Fix You
So, I was waiting for the train to come on my way to Cubao to meet Ayisse on the day of new year's eve. And Fix You came on my player and I came up with a (music video kind of) idea for a music-backed short video. I hope someone finds this page though and decide to do it, whether apply it to another song or what hehe. Or maybe I'd do it and just choose a different location.
I'm not a huge fan of Coldplay, just some of their songs. But I love Fix You. It's so tragic. Well for me at least. Heh.
Well anyway, just try to play Coldplay's Fix You along so you get to visualize it better. This one uses mostly series of static/theater-like shots.
It starts with the view of an MRT platform, it doesn't include the tracks or any other, just the platform itself. It's late into the night. The far background, with all the buildings and all is blurred. There's a guy in the middle and various other people, a train rushes past and then the shot directly cuts to a tracking shot (where the camera is following, and not just panning) of a girl walking towards the platform area as she comes through the turnstiles. The song starts at the cut. The actions are all a bit slow, almost dream-like or tired.
And then the shot cuts back to the same one with that guy standing in the middle, another static shot. The girl enters the frame and stands there in the middle as well. All through out til the first chorus ends, the shot's static. It shows the people around her as well. Sleepy people, yawning people, some others checking their mobile phones. The girl's feeling monotonous just like the rest of the people.
As the chorus comes on, "Lights will guuuuide, you home," the girl looks behind her at the same time as when the word "Lights" is sung. At the same time too, the far background becomes clear and so do the few lights that are on. She looks forward again ("and ignite your bones"). Everybody else except the girl turns their head to one side, a train is about to come on, but the girl's still looking straight ahead. After "I will try to succeed," actiosn snap back to normal speed. At 1:38, when the piano becomes a wee bit heavier the train zooms by.
At "High up above," the camera changes to a POV from inside the train when the doors open, there's the girl in the middle, but she's just looking straight through. All the other people shuffle in and out past her, and she doesn't board the train. At At "You'll never know," the door closes. Immediately after the door closes the camera changes to a POV from the other side of the platform but you can see through the train's windows and glasses the girl standing on the other side, this will be at the same time "Just what you..." comes on. At "...were" the train starts whooshing by.
When the chorus comes on, taking off from the whooshing train, it cuts to another static shot from behind the girl. So you see her back, standing, the lights in the far background, the emptier other side of the platform, and the people starting to pile up again around her. She takes a step forward.
At around 3:00 the music becomes a bit more intense, a semi-closeup of the girl at she moves her head to look off to her side. The shot cuts to that of a couple, with their heads leaning against each other. A man on his mobile phone, smiling. Close-up of two hands holding, and the camera moves up to show it's a gay couple, they look at each other and smile. And then shots of other people who are by themselves as well, looking off to their side, at the ceiling, at the other side of the platform.
And when singing comes on again, it cut backs to a semi-closeup of her (waist up), and she's already crying, a slow trickle of tears. The camera is from the other side of the platform so when a train comes on the other side, it shows.
At around 4:09, the door of that train closes. Cut to a close-up of the girl, she's always looking straight at the camera, but this time she closes her eyes and tilts her head down, takes a breath (this all happens fast) and opens her eyes at the same time everything quiets down a bit and "Lights will..." comes on.
Cut to medium-shot (full body) from the other side of the train. The girl steps forward as everybody else around her looks off to one side again at an approaching train (you know how everybody looks and anticipates the train's arrival). At "...succeed" the girl steps off the platform (so you don't see her since the frame only includes a shot from the people's feet, upwards) and a train comes on.
And then everything continues on even when the music's already done. The camera doesn't move until the train leaves. The camera moves down and you see all these people huddles under space under the platform. The spaces are sort of divided, there's one in each "division." But with the girl is another guy, the same guy from the start of the video. And the guy hugs her. Camera moves up a little to accomodate a shot of the feet and legs of the people standing on the platform above, and a bit of those huddled under the platform.
Yay.
Comments please. And it'd mean alot to me if you really do listen to Fix You at the same time :D <3
I'm not a huge fan of Coldplay, just some of their songs. But I love Fix You. It's so tragic. Well for me at least. Heh.
