Inspiration

Drawing Inspiration For Our Music Video

When looking for inspiration for our own music video, we mainly looked at the interesting aspects from the music videos of  Lana Del Rey - West Coast, The 1975 - Chocolate and The 1975 - Robbers.

This was because we liked the styles of these music videos and how the exemplified the indie pop genre. We also thought the star images were shown in an interesting and effective way, and thought that we could use some of these aspects in our own music video. 

We liked that the Lana Del Rey - West Coast video was in mostly black and white, along with it including some home-footage styled shots throughout. Also, we liked the star image of Lana Del Rey's seemingly chilled out persona with her on a beach location and in a vintage car. Other aspects such as the contrasting fire and vivid red dress used at the end of the video to give a shock factor and to be unique. Drawing inspiration from this, we wanted to make our music video mostly black and white with some colour and use some similarities in the star image.

From The 1975 - Chocolate video we also liked the black and white colour choice along with the majority of the shots following the lead singer Matt Healy shown doing actions such as smoking and showing his rebellious nature in locations such as tunnels and cars with the use of interesting and effective lighting. All of which we intend to use in our video in some way. A particular shot that we liked was the shot in the dark room with all of the band members sitting in a circle facing out with a pan around them with one intense bright light in the background. We look to implement something similar to this in our own music video.

Another music video we got inspiration from was The 1975 - Robbers. This was because we liked the variety of interesting and effective shot types used in this video along with there being an engaging narrative that shows the rebellious star image and the hardships that the character faces in his life. In this music video there are lots of shots which are we found very interesting in that they were framed well and capture a unique dark tone and atmosphere whilst still remaining visually pleasing and intriguing to watch.