Speculations for Aerial videos

[Sheila]

I got this really neat imagry for Pi that makes me really hope she does a video for this one! I see her spinning and singing and flashing numbers like an old Commodore 64 and all these vaguely psychedelic circles taking over the screen twisting themselves into one big circle of infinity in the foreground. I see so much visual potential in this song!

[matanchik]

I find a lot of visual potential in "A coral room". there is lot of imagery in the lyrics. i see it as kate playing the piano in some abandoned city and ghosts of people that come and dissapear

[tabatha]

I see that, but not too much of it. I see the house, the dropping of the jug, the room filled with coral and the city, these need to be shown.

Strangely I have become really attached to the part when they come in the back door, and the jug falls and breaks. I see the entire kitchen, the jug falling, and her mother's, it's all very 50s, wrong era, but hay. And then they follow the spider into the hall, then into the room adjacent, and that's filled with coral, and the window has sails in it and they are underwater. It's a very vivid thing.

[soundbite]

I think videos have a knack of destoying the personal imagery one gets when listing to a song, tune or reading a book.
For example, in The Lord Of The Rings films, the Hobbits looked totally different to how I imagined them to be.

[Sven Golly]

soundbite said:

I think videos have a knack of destoying the personal imagery one gets when listing to a song, tune or reading a book.

I believe they can as well. However, it can also add a dimension that the artist could not convey with voice and instruments alone. Movement especially in Kate's early videos added more than took away. Also her just at the piano or mainly just dancing did little to detract from one's own imagination. In fact on a few - "Feel It" for one - got my imagination going. But some, I agree, do interfere with one's own interpretation. The best example to me is "This Woman's Work" (the video) although I like the trilogy of videos that support the album, I prefer just listening most of the time - especially "This Woman's Work" (the song) which is much better without the video (to me anyway.)

For example, in The Lord Of The Rings films, the Hobbits looked totally different to how I imagined them to be.

Well that's just ridiculous. How can you sell merchandise with no movie. ;D

[soundbite]

For example, in The Lord Of The Rings films, the Hobbits looked totally different to how I imagined them to be.

Well that's just ridiculous. How can you sell merchandise with no movie. ;D

It's the imagery one gets when reading a book, which I read long before the movie trillogy was ever made. As for merchandise, I'm unsure of what you're getting at???

[Al Truest]

soundbite said:

For example, in The Lord Of The Rings films, the Hobbits looked totally different to how I imagined them to be.

Well that's just ridiculous. How can you sell merchandise with no movie. ;D

It's the imagery one gets when reading a book, which I read long before the movie trilogy was ever made. As for merchandise, I'm unsure of what you're getting at???

I thinks Sven was being facetious. The point being in a movie like 'Lord of the Rings' the residual sales of action figures, lunch boxes, notebooks etc. may dictate how characters look. In some cases the potential sales for this mechandise can be more than the profits for the movie - and even the very reason some movies get made. The imagery is then left up to the marketing guys. The characters then ,for example, must look good on a 'Burger King' cup.