Cohn 6
Lindsay Cohn
Matt Dauphin
ENC1101
28 September 2012
Title
The hit Broadway musical, RENT, created by_______ and relased in ____________ was well reieved by audience members and won _Tony awards. Then in ________director________ assembled the motion picture film, whose CD was released in ________ x amount of days before the play write died. But the CD doesn’t give you any of this information. The CD cover encages the 8 lead characters and says all of five words. “ RENT the orginal motion pictue soundtrack”. Not who did what, who financed acted or died in the process. 8 people starrign at you from behind colored walls, they say nothing on the cover, there job is to speak later, in the livrics within the album itself. The common axioum states that a picture is worth a thousand words. SO what are they telling their audience? Finish talking about cover, then sum up the three songs, then form thesis. Red/ love is the biggest part of the album cover, red/love is the message all of the songs give. Maybe you were meant ti niocite it first, but I believe that Is submliminal messaging because the red refrence would have not been able to be justified until after one had analyzed the movie. But te conver does a good time preparing the audience for the sad existances of 8 people, and the red prepares them for how strong they can be when the live on the bright side and come together as one.
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, indigo; the rainbow streaming across the album cover was a thing of wonder. The colors more resembled fresh blood, dirty canary, rotten pumpkin, pureed pees, pouring rain, wilting lavender, devil’s cape maroon, and empty cloud grey. These hues were separated by thin black bars. Only the red spills over into the other frames. This red is the first thing that catches the eye. Scarlet seeping over its rectangular shape. Bold red is a symbol of passion, love, and war. This color dominates over all the tones both in amount of the image consumed and in vividness. Is the illusion given that the dominate themes of the lyrics are of love, passion, and war? Does this foreshadow to the plot of the musical? Red is the primary color---sentence about how it leads to all the other colors.
Note a box with in a box. Structure is also attention grabbing. In today’s age, social structure is everything. There re moral laws, unsaid dress codes, and incessant jury of your peers parading around in the average everyday life. These things purpose is to uphold society’s tirny. People like structure. So to see 8 simple boxes is understandable and even inviting. The Symmetry at the top and bottom sandwiches the non-law abiding middle. The center of the cd has no focus. Not one box is in the dead center of this cd case... Is that saying there is no main or central theme? Or is the main point that there is no center. There is a beginning and an end that you can physical lay your hands on. But maybe don’t try to focus too heavily on the middle?
The center row, equip with on defined box and one bleeding rectangle are broadcasting inverse colors. Red and green are on direct opposite sides of the color wheel, much like yellow and purple. These opposites are mean to draw attention to the other by using sharp contrast. This inflates the image so terrible that the two colors are impossible to ignore.
The color of the cd is one off the first reasons to allow your fingers to stop the flipping motion. People judge books by their cover and albums by their color and design.
Once the color has intrigued you, your brain then realizes that there are people behind these colors. Behind those colors. Are the people so one dimensional that only one dreary color is used to represent them? The colors seem to be a haze in front of the character, almost as if it were a colored film entrapping the audience’s lens. Did the director want you to only see them in one light at first? Will this color continue to define them in the lyrics? Were they meant to be steady archetypes in the text?
Why the brightest color is represent no one and yet touch everyone? Does what red represents come in contact with everyone else’s bubble? The blurry rectangle leans on all of the other colors except the box on the bottom left hand side. Is the maroon man without passion? There seems to be a slight bridge between him and the sleeping red rectangle, a clearly defined isthmus. Is this sliver s representation of past passion, or that he is still searching for passion while all the others have found themselves in their color and attached themselves to passion.
Once the viewer has gotten past the structure and color, they begin to notice something strange with the characters, diversity.
Mention any words, does a picture say 1000 words
1000 words of their own stories?
