Music videos that have influenced me

Our plot idea-

We want to create a narrative type of music video as they are becoming increasingly popular. We want it to follow the story of a broken relationship, where in the couple argue and fight. There will be scenes of smashing bottles, alcohol, fire and crying showing how unhappy they feel within the relationship. We hope to connect the audience and make them feel sympathy for the couple, as they argue along with James Bay's emotional song saying 'Let it go' to the relationship. The shots of arguments and violent smashing and fire scenes will look passionate, dramatic, powerful and cold.

We created these ideas when researching thoroughly into music videos. These are some of the main ideas that helped our we found when researching:

We really like the idea of burning pictures in the video, a great example of this is in 'Poison by Rita Ora'. This is showing negative memories wanting to be destroyed. We really like the effect of making one colour standing out in a frame when everything else is black and white. In this example the fire signifies how the past has been painful and wants to be forgotten.





This over the shoulder shot is from 'I'm Not The Only One by Sam Smith'. We find this shot very emotive and would therefore like to use something similar in our music video.

These screen shots are from 'Skinny Love by Birdy'. We like these shots as they create a sense of emotion towards the viewer, and make the viewer fixated. These shots make the character look lonely and isolated.

This shot is from 'The A Team by Ed Sheeran'.
We found this music video influential because of the effective black and white theme. We would like to use this effect in our own video as it creates a depressing gloomy atmosphere, which may contribute to the sadness of the story line we are planning.

Here is the music video by The Vamps called 'Somebody to You', we like this music video as it uses both Crossover meaning the singer is also a main character within the music video and also Narrative meaning the music video portrays a story which normally relates to the context of the lyrics within the song.

These images have come from "Story of My Life By One Direction". We like this music video as we like the idea of loads of photographs hanging from the ceiling as they represent memories both good and bad, this expresses a lot about the video and we would like to create the same effect. Within this music video many young memories are shown and then made real by adding in what the people would look like in the present if the picture was taken again, this would be such a good idea, however it would be very hard to get the same effect in our video as the actors we are going to use won't have pictures together when they were younger. 

One idea that we developed was the smashing of a wine glass. We would like to film this and then slow motion it. We want to use wine in particular because the colour will be effective and stand out. Also, the red symbolises love, passion as well as violence, aggression and blood.

We researched on youtube for a video similar in which will help us visualise what we want the shots to look like.