Music video inspirations- Miss Georgiou

As part of my planning for my music video I have been researching many different music videos to gain ideas and inspirations to use in my own music video, this research will help me a lot in producing my music video as it will show me how professional music videos look and what they include. I have watched 3 music videos and these have given me a lot of inspiration. The first music video is 'Blame' by Calvin Harris Feat John Newman, my main reason for getting inspiration from this music video was because I am using this song for my own music video so I wanted to see what shots and editing they used for the pace of song, this research was vital as I will use the fast editing used in this music video to match the fast tempo of the song. However the music video is not all fast editing as parts of the song, which are slow paced are matched with slow editing, which I will take on board and add to my own music video. This fast editing is conventional for electronic/dance music as always the video matches the fast pace of the song, this is to create euphoria for the audience and make them want to dance. Bright flashing lights and smoke are also used in this video, which are also conventional to the electronic/dance music genre this helps create a party scene and adds to the effect of fast editing, this also makes the video look more appealing to the audience.  I found these two conventions are commonly found in this type of music genre so I will use this inspiration and include these conventions into my own music video to make it appealing to my audience

In this video their are various wide shots showing people partying this is found in many videos from this music genre and can help create a party atmosphere this song is trying to create.. The artist representation in this music video shows them to have a party lifestyle and with loads of girls dancing sexually this gives the audience an image that Calvin Harris lifestyle is full of girls and partying and even though throughout the video we can not see Calvin Harris he makes a cameo appearance in the video in a shot showing him with all girls, this is to further produce an image of this is what Calvin Harris' lifestyle is like. Through Mise-en-scene we can see the girls around Calvin Harris and throughout the music video are wearing hardly anything and look very sexual this is also commonly found in dance music videos with girls dancing around sexually. This is the one convention I doubt I will be able to include into my own music video but all the other conventions found I can hopefully successfully include in my own music video.


My second music video I took inspiration from was 'Chandelier' by Sia. This music video is very unique and completely different to the other music videos I had researched, this music video is performance based and does not represent the artist at all instead the video is there for the audience to enjoy as the music video is one continuous shot of a young girl dancing around a house, which makes it unique this means the audience would start talking about it to others and means their would be an increase in views of the song because it is different. The dancing is not sexual as well, it is more or a ballet dance and the dancing also matches the beat of the song. The Mise-en-scene used is simple with the clothing being a skin coloured ballet costume and the location in a normal house, this simpleness helps add to the effect of the music video being so unique. The inspiration I have got from this music video is sometimes simple is better as this video has a greater effect on me than one which has flashing lights and fast editing. Also I like how they filmed the video in one simultaneous shot, which I thought looked really good and if somehow my group could do this I think we would have a really good music video.

My third music video I took inspiration from was 'Out the blue' by Sub Focus, this video is another electronic song so helped me with my own music video as my song I have chosen is from the same music genre. Even though this music video is from the same music genre as my first music video inspiration their music videos are completely different. This showed me that I do not have to just make my music video fast paced editing as this music video is not. The artist does not appear in this music video as well, this could be because they want their fans to be more focused on their music than their own image, which is common with DJ's. Fast editing is commonly found in this type of song, however this music video does not follow this conventions as instead the music video is mostly in slow motion to help create a hallucinating effect. This music video does follow the conventions of bright flashing lights and bright smoky colours, these are always evident in dance music videos no matter if the editing is fast or slow, so this has helped show me this is a vital convention to include in my own music video, these flashing lights help make the music video more entertaining for the audience.

The song my group have chosen is 'Blame' by Calvin Harris Feat John Newman for our music video, this song is in the music genre electronic/dance. In my group we both have our own individual inspirations that we want to include in our music video. As a group we are going to have meetings to come up with a collective idea which includes inspirations from both of us. It is important that both of our ideas and inspirations are included to create a successful music video.