R+P Post 9: Music Videos that have inspired and influenced my ideas

Studio Shots:

We watched plenty of music videos to draw influence from for the studio shots of the music video. I felt that it was worthwhile looking for clear elements of voyeurism from music videos. I wanted shots to have a mixture of displaying passion and strength for the female vocals as well as highlighting female vulnerability and beauty.

This Ed Sheeran music video segment has a great sense of passion, as the miming and the focus of the person miming by their facial expressions adds a great sense of emotion to the lyrics of the song and help with the movement of the song with clean jump shots from a wide shot to a close up of the music paced to the beat of the song itself. This adds an interesting motion to the song and helps the audience become attached to the lyrics. Therefore, I felt it was a good idea to implement these types of shots in our music video.

I loved the idea of having a projector projecting over the face and body of the lead female vocalist, as it adds a great sense of voyeuristic intrigue that will add to the brooding nature of the song itself. It will also allow us to convey the messaging and atmosphere of the song itself and display intertextual referencing to both Dizzee Rascal and Mobb Deep, who the lyrics of the song are inspired from.

Male Narrative:

After much deliberation, the group decided it was a smart idea to make the male narrative a clear dream sequence in order to explain the surreal imagery of the plot we were planning of a man running away from his own psyche and being so fearful of the police for no clear reason.



We took inspiration from the James Blake video of the idea of a person waking up in his dream and becoming awake at the end of the video. This shot above would allow a dialogue between the studio shots and the male narrative perhaps through a shot of the singer closing their eyes and the man opening them.



The idea of filming a man running away from himself for no apparent reason was inspired from the song Fool to Love by NAO. It is a vibe that I feel can be understood by many teenage Londoners, who feel caught up in the fast-paced London lifestyle growing up. It also works well with the lyrics of the song and shows the damaging psychological effects of racial police prejudice that affects the psyche of young black males.