This document provides details on 30 music videos including the song name, artist, genre, purpose of the video, type of video, and inspiration. Some notable videos analyzed include "Breezeblocks" by Alt-J which tells a story in reverse, "Don't Go There" by Giggs which is entirely black and white, "The Real Slim Shady" by Eminem for its humorous narrative, and "Ni**as in Paris" by Jay-Z and Kanye West for its editing effects and filters. The document concludes by listing 5 videos that provide good low-budget ideas or have elements that could be developed for the author's own music video.
2. Video 1
• Name: how deep is your love
• Artist: Calvin Harris
• Genre: Dance
• Purpose of Vid: the purpose of the video is to make the song look
better.
• Type of video: narrative disjunction
• Inspiration: the song is very catchy so people will know more about it.
3. Video 2
• Name: Where are you now
• Artist: Skrillex ft Justin beiber
• Genre: House
• Purpose of video: this song is to promote his new album.
• Type of video: Conceptual
• Inspiration: the way the vid is a huge collage of people drawing over
the video.
4. Video 3
• Name: don’t be hard on yourself
• Artist: Jess Glynn
• Genre: Pop
• Purpose of video: the purpose is to promote her song better.
• Type of video: narrative illustration
• Inspiration: the songs video has lot of meaning towards the audience.
5. Video 4
• Name: Not letting go
• Artist: Jess Glynn ft Tinie Temper
• Genre: Rap/ Pop
• Purpose of video: the music video is to promote themselves and to
make the song bigger
• Type of video: Thematic
• Inspiration: this is inspirational because the editing and camera shots.
6. Video 5
• Name: Aint nobody (loves me better)
• Artist: Felix Jaehn ft Jasmine Thompson
• Genre: Pop
• Purpose of video: the video is promoting jasmine Thompson as she is
new to this.
• Type of video: Narrative amplification
• Inspiration: the music video looks good even though there are only a
few lyrics. It doesn’t seem that the budget is that high so they made a
good video out of it.
7. Video 6
• Name: Firestone
• Artist: Kygo ft Conrad Sewell
• Genre: House
• Purpose of video: the video is completely irrelevant to the song
• Type of video: thematic
• Inspiration: the fast wipe though the door and the scene completely
changes.
8. Video 7
• Name: Omen
• Artist: Disclosure ft Sam Smith
• Genre: House
• Purpose of video: the purpose of this video is to promote Sam Smith
and Disclosures new album
• Type of video: narrative amplification
• Inspiration: this music video has slow editing which makes it look
good.
9. Video 8
• Name: When im gone
• Artist: Eminem
• Genre: Rap
• Purpose of video: the video tells the story a lot better. And it was to
promote his new album.
• Type of video: Narrative
• Inspiration: I like the editing of this video because of the way when he
walks through a door and it completely changes.
10. Video 9
• Name: Breezeblocks
• Artist: Alt- j
• Genre: House
• Purpose of video: they tell a story in reverse which looks really good
• Type of video: Narrative disjunction
• Inspiration: the inspiration is the way they use slow motion and they
are rewinding throughout the whole video.
11. Video 10
• Name: I miss you
• Artist: Blink 182
• Genre: Rock
• Purpose of video: this video makes the song even more
understandable
• Type of video: Narrative symbolic
• Inspiration: the inspiration for me was the editing because there was
a lot a lot of flickering transitions and you can see that they have
really focused on the lighting to give the video a spooky effect.
12. Video 11
• Name: my life
• Artist: The game ft Lil Wayne
• Genre: Rap
• Purpose of video: the purpose is to show promote the new album
and to make the ‘game’ bigger.
Type of video: Amplification
• Inspiration: this song is inspirational because I’ve taken a few ideas
from the camera shots and the slow motion shots.
13. Video 12
• Name: feel good inc
• Artist: Gorillaz
• Genre: Rock
• Purpose of video: the video makes the song look cool and its nothing
original which gives it a cool effect.
• Type of video: Conceptual
• Inspiration: the inspiration it the way the song is different to the
others
14. Video 13
• Name: Numb
• Artist: Linkin Park
• Genre: Rock
• Purpose of video: the video is to promote themselves and to make
the song look better
• Type of video: performance
• Inspiration: there are a lot of good camera shots/ editing techniques
like the time lapse.
15. Video 14
• Name: Down with the trumpets
• Artist: Rizzle kicks
• Genre: Pop/Rap
• Purpose of video: this song was here purely to promote themselves
so they could make there big break.
• Type of video: Thematic
• Inspiration: in the chase scene they use speed ramping when the guy
jumps over them in slow motion.
16. Video 15
• Name: Thrift shop
• Artist: Macklemore& Ryan Lewis ft Wanz
• Genre: Pop/Rap
• Purpose of video: this was Macklemore's big break so he was making
himself look good
• Type of video: disjuncture
• Inspiration: there is a good range of camera shots which I could use
for my media video. And they haveused a lot of props within the
video.
