Spoken Word

The idea for the spoken word project came pretty easily. The idea was to use the song "Time" by Pink Floyd and make it into a poem. We tried to incorporate the meaning of the song as much as we could in the video. The song is about how people forget to live in the present and it is told directly to you. some of the lyrics hit pretty hard...

"Time"

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away, across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spell

     

     As you can see it goes through the life of a person from early childhood to the final moments of an individual's life.

     so we kept this kind of idea of time going by and included it in our shots focusing on deserted areas and things like sunsets or water flowing. In the end it turned out very well and we achieved the vibe that we wanted the video to have.