Lyrics

During our media lesson we printed off a song and looked at the lyrics in order to generate an idea. Even though we are not using this music video for our own coursework, we wanted to see how it is possible to create an idea just looking at the lyrics alone. Therefore we did not watch the music video beforehand as we did not want to have an idea already imprinted in our mind. 

The song that we looked at was Torn - Natalie Imbruglia. From these lyrics we generated an idea as a group of a woman who has recently split up from her partner walking round her house and every where she turns she is reminded of the times that they spent together. We thought that it would be effective for these images to be fainted out to show the audience that they are in her memory and the past. As well as this, we thought it would be effective for the actress to reach out to touch the memories however as she does they fade away to emphasise that the relationship is over and her partner is not the person that she thought they was.

I thought, I saw a man brought to life
He was warm, he came around and he was dignified
He showed me what it was to cry

The lyrics in the opening stanza influenced our idea. This is because of the use of "I thought I saw a man" this emphasises the idea that her partner is not the person that she thought he was and is therefore just a figment of her imagination. 

Well, you couldn't be that man I adored
You don't seem to know
Seem to care what your heart is for
But I don't know him anymore

This is reinforced in the next stanza as she says "But I don't know him anymore" This is where we got the idea for that as she reaches out he is no longer there. 

Illusion never changed

Into something real
I'm wide awake and I can see
The perfect sky is torn
You're a little late, I'm already torn

As well as this the chorus also inspired our idea. In particular because of the use of the word of illusion. This is why we thought that it would be a good idea to have the memories in her mind faded out to show that the love is no longer there. 

Therefore after carrying out this task we have found that you do not need to take inspiration from the whole of the song. You can instead look at individual lines and words and go into further detail from there. I think that this was a useful task to do as it showed us that it is quite easy to come up with a creative idea if you look at the lyrics in depth.  I also think that it was useful to not look at the music video before hand.