our artist as the main character. The song is about his girlfriend cheating on him with another man. 

• Beginning: The artist is looking back on the good times he had with his girlfriend. This section will feature cute couple shots with the two of them in a home environment, ending with the girl leaving the room. 
• Middle: Montage of shots of the girl with another guy, in a park or at his house. 
• End: The artist and the girl have an argument, he confronts her about the cheating. They break up and the artist ends as the bigger person by walking away after forgiving the girl. 

To use Goodwin's theory about the relationship between the lyrics and the image, we plan to match our shots to the lyrics through both narrative and performance. For example on "some other guy" or "I found out from him" we wanted to have a shot of the girl with another guy. We can either do this through the narrative or having a creative shot where the are shadows or silhouettes.

Additionally we can match the artists performance shots with the lyrics by having his actions match the words. For instance when it says "keep messing with my head" we can have him point to his head. Another example would be pointing directly at the camera on the word "you". Below is an annotated version of the lyrics with actions that our main character can do whilst lip-syncing.

Lyrics with planned actions

The song has a steady pace throughout with clear regular drum beats which will be useful for cutting to the beat. It also has a distinct synth melody that is repeated throughout. This steady rhythm will be good for dance breaks as well.