Diary Entry One

During Week one - Week two, we used most of our time trying to find a song for us that we all know due to our music genre's being very diverse. We all have a good background of working with cameras so we all understood that we had to find a song that was very challenging in terms of what our abilities are capable of.

We had a meeting with a student called Daniel Cantlay, who give us his views on the song and what it meant to him.

Daniel, What emotion does the song The fray- How to save a life give off to you?

The song immediately strikes me as a sad song due to the songs tone and just the lyrics involved give of a sad feel its almost as you can understand what the person singing the song is singing.

Have you ever heard the song before on an advert or television show?

I think I heard the song on a show like scrubs or greys anatomy, the song is only rarely used as its a very delicate song and it shouldn't be over used like many other songs have been like the way the x factor has done with some songs like Westlife

Do you think the song is easily replicable, as in a good music video could be created by us as students?

It will be hard to replicate but I think it can be done if the balance between the music video and the song can be created, the video itself must be as powerful as the song is or it wont work as well as what it should.


Thank you Daniel

Your welcome

      Daniel Cantlay               

Cardinal Heenan Sixth Form Student