17. Video 16
• Name: Don’t go there
• Artist: Giggs ft B.o.B
• Genre: Rap
• Purpose of video: this song started his career so the video made it
look very good
• Type of video: Thematic
• Inspiration: the song throughout is all black and white and it looks
good and it is relatively low budget.
18. Video 17
• Name: Chip Diddy Chip
• Artist: Chipmunk
• Genre: rap
• Purpose of video: chipmunk wasn’t very popular back then and this
picked up his career.
• Type of video: disjunction
• Inspiration: this video is low budget and they have some basic shots
and temporal extensions.
19. Video 18
• Name: Forever
• Artist: Chris brown
• Genre: Pop
• Purpose of video: the purpose of this video is like all of his other
videos he just wants to promote himself.
• Type of video: Narrative amplification
• Inspiration: this video is inspiring because of the background editing
effects.
20. Video 19
• Name: Smack that
• Artist: Akon ft Eminem
• Genre: Rap
• Purpose of video: the purpose of this vide is to make it look like a
short movie and to promote his album.
• Type of video:narrative amplification
• Inspiration: the editing techniques and camera shots they use to
make it look like a movie.
21. Video 20
• Name: Naive
• Artist: The Kooks
• Genre: Rock/ Pop
• Purpose of video: this song was to promote the album that they were
bringing out
• Type of video: narrative amplification
• Inspiration: the music video uses good camera shots like the tracking
shots.
22. Video 21
• Name: What do you mean?
• Artist: Justin Bieber
• Genre: Pop
• Purpose of video: this song is very much like a movie which makes it
fun to watch
• Type of video: Narrative amplification
• Inspiration: I like the shots where it changes from him back to the
movie state.
23. Video 22
• Name: Rollercoaster
• Artist: Bleachers
• Genre: Pop
• Purpose of video: The music video is trying to make there song big so
they can get more views. They are promoting themselves.
• Type of video: performance
• Inspiration: The camera shots give me ideas and they make the video
look decent. Like the shots where it follows the bus.
24. Video 23
• Name: The Real Slim Shady
• Artist: Eminem
• Genre: Rap
• Purpose of video: The video is humorous which makes it funny to
watch this makes the audience
• Type of video: narrative disjuncture
• Inspiration: I think the comedy side of the video is quiet inspiring but
it might be hard to make.
25. Video 24
• Name: Rescue Me
• Artist: Skepta
• Genre: Rap
• Purpose of video: the video is to promote his new album
• Type of video: narrative amplification
• Inspiration: the camera shots were good and they a lot of close ups.
They sue a lot of slow motion shots in this video and they is quiet abit
of variety of shots within the video.
26. Video 25
• Name: Ouch
• Artist: N-Dubz
• Genre: Rap
• Purpose of video: this was there song that made a big break so they
video wanted the video to tell a story and be good.
• Type of video: Narrative illustration performance
• Inspiration: as this song was there first big break they had a fair
variety of camera shots and locations. I like the ay it cuts to them
singing then to movie like state.
27. Video 26
• Name: Katy on a mission
• Artist: Katy B
• Genre: Pop
• Purpose of video: this video shows off the crowds she gets at festivals
and she is promoting herself to.
• Type of video: Performance
• Inspiration: this song is simple and quick and it is mainly just her
performing. It is different to a lot of other songs.
28. Video 27
• Name:A team
• Artist: Ed sheeran
• Genre: Pop
• Purpose of video: to make himself big because this was his big break.
• Type of video: Narrative illustration
• Inspiration: I really liked this video because it was low budget and
they used the black and white filter throughout.
29. Video 28
• Name: Yonkers
• Artist: Tyler the creator
• Genre: Rap
• Purpose of video: this is to promote himself as he wasn’t popular
back then
• Type of video: narrative disjunction
• Inspiration: the black and white filter and the way its set in one place
with different effects.
30. Video 29
• Name: Prayer in C
• Artist: Robin Schulz& Lillywood
• Genre: Pop
• Purpose of video: the purpose of this video is to promote there own
song.
• Type of video: narrative disjuncture.
• Inspiration: I like the way they use temporal extensions throughout
the video.
31. Video 30
• Name: Ni**as in Paris
• Artist: Jay z& Kanye West
• Genre: Rap
• Purpose of video: the purpose of the video is to show what they are
like when performing and how good it looks. This means more people
would go to the concerts.
• Type of video: Performance
• Inspiration: this video has many good editing effects and filters. And
the song is simple and quick like other performance videos but it has
more editing techniques used.
32. • My life- The game ft Lil Wayne
• Real Slim Shady- Eminem
• Alt-j: Breezeblocks
• Don’t go there- Giggs
• What do you mean?- Justin Bieber
• The reason I have chosen these videos is because they are
either very good and low budget or some of there ideas are
good which I can develop to put into my music video.