The song starts off with a soft dim melody giving of the feeling of a spiral circling around repeatedly, symbolizing the light piano strokes . As the piano strokes become deeper and bolder the spiral comes to and end, and becomes replaced by horizontal lines moving in a circular motion to keep the rhythm going. As the song reaches its chorus the once dim melody changes to a more luminous rhythm because of the violin and drum set added to the melody. This causes the horizontal lines to become vertical. As the chorus comes to an end the melody reverts back to it dim and gloomy feeling and changes back to horizontal lines.

This pattern repeats itself over and over again until before it reaches the end of the song. That is where the melody and piano strokes start to speed up becoming sharper vertical lines that radiate from the gloomy horizontal lines becoming a bright and luminous melody. This observation helped me understand the artist’s intentions towards the meaning of the song because the artist wants to display a meaning of hope. The artist wants the listener to know that even though many difficult and gloomy experiences happen in life there is alway light and happiness reaching out to you out there.

Song: Flares by The Script

I spent four hours working on this part of the project.