Music Video -Inspiration and Moodboard

Samuel Ford - Kings

Inspiration

We have gone on to the Spotify page of our artist, Samuel Ford, and researched into the ”related Artists” tab.

This gives a list of bands/ artists similar to Samuel Ford

On top of this, we looked into popular artists within the same genre.

From here we looked into the music videos of the artists we found on YouTube

We investigated the similarities and trends in each of the videos that can act as inspiration for our own production

The Artists and their videos

1)Fictonian – ’Little Blue Book’

2)Tenterhook – ‘Go Easy’ 3)Ben Howard – ‘Only Love4)Ben Howard – ‘Old Pine’5)Benjamin Francis

Leftwich – ‘Shine’

Locations

One of the predominant trends throughout nearly all of these music videos is that they all feature natural and non-artificial settings

They feature forests, beaches, fields etc. In addition, a short performance video from our artist, found

on YouTube, involves a brief introduction featuring shots in a natural setting (A). Clearly this type of location would be ideal for our music video and artist.

Some of these music videos also feature cross-cutting between a natural setting and a live performance by the artists. This helps to construct a narrative as well as establish the artist as a performer.

Natural locations is certainly something we would consider utilising as they seem to coincide nicely with the music of our genre as well as narrative music videos as a whole.

On the next slide you can see a collection of images from each music video as well as some ideas for locations we could use across Norfolk that follow this trend.

Samuel Ford – ‘Forever and’

(A)

Characters

The music videos we researched all seem to have very few, often only one, character(s) in them

This character is usually the artist themselves. This helps to establish more of narrative and a connection

between the audience and the character/ artist. We will certainly bear this in mind throughout the

planning process. However, the lyrics of the song we have chosen uses the

pronoun “we” instead of ”I” - this implies the song and the narrative of the video will include several people, perhaps a small group of friends or a couple, would be suitable.

Also, there is frequently shots of the artist/ an actor lip syncing along to the song. Maybe we could cross cut between the group and a character singing – perhaps on their own or with the group?

Shots

In these music videos, one of the most common shots are close ups, normally of the characters or artists.

Close ups of the artists help establish a relationship with the audience.

This genre of music is quite intimate and emotive so close ups are a suitable shot to use in our music video.

In addition, nearly all of these videos have some sense of movement and/or travel.

Shots from behind the character are common as well as wide shots of them travelling somewhere.

Furthermore, several of the music videos use color correction and filters. This might be something to consider and experiment with during our final production.