Music Video

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Group 3 Music Video

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Our digipak front and back cover

Our digipak front and back cover

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Our digipak inside cover

Our digipak inside cover
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Monday 26 September 2016

R+P Post 19: My Influences and vision for the project

Below is a display of the influences and shot ideas we have for the male narrative and the studio shots for our music video. This is a Steal o Matic that shows these inspirations and influences on our video.


The References in our steal o matic in chronological order of appearance:

  • Skepta - Man = The police car aesthetic has an urban, London feel to it that we are trying to find, especially due to the song being about the affect of the police on the mentality of teenage Londoners.
  • Lorde - Tennis Court = The shot has a similar studio lighting effect that we want to achieve for our studio shots.
  • NAO - Fool To Love = It is a music video showing literally the message of a man fighting his own demons. This idea is similar to the idea from our male narrative of a man running from and being afraid of his own psyche as well as of the police themselves.
  • Seinabo Sey - Hard Time = This music video is successful in depicting female strength and vulnerability with the contrasting close ups they use of the singer looking up or down at the camera. The voyeurism of the shots of the lights on her face in a dark room is also something we want to use for the studio shots.  
  • Jorja Smith - Blue Lights = The strobe effect for the studio shots work well despite the fact that we have decided for our video not to be black and white, a strobe light effect behind Layla Ade, will look very good.
  • James Blake - Overgrown = The idea of a music video being centering itself over a dream sequence was an attractive concept due to the psychological male narrative that cannot be truly expressed as literally taking place in real life. The music video has a good shot of a man waking up from both a side-on and front-on perspective.
  • Jaden Smith - Scarface = This music video has good shadow shots as well as a nice male journey narrative walking in street settings.
  • The Place Beyond The Pines (Film) = The shots from behind a male perspective was inspired greatly from the first shot of this film.
  • Rihanna - American Oxygen  Live on SNL = The political messaging from the projection in this live performance was very inspirational, as I felt it would look even more effective in a music video and we could show intertextual referencing to Mobb Deep and Dizzee Rascal that are drawn inspiration from for the lyrics of the song itself.
  • Creed (Film) = The running scene from this film was inspirational for the running shots we want to achieve in the male narrative.
  • Ed Sheeran - You need me, I don't need you - Effective use of sign language for our studio shots.
  • Rejjie Snow - All Around the World - Powerful shots for the male narrative for the teenager looking at London.
  • Top Boy (TV Show) - An effective London, urban look for our male narrative.

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