The most well-known song from this musical was the show stopper: “Seasons of Love”. “Seasons of Love” is sung by everyone in the cast the harmonies pulsing beneath the soloists shows represents that in life as whole every one has their moment, but it is the best when it adds to the group. When you serve your community and are able to highlight your beliefs you make your community richer as a whole. Many of the songs in Rent follow this fashion: having solos or lyrics apart from the chorus. This allows the audience to further understand f why that individual belongs in the song or purpose of the song... It makes it more relatable and easier to follow when the reader sees a single name above a set of lyrics because the audience is aware of that person’s back story and a further understanding of why they are saying what they are. It is also easier for an audience member to focus on one character to relate to. “Seasons of Love” the most popular song from The Broadway Musical RENT according to --------- follows this guideline. “Seasons of Love” shouts out a question to the audience, which truly involves them.
“Seasons of Love” asks the audience “How do you measure a year in the life?” streaming through different was of measuring, which could appeal to a Varity set of people was shot down later. With the line “How about love?” Tis concept shows how closed minded or against abstractness to look into the future of measure the past. Love is so individual that it could be easy to measure personally, but hard to explain to others. We live in an entire year, what do we choose to remember? The “sunsets…cups of coffee…times that he cried…the way that she died…?” “Remember the love.”
The album cover is specific and enclosed which really the song is asking us to remember love. The moments where everything is right in the world and when you focused on the present and enjoyed yourself. So does the musical stress that moments and human connections are important? The only set of lyrics sung by all is “It’s time now, to sing out, though the story never ends. Let’s celebrate, remember a year in the life of friends. ”finish thought
The song concludes with now we should measure our lives in seasons of love. To an audience that was intrigued by a more negative cover, is this a foreign concept? Was the playwright trying to reach these specific individuals and make them realize there is something important in love and they should spend time celebrating and valuing it?
Friendship is also a big theme in the lyrics. Small sense of community and security. What is fascinating about the lyrics is that they don’t ask the audience or the characters to attempt to explain their friendships... They don’t ask to separate old friends from romantic partners or family ties. The lyrics form “I’ll Cover You” conveys the message that regardless of what you Aare going through that I am there for you. This is depicted in the lyric “Just slip me on; I’ll be your blanket. Wherever, whatever, I’ll be your coat… If you’re cold and you’re lonely, if you’ve got one nickel only.”
Include one thousand sweet kisses? Bring up the gay thing?
“No Day But Today” is an over simplification of how to find love and focus on it while it is there so you can measure a year by love. “There is no future. There is no past. Thank God this moment’s not the last.” “There’s only us, there’s oly this. Forget regret- or life is yours to miss. No other road. No other way. No day but today.” The staccatio or small abrut sentences slow down the audience’s mind. Almost as if the character is takinf their hand and guiding them don the character’s path. The over simplicifation is he, just live for there here and now and today and in this moment, even though its not the last
Vis/text
“There is no future, there is no past. I live this one day as my last.” This concept directly comments on the visual guide. The guide clearly displays two clean three tiered rows sandwiching a foggy asymmetrical center. Proving that the beginning and the end are what is clear, focused. Which is what allows the center to stand out? Is that what allows the now to stand out in people’s lives, because the past and future seem simple planned fixed and the now to today is blurry.
Is the blatant disregard fo r the future a past what makes like wroth living, is the red passion burning near the center, burning in the invividuals current being?
Vis/text
“Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes, how do you measure a year” relates in structure in the visuals. Clearly defined question, much like the leaking passion in the image. “In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee, in inches, in miles, in laughter and strife?” Set times, beginnings and ends, in countable things? IS that what the structured color wants or does it wasn’t you to reach past the obvious and discover what the uncountable e now moment are “Laughter and strife…how about love?” Love, laughter, strife? These are simple condensed ideas. They are here and now and up for interpretation. Are they how you measure a year, or is it the beginning or the end in the cover... why does the red seep, dies passionate things up for interpretation make things more difficult to count? “Seasons of Love” asks listeners while visual separated from the audience and isolation from each other, was this catching the audience off guard. Did the individual’s story lines of the characters already allow them to think?