I found this week’s reading “Telling And Not Telling” extremely interesting: narrative and non-narrative dilemma is intriguing. Although the article explores different arguments and evidences for different opinions on the necessity of a storyline presence in a music video, I think it’s rather simple: just do whatever will expose, uncover, reveal the music. I am a very perceptive person, I can always sense a certain atmosphere, a vibe to every place, person, event, or song. And, I think, for different music, there are different approaches. Some songs benefit from an intriguing storyline, some songs just fade behind a plot; some obtain a strong perception, a “soul” from a non-narrative set of videos, and some make no sense. My point is, it is all very different for every song.

The song my group are working on, “Boats” by Soft Corporate, has very blurry lyrics. There’s no certain story behind it, they don’t exactly make sense, instead, they create an image with words and sounds. So, we decided to go for a “perceptual video”- a set of unrelated sequences that interline with each other through out the video. We are going to enhance the image that song already create with an actual image. So to say.