Music Video Inspiration.

Filters (performance) 'Strife' By Trivium The music video for 'Strife' the 2013 single from the band Trivium can provide inspiration for my video due the fact that i believe the use of a grey scale filter over performance shots looks highly effective. One reason why it is effective is because the grey filter further connotes the meanings of the lyrics of my chosen song, as the lyrics will be pessimistic therefore the grey scale would identify with the lyrics and exaggerate their meaning in order to make them seem heavy in emotion. Although this video changes between both colour and grey scale I will just keep grey scale in my video due to the fact that the performance shots are a much lower proportion of the music video than in Trivium's 'Strife'

Mise-en-scene Setting (Performance) 'Nothing Else Matters' By Metallica After watching the Metallica video for their song 'Nothing Else Matters' I've realised that if we film our performance shots in an actual recording studio then they can make the video look incredibly professional as it will make the band in the video look like they're used to being in a recording studio and therefore the band will look more realistic. Furthermore, if we ever need any filler shots for our video a location such as this offers many as already connoted throughout this example. If needed we can get shots of guitars being tuned and equipment being set up in order to fill any time slots we may have in our video.

Lighting (Narrative) 'Bittersweet Memories' By Bullet For My Valentine In the shots where the male protagonist is reminiscing the females face the lighting is high key, i think this would be effective if we were to use this in our video during scenes when our protagonist is having a flashback. Using different lighting over flashbacks symbolises to the audience the juxtaposition of the protagonists past and his current state. As well as this using high key lighting connotes happiness due to the fact that its bright, in contrast to this low key lighting connotes the characters misery. I believe it would be effective if we used low key lighting in shots which denote misery in the characters and high key lighting in flashbacks of when they were happier.

Mise-en-scene (Cast) 'Wake Me Up When September Ends' By Green Day Much like in the video 'wake me up when September ends' by Green Day, I want my video to have a male and female protagonist who can both fit the male and female gaze theories of Laura Mulvey. This will attract both male and female audiences to watch the music video due to their voyeuristic needs. The video also brought up the idea of whether or not the video could have a prologue before the music in which it is just purely narrative. However, we feel like the song we have creates our narrative quite well anyway. Also, both of the characters in this video seem to fit the stereotypes of their genders as the man is seen to be quite powerful (going to the army) and the girl much more emotional than him. Although this may not link to the stereotypical audience of a Green Day video it does result in drawing in a much wider audience and as a result will make for a much more appealing video. I also believe that the characters in this video dressing the characters in casual clothing is quite effective as it makes them more relatable rather than glamorizing them for a video and making them 2 characters in which fewer people can relate too. This is important due to the use and gratification of personal relationships as audiences can relate to characters.