Video Influences

Emeli Sande-My Kind Of Love

This video was our main influence for music video. Our main narrative came from this music video which is about Emeli Sande’s friend being diagnosed with Illness. Through the music video we see constant memories of them when they were little to how they are now. The narrative links in very much to ours. Both of our videos link in well with Goodwin’s theory of there being a clear relationship between the visuals and lyrics.

This was also another music video that influenced us in our research stages. The narrative of this music video is quite depressing, as it’s about someone leaving the person there with, to be with their real lover. Most of Sam Smith’s songs are mostly about personal issues, he is also part of the singer-songwriter genre. Therefore it was important to look at his music videos.

We did use this for our music video in the very beginning stages. We wanted to use the part where Beyoncé sings in the funfair to symbolise the past memories of our artist and her friend when they were younger. Our audience didn’t really understand the connection between the funfair and friends so we ended up changing this completely.