Reflection on Dry the River Task

As a class we listened to the audio for the song "No Rest" by Dry the River. Individually we had to try and identify the genre, whether it was a band or a solo performance, the target audience, important lyrics and pace of the song. As a group we reflected upon the song and put across our ideas of what the song was about, we then looked at the actual lyrics and worked out the actual meaning of the song. We then was given the task of coming up with a concept for the video in two groups of three.

The lyrics for "No Rest"

One of my group's ideas were:

• An isolated couple within a snow globe, living inside their own bubble. When things get turbulent in their relationship, the snow globe is shaken and the flurry of snowflakes intensifies.

Another of the groups' ideas were:

• A man walking alone through a desert, as he goes animals follow him. The man is pursuing what he thinks is a beautiful woman but at the end of the song when he reaches her, she disappears as she is in fact a mirage.

I personally liked Jack's idea of the mirage in the desert as it fitted with the lyrics of the song and was an interesting concept.

What did you learn from the process:

From this process I learnt that it was important to have a clear idea for a music video as that can really help with the construction of the music video, and the overall aesthetic.

We then watched the music video at the end to see what the actual video looked like, which can be seen below: