6th Blog Post

When we look to examine the videos we picked even further, we can relate the process to how we analyzed the piece of art, Breach. When I first thought about Breach, I thought about how people don't even notice it. Then I thought about the fair amount of people that are walking on campus might take a second to glance at the silver tree and some would just continue walking. Where others might continue walking thinking about the tree. The majority of the college students, professors, and visitors that walk past are most likely not going to stop and take time to analyze the heck out of it like we did in class.

When you relate that back to our videos, it is the exact same. There are a lot of people that don't even watch music videos. Then there are some that watch it and move on, some that watch it and think about it for a bit and maybe some that watch it and process the story they just watched and listened to be unfolded.

We are chosing to join the group of people that pick apart the video and think about it in each and every aspect. I just took time to rewatch the video I chose before starting this blog, and I watched it from the analyzing position just as we did with Breach.

When I was paying attention to Colbie, I felt her emotions travel farther away from awkward as the video progressed. It brought you to a sort of ease as you were watching it. That part also followed along with the lyrics about being scared at first and thinking that she is falling for him as the video and the realtionship go on.

Another part that really connects with the lyrics is when they arrive at the beach and Colbie's lyrics say "All around us I see nobody..." At this point in the video, the people standing around at the beach are laughing and making fun of the guy, but it doesn't even phase Colbie. It shows that she doesn't care.

When the lyrics connect with the video, it helps to explain overall. But when you take away the video and only have the words to listen to, its a different story. When we looked at the tree statue, we had nothing else to go with. We basically created our own "music video" for it. We used our book to help and came up with different arguments as to what the purpose of the tree statue was. When you are listening to a song, you can make up whatever story you want, until you see the video, you have no clue what the artists approach was on it. We take their hints to try and create our idea of what they are trying to say.