Dry The River - No Rest

In class, we were played the song 'No Rest' by Dry the River and while closing our eyes we had to visualise a music video.

My idea was located in Spain or a foreign town. There is a tracking shot of the lead singer walking away from the camera. He then leads to a beach, and sings to the camera. There are flashbacks of his past relationship. A grey filter is used over the shots of him walking down the Beach, but brighter colours on the flashbacks. This reflects on his emotions. The brighter days were the ones he spent with her. At then end of the music video he lays flat on the sand, she then comes and lays next to him, and the grey filter is remove, and brighter colours appear.

Others in our class came up with different ideas, here are some examples...

 

• An old peasant searching for gold is then chased by roman soldiers. Its all for love, and wanted the gold to give to his wife.
• A man walking with parts of his body slowly turning to ash. The end of the music video, he ends up as a pile of ash.
• A man in an empty house looking at photos, the house then starts to shake and all the pictures smash in front of him.
• A black and white image of the main vocalist is shown with a dark background, then cuts to a woman walking down the isle. Then turns to colour. She turns around and leaves the main vocalist standing alone.
• A close up of a mans face with the sky behind him. The band playing in the air. A woman then floats past and the man tries to grab her.

 The actual music video below.