Influential music videos

We had some influences when we were creating our music video, we did some background research before we constructed our idea, we looked into how successful some styles of music video have been with their certain styles, we worked on this and adapted our idea.


Our First Influence. 
Rockstar - By Nickel Back.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmeUuoxyt_E&ob=av2n


After watching this song we decided we really liked the idea of having multiple people with different styles and stereotypes in our video (Image's 3 and 4) , we expanded on this after realising that a lip sync to our song would probably be quite unsuccessful due to the pace and style of our song. We decided to adapt this and do it with dancing instead, creating the same fun vibe that the rockstar video created. 


We also liked the idea of the recurring character speaking the voice part of the song, (Image 1) we thought this idea would also work with using our artist in our video, (also contributing to Goodwin's theory of the need to sell the artist) Rockstar play on this by having celebrities in the video such as rock star Gene Simmons, who has been a influence to Nickelback. (Image 2)


This Video also uses the use of visuals and lyrics throughout the song the actors / actresses do hand gestures such as touching their hair, and having props such as car keys when cars are mentioned. We also want to include this in our video using a phone for the 'Call Me Up' Lines and the phone call. 

 

Our Second Influence.
Madonna - Hung Up.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDwb9jOVRtU&ob=av2e


After watching this video we really liked the idea of the recurring boom box, (images 1 and 2) this idea helps to connect the song to a theme and suggest the idea of continuity, Also the way that the opening scene is the artist carrying on the boom box, we liked this idea also, 


We also picked up on the way that this video uses the same style as Rockstar in the way that they use lots of different stereotypes and styles of people in their video, (Image 3) making the audience seem more vast and appealing to more than just one audience. 


Also at the end of this video all the characters come together and do an ending dance, (Image 4) we really liked this idea too, we thought that we could incorporate this into ours and having a larger group of people dancing together at the end of the song as a kind of closure dance. 

Our Third Influence.

Ed Sheeran - You Need Me, I Don't Need You. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXvzzTICvJs

This music video is a third example of one that uses the same visuals and lyrics we would like to achieve, such as backpack's, again this video uses the boom box prop, to bring the song back to the genre of the song. This video also uses the group dancing at the end of it, we again liked this idea as it is one single dancer for the majority of the song.