Impressionist Music VideosHannah Worboys and Chrystalla Athamou

Impressionist music videos

An impressionist music video can be used to make the audience/ viewer feel a certain way and will use seemingly unrelated, random and peculiar shots to express the themes of the video. However the shots will often relate to the current lyric in the song when the shot

is shown. The shots could include people, scenic locations, everyday objects to more obscure objects and abstract features. There will usually be a particular theme of synergy which will connect the unrelated shots together. For example Jay-Z music

video ‘On to the next one’ uses synergy in the way of three. The number three is very appropriate as it links to the name of the

artists, Jay-Z’s album; The Blueprint 3.

Impressionist shotsWhen creating my own version of impressionist shots I decided to focus upon a theme of love with the synergy theme of red. Each shot presents a symbol of love that can tell a story. The red as a representation of passion vividly stands out to emphasize the power of the emotion. Although each shot links together through the main theme they all have their own focused genre within the original theme; whether this be passion, romance or sensual.