Influential Videos

Issues - Never lose your flames

This song inspired us because it had a similar message and was of a similar genre to the song we favoured. This video shows a young girl and boy dealing with different issues, the boy trying to get his father to accept he is gay and the girl with negative body images. We realized when watching the video that this theme of young adults suffering and overcoming their issues, was a genre convention and so inspired our narrative to follow a similar path.  This video also inspired us because it had shots of back-lit performances and we realized we would like our own performance to have a similar effect.

We liked this shot of a backlit performance and felt it would be very effective in our own video because it highlights the instruments and their players whilst keeping them ambiguous 

Christopher Nolan: Memento 

We gained inspiration for our narrative order from the film Memento. This film follows the story of a man who has lost his memory and puts the viewer in the same position as him, as we also do not know what has happened in the past. We thought a similar narrative order would be a unique method in filming a music video and believe it will stand apart from other student productions. Our initiative would be to add shots of performance in between to separate events. In Nolan's film, pieces are filmed in black and white and others in colour to avoid confusing the audience between the past and present. We are not yet sure if we want to do this to our video as we are not sure if black and white would suit the genre and it would also make the video look more miserable as we intend to shoot our performance in an all black setting.  However, if we do decide to shoot some scenes in black and white, we intend to do a scene where our protagonist is wearing a red dress and have only the dress in colour.  This will be an intertextual reference to the film "Sin City and remind viewers of the iconic shot. It will also be our only voyeuristic scene as we want the protagonist to look provocative and the colour red will exaggerate her sexuality, especially if it is emphasized by a black and white surrounding.  

However we are also aware this type of shot may look out of place in our video so we will need to reconsider other aspects before we film it.