Artist background

Aaliyah Ade, better known by her stage name VIVID, is a solo artist from South East London born in November 1996. Descending from a family of musicians and dancers, she’s always had a love for music.

It was in 2013 when her parents got divorced and shortly after her grandmother who taught her how to play the keyboard died. She channelled her upset into song writing and began doing gigs around London. Her songs were often very lyrically sad, backed with an upbeat, happy soundtrack in contrast to pay homage to her grandmother’s favourite songs. During a gig in one of London’s most loved bars in Soho was when a producer saw her perform and asked to work with her on some tracks. They released a joint EP entitled ‘Psychedelic Dreams’ and were both signed to EMI a year later in 2016.

Since being signed VIVID has been touring as an opening act for the likes of Tinie Tempah and Ella Eyre. Her debut album is due to be released in the Easter of 2018. 

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Our Artist "Vivid"

VIVID

Our artist, Vivid, is a female singer/songwriter who's music video we make will connote themes of electricity, bright lights, and deep underlying meanings of heartbroken and the loss of love. 

We have confirmed these themes because of the song we have chosen for Vivid to be a part of and 'sing'. "Sheets" by Shannon Saunders is the chosen piece of music.

Chorus:

"Am I ugly to my lover?

He saw the beauty in another

I give him kisses, all I could

Am I worthy of my love cause

He doesn't love me

He doesn't love me

He doesn't love me"

We are now using these lyrics to script and design our music video. we thought a dark theme during the early hours of the night would be suitable. The bright colours then coming through street lights, neon lights we could find and then also signs and cars. This represents the chance of the love in the song being resolved.  

Moodboard Process

In our group we made a colourful, bright and interesting mood board/poster to represent and draft our ideas for the upcoming music video we're due to make. Should be fun.

Below is Lilly trying to correct a glitter error. Later we gave up.

Our initial idea was to have a blue theme with glitter the main material used. After seeing how difficult it was to use glitter effectively without any mistakes we decided against it.

The image below is our 2nd attempt which we kept and have resultantly used as our official mood board.  

Moodboard plan

Me, Tolani and Lilly in our group decided to portray dark city lights in a music video which will present themes of being heartbroken with quick shots and not a lot of lip syncing. Therefore a very artistic video.