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Lyrics Analysis

A quote from Tom Odell to describe the meaning, purpose and narrative of this song is used. In an interview Tom Odell explains  "Another Love’ is a confusing one; it’s not a traditional love song. The song, for me, is about trying—really trying with all your heart—to be with someone else and you want to be with someone else. The song was written talking to this girl that I really wanted to be with, and I was trying to work out why I couldn't be with her. And it’s funny, people sometimes listen to it as [though] I'm more talking about the last romance."


I wanna take you somewhere so you know I care
But it's so cold and I don't know where
He wants to make his girl feel special by taking her out for dinner, but he comes up with the excuse that it’s too cold outside and he doesn’t know where to take her.
By saying it is really cold, Tom may be trying to say that his heart is cold because he does not have the love of her ex anymore to warm him up

I brought you daffodils in a pretty string
But they won't flower like they did last spring

Ancient Greeks gave flowers as offerings to their gods/goddesses. Different flowers had symbolic meanings, and the tradition of flower-giving probably originated from this ritual.

Giving a bouquet of flowers is already a nice gesture. But taking the time to arrange it and decorate the bouquet is even more symbolic—it reveals his devotion and desire to please his lover.

They don’t hold the same resemblance of love he had for the girl before her, or the love won’t grow like it did with the other girl.

And I wanna kiss you, make you feel alright
I'm just so tired to share my nights
I wanna cry and I wanna love
But all my tears have been used up

He wants to show affection to the girl he is with, but he is just not over his ex to do it.

On another love, another love
All my tears have been used up
On another love, another love
All my tears have been used up
On another love, another love
All my tears have been used up

He wants to feel something, or anything but all his tears have been used up on his ex.

And if somebody hurts you, I wanna fight
But my hands been broken, once too many times

If anyone harms his girl, he’d want to defend her

But then he thinks he’d be no good. This can also mean he fought for his ex a lot of times and now he is really tired of fighting.

So I'll use my voice, I'll be so fucking rude
Words they always win, but I know I'll lose

Since he can’t fight the same as he used to, he will use his voice to defend his love. He knows he can win this way, but in the end he will still feel tired and defeated.

It’s not that he’s fed up, it’s that he can’t summon the willpower to win right now.

And I'd sing a song, that'd be just ours
But I sang 'em all to another heart

His heart is still with his ex. Even when he writes his new love a song, the lyrics were really for his ex. He’s still very much in love with another love.

PROPOSED SUGGESTION: It’s not exactly to an ex. When he says ‘another heart’, and ‘another love’, it’s for someone who changed. The same person, only she changed.

And I wanna cry I wanna learn to love
But all my tears have been used up

He has been through so much that he no longer feels he can love and cry like he once could.

He needs the love of the woman he remembers and not the woman she became, and that is who he has been holding on to as well as referencing too. But he cant leave her because even though he needs love he wants the one his “heart is thinking of”

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Focus Group

I played the song Tom Odell, Another Love, whilst I showed a class of a handful of individuals aged from 16-18 year olds (roughly the target audience of an indie genre) an example of contemporary dancing. The feedback I received, was that the song is successful and would also be successful alongside contemporary dancing. The majority of the feedback was that the two would go well together and would be an interesting idea. I also received various suggestions for improvements, which I will take into consideration to ensure my music video is most successful.

UPDATE: Music Video

I have reached the conclusion that the outcome of my video was unsuccessful and did not turn out the way I intended. I disliked the idea after giving it a lot of thought and thought it to be unprofessional, boring and irrelevant to not only the song, but there was numerous pointless shots.
Therefore to amend this music video, I have completely changed not only my idea, but my song and style and type of music video. In the end the music video is no longer going to be narrative, but is planned to be a performance based music video, of two contemporary dancers dancing in relation to the song of Tom Odell, Another Love.
This music conforms to an indie genre, therefore I would have to do re-do research in such depth as I have previously researched the genre, and are aware of the stereotypes and factors meant to be found within a indie music video. However, I am also aware that I will have to re-do my planning as it another song and another idea and type of music. I will have to re-do hair,make-up and outfit planning again and receive audience feedback for my idea from focus groups etc.

I realise I have put a lot of hard work into my previous music video but I am unhappy with my choice and the final outcome of such work I have made. I wish to amend this and will not rush, my understand I have such limited time to finish this.

I have already planned the dancers which are going to be used and the studio in which I going to film at, it is a successful relationship and denotes I am one step closer to a more successful music video which I am more than capable of creating.

Music Video

This is my music video so far. Although the video looks finished, there is still editing which needs to be done, for example the difference in lighting in some shots, makes the video unsuccessful. Also, the transitions of the shots need work as just jump from shot to shot, which is unpleasing visually to the audience and looks unprofessional.

