3. Uptown Funk – Bruno Mars
Genre: Pop
Type of Video: Performance
Purpose of Video: To promote Bruno Mars as an artist, promote the song
What's Inspirational? – I like the style of the video, its not like many other videos that
mainstream artists do and there's lots of different editing techniques.
4. Waiting for Love - Avicii
Genre: Electronic
Type of Video: Narrative
Purpose of Video: The purpose of the film is to promote Avicii’s new song and also to
tell a story.
What's Inspirational? – I like the creativity of the story in the video and how it links to
the lyrics of the song.
5. BMTH – Throne
Genre: Metal
Type of Video: Performance, Conceptual
Purpose of Video: Purpose of the video is to promote BMTH’s new song and also
to pair up with the song and the lyrics with its themes. The theme is quite dark
and there is a sort of medieval theme.
What's Inspirational? - I like how the band has combined elements of
performance and conceptual videos to create a more interesting video. Theres a
good balance between shots of the band and then other things that relate to the
dark theme of the video.
6. Eminem Not Afraid
Genre: Rap
Type of Video: Narrative, Performance
Purpose of Video: Purpose of the video is to promote Eminem's new song, and its
also used to tell a story in Eminem's life and his experiences In his career.
What's Inspirational? - Much like Eminems other song (Rap God) the video is
quite futuristic.
7. Grenade – Bruno Mars
Genre: Pop
Type of Video: Performance, Narrative
Purpose of Video: Purpose of the video is to promote Bruno Mars as an artist and
promote his song but also to act out and tell a story.
What's Inspirational? – Its good how the video and story in the video links to the
lyrics of the song. Its also good how simple but affective the video is.
8. Roar – Katy Perry
Genre: Pop
Type of Video: Performance
Purpose of Video: To promote Katy Perry’s song and to promote her as an artist.
What's Inspirational? – The Mise-En-Scene is really interesting and creative which
makes the video really interesting to watch.
9. Mumford and Sons – The Cave
Genre: Folk Music
Type of Video: Performance
Purpose of Video: The purpose of the Video is to promote the Band and their
song
What's Inspirational? – I like how simple the video is, the band just drive around
on bikes the whole video but I like how its still interesting and some editing
techniques and camera shots makes it good.
10. Charles Hamilton – New York
Genre: Rap/Pop
Type of Video: Performance
Purpose of Video: To promote Rita Ora and Charles Hamilton as Artists as well as
promote the song. It also tells a story
What's Inspirational? – I like how the video is in Black and White throughout the
whole video. It tells a story of racism in the US and relates well to the lyrics of the
song.
11. Chiddy Bang – Manners
Genre: Rap/ Pop
Type of Video: Performance
Purpose of Video: To promote Chiddy Bang and their song
What's Inspirational? – Like many of the other videos the video is simple but
interesting. It shows people dancing and partying. Different editing techniques
and Shots make it interesting to watch.
12. I don’t like it, I love it – Flo Rida
Genre: Pop/Rap
Type of Video: Performance
Purpose of Video: To promote Robin Thicke and Flo Rida. To promote the song
What's Inspirational? – I like that the videos simple and interesting however there
is maybe too much of the artists in here and maybe using some more conceptual
techniques could help it be more interesting to watch.
13. Ed Sheeran – The A Team
Genre: Pop
Type of Video: Narrative
Purpose of Video: To tell a story, to promote Ed Sheeran and his song
What's Inspirational? – The Video is very simple and shoot with an average
camera. I like how its all in Black and White and does try and do too much with
the video.
14. Goodbye Mr A – The Hoosiers
Genre: Pop
Type of Video: Conceptual, Narrative, Performance
Purpose of Video: To tell a story of Mr A, a teacher who taught the lead singer
and to promote the band and their Song
What's Inspirational? I like how the band used cartoons in the video which isn’t
used very much and is different. The mise on scene in the video is good and the
band uses aspects from every category of music videos.
15. 5SOS – She Looks so Perfect
Genre: Rock
Type of Video: Performance,
Purpose of Video: To promote the Band who were new and upcoming at the time
and to promote their song.
What's Inspirational? The video is simple and mainly shows the band performing
but there is also a story behind the video and the song lyrics relate to a part of
the video.
16. Gotye – Somebody I used to know
Genre: Pop
Type of Video: Performance, Conceptual
Purpose of Video: To promote Gotye and their song
What's Inspirational? I like how this video is different to all the other videos on
this list. I like the idea of slowly painting the artists and the creativity in the
video is good and different.
17. Lethal Bizzle – Fester Skank
Genre: Rap
Type of Video: Performance
Purpose of Video: To promote Lethal Bizzle and his song
What's Inspirational? – In the song Lethal Bizzle poses with objects in the lyrics
from his song which makes the video interesting and entertaining. For example
he is seen on a toy Lamborghini which is in the lyrics.
