ARTISTIC INSPIRATION

Along with inspiration for our music video we also have found some inspiration for our artwork. When analysing CD covers from our genre we discovered that they were quite plain and simple, to break these codes and conventions we want to be very creative within our CD cover and poster, using elements of photomontage and imaginary set ups. For example like some of the covers you can see below...

As you can see Lily has been digitally manipulated onto a digitally created background. This is something will experiment with on Photoshop when come to producing our CD cover.

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.