Music video inspiration

I can draw inspiration for his video for its simple style. The video focuses solely on the main singer of the band making the song appear personal and intimate. It uses a single member of the band and focuses on his performance. Having a single person in the video creates a more emotional connection with them as they are the only person that the audience gets to see. It also means that the person we would choose to be in the music video would have to be a performer themselves so that the right level of emotion can be captured on camera. The black and white filter also gives the video a more sombre, serious tone to match the theme of the song. This filter would fit with both serious and lighthearted videos if it were used in the right context. It would all depend of the song that me and my group end up picking but a black and white filter would make video look more professional and if we have the lighting set up properly, it would give the visuals a clear contrast. However it could make the creation of a digipak and website more difficult as there would be on clear colour them it would mean that we would have to find a different common theme between them all such as fairy tales or romance (again the theme of the video would have to depend on the music that we pick) 

The location of the video also gives me ideas as it was shot all in the same location however, it made up for its lack of locational variety with different shot types/angles and strong performance from the singer. This would make the shooting of the video as we wouldn't need to organise multiple different locations, however it would mean that we would have to be a lot more creative in the shots that we do take and the performers that we choose would have to production something of a very high standard. I would definitely like to include a performance like this, on a stage or in a studio, it wouldn't work to have it all shot in one location. To come up with other ideas I definitely have to look into other music videos.

It also works on the bases that it doesn't really feature a lot of narrative in it. This would be a beneficial factor to include in the music video that we create as it means that the planning wouldn't have to include and complex narrative that might feature in a concept album or video. It keeps everything relatively simplistic.