Editing (21)

I added the shots of after Yasmin gets onto the bed, connoting the sexual tension between the two in the relationship as she is in her underwear. Afterwards, Yasmin is seen as getting dressed which is focused on her and also connotes the sexual attraction of the person behind the camera towards the actress, Yasmin. Some of these again were too long and did not fulfill their purpose, so had to be cropped to a length that was most successful.

Editing (20)

When filming at the location of Anglesea House, there were numerous outtakes of the shots used, for example Yasmin falling off the sofa and pulling unattractive faces when smelling and pretending t to drink the alcohol. Although, some of these outtakes were not successful, some were and could possibly be used in my music video. Due to these outtakes, I had to use the tool which cropped and cut certain parts of the shots out my video, which were not meant to be in there and looked unprofessional. 

Editing (19)

This print screen shows evidence of how I put the important frame that I want to emphasise the most out of the music video, because although the whole video is focused on Yasmin, this shot in-particular as it focuses on yasmin looking and smiling at the other character and one of the camera angles focuses on the two holding hands. Therefore, where I wanted to emphasise this shot, I right clicked the shot and choose the option of holding the frame. This would extend the duration of the shot, making the focus more emphasised to the audience.  

Editing (18)

This picture denotes the evidence of my editing where I have increased the speed faster and faster until it reaches the normal speed and goes back to normal. The normal duration of the shots are 100.00% but the previous videos reach speeds of 35.01% until it reaches back to normal.

Editing (17)

Where I made one the shots where it is focused on Yasmin smiling and the two holding hands and slowed the duration and speed right down and very slow, I had to slow down the other videos so it the shots did not go from really slow to a contrast of really fast. Therefore, where I slowed the shot down, I slowed the following shots down until I speed them up faster and faster until they are all back to normal speed. 

Editing (16)

When constructing my video, I had the realisation that my videos and shot were far too long and parts of them were pointless. I took this as constructive criticism of myself and a possible idea to take into consideration when next filming. One of the shots I found to be far too long, was the one using the basketball machine as it was far too extended. Therefore, I used the razor tool once again to crop the shot to the length of which I wanted.

Editing (15)

I re-filmed in the arcade to do more activities, such as play basketball and ice hockey. I believed this to be a successful idea as it focused on yasmin smiling, laughing and looking at yasmin, connoting the happiness of the two and focusing on Yasmins beauty whilst she is laughing etc. I imported all the videos I shot at this location, then rendered them. Once rendered I made sure that all were at the length of what I wanted and all fitted in together well. 

Editing (14)

This frame of shot was too long and extended, therefore it did not look as successful as I wanted and looked pointless and was not understandable of why it was so long..I decided to razor the clip to the time frame of how long I wanted for this video.

Editing (13)

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Editing (11)

I found this shot to be successful as she is playing with her hair and smiling at the ground, this shows that the other person is focusing on her and her beauty and it is a point of view shot. The lyrics sing at this point of the shot "to the way she wears her hair down" once again focusing on her playing with her hair and tying in with the lyrics. I changed the speed and duration of this shot as I found it to be important and I found it also to be successful. Yasmin looked attractive and connotes her beauty and how much the other character is interested and attracted to her.

Editing (10)

This shot was the most important shot included in the music video, as it shows the two holding hands to connote a relationship between the two and how happy yasmins face is that she is smiling, Therefore razored this shot into sections and slowed the duration of the show where they are holding hands and the shot of the two staring at each other to under 50.00% speed/duration to emphasise the shot and to emphasise the importance and the meaning/purpose of this shot.

Editing (9)

This shot was in attempt to hide Millie's gender when they were going into the photobooth. The purpose of this shot was for the two to go into the photobooth, whilst the audience still believe the other character is a male, then reveal the gender of the other to be female when they have taken pictures and the pictures fall out of the booth, of the two kissing. The shot was too long and revealed Millie's hair, then revealing her to be a girl, which I did not want, I did not want her hair to be shown. Therefore I cropped the video to get rid of shot where the audience would have realised the gender of Millie. The shot of the pictures falling down was also too long, Although I wanted that shot to be intense I did not want it to be too long waiting for something, therefore I cropped the video to still make it intense and leave the audience wondering what they are waiting for, but not as long as the video went on for. 

Editing (8)

I firstly filmed these shots of yasmin undressing in the bathroom, then under the water in the bath, struggling for breath,suggesting how she is helpless and the other individual in the relationship has to help her, as this is who she relies on. Yasmin looked successful whilst undressing as she looked attractive and cool, this was because she was slow and was in attempt to make it 'sexy.' 

