“The Dog Days Are Over” by Florence + The Machine is classified as “Baroque Pop”. Baroque is usually said in reference to an unusually shaped, discolored, yet beautifully veiny pearl– basically a misunderstood gem. In this spirit, the goal of my digital project is to encompass this sense of heartbreaking, ugly beauty that Florence Welch often tries to promote. The actual music video for the song is of Florence dressed in strange red rectangular eye makeup and white allover body-paint, wearing various mullet-hemmed and tiered dresses. It is clear that all normality has fallen to the wayside in the production of this song, and I intend to capture that essence.

My personal interpretation of the song’s lyrics are a bit biased, but that is what I intend to base my paper on– my own opinions of the piece as a sort of conjuction with my self-journey, which I think has it’s own heartbreaking, ugly moments, but is in essence beautiful, as all life journies are.

My video will be composed firstly of a mix of pictures and video, alternating between the two with the quarter beats that the harp plays at first– images of someone running down: a subway track, a path at Central park, the woods in Prospect Park. Bubbles coming out and going back into a bubble blowing wand, and dirty water draining in a kitchen sink. I plan to literally interpret the lyrics, but choose various locations around New York City that I think fit the description. Since the song depicts someone who is trying to escape happiness, I want to end on a possibly happy note– the images and videos will get lighter and lighter as the video goes on.

It’s really hard to explain what I’ll do step-by-step, but I have confidence that I’ll be able to figure things out.