Starry Eyed

Alice recently found this quote on DigitalSpy about the song 'Starry Eyed' . Ellie Gouldings description of the song is very similar to the feel of our music video that we wanted to create !


When asked what 'Starry Eyed' was about, she replied with:

"It's about letting go. As opposed to all the sad and depressing things I write about, I decided to write something about the joining together of people in some kind of euphoric state—be it at a festival, at a show or in a club. I wanted a song that would reach out to people of every background and every enjoyment, whether you enjoy a natural high, taking drugs, drinking or whatever."

Song Choice Lyric's

Ellie Goulding

"Starry Eyed"

Oh, oh, starry eyed
Hit, hit, hit, hit, hit me with lightning

Handle bars, and then I let go, let go for anyone
Take me in, and throw out my heart and get a new one

Next thing we're touching
You look at me it's like you hit me with lightning
Ahhh

Oh, everybody's starry-eyed
And everybody goes
Oh, everybody's starry-eyed
And my body goes
Whoa oh oh ah ah
Whoa oh oh ah ah
Whoa oh oh

So we burst into colors, colors and carousels,
Fall head first like paper planes in playground games

Next thing we're touching
You look at me it's like you hit me with lightning
Ahhhh

Oh, everybody's starry-eyed
And everybody goes
Oh, everybody's starry-eyed
And my body goes
Whoa oh oh ah ah
Whoa oh oh ah ah
Whoa oh oh

Next thing we're touching [x8]

Hit me with lightning

Oh, everybody's starry-eyed
And everybody goes
Oh, everybody's starry-eyed
And my body goes [x2]

whoa oh oh ah ah [x3]

Blog Task

Two Door Cinema Club : Eat Up That's Good For You
This was one of our first choices for a song, we liked how the song was quite upbeat and worked well with some of the ideas we had at the beginning of decision making (powder paint). Another positive point towards the song is that Two Door Cinema Club are my favourite band and I absolutely love this song.
However we decided not to go with this song for the following reasons.' Eat Up That's Good for You' is sung by a male lead, and so we found that that would be difficult to portray and work around in our video. Also after a while of listening to this song we found that it may have been too fast paced, and once we found Starry Eyed we realised that that had a beat that we thought would suit better to our ideas. Furthermore even though being my favourite band that could've been a negative, as I may have not wanted to take risks with it and will have wanted to just do it justice !

The Joy Formidable : Wolf's Law
We originally found this song due to the video, as it included a montage of fast paced shots. We also liked the variety of beats throughout the song, and  the build up nearer the end.
This song we found was very different to TDCC's, as the beat was a lot slower and the song itself seemed quite sad and mellow, which was not what we were originally aiming for.Furthermore the song didn't match with our idea's (powder paint) as we were basing our video around being fun and colourful and this song was quite the opposite of that. Also despite having a build up of the beat nearer the end of Wolf's Law, as a group we decided we didn't want to wait that long to show a more fun and creative side of our video.

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
When we first heard this song we really liked it and thought that maybe it had some potential. However we couldn't decide on an idea or storyline that would fit with this song. The only creative that we could think of was to show random montage shots into our film, which we thought wouldn't be as creative or fun to work with. There's also male vocals included in this song and that is something that we previously realised we didn't want, so therefore thought this song would be too difficult to work with.

Song Choice

Even though this song is a little bit more upbeat than Wolf's Law it's still not 'fun' enough for our ideas.
However researching for a song is giving us more and more of an idea of what kind of audio we want
to create our music video around !

Song Choice

I think Mac 1 have finally settled on a song to create our music video around. We thought that it had a lot of potential and suited with some of our previous ideas about the video itself.
We wanted to choose a more upbeat song instead of a more mellow and sad one so we could be more creative with it, and also have more fun !

The song we have chosen is Ellie Goulding 'Starry Eyed' :

Song choice

Our group have been discussing what song to use and we've almost settled on a song choice and
we've got a few ideas about what we could do with this song (various shots and concepts).

Its a song by my favourite brand Two Door Cinema Club 'Eat that up it's good for you', here it is..


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