1st Draft Of Our Music Video

This is our first draft of our long and awaited music video. The original song is just over 4 minutes long but as you can see we have just cut it to just under 3 minutes.

Genre Of Song

"Hurt" is a power ballad written by Christina Aguilera, Linda Perry and Mark Ronson for Aguilera's third studio album, Back to Basics (2006). Ballads have come in all different styles and are especially popular amongst British and the Irish culture. Power ballads came into existence in the early 1970s, when rock stars attempted to convey profound messages to audiences. The most common use of the term ballad in modern pop music is for an emotional love song. When the word ballad appears in the title of a song, as for example in Beatle’s "The Ballad of John and Yoko". The ballad probably derives its name from medieval French dance songs or (from which we also get ballet), as did the alternative rival form that became the French Ballad.

Summary of Original Video

The video see Christina Aguilera portraying a '40s circus star for the song. The video begins with the ending instrumental to "Enter the circus"/"Welcome", over which a carnival barker introduces a spectacular circus, and begins in black and white. Aguilera appears in an old fashioned dressing room, receiving flowers and then an important telegram. A flashback then shows young Aguilera, with her father. With her father's encouragement, Aguilera begins to train herself to do the same. When the video switches to older Aguilera, we see her descending from the top of a circus tent on a rope, onto the back of an elephant, in point shoes and a structured jewled outfit, with her father watching adoringly in the audience. She later attempts to greet him but is pulled away by fans and photographers keen to meet the star. The content of the telegram is then revealed to be a message of her father's death, and as Aguilera realizes that she was too wrapped up in her stardom to deal with what matters, she races through the circus in a belated attempt to find her father. The video ends with a shot of Aguilera sitting on a circus box, singing and crying, before fading out to Aguilera's grief-stricken form on the ground outside the circus tent.

Lyric Annottaion (Christina Aguilera - Hurt)

Lana and I have carefully annotated the lyrics for the song that we have chosen for my music video. We made sure that we looked into what part of the song goes with which particular part of the video.