Jack Garratt - Weathered Music Video

We decided to use this song as it allows us to develop a storyline due to the meaning we portrayed in our lyric analysis, as below. (Insert lyrics below),

Multiple binary oppositions such as Youth & Old, Near & Far, Present v Past in the lyrics inspired us to place metaphors within our final edit when making our music video. For, example, the focus on pocketwatch was drawn from the line in the song "And if I ever let you go, will you keep me young, Keep me young". The line memories reclusive, elusive conjured up difficulty in recalling the past so we used this idea when visiting a previous place the couple spent together and looking back at old photos.

An initial idea was to use our own amateur footage, present in the official music video as this would provide more context for our audience as to why the place the male find himself in is significant. Also, these scenes where the camera begins a different aspect, (that of a handheld camera) did inspire us to create our own past vs present twist where the couple would be playing in a park but we decided not to us this in the final edit as it wouldn't fit into the length of the song as well as all the other footage.

In terms of editing, there is some slow motion such as when the waterfall flows which helps us to focus on the lyrics of "water". From this, we were inspired to change the speed of our footage by including a time lapse of a river (sped up as it plays over 2 minutes when filming this). The visual aspect in the official video puts focus deliberately on moments when the children are playing and around the campfire because of the change in speed which we found to be effective in editing when first experimenting in our final draft.