Here’s another great, evocative song that sounds as if it really should be in a Sixties film:
This one sets more of a pastoral scene for me, so here’s a little bit of clichéd imagery to go with it…
Scene I
Shimmery, white material fills the whole screen – slowly the camera zooms out and gradually it becomes apparent that it is the fabric of a dress. It zooms out further to reveal the young woman wearing it, the shape of her body just showing through the flimsy summer frock which is made slightly transparent by the bright sunlight. She’s walking through the long grass of a meadow, a dreamy expression on her pale face. The scene continues to zoom out until she is only a small figure in the distance, then it angles up to show just the vivid blue, cloudless sky. A white bird flies silently across, left to right…
Scene II
… You choose…! I’m no good at this film directing malarkey.
I don't think I'm ready to leave scene one yet.
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You can stay there as long as you like!
DeleteAah ! Camera spins slowly across the sky, catches the edge of the sun which haloes across the lens, then points down to our mysterious heroine who spins in the opposite direction, oblivious to the world. Zoom in and she's looking intently into the sunny horizon, camera follows her gaze to....inevitably some guy with just too much hair and wide lapels leaning against the door to some Withnail style farm house...you know he isn't the one - but she doesn't yet... back over to you !
ReplyDeleteAh, yes, then she stops, reaches into her small shoulder-bag and pulls out a Cadbury's Flake. Slowly she unwraps it, closes her eyes, opens her mouth and slips it in suggestively... No, hang on, that's not right, that's the advert break!
DeleteNice direction. This song is a new one on me and it's so good I don't know why I've missed it before.
ReplyDeleteThanks, SB - glad you like the song.
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