Creative Influences

I watched many music videos, I was influenced by one video in particular which was Eminem ft Lil Wayne - No Love. It's not so much the music but what the music video represents, the story told within. Some of the shots that were incorporated into the music video can be assimilated into our video. For example in the music video you have a close up of the young boys face which shows his emotions due to his facial expressions and also his bruise that you can see under the left eye. This would work really well without music video because we also have a similar story within the music where the life of a male character goes from bad to good. One of the shots I wanted to assimilate into our video was when the bruised child makes contact with three bullies, I wanted a low angle from in between his legs looking up at the bullies which shows that he is inferior to them.

Another music video that caught my eye was Hall of Fame, this is because you can see that in the music video two lives are portrayed. We want to focus more on the negative side where the male character wakes up in a dingy bed and goes out for a jog and runs into trouble where he is beaten up. This would relate to our video because the characters life goes from negative to positive in the lyrics therefore we can do similar things in this video. During the negative side of the character a lot of dark colors are used, this connotes the bad life the character has.

Finally the last video that intrigued me was Ed Sheeran - A Team this is because we see a homeless person at the beginning sleeping on a park bench with a black and white filter which connotes the sad, tough life they are living. However this video does not end on a positive note, therefore we will only be using certain shots from this videos such as the sleeping on the bench and the sitting on the street begging shot. We will add out own positive end to our video such as her begging and someone gives her 5 pounds which she uses to buy food and a lottery ticket. She ends up winning and then we film shots of the main character giving back to the community, helping all types of homeless people and creating a campaign or charity for homelessness.