Inspiration Video: Daft Punk, Around the World

This is one of my favourite music videos. Its pure simplicity and everyone and everything moves in time with the music, creating a great effect, even the camera shots and angles all seem to fit with the song. It just seems pure fun that everyone can enjoy. If i could keep my shots to fit in time with the song, then it could also be really effective.

Video Analysis 3: Blame Halo 3

This is an amateur music video to a parody song for Akon's 'Blame it on Me'. I thought that it would be good to analyse an unprofessional video and see how things differ from a professional music video. Both the song and the video were created by James At War, and the video has reached over 8 million views and is highly popular.
The video is completely illustrative of the lyrics, with almost every scene following the actions describe in the song, which helps make this video humorous which is why so many people have watched it. I want my video to be funny for people to watch as well so that they can enjoy it in a different way to most music video's today.
The video has been out for years now, so it hasn't got the best video quality, and quite often the camera is unsteady, which are both elements that i wish to avoid in my video. To do this i shall be using a Canon 550D so that i can shoot in HD, and i will use a tripod for most of the shots where possible.

Video Analysis 2: Bring Me To Life - Evanescence

The video to bring me to life heavily reflects the mood and meaning of the song. The song is quite a dark gothic rock song, and the video has low lighting and gothic feel to it even though it appears as a type of futuristic city. Everything begins slowly and gently just like the song itself, using slow pan shots, zooms and long cuts. Then as the guitar and bass start, making the music more forceful and increases the overall speed of the song, it switches to her falling, then back to her sleeping when it goes quiet again.

In the video, the main character, also lead singer, awakens and climbs out the window. The way she moves is almost like she is being possessed or spirit like, which could link back to the title, bring me to life, with her being possessed and her true self needing to be brought back. After she climbs out the window she scales the building to the room where the band is playing, like she is drawn to the music coming from there. On the way she passes people and they don’t even notice that she’s there, making her seem more like a spirit. When she reaches the room, one of the band members actually sees her, and opens the window to let her in. When he does, it seems like she is suddenly awoken and she stumbles and falls, and he’s there to save her. All these actions are very illustrative of the lyrics within the song.

My Song choice for my music video

This is a popular cover of 'The Lazy Song' by Bruno Mars. Its now available on ITunes because of how popular it has become and how good of a cover artist Alex Goot is.
I thought it would be good to use a cover version for my video since i'm creating a different music video for the song to the one originally released.

Video Analysis 1: Linkin Park - Numb

The video for Numb by Linkin Park reflects many of the emotions that the lyrics talk about it. The entire video is based around one girl who acts differently to everyone else around her. The video uses faded colour effect so that there is little to no colour in of the scenes, almost reflecting the little hope the girl has left. Also there are numerous scenes when she is walking slowly and the rest of the world is speeding past at a higher frame rate, identifying her individuality amongst the rest, just because she’s an artistic person. Even her mother moves around faster, and doesn’t accept her for who she is, showing the girl as completely alone in the world. Even when she runs to the church where the band is playing, it’s completely empty when she arrives. The length of the shots changes throughout the song. As it comes to the chorus, which is more heavy and powerful, the shots become shorter and quicker, but return to normal speed when the verses are sung as they are more peaceful than the chorus. This emphasises the chorus, which makes it stand out more, making it the main part that people remember.