When
I sat down to do this project, I had no idea how to start. I went through so
many different ideas, all of which felt inadequate to the goal I had set for
myself. Then I sat down at the piano to practice a song my sister had taught me
over break, and all the pieces started falling into place. I realized that the
words of the song fit into the themes of this class really well, and considered
recording it as part of my visual project. When I had finished recording the
song, adding some of my own harmonies, I started thinking about the themes of
the song, and looking through pictures. (All the pictures used in the video were
taken by me.)
In the beginning of the video, I put
a montage of people in love—couples who are happy with each other and in their
relationships. I thought this would be a good way to start the video, as it
makes the later pictures more poignant in my opinion. I transitioned from the
pictures of couples to pictures of people less happy in their relationship,
with a transition slide of all of the words I could find synonymous with love
and desire. In the second set of pictures, I tried to show people who were
upset. Love isn’t always easy—in fact, it usually isn’t—and it can end in
heartbreak. These people aren’t trying to pretend that things are ok, they are
accepting that they aren’t happy, and that it has to end. They’ve decided to
leave, unwilling to put up with the pain and the misery that love provides
anymore, though still very much in love.
The third set of pictures is meant
to depict the paths people take—going with the song’s theme of running away. It
reminded me a bit of The Bad Girl, in
that every time she left, she took a different path to get to where she was
going. In a few pictures, a person can actually be seen running along these
paths. This set transitions into one showing that heartbreak doesn’t have to be
dealt with alone. These people are dealing with their pain by walking with
their friends, arm in arm, ready to face the world with support from the ones
they love in a way that can be much stronger than romantic love: the love we
have for our family—both the one we are born with, and the one we create with
our best friends.
The video ends with those same
people who were so upset in their relationships, now smiling, happy to be on
their own. The project as a whole was made to show that we don’t need love to
be happy. We can be just fine on our own, and feel complete with the platonic
love we have for the people most present in our lives.
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