Monday, 10 October 2011

Initial theme ideas

I have started to consider the theme which consist of childhood, looking back onto your own past, memories and writing postcards back to yourself. This theme came from my thoughts from my last blog on the wilderness down town video. I have started my research into this idea by listening to songs which I feel relate to this theme, to get inspiration.
    The first song I listened to was '1973' by James Blunt. When listening to the songs I tried to link them to the concept of past memories, including my own. In this case ignoring the date during the song, it made me think of being around 16 in new relationships, and how the experiences affect you in your life. The childish way you behave at that age together because of how much you love each other. But this carries on with you and no matter how old you are, when you feel this way about a person you will always behave in the same manner.  
      The imagery that came into my head was of a faded photograph of a young couple dancing together nearly falling over as they were laughing together and acting young

The second song I listened to was 'Conversation with my 13 year old self' by Pink. When I listened to this song I could imagine the former 13 year old me in my head and tried to envision what it was like to be that age again, and what kind of advice would have been helpful to be given.
   The imagery that came into my head when I was listening to this song, was firstly of the back of an adults head looking into a mirror which had a young girl in, upon the mirror their hands touching representing the care between the two. Another image was of a young girl walking along through a park throwing paper out of what could be a school bag to suggest she had had enough even at such a young age.

I also listened to 'We're going to be friends' by The white stripes. This song made me think of the happy memories of those days in school where there was nothing to worry about but seeing friends. The songs talking about not noticing time past, which is how I sometimes feel now when I realised how far I have come in life.  The imagery which came into my head while I listen to this song, was of a busy school day in the playground but everything is blurred and faded expect for the small group of friends in the middle not noticing the time going by around them. In a way it tells you that you grow up allot quicker then you know when your that age so to make the most of it.

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