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INSPIRATIONWhere did all of our inspiration come from?

- Other music videos from a similar genre

- Films

- Lyrics of the song

- Books

- Everyday locations/ suburban life

- Urban scenery

- Feedback during initial research

VIDEO

- How does my video fit with the conventions of the genre of the track used?

- How original is the video?

- How much have entropic or redundant elements been used?

- Influence of inspirations.

INFLUENCE OF INSPIRATIONS

There are many ways in which the things which inspired myself and Tom during our research and planning went on to influence the styles and ideas behind our video.

The video to ‘She Moves She’ by Four Tet inspired us due to the shots of subway trains and use of footage that has been taken from the perspective of being on a train and looking out the window.

Deliberate us of jump cuts inspired by the film of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

The video to ‘Blue Jeans’ by Lana Del Rey inspired us in a number of ways. Firstly the concept of simplicity for the performance shots. The video shows the performer, on her own, stood against a background performing the song. We mimicked this with our male performer, the only difference being that we wanted more interesting looking backgrounds and so used photos of iconic landmarks and strange and exotic scenery as a backdrop as we felt this added an element of fantasy and escapism to our video, as well as a comic element. The Lana Del Rey video also uses shots that were clearly filmed using a hand-held camera instead of a tripod which is something which was consistent in our urban footage and finally it gave us the inspiration for using footage of a city scenery which we thought worked nicely with our song.

The video to ‘Hands’ by Four Tet gave us the idea for altering the colours to make them brighter. We didn’t do this quite to the same extent as in the Four Tet video as the colours in the ‘Hands’ video are so bright and blurry that it is difficult to see what the footage is actually of and we wanted what was happening in our video to remain clear even if the colouring had been altered.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2dPYRhSb4cPigeons feathers appear overly

brightly coloured!

HOW DOES MY VIDEO FIT WITH THE CONVENTIONS OF THE GENRE OF THE TRACK USED?

We also used the lyrics to inspire some of our ideas. This is because we wanted to create a video that was ‘amplified’. This meant that we would incorporate ideas from the lyrics of the song into our video, however, the video would not simply be a literal visual representation of the lyrics.

EXPLANATION OF HOW LYRICS WERE USEDFrom what I gathered from reading through and analysing the lyrics, the

song is all about a woman who is leaving her partner because she is tired of the way that he treats her and takes her for granted. She plans on starting over and restarting her life because for so long it has been taken over by being involved in a relationship that ultimately made her unhappy. Our video shows this idea as the female character is shown getting up, getting ready and leaving her house. This is interspersed with shots of the male character doing the same things however they are both shown doing these things independently and are never in a shot together, indicating the concept of separation. The use of the urban footage is intended to signal a change and the idea of a new start as it contrasts with the suburban surroundings of the female.

The fact that she is starting over is the reason why, towards the end of the video the female’s face is shown as happy, whereas, when she is at home and preparing to leave, she looks fairly expressionless. However, the fast close-up of the male character later in the video shows his face to be continually blank as his woman has left him and has found freedom whereas he is trapped in the same monotonous life.