R+P Post 19: My influences and vision for the project

Above, I have included my group's 'Steal-o-matic'. This is a compilation of different shots from influential music videos which acts as an effective representation of what we hope our final music video will look similar to. This exercise has been extremely helpful as it helped us to actually visualise all of our ideas. This also meant that we could see what was or was not working within our idea and get constructive criticism. For example, we were told that some of our ideas for extreme wide shots would be unattainable due to the limitations of our studio space and so we decided to alter some of our shot ideas.

This video allowed us to map out the narratives that we wanted within our video. As well as having an artist lipsynch to the song, we also wanted to create a story line in which a young black male was running away from danger. The lyrics of this song as well as recent tensions with police and civilians inspired us to make this video. I think that it is important to reflect society within any art form and by doing this we will be keeping our video ideas current and including intertextuality.