Lyrics

Lights out in the sky tonight, you were just a figure in the dark you never put you're finger on it.

A faint hope lit by candlelight, never had a chance to draw a breath or ever really feel wanted.

I drank every drop we had; you were just the bitter executioner of all we had.

I fought hard to get it back, you were all the minutes and the hours we never had.

By June we were renegades running from the reaper's grasp, he's the only one who wants us.

We came back to celebrate; celebrate the weaknesses and frailties that put our fate upon us.

We drank every drop we had; you were just the bitter executioner of all we had.

I fought hard to get it back, you were all the minutes and the hours we never had.

I know we said follow the sun, We'll head west but we'll never grow up.

We said it was getting late, no-one ever came for you, you hid the other side of reason.

We said you should celebrate the falling of the leaves from all of their multi coloured trees and, We drank every drop we had; you were just the bitter executioner of all we had.

I fought hard to get it back, you were all the minutes and the hours we never had.

I know we said follow the sun, We'll head west but we'll never grow up.

Come on babe lets give it some dedication, All you can hope for's wind back into your sails.

Confirmation Email

Music Video - Minutes and Hours theCOLOURS‏From: Andrew Parsons (andrew@readysounds.com)You may not know this sender.Mark as safeMark as junkSent: 17 September 2009 22:03:05To: martynduncan@hotmail.co.uk2 attachments Download all attachments (6.0 MB)image001.jpg (1.5 KB), Minutes &...m4a (6.0 MB)

Dear Martyn,

On behalf of theCOLOURS, who we represent, I am writing to give our consent to the use of Minutes and Hours by the COLOURS as the basis of your Media Studies course and, in particular, the production of a music video.

We have suddenly had a series of such requests, so while we are encouraged that there is so much interest in the band’s material at present, we must insist that a copy of your final work is sent to us as soon as it is available and that no commercial use is made of your work without reference back to ourselves of course. Perhaps we shall have to hold a competition of our own!

Having said that we wish you all the best with your project and look forward to seeing how you have interpreted the song. I have attached the song, which I hope is the version you’re familiar with. At present the COLOURS are recording in Leeds and there are a few interim versions in circulation.

Best wishes,

Andrew Parsons

Song choice

Our group have got 2 songs which we feel were suitable to make a good music video. The 2 songs that we got were both from unsigned.com. One was Jackie Boyz- shes not perfect and the other one was The colours- minutes and hours. For both of these songs we got an email confiming that we are allowed to use them.

Our group have decided to use The colours- minutes and hours. We have chose this song as we feel it will be the best one to make a music video for. We also thought this one would suit us as the group had more ideas for this song then what we did for the other song. I will be posting the lyrics and the confimation email later as i will need to get them both from my group member.

100 music videos

In class we have been watching 100 music videos and most of the music videos are different so as we were watching them we can see some of the ideas so it will help us think of ideas to create our music video.

The music video was Sinead- nothing compares 2 u and this video is valuable as in the video had a close up of her most of the way through the video and in the video was real tears and emotion so it made it more effective because it made her think of her past.

One of fat boy slims video had an actor dancing in the video while the song was playing, and also he jumped and then started flying so because this video is different so it was the video that stood out more then the song as you would be watching what the actor was going to do next in the video instead of concentrating on the video.

Another music video was radio head and this video can give the group idea as to what to have in the video as you see the face with like glass in front of it and the lyrics were scrolling up as he was singing them and also at the end he had to hold his breath for 50 seconds, but he kept failing so when he eventually done it you could see that he was pleased with himself because he had done it. It could also cause discomfort as you watched him hold his breath. So these are just a few ideas that we could use to make a good music video.

Music video research

We watched two music videos and these gave us an idea of what we could do depending on the song. We know that we will have to look at mise-en-scene to see what we could do to make it look and feel real. For example for a rock song we would change costume and make up to like a rock feel so we would have black clothes. Also the location would be in a dark place to give it a rock feel.

Song

We have been given permission to use a song but we are going to see if the lyrics will be good so that we can come up with good ideas. We got the music from unsigned.com

Group meeting

We are now back at school and we will be working to decide which song we feel will be best to do a music video for. When we find the song we will then listen to the song to get the lyrics and then we will analyse it and try to get ideas from that.