Music, Lyrics, Visuals - Solsbury Hill

The task which we did in lesson today was that we listened to a piece of music, which had a music video and then had to close our eyes and imagine what visual video would go well with the piece of music, we looked at the song called Solsbury Hill. The video which I thought of and what others in the class thought it could be like were very different to what the video was actually like.

My idea was that the video could be of a time-lapse throughout of different cities which are busy and bright with a lot happening and then there is the singer standing alone in the middle of the busy city singing this song. Therefore showing that he is quite isolated and possibly hurt, from the lyrics which I heard.

The other idea which was given on my table was that a family are all going on an adventure, possibly in a campervan and doing things like exploring and different activities in the video. They could do things like swimming in lakes and just around quite natural places, like fields.

Lollie had the idea that there would be a man who was in an airport trying to find someone, who could possibly be a close friend or maybe a lover. This is because it could seem as though the song is about love or heart break because of the lyrics ‘my heart was going BOOM, BOOM, BOOM’, therefore these visuals could fit in with the music.

Lollie also had the idea that the visuals could show a group of friends in a car exploring and travelling down a long and bumpy road having adventures together in the video.

Harry’s idea was actually to have an animation which was pretty different to ideas of others and he thought of having an eagle in the animation and the camera showing its travels and where the eagle went. The reason for the eagle was because one was mentioned in the first line and therefore the idea could be continued on in the video.

The final idea which was shared in the class was Ben’s idea, this was to have a group of Hippies who could be in fields and at a campsite, around them would be dandelions and peaceful things and they could be drinking and smoking weed for example. I could see the hippies wearing tie die t-shirts like stereotypical hippies would be wearing and just fitting with the nature kind of theme.

The actual video differed quite a lot from the ideas in which I had and the ideas which the rest of my class had and therefore I was quite surprised when I saw the video as I did not think it would be that way. The actual video was done in a very arty way and is meant to look very indie and different. I don’t think that the video necessarily makes sense that much and actually seems as though there is a large amount of different clips which are mixed in together when they shouldn’t be. But in a way I do think it looks pretty cool and different compared to other videos. Some of the ideas which my class had about nature being used was correct to an extent as there was a lot of plants shown, as well as fields which fitted with that theme. As well as that, my table said about the theme of family being used and actually it was used when the past videos were shown and you could see the family playing and being together so that was kind of correct.