Music videos that influenced me

Devlin – London CityThis video has influenced me mainly by the location and use of base tracks as it is located in

central London. This video contains shots of the London eye and river Thames and that is exactly where we planned to get our footage for our video therefore its only right this video influences me. Also jump cuts are often used to change location from say the London eye to

the Thames and this gave us a good idea as it is what we wanted to do as well. Finally the use of edits influenced me. For example, the black and white effects is something we wanted to do and also there were fast motion effects and even though we did slow motion it still gave

me the ability to see how effective a similar effect is and showed me it makes the video more interesting. We also did a bit of fast motion in our video and by watching Devlin’s video it showed me that it would be very effective. Below is the link to the video “Devlin – London

City”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmCoCTPWP-I

Ed Sheeran – A TeamThis video strongly influenced me mainly because how the lyrics link with the music video

(Goodwin’s theory). It’s a very emotional song like ours so it gave me the ability too see how a video can be linked with the touching lyrics and in what way. For example every lyric had an

action and this was clearly shown such as when it said “sells love to another man, it’s too cold outside” It showed the performer acting as a prostitute in the cold. As our song is very emotional we tried to achieve linking the lyrics to the video in order to make it more emotional. Also in this music video she wakes up and is active during the day then finally falls asleep at the end. It was great seeing this in action, it’s like a journey of one day from morning to night and we were able to use the same structure as this. We started with shots in the morning then ended with shots at

night to show the journey of our artist on a typical day just like “Ed Sheeran – A Team” did. Further on there were also edits used such as the fast motion which made viewers realise it is a journey throughout the day and we were able to add fast motion in. Black and white was used

throughout the whole video to represent the past and we were also able to do this. Finally there were a wide range of camera shots used such as at the very start there was a close up to show the performers emotions and then there were many wide shots to show the location and these also

made her look smaller and this helped give the indication she isn’t big and is suffering. This influenced me because we planned to use wide shots to get scenery in the footage and also when

isolated such as when our artist is under a tunnel we used a wide shot to make him look small and that he is struggling. We also planned to use a range of shots in order to promote our artist

and keep the viewers interested. Below is the link to the music video “Ed Sheeran – A Team”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAWcs5H-qgQ