This document provides inspiration and examples for a music video project on the theme of porcelain and drug use. It summarizes shots, techniques, and styles from existing music videos, films, and a photographer that could inform the project. These include extreme angles and slow motion to draw focus, kaleidoscope effects to portray hallucinations, macro shots of cigarettes to emphasize substance use, and a simple color palette and framing style from the photographer Li Hui. The document explores how elements like backwards footage, abstract shots, and showing a character's point of view could advance the narrative and themes.

1. Inspiration

2. Porcelain – Frusciante Music video
• The song already has a video,
though it’s not technically an
official video. It’s made by one
of the band members and can be
found on his YouTube channel.
• I really like this shot for its
creativity. I like how it creates a
sense of disorientation, using an
extreme canted angle. The
girl’s hair reinforces the obscure
angle due to the direction it falls
in.

3. Euan Baker (former Wyke student work)
• I like the shots of the ink drops
as I think they make a really
aesthetically pleasing shot. It
could also connote drug use, as it
has implications of chemicals
entering the blood stream i.e.
drugs.
• There are also some extreme
slow motion shots which I think
are very good for putting focus
on the aesthetic of a shot, and
the movement within a shot as it
gives the viewer more time to
analyse it.

4. Submarine- film by Richard Ayoade
• This type of ‘kaleidoscope’
effect would be good for
portraying 1st person views
of the protagonist if she is
hallucinating/reminiscing
• Achieved by filming through
a kaleidoscopic lens

5. Purity Ring - Fineshrine
• This shot makes the bed appear like it’s
sinking downwards – as if it’s swallowed the
person that was sleeping there
• This effect was achieved was through filming
the cushion and mattress go back to their
original size after someone had laid on it, then
in post production, playing the footage
backwards to give the opposite effect.
• This has helped me to develop an idea of mine;
the protagonist falls back onto the pillow and
her head shatters.
• Obviously I have limited skills and resources,
so using CGI to achieve this effect would have
been near on impossible.
• However I could film the girl falling back onto
the pillow, then the moment she hits it, have a
shot of something abstract to assimilate her
hallucination, then have the same angle shot
with this technique applied, however with
shattered porcelain on the pillow; implying that
her head has ‘shattered’ on impact

6. Lorde – 400 Luxe
• This extreme close up of a
(possibly use of a macro lens)
cigarette puts an emphasis on the
use of substances
• This would be a good type of shot
to use in my video due to the
theme of drug use

7. Pulp Fiction
• More shots to use as
inspiration
• Probable use of a macro
lens
• Places emphasis on
substance use
• memorable shots from
an iconic film – may help
my video to be more
memorable

8. Youth Lagoon - Mute
• I like this because it gives quite a
lot of information to the viewer in
one shot.
• We can see what the person is
seeing, and we can also see how
the person is responding to that
• This is a good type of technique to
use in a music video due to the
limited amount of time that there
is to portray a narrative
• This could be applied to my video
if I decide to show the protagonist

9. Li Hui – photographer
• I like the style of this
artist’s work, in particular
the colours she uses and
the simplicity of her
images
• I hope to emulate the
pastel shades of her work
through my music video
• This will be a visual
representation of
‘porcelain’
• I also hope to take
inspiration from the
simplicity of her shots and
use a simple approach
when it comes to framing
and mise-en-scene (not
including too much in the
shot)