Inspiration from Existing Media Products

While we have been planning our music video there have been many music videos that have inspired us and helped us with ideas. I have been researching into already existing music videos of our genre to help us come up with creative shots and editing techniques that we need to make our music video fit our genre and to ensure it appeals to our target audience.

The first music video I have been using for inspiration is the video The Kooks' song, 'Bad Habit'. Not only have we taken inspiration from the fact that this music video is in black and white, but we have also been looking at the nature of the shots included within it. For example, there are lots of close up shots within the video, which is typical if this genre, however, in particular we liked the close up shot of the girl's feet while she is walking, and have decided this is something we also want to incorporate this into our music video in some way.

Another music video that I looked at for inspiration was the music video for 'Take Me To Church' by Hozier. The reason I took inspiration from this video was mostly the natural settings, for example, the use of the two men being by a lake, and also the woodland and forrest settings. Alike this video, we want to use these settings as a form of irony as nature is usually associated with being free, however in our music video we want to use these settings to portray how trapped our main protagonist feels in her everyday life.

Lastly, I also took inspiration from Lana Del Rey's music video for 'Blue Jeans'. Her video is of a completely different genre and narrative/message to our song and what we want to portray in our music video, however there are elements of her video that, if adapted, I think could look effective. We have been debating weather to add a narrative into our video, and we have come up with ideas regarding suicide with water, as we want to keep to a natural theme. In this video Lana Del Rey is submerged in water, and we want to add a similar aspect, as our lyrics portray imagery of suffocating, which we can interpret as drowning. The shot below is close to how we would add in water and drowning shots to our narrative.