However, I did notice my mistake whilst filming as Yasmin has suddenly gone from undoing her nude bra, to instead of bare breasted, she is seen in a black bandeau, I did attempt to make this non-noticeable by cropping the shot to not include her breast area, but the shot would have been too short and mostly focused on the background of the shot rather than Yasmin herself. Instead I re-attempted the shot several times but was still not as successful as I had wanted. The conclusion of my decision to change this shot to make it work, was to re-shoot again of yasmin in her nude bra in the bath and cutting the video of where she undresses herself of taking her bra off. I still have the shots of her undressing included, but I just got rid of the shot of her taking off the bra and the shot of her in a bandeau. I still used the idea of her under the water in the bath.  

Editing (7)

I placed the shot at the beginning of the video to tie in with the lyrics and the sound of the music, as the shots needed to be soft and slow, I wanted the sound and the visual of the video to focus of the actress, Yasmin, indeed it did. Before editing these shots, I had to render the videos, in this picture this denotes how I render the videos and the editing skills I have used. 

Editing (6)

I started to import other files which were filmed from when yasmin has the prop of the cape, which she was dancing with, amongst the light shining upon her. These files did indeed run too long, this resulted in me cropping and cutting the shots to make the video more successful and fit perfectly.

 I also slowed the speed and duration of these shots to 80.01% as this time of the shots fitted perfectly in time with the sound of the music and the lyrics of the music, for example when yasmin plays with her hair the lyrics imply "to the way she wears her hair down."

Editing (5)

This shot required editing, as it was intended for yasmin to be under the water then quickly coming up for air, short for breath and struggling and needing help. This shot was redone and taken several times as everytime Yasmin struggled when under the water, as she claimed the water went up her nose, or it hurt, or she could not breath. Although, my intentions were for her to be struggling for air, it did not look entirely successful as it looked unprofessional.

In the end, I scrapped this idea after filming the shot so many and it not becoming successful, I made the decision to no longer use this idea or shot.

Editing (4)

Finally, I got rid of this shot as I believed it to be inappropriate and Yasmin (the actress) was filmed unprofessionally and inappropriately dressed for  my music video e.g. was in underwear. I made the final decision as to refilm this shot in order to make the music video more successful.

I also found myself cropping more videos that I had film to shorten them and the majority of the videos had unnecessary footage. This was helpful as this meant I could add more shots and more footage and information into my music video.

Editing (3)

I found this video inparticular needed cutting and editing as the shot went on a lot longer than I had intended. The shot over run into footage I did not want. For example when the actress, Yasmin, is getting changed, it over runs onto her changing out of her jeans, but it was not successful as it was not the shot I wanted and looked completely unsuccessful. This was because it looked unprofessional, as her clothes were falling down and she was stumbling, whereas in comparison, my ideal plan was for Yasmin to look attractive and 'sexy' to conform to certain theories such as the male gaze, whilst getting changed. 

Editing (2)

I found some of the videos I had filmed to obtain unnecessary footage which was not needed within my music video. I then had to cut the footage which I did not need, in order to do so I had to use the cut tool which is located at the right side panel and is the third button down, shaped as razor. To make this most successful, I had to find the exact point of which I wanted the shot to end. 

Editing (1)

When starting the construction of my video editing, I began importing the all the videos that were filmed on the Canon onto Adobe Premiere Pro. I started to insert the videos to fit in time with the mp3 music I had downloaded also onto the editing software. I began to insert the numerous videos in order of sequence taken, then in order for I to view them, I had to render, which was enabled by after entering the videos, then pressing the enter button on the keyword, then a notification of how the following videos are being rendered. I analysed these videos I had inserted, to see if all are successful and best to the ability of myself.

Call Sheet

Pictures

This was the pictures which revealed Millie's gender as a female. The pictures were successful as both look happy and together, they both look in a fun relationship as the connotations of touching each other and kissing each other, emphasises how they are intimate and sexually attracted to one another.

Millicent's Outfit For Shooting

Before shooting, the shot which includes Millie and Yasmin, I tested make up on them both. Millies make up looked most successful with dark powder, a golden glittery eyeshadow and other eye make up such as mascara and eyeliner. Millie looked attractive and would most definitely conform to the male gaze. Millie wore a floral blouse, underneath a green jumper and black trousers, with glittery socks and red brogues. Millie looked most successful as she conformed to the ideas expected of what an actress within the indie genre would wear and look like.

 This shot was for the purpose of the final scene, of revealing Millie's gender as a female, as my expectations for my music video is for the audience to be convinced the person behind the shot of eye line view is a male, but yet I planned for them to be shocked as I once reveal as the end that it is not in fact a hetrosexual relationship, but rather a homosexual relationship between two females.

Release Form

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Location

These images were taken whilst filming of the location at which I filmed at. These are taken from London, specifically Southbank and the London Bridge. I took these photos whilst travelling from Charing Cross towards South Bank, planning to go on the rides and the arcade. These photos provide a brief idea of where I was filming and where I went and travelled to, whilst outside for my music video.