Well anyway, just try to play Coldplay's Fix You along so you get to visualize it better. This one uses mostly series of static/theater-like shots.
It starts with the view of an MRT platform, it doesn't include the tracks or any other, just the platform itself. It's late into the night. The far background, with all the buildings and all is blurred. There's a guy in the middle and various other people, a train rushes past and then the shot directly cuts to a tracking shot (where the camera is following, and not just panning) of a girl walking towards the platform area as she comes through the turnstiles. The song starts at the cut. The actions are all a bit slow, almost dream-like or tired.
And then the shot cuts back to the same one with that guy standing in the middle, another static shot. The girl enters the frame and stands there in the middle as well. All through out til the first chorus ends, the shot's static. It shows the people around her as well. Sleepy people, yawning people, some others checking their mobile phones. The girl's feeling monotonous just like the rest of the people.
As the chorus comes on, "Lights will guuuuide, you home," the girl looks behind her at the same time as when the word "Lights" is sung. At the same time too, the far background becomes clear and so do the few lights that are on. She looks forward again ("and ignite your bones"). Everybody else except the girl turns their head to one side, a train is about to come on, but the girl's still looking straight ahead. After "I will try to succeed," actiosn snap back to normal speed. At 1:38, when the piano becomes a wee bit heavier the train zooms by.
At "High up above," the camera changes to a POV from inside the train when the doors open, there's the girl in the middle, but she's just looking straight through. All the other people shuffle in and out past her, and she doesn't board the train. At At "You'll never know," the door closes. Immediately after the door closes the camera changes to a POV from the other side of the platform but you can see through the train's windows and glasses the girl standing on the other side, this will be at the same time "Just what you..." comes on. At "...were" the train starts whooshing by.
When the chorus comes on, taking off from the whooshing train, it cuts to another static shot from behind the girl. So you see her back, standing, the lights in the far background, the emptier other side of the platform, and the people starting to pile up again around her. She takes a step forward.
At around 3:00 the music becomes a bit more intense, a semi-closeup of the girl at she moves her head to look off to her side. The shot cuts to that of a couple, with their heads leaning against each other. A man on his mobile phone, smiling. Close-up of two hands holding, and the camera moves up to show it's a gay couple, they look at each other and smile. And then shots of other people who are by themselves as well, looking off to their side, at the ceiling, at the other side of the platform.
And when singing comes on again, it cut backs to a semi-closeup of her (waist up), and she's already crying, a slow trickle of tears. The camera is from the other side of the platform so when a train comes on the other side, it shows.
At around 4:09, the door of that train closes. Cut to a close-up of the girl, she's always looking straight at the camera, but this time she closes her eyes and tilts her head down, takes a breath (this all happens fast) and opens her eyes at the same time everything quiets down a bit and "Lights will..." comes on.
Cut to medium-shot (full body) from the other side of the train. The girl steps forward as everybody else around her looks off to one side again at an approaching train (you know how everybody looks and anticipates the train's arrival). At "...succeed" the girl steps off the platform (so you don't see her since the frame only includes a shot from the people's feet, upwards) and a train comes on.
And then everything continues on even when the music's already done. The camera doesn't move until the train leaves. The camera moves down and you see all these people huddles under space under the platform. The spaces are sort of divided, there's one in each "division." But with the girl is another guy, the same guy from the start of the video. And the guy hugs her. Camera moves up a little to accomodate a shot of the feet and legs of the people standing on the platform above, and a bit of those huddled under the platform.
Yay.
Comments please. And it'd mean alot to me if you really do listen to Fix You at the same time :D <3
posted by Byeong | 4:36:00 PM
2 Comments:
hey. that's one fantastic pitch. very dramatic. although i didn't listen to the song while reading it, having listened to it a hundred times, i could hear it loud and clear in my mind.
yup, love that song that much.
ashknight
http://spin.around.at
Hellooo Dan. Yay for you cos you love Fix You. Nyahahaha. (No, I'm not hyper even tho I might sound like it.)
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