Folk music, or more specifically British Folk music has quite a distinctive feeling and sound. Obviously the classic british folk singing style is capitalized on here, but with soo many different accents the outcome of each artist can differ greatly.
So whats the point of this post?
Well I need to look at some examples of different folk songs to see which would best suit my music video. Since I've mostly taken quite peaceful, natural setting video clips, the song really needs to reflect upon this.
Iv'e taken quite a view clips containing trees and so it would probably be appropriate to have a song which at least mentions trees (This creates visual motif from video to lyrics).
I'm fairly interested by the folk artist Damh the Bard. In most of his song he has some message regarding not just nature but also the corruption of government among others. This would be a good avenue to draw upon, perhaps feeding in exterior footage from news clips of war, again creating a motif between the image and the lyrics.
Songs by Damh the Bard which show this well are,
Sons and daughters of robin hood
Spirit of Albion
Take me home Country Roads by John Denver might actually suit the footage iv'e already taken and even contains small reference to trees. The only thing is I think to capture the feeling of the song I would need to take footage of people or at least a person to get the feeling of traveling home.
The song by Clannad called passing time could work in reference to the car traveling footage i've taken. Its quite a relaxing, smooth flowing song which would be quite simple to fit with the video. I think if this option where taken I would have to focus heavily on timing the video to the tempo at which the vocalist sings the lyrics to create a visual match (or a purposely placed out of sink image to draw the viewers interest by doing something they don't expect to see).
