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zella day lip sync

This is the lip sync with the person that we would like to be our artist. This is because we think that she really suits the role of the star that we created. We decided to practice the song with her, to see what we need to work on with her before we started to film, to make sure that she didn’t mess up on the day. This will help to make sure that the video will flow well and it looks like she actually is singing it.

From practicing this I saw that we need to practice her pronouncing the words to make it look believable. Also I saw that she needed to learn the lyrics of the song more to make sure that it looks fluid. Also she smirks too much which is something that we want to avoid in the video as it wouldn’t suit the tar image, she will have to be more serious. Lastly I think that her mouth needs to be more relaxed when she sings because, at the moment it looks very stiff and uncomfortable which something that the artist shouldn't look like is.  

Ideas of Eden

 From talking to our target audience they didn't quite understand what the song meant by Eden, so I looked up all the words that are associated with the word to help bring ideas into my head about playing on this idea that we can put into our video. From looking at all these different words most of them are based around nature, which would give our music video a naturist vibe. This is something that we want to go for as it means that the theme throughout the song will be there which will hopefully help the audience to understand what is meant by Eden.

Audience Reactions to Lyrics

We went round to our target audience and asked them when reading the lyrics what do they think it means. Most of them replied with the answer of a person trying to run away and doesn’t want to conform to society. This means that when creating the music video this message needs to be very obvious, so the audience can understand the video better. 

Ideas for the video

Analysis of song lyrics

We found analysing these lyrics to be very hard as, we found many different references to the song that we didn’t know the meaning to.

From what we could understand without the researching was the song is about someone who is trying to find paradise, hence to the repeating lyrics of “To find East of Eden”.

We found out that this book has links with the book by john Steinbeck called “East of Eden” which has themes of freedom, acceptance, and guilt. This was changed into a film in 1955 with James Dean. It is about a man who gives in to his temptations for a woman that his brother is seeing. This relates to the story of Cain and Able from the book of Genesis. In this story Cain was sent to be exiled in the Land of Nod and East of Eden is a location within it.

Overall we understood that the song was about not wanting to confine to society rules. As the song is about trying to escape and not wanting to be trapped anymore “Keep me from the cages under the control” the “Control” links to the society and how they control/ confine people to act a certain way.  

However the Land of Nod can also be referred to the mythical land of sleep “Go off to the land of Nod” plays with the phases “nod off” if we then link this back to not wanting to be confined to society the song could mean that the only way out of the control is to sleep, which could be seen as to suicide. The East of Eden could be seen as reaching Heaven after killing yourself. 

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