Inspiration

Inspiration

I thought it was a good idea to do a blog post on where our inspiration has come from, It has come from very different things from previous bands to group members ideas.

Use of overlays

In our research and planning all the group really liked the idea of overlays within our music video. We hope this will show the state of flux and will work greatly with our fast past editing. We have taken inspiration from Rhianna and Pixie Lott and their continuous use of overlays.

In the video "All about tonight" Pixie Lott, I love the use of overlays in the overall video it gives the video shape and the sequence moves gracefully. Despite our use of fast editing I would really like to achieve this look and think it will work very well with our song.

Another example of this is Rhianna- Russian Roulette. The second shot of her with here hands masking her face is a similar image we wish to create in our music video, in the chorus with the strobe lighting I believe this looks very intriguing and gives the atmosphere we are looking for.

Use of holding up signs

An idea within the group came up suggesting that we should hold up signs with bold words being read out, this inspiration was taken from a few iconic videos such as Dirty little secret- All American Rejects, How to save a life- The fray and Ugly by the sugababes.

All these bands have used signs within their videos to captivate the audience, which we hope to do in our video. We want to do this with the lyrics "State of flux" and holding up wanted posters.

Our main theme of obsession/losing control/stalker

We wanted to create something evolving around a theme in our music video and we got inspiration from the lyrics and also other influential music artists. We looked a similar indie music videos and films and realised that the use of an obsessive character is very much conventional and well used. We were very fond of this idea and thought we could put our on perspective upon it and create a very ominous atmosphere.

This film is called "Twilight" and part of it captures a girl running through crowds from the vampire James, we gained inspiration from this especially with the scene where she keeps imagining seeing him whilst surrounded by mirrors. This helpless atmosphere is what we are trying to create.

This is a montage of images I put together in photoshop to show where our inspiration came from with the stalker/paranoid state of the character. We looked at Ed Sheeran- Lego House then at Example ft Laidback luck- Natural disaster and both videos had two male protagonists, one was racing with emotions, one which was paranoia and the other video showed an obsessed stalker to a star- similarly to Stan- Eminem.

Also, I loved the mise-en-scene within Example's video, with the guy in the hoodie with skinny jeans, we hope to achieve this look and atmosphere in our music video.

Character we want to create

The character we are hoping to create has been very much based around the artist Plan B, his rnb edge yet indie vocals are what we very much like. Also, image below is what we hope to replicate. The use of a sigarette gives the egde to the character.