Artist/Song: Flatbush Zombies - This Is It
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Influence: The use of the camera/camera work and simplicity
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Times Used/Duration: Throughout
Music Video Influences, Effects & Styles
By researching into music videos in which inspire me it can help guide me towards the ideas that could be put into consideration for my music video. Below is a range of effects and styles taken from music videos that I feel are both influential and inspirational due to the differentiating approach in which they take, making them stand out from other music videos out there.
Artist/Song: Playboi Carti -Broke Boi
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Influence: Usuage of smoke grenades combines with slow motion
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Times Used/Duration: 0:29-0:35
Artist/Song: A$AP Rocky - L$D
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Influence: Visuals used, vibrant lighting & saturation effects used
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Times Used/Duration: Throughout
Artist/Song: Chip - Alone
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Influence: Visuals, Lighting and use of shadows
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Times Used/Duration: Throughout
Artist/Song: Bones, Xavier Wulf & Chris Travis
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Influence: Flickering visuals
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Times Used/Duration: Throughout
Artist/Song: Bones - TheDifferenceBetweenUs
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Influence: Venetian blind green screen effect used
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Times Used/Duration: Throughout
Artist/Song: Yung Lean - Kyoto
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Influence: Use of slow motion and distorted visuals
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Times Used/Duration: Throughout
Artist/Song: A$AP Mob - Yamborghini High
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Influence: Use of green screen, slow motion and vibrant colours
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Times Used/Duration: Throughout
Reflecting upon the reasons for why I specifically picked out all of these videos is because I feel that they are all unique to one another in terms of the conventions used with in each of them. Examples included The Flatbush Zombies music video This Is It as the use of its simple location/backdrop allows for the specific focus upon the artists and a clear delivery of their lyrics to the audience. Other examples in include the use of editing effects that I haven’t seen before, that being within Bones TheDifferenceBetweenUs video where Venetian blinds are placed above a green screen, allowing for a shutter effect to be created. I feel that this is influential as it could be an effect that our group could possibly experiment with during the creation of our music video.