So a lot of things influenced my version of the music video of the indie song ‘The Power of Love’ and I decided to share them with you so you can see what I got inspired by.

There’s a lot of variety in where my inspirations came from, films, social networking, books, fashion and existing music videos.

Over the next few slides I will show you my inspirations and talk you through them.

One of my favourite films is James

Cameron’s award winning Titanic – it

never fails to make me cry and I

personally think it is a brilliantly shot film

and has a great storyline, especially the

fact it is based on a real life event.

What I really love about this film is the

circular narrative and how the entire

plot is Rose’s flashback. This is where I

got inspired to end my video where it

began, in my grandma’s house. I guess

as well, Titanic also sub consciously was

the film that got me thinking about

flashbacks. The idea of the couple re

uniting at the end was actually my own

idea, but I guess I was more convinced

to do this after watching this end scene.

Another favourite film series – Harry Potter.

I’ve always been fascinated by the effects

they put in the films and have been to the

Harry Potter Studios in Leavesden many

times, admiring the countless sets, props,

costumes, etc, especially how they do the

spells in post production, in particular

‘Obliviate’ the spell that causes the

memory to vanish. Hermione (Emma

Watson) uses this in a significantly heart

breaking scene at the start of the seventh

film, and her photos start to disappear

from the family photos. This is where I got

my inspiration from, to do the same with

the photo of Adam and Beth, though it’s

going to be quite difficult to do this. The

disappearance of Adam is meant to be

ambiguous and have different

explanations to different people, but Harry

Potter fans can connect with this scene as

it may remind them of the ‘Oblivate’ scene

and then may think older Beth has lost her

memory of Adam which is then

remembered at the end of the music

video.

I have been following

Kristina Webb

(colour_me_creative)

for a while now on the

popular picture based

social networking app,

Instagram. She’s only

19 and draws a

brilliant variety of

drawings and I

discovered her when I

was looking for other

artists on Instagram, to

check out their work.

About a year ago, she

drew these two

images.I really like these two images because they represent some of the issues we still face in

modern society, and art is a way of showing this to people, and so I decided that I would

try and include these issues in my music video. Homophobia is still a massive problem, and

people get bullied for it, so I tried to combine the two, including a same sex couple in my

video, and hence the reason for the negative words scribbled on Marcus’s back.

As an Ed Sheeran fan, I have

watched most of his music

videos, and this one in particular

was to me, very effective in

selling his lyrics.

I love the story plot, about a

female Cupid hiding her true

self away (just like homosexual

often feel they have to hide

away) and then revealing

herself, and tearing at her back

in agony to reveal a bloody

feather. I used this part of the

video to inspire the scene

shown below, where Marcus is

tearing at his back in agony, to

reveal the negative scratched

words on his back, which after

meeting William, will change to

positive words, showing what

‘The Power of Love’ can do.

Despite having not read the book or seen the film I can’t escape the attention surrounding ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ based on John Green’s best seller, and now I am finally reading the book. I saw many of their promotional material online and whilst out and about and in particular this one on the right caught my eye as for many editions of the book, this image is now its front cover. I like how it is such a simple picture, and how the actors have been placed in a ying/yang position.Though I already had in mind to do a similar position for Adam and Beth, seeing this convinced me it was an effective pose.

Though whilst not a major Twilight fan myself, I

appreciate all the work that went into the sequel of

films, and I especially liked the scene where young

Bella is dreaming about her getting older, whilst her

fiancée Edward, a vampire, remains 17 forever. This

scene also features Bella and her grandmother, and

whilst I had already planned to use my grandma after

seeing previous students’ work, I realise how effective

editing can be – the quick changes between young

and old Bella. Originally I was planning just to reunite

Adam and my grandma, but after re watching

‘Eclipse’ I decided that I would use a similar editing

style and re unite young Beth with Adam.

This is a screenshot of the YouTube video ‘Say Something’ by the duo Great Big World. I had heard and watched this song being performed at several events through YouTube including The American Music Awards 2013 and then watched the original video, which is actually incredibly simple yet very effective – it can reduce you to tears

through the lyrics and characters!

This is the video

which inspired me

to make a scene

with only a piano

and a spotlight, as I

think this makes it

look professional

and effective and

keeps the main

focus on my main

actress.