Group Research - Individual Planning

This is what I wrote about our music video, regarding my opinion on the approach that my group should go with.

I first highlighted the literal meaning of the song, which is two gay men being discriminated for being gay. This is related to the artist as he is Irish and Ireland are stereotypically known for discriminating against homosexuals.

However I have also included my interpretation of the song. I think that the song is about challenging religion and their beliefs, and has a more universal meaning rather than just discriminating against homosexuals.

So I think that myself and the rest of the group should look at different ways in which the Catholic church discriminate against. This is so we can go through all the forms of discrimination and then pick one that we can relate to the song and then use this as the subject matter in our music video.

This is our first brain storm of ideas for our final plan of how we are going to create our music video.

We have already narrowed down the roles that each person will play. Nathan Kearns is going to be the camera man, I am going to be the main actor and Michael Hickey is going to be the editor / director (editing will be something we all help with).

We printed off the lyrics for our song (Take me to Church) so that we can see some symbolic meanings that we missed before in the lyrics.

We also all gave our first ideas on how we thing that we should approach our music video, and we will be comparing all of the ideas on the group blog soon.