similar genre videos - inspiration.

Ed Sheeran - SingAs our artist is Ed Sheeran, obviously some of his existing videos will serve as inspiration for us but not to the point where we will be outright copying his style

The video of Sing provides a mixture of both performance and narrative which is the type of style we want to emulate in our video. In Sing the narrative is by far the more dominant aspect of the video as there are only a few performance shots, while we are aiming for a more equal divide between the two aspects. A lot of Ed Sheeran's songs are also about love, so some of the imagery and shots that his videos contain could also be replicate somewhat, but not to the extent where it becomes copying or cliché. Overall Sheeran will most likely end up being one of biggest influences in regards to the finished product, simply because it is his song we are doing.

Green Day - Wake Me Up When Septembers Ends

Though Green Day are a different genre to the song in which we are doing, Wake Me Up When Semptember Ends presents the theme of eternal love in the video, much similar to the lyrics in Thinking Out Loud.

The level of narrative in this video is something we want to be able to achieve in ours. Although the video doesn't totally relate to the lyrics, the song and the video contrast eachother well. This proves that we have a bit of room regarding the connection between lyrics and video when we finally make our video. It also contains small performance pieces throughout the video, which again is something we want to replicate in our video as it can provide an all-rounded video which is something we really want to produce. The small snippets of performance that Green Day use however, like Sheeran, are not the exact method we want to use. As said earlier, a 50/50 split regarding performance and narrative is our goal.

 

The Killers - Mr Brightside

The reason we chose Mr Brightside as the final video is because of the way the video masterfully intertwines performance and narrative. The performance, instead of the narrative, dominates this video but it still manages to tell a story despite how Flowers is almost always singing. This level of mixture is the level that we want in our video, as it would make it look extremely professional and well done. Again it is also somewhat about love, so again many shots and imagery that is present in the video could easily be utilised in our video.