Sunday, November 7, 2010

Words and Images: Perfect Two



Youtube users love to create little music videos for songs that they love to listen to. Many of them are probably unaware of the fact that they are unconsciously working to create a necessary connection between the song and their video.  What I mean by this is, their video exist because of the song and its lyrics. If the sounds were to be turned off, the video would probably not make a lot of sense because most of the time, the images in the video reflects the lyrics.
The point of this song is that the speaker and his/her lover are meant to be, just the way peanut butter and jelly goes together for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich; the same way you apples are necessary to make an apple pie. You can't have one without the other and expect to create a whole. The lyrics of the song can easily convey that. But once the song was integrated into the video also and images were used alongside the certain phrases of the words, the video cannot exist without the song.  This emphasizes the significance of the interaction between words and images.
Definitely the video here, Auburn's Perfect Two, since the lyrics has a lot of word play in it, such as "You can the peanut butter to my jelly." At this line, the video has a picture of a jar of Skippy peanut butter and then a jar of Welch's grape jelly.  Seeing those two images doesn't say much, and no one would know the message that the video was trying to send if the music was to be turned off.
Even some of the images used in the video itself depicts the whole interaction of words and images. For example, one of the images used during this video illustrates two pieces of a puzzle. One of the puzzle pieces says "You" and the other one says "Me." These two pieces fit together, as shown in the video. If the words were missing from the two puzzle pieces, the strong message that the two pieces truly belong together would be missed.  The words demonstrated that that the image could become something more than just two regular pieces. Once the words were added together, it demonstrated this natural sense of belonging between two people, a 'you' and a 'me.'

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