Development of Ideas

 For our first song choice "Seventeen Candles" by Pink Spiders we have developed some of our initial ideas that we produced on the spider diagram. We have also created the narrative of our music video.

We read the lyrics of the song to try and understand the story behind the lyrics to help us develop an idea for our narrative, and how we can relate our visuals within the music video to the lyrics.

The song appears to be about a girl called Emily who is celebrating her birthday party with her family and doesn't seem to be enjoying it. But in the chorus it says "Shes a bit over cake and gifts and party favors" implying that she believes shes too old to be at a family party and would rather be out partying with her friends leading the typical teenage life, doing drugs, drinking alcohol etc.

With these two different types of party we decided within our video we would simultaneously tell the story of each party. One of them being the family party and the other one being her out with friends getting drunk. In between the two different narratives we will also have some performance from the band as well as the stories being told. As the song progresses, so does each story progress throughout the night, and by the end of the song the outcome of each story is shown. When Emily is with her friends, within the song the lyrics say "If this is the nightlife, I'd rather stay in, You call this a good time I just call it a trend, If this is as good as it gets, Then I'm packing up my shit and I'm gone." This shows us that although she felt she would rather be out with friends getting drunk etc it didn't turn out as well as she thought it would do so she decides to go home.

The chorus is repeated twice at the end of the song and for each chorus we will show the final outcome of each storyline. The ending to the family party narrative is her blowing out the candles on a cake, and the ending to the life she wants is her passed out in a field with an alcoholic drink next to her passed out, and the candle burning out as the song ends.

This blog was created by Toby Moffat, Graeme Beck, Andrew Thomson and George Tibbett.