MUSIC VIDEO INSPIRATION

After deciding on the theme of our music video and the general tone of what we want our performance and narrative we looked at some more existing music videos to give us some inspiration and ideas about challenging codes and conventions of our genre.

"Russian Roulette"
Rihanna

2009

What I really like about this music video is the way the narrative flows with the performance it doesn't tell a story as such it just has several different scenarios which relate to the song and show emotional development within the character. The whole video is very dark and almost morbid, especially the lighting in the video which gives the video a haunting feel. A scene which I find really striking is the narrative on the last chorus where the car is zooming towards her, I think it's very effective and could work well in our music video with our own interpretation on the scene.

"Fight For This Love"
Cheryl Cole
2009

This is a very good music video example to focus on performance. In this video it is all performance based and even though that's not what ours, in this video you've got a dance routine and several different solo set ups where Cheryl is miming the words. As the performance in this clip is quite strong, we will be looking at the performance techniques that she uses and incorporate them into our video.