18. Justin Bieber – Beauty and the Beat
Genre: Pop/ Rap
Type of Video: Performance
Purpose of Video: To promote the song and promote the artists (Bieber and
Minaj)
What's Inspirational? I like how the whole video is filmed by the Artists
themselves. They carry around a camera on a selfie stick and film the whole
video on their own which is different and creative.
19. Katy Perry – Last Friday Night
Genre: Pop
Type of Video: Performance, Narrative
Purpose of Video: To promote Katy Perry and her new song
What's Inspirational? I like the mise on scene and the interesting colours and
setting in the video. I also like how the lyrics and the video link up.
20. George Ezra – Listen to the Man
Genre: Folk
Type of Video: performance
Purpose of Video: To promote George Ezra and his song. Also to promote Ian
Mckellen who is a famous Actor.
What's Inspirational? The Video is very simple but I like how Ian McKellen is in
the video with George singing and I also like how the green screen behind them
ads a bit more interest and colour to the video. It is easy to re create and
perform.
21. Katy Perry – Part of me
Genre: Pop
Type of Video: Performance, Narrative
Purpose of Video: To promote Katy Perry and her Song. To tell a story
What's Inspirational? I like how the video tells a story and links to the lyrics of the
song. The mise on scene and camera shots are good and its easy to see what Katy
Perry is trying to achieve.
22. Can’t Hold us - Macklemore
Genre: Rap
Type of Video: Perfromance
Purpose of Video: To promote Macklemore and to promote his song
What's Inspirational? The video is quite simple and quite easy to re create or
perform. Its also very simple but interesting.
23. Jack U – Where are you now
Genre: Electronic/ Pop
Type of Video: Performance, Conceptual
Purpose of Video: To promote Jack U and Justin Bieber, To promote their new
song
What's Inspirational? I like how the video used cartoon drawings and art around
justin Bieber to make the video interesting and creative. Its very different because
of the art.
24. N****s in Paris – Jay Z ft Kanye West
Genre: Rap
Type of Video: Performance, Conceptual
Purpose of Video: To promote Kanye West and Jay Z, to promote their new song
What's Inspirational? I like how the video is quite different and unusual. The video
uses different editing techniques which can be seen in the picture where the
screen is doubled. Much like throne by BMTH the theme is quite dark.
25. Eminem – Rap God
• Genre:
• Type of Video:
• Purpose of Video:
• What's Inspirational?
Genre: Rap
Type of Video: Performance
Purpose of Video: To promote Eminem and his new song
What's Inspirational? I like how Eminem used really interesting and different editing
techniques. As you can see in the picture Eminem uses different colourful backgrounds
and also makes the video quite futuristic.
26. Charlie Puth – See you Again
Genre: Pop/ Rap
Type of Video: Performance, Narrative
Purpose of Video: To promote fast and Furious 7, to promote Charlie Puth and Wiz
Khalifa, to promote their song
What's Inspirational? I like how the video uses scenes from the fast and furious film
to link the lyrics and the actions in the film. Also how even the setting and mise en
scene links to the film.
27. Maroon 5 – Sugar
Genre: Pop
Type of Video: Performance, Conceptual
Purpose of Video: To promote Maroon 5 and their new song
What's Inspirational? I like how the video is really different to every other video,
the band perform and almost crash weddings to surprise everyone.
28. Kanye West - Love Lockdown
Genre: Rap
Type of Video: Performance, Conceptual
Purpose of Video: To promote Kanye West, to promote his new song
What's Inspirational? I like how there’s quite a lot of randomness in the video.
The lyrics and video don’t link but the vdeo is creative and shows lots of different
types of camera shots, lighting and editing.
29. Arctic Monkeys - R U Mine?
Genre: Rock / Pop
Type of Video: Performance
Purpose of Video: To promote the Artic Monkeys and their new song
What's Inspirational? I like how the video is filmed in a car the whole video but it
is made interesting because different members from the band hold the camera
and film different things. Its simple but creative with how they do it.
30. Alt-J Breezeblocks
Genre: Pop
Type of Video: Conceptual
Purpose of Video: To promote Alt-J and their new song
What's Inspirational? The video is quite random and does not have very much to
do with the song much like love lockdown. However the video is interesting
because it uses slow motion and reverse affects.
31. Imagine dragons – Radioactive
Genre: Pop
Type of Video: Performance
Purpose of Video: To promote Imagine Dragons and their new song
What's Inspirational? I like the Lighting and general mise on scene of the video. It
has quite a dark theme.
32. 3 Videos that inspired me
• Radioactive
• Breezeblocks
• Love lockdown
33. Why did they inspire me?
• All the videos were very creative and different
from most of the other videos I watched
• All the videos used interesting affects and editing,
for example breezeblocks video used slow motion
and rewinding which made the video unique and
interesting.
• In all the videos especially Love Lockdown there is
lots of different lighting going from dark to bright
lighting so it makes it interesting to watch.
34. My Top 5 songs
• Can’t hold us – Macklemore
• Little Lion Man– Mumford and Sons
• Champion – Clement Marfo and the Frontline
• Jay Z – N****s in Paris
• Gorillaz – Feel Good
