Inspirations

Rihanna's video 'We Found Love' has given us lots of inspiration and ideas that we could use in our music video. As the music speeds up we see quick random shot's of traffic in the dark, people walking, fireworks being set of and eye balls moving. So we decide to go for a similar thing. In our chosen song 'Feel So Close' the music speeds up the same way as it does in Rihanna's video. This mean we was able to do the same sort of effect, which is random shots of different things with very quick cuts.

iPod Idea Explained

This is an explanation of an idea we would like to use in our video.  We found it when we were looking at videos to do with marriage (because this was of of our first ideas). As you can see above this is a funny effect in which the females face is shown on the i-Pad but the male's body is shown below it. We have done some test shots of this idea. It is another way of showing the unity of people and highlights the general idea of feeling and being close to someone.

Practice Ideas for Music Video

Here are our practice shots of the 'i-Pad idea'. We used the same effect but on our i-Pods. As you can see it looks as if the bodies and faces of the girls have switched places. We have done this by recording the top half of their bodies on an iPod singing and then when we play that video in front of a video camera we got this effect. We thought we could use this in our video but obviously we would use something bigger than an iPod for example an iPad which is bigger and it will make it look more effective.

We used the same sort of idea with the above video. As you can see one of us is behind the i-Pod making the same sort of facial expressions as is on the screen so the effect is made that you can see their mouth through the i-Pod, but in actual fact it is someone else's mouth. One of our main ideas has been to use the idea of close up shots of lips (with diamonds or colours on the lips), but we felt this is a more interesting way of doing so. We really like this effect and we want to use this in our music video.

Costume ideas and shot ideas

Whilst watching some videos by Beyonce I found some shots and costumes that might be good to use for our video.

The image below shows her glittery skin which is another idea we would like to use in our video.

^ This image is similar to our idea of using lips       

This first image is obviously a close up of the artists lips whilst she is singing, which is an idea we previously had and the sparkle on her skin which is shown on the below image is an idea I would like to use as well. 

There is a lyric in our song which is about 'surrounds me like a waterfall', we have some other ideas for this lyric but the above costume moves like water when wind is blown on it. Also the movement of the costume surrounds her so I feel this could be a very good way of linking the lyrics with the visuals. 

I think this a very good costume to use for our video as it holds connotations of passion and holds a sexual element which links to our song as it is all about feeling close to someone in a certain moment. Also the background is red so that also connotates passion and love.

I feel the above reflection image is a powerful image and I would like to incorporate it into our video. The idea of reflection links to a variety of different things, firstly it links to the idea of water as you can see your reflection in water which is an idea that we are using throughout. Also it incorporates the idea of reflecting back on things that have happened, which could mean relationships which also links into our video.