Band's and there Inspirations

Band / artist	What is inspirational	Where are ideas from
Fat boy slim – praise you	Movie theatre unique performance parody.	Possibly what happens in real life as to the dancing and it was making it recognised
Sledge hammer Peter Gabriel	All stop motion which would have been very different for the time when this music video was done. Uses serialism. Dali!	Dali with the image  of people forming, the face made out of fruit
Nirvana – in bloom	Breaks conventions of a grunge band and grunge band video. Using intertextuality.	Taken its inspiration from 1950s TV pop music show
R.E.M- everybody hurts	Disjuncture. Montage. No strong narrative. Performance at the end. Band + narrative mixed.	Could come from everyone joining together to help each other in times of need or moving on from what has happened
Johnny cash- cut you down	Range of famous people. Jerky effect. Classic black and white.	The inspirations comes from Johnny cash’s  life and is effective in black and white showing without him all colour and fun in life has left
Weeze – pork and beans	Sets of viral videos and cartoons. Direct reference	This is inspired by modern day viral video and children’s cartoon e.g. famous five and slow-mo. guys
A ha – take on me	Links of animation and real video slick for its time	This could be inspired y a romance between these two people and that they couldn’t be together but they found away as in the video.

Lyric Idea's

Music Video: Will and the People

 

 

 

Will and the People are an alternative rock band from London, UK. The band members consist of Will, his brother Jamie Rendle, Jim Ralphs and Charlie Harman. The band released their eponymous debut album in 2011. It included the singles, The Game, Salamander and Lion in the Morning Sun. The band’s second album, Friends was released in January 2013 and included the singles, Holiday and Eyes. The band members live together west of London, where they rehearse and record music.

What style of music?

The style of this music video is a mixed genre being alternative rock and have found themselves being nominated for the best of British song award with their song holiday.

What are the conventions in that style?

The conventions of an alternative rock style of music is that it was supposed to be against the norm since alternative rock emerged in the 1980’s, however the style has since become very popular and some may say mainstream therefore paradoxing itself from its original purpose. For example artists such as Coldplay and Fall Out Boy came out with very “against the norm” songs and videos with them such as The scientist from Coldplay.

Inspirations?

For our group the main inspiration of finding and making a music promo to this style of song is that it is a song in which you can do anything with, you can give a narrative that follows the lyrics exactly and tells a story, or you could do the complete opposite with barely any narrative and still be able to pass it off as a good music promo. We feel that this would work well as the point of a music video is to get the audience repeatedly watching and talking about the video and some of the controversial conventions within it expanding popularity for the band.

Example of existing videos?

·         Will and the people band video of song

·         Clean bandit, rather be (this video follows the style we would like but not the song choice)

·         Vampire weekend, A Punk

·         Two Door Cinema Club, what you know

·         Wilkinson, afterglow

·         Coldplay, the scientist

·         Kings of leon, Red morning light

·         Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Can’t Stop

 Theory?

We feel that the song choice and the video that we will produce will subverts the theory of what a music video consists of by Laura Mulvey and also the theory of Michael Shaw, as they believe that they objectify men and women in different ways sexually and with power, and also that the majority of videos are made up of recycled styles, immediate gratification and even soft core porn.

Intertextuality

Intertextuality is essential the idea of using other texts to inspire a new one which creates feelings of nostalgia and reliability within the audience or whole new meanings. Music videos can link to many different things including cinema, fashion and photography.

The music video for Without Me by Eminem uses a lot of intertextual references to popular TV programs and news stories, however the main theme of the video is the intertextual link between the video and comic books/ superheroes in which he dresses up in a similar outfit to Robin and gives himself the name 'Rap Boy'. The video aims to make a humorous link to comic book heroes by poking fun at saving a boy from listening to his music, this would appeal to his majority male audience who may have read such comics when they were younger and also just creates a funny video for all audiences to enjoy.

Short Analysis of Dancing in the Distraction Factory

• Music videos demonstrate genre characteristics (e.g. stage performance in metal video, dance routine for boy/girl band).

• There is a relationship between lyrics and visuals (either illustrative, amplifying, contradicting).

• There is a relationship between music and visuals (either illustrative, amplifying, contradicting).

• The demands of the record label will include the need for lots of close ups of the artist and the artist may develop motifs which recur across their work (a visual style).

• There is frequently reference to notion of looking (screens within screens, telescopes, etc) and particularly voyeuristic treatment of the female body.

• There is often intertextual reference (to films, TV programmes, other music videos etc).