Inspiration for our storyboarding

The production team and I in today’s lesson explored various music videos from the pop and pop/rock genres to see if any of the editing, animation, camera angles and possibly mise-en-scene could influence us for our music video and inspire us to look outside the box in terms of particularly editing and the use of special effects.

Nelly Furtado - All Good Things

The video by Nelly Furtado, 'All Good Things', I thought had a few effects which might be relatively influencing for the production of our music video because this video has a dream-like feel towards it due to the editing techniques. Some scenes such as the above screen shots show blurryness. This contributes to the dreamy feel, however at times, some scenes fade into one another which is a useful effect which can add on to the illusion of a dream-like world.

Blink 182 - Always

This video from Blink 182 is a specific video that the production team and I found stood out from many others due to the individuality of how the video represents its narrative. This screen shot of a scene shows the storyline of a girl opening the door to her boyfriend. The screen is divided into three different sections which symbolise the different outcomes of what could possibly happen. This, we thought would be a good effect in our music video as we all thought that by dividing the scene into three different sections it would be a good way of comparing the various characters for our narrative, as well as the different situations concurrently.

Powder - Up Here

This music video by Powder, I thought had very high relevance to our music video due to the fact that this video is based on the Marvel comics, which relate to a very high degree to our ‘Superman’ song. The acting in this music video is much exaggerated, which is one of our initial ideas of how characters should act in our music video. Also, the costumes in Powders music video are an important asset to the music video as this portrays each character individually as well as their intentions. For example, the hero in this music video is dressed in white – this colour obviously holds pure and angelic connotations. Relating this to our initial ideas, we had the idea that our characters costumes would represent their personality which proves that costumes are very crucial. Another aspect of this particular music video which caught my eye is the cartoon like comic book scenes which make an appearance. This plays a relevant role when again, relating these ideas back to our initial ideas because ‘Superman’, is based on a comic book, therefore we could give the appearance of onomatopoeias such as ‘POW’ which shows the sounds being made.