Videos that influenced our ideas

There are several videos that influenced our ideas for our music videos.

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The Underdog - Wallpaper ( The Nerdist - Animal Fighting Championships)

This video is a personal favourite of mine and when we discussed using paint dust and doing slow motion this was the first thing I showed the group. The idea is very different to what we want to do, but the use of slow motion frames and the abstract/fragmented narrative is something I think we want to convey in our own video.  I like the creative element that has been linked in with a fragmented narrative and I believe as a group we would also like to have a fragmented narrative. The idea within this video is slightly over the top with the sheer amount of paint dust, confetti, streamers and actual paint used. Although it looks amazing and we want to try and recreate the slow motion shots we don't want to do something that would make our video look overcrowded.We want it to be inter cut and slightly more seamless between the narrative and abstract parts of the video.

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KickthePJ - Colour Bandits

This is a youtube video created by the channel KickthePJ, we have looked at this as a base of what we would like to create. Although this is not a music video it has been very influential to our group. It basically embodies what we would like to do design wise with the paint dust but possibly ours will be  a little less extreme as we don't want to cover the artists face. This video has been influencial but purely for the creative ideas as it doesnt link to a song. We love the way it looks  against a white backdrop and how bright and vivid it makes the colour and  is definitely we have thought about using ourselves.

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Owl City - Fireflies

Unlike the other videos, this has no use of paint or bright/vivid colour. The main idea that comes from this video is the toys. We have an idea that links in with the lyrics about crashing a toy car, this video proves that the use of toys can look creative and effective in a music video.  This doesn't really reflect the music video that we want to create it is more for that one specific idea/element. There is close up shot used on the "robot" toy whilst it flashes and comes to life, I particularly love that shot and how we could recreate something like that. Of course making sure it fits in with our theme.

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Icona Pop - I Love It

Finally the original video to the song we have chosen has been an inspiration to our ideas. We dont want to create a replica of the original we want to make it our own. The original video focuses on the party beat from the song as a base. But we want to focus more on the lyrics and ideas that we can take from the lyrics. But the idea of the colours being so vivid and central to the party theme of the video has been influential. We are keeping the kind of party idea for our video but our key theme will be from within the lyrics.