INFLUENCES
When in the planning stage, there was a range of music video that were influential in the way that me and my group came up with the narrative concept.
Know No Better - Major Lazer, (Travis Scott, Camilla Cabello and Quavo)
This was a music video that I was already aware of as I liked the song but it was particularly influential as it is narrative based and features a split screen showing a day in the life of a boy and the contrast is between his current life and idealised life. It was initially the idea of the split screen that caught our attention as we thought it was really unique and this was only one of few music videos I've seen using the split screen technique.
1-800-273-8255 - Logic, (Alessia Cara and Khalid)
Despite being the original music video for the song we chose, this video is also narrative based and was influential to our own. This music video deals with mental health issues - suicide in particular and struggling to be accepted due to sexuality. In this way, the music video is very emotional and raises awareness for mental health. This video was influential as we wanted to do the same thing in our music video by also having a strong link between the visuals and the music.