Lauren & Aimee A2 Media Blog: Influences from Music Videos:

Throughout the process of creating ideas for our music video, regular meetings are important. In this time, we put together our ideas that we have and influences we have been inspired by. These influences come from different sources of media, such as books, magazine articles, posters, existing music videos, films (known as Postmodernism). Some of our ideas may have even come from our dreams or nightmares?

The song that we will be creating a music video for is called 'Lights', therefore we have been looking at other music videos that have different styles and techniques of showing ways of lighting. Below is a montage of different examples of music videos that have a way of using lights creatively.

Florence and the Machine - Cosmic Love

Examples shown by montage from Florence and The Machine music videos

Both videos, similar effects have been used. From watching her music videos, we picked out these shots as they stood out for us the most. We liked the use of warm colours and ambient effect it creates. These colours are used in a majority of her videos, this refers to her image and personality as being warm and her style. From feedback we recieved from our last lesson, looking at different light art and ways in which we could use light was an important aspect that we would need to look at.

This is where we looked more into using different objects such as fairy lights, glitter balls, L.E.Ds, UV paint, car lights, projectors (creating a siloette) and sparklers. (As seen by some of the images from the montage in the previous post)

Along with this we have been looking at costumes and locations.

JLS - Take a Chance on Me