Analysing The Lyrics

This is an analysis of the lyrics to 'Of The Night' by Bastille. As our piece has no lip-syncing, we didn't want to be literal with the lyrics but focus on symbolism and a metaphorical approach instead. We felt that this was a more artistic approach and opened up many more opportunities creatively within the production process of our music video 

As we looked deeper into the possible meanings of the lyrics, we noticed that within the subtext a theme of escapism and the human need for it could be suggested within lyrics such as: "ease you of your pain" "put some joy upon my face" "sunshine in an empty place". These could be interpreted in another way such as a lost love for example but we felt that to focus on this as a theme was far too predictable and so we decided to focus on escapism as our central idea. In doing this we began to think in detail about what devices people use to escape from reality and concluded that drug use, alcoholism and focusing obsessively on a hobby or subject that you're passionate about (such as dancing) are a few of the main ways people 'escape' .In addition to this we detected an opportunity to represent themes of obsession, passion and confusion surrounding personal identity (represented through an avoidance of revealing too much of our performers identity, in our music video, in order to maintain anonymity as a theme too.)