The document summarizes and provides information about 20 different music videos, including the song, artist, genre, type of video, purpose, and inspiration for each. The types of videos include narrative, performance, conceptual, and illustrations. The purposes ranged from promoting the artist, band, or song, to conveying a message or story. Inspiration came from the artist's life experiences, promoting a style of music or culture, or having a unique or strange concept.

1. Assignment 1 – Researching A
Range Of Music Videos

2. Song: Sex
Artist: EDEN
Genre: Electronic/POP
Type of Video: Narrative - Amplification
Purpose: To show how there is more to relationships than just sex. He
wants to establish himself in the music industry.
Inspiration: This is EDEN’s first professional music video and is also the
first song in which he sings positively about relationships.

3. Song: Stovall
Artist: Microwave
Genre: Rock
Type of Video: Performance/Narrative
Purpose: First music video to promote the band. It allows viewers to see
each band member and the instruments the play and it also shows the style
they play in.
Inspiration: The narrative part of the video portrays the destructive genre
and beats of the song.

4. Song: Pompeii
Artist: Bastille
Genre: Indie
Type of Video: Narrative
Purpose:
Inspiration:

5. Song: Torn Apart
Artist: Bastille
Genre: Indie/Alternative
Type of Video: Conceptual
Purpose: Everyone is loved and it comes in all shapes and sizes.
Inspiration: This is an extremely strange video however I believe it has a
deeper meaning than what's portrayed in the video.

6. Song: Start a Fire
Artist: Stephen
Genre: Electronic
Type of Video: Narrative
Purpose: “You have to lose yourself to find yourself”
Inspiration: ^^ Something his friend said to him.

7. Song: End Credits
Artist: EDEN
Genre: Electronic
Type of Video: Narrative - Illustration
Purpose: His first music video was created by a man named Robert Anthony,
this Is because as a small artist, EDEN didn’t have the money or the
equipment to create his own music video. It went on the receive 4 million
views on YouTube under a channel called MrSuicideSheep.
Inspiration: This video has a powerful effect as nearly every word is matched
with an image in the music video.

8. Song: Upper Clapton Dance
Artist: Professor Green
Genre: Rap
Type of Video: Narrative
Purpose: Teach people what dangers go on in Clapton, London
Inspiration: His childhood / adolescence

9. Song: Written Off As A Friction
Artist: You Win Again Gravity
Genre: Rock
Type of Video: Performance
Purpose: Promote the band.
Inspiration:

10. Song: Radioactive
Artist: Imagine Dragons
Genre: Pop
Type of Video: Conceptual
Purpose:
Inspiration:

11. Song: Demons
Artist: Imagine Dragons
Genre: Pop
Type of Video: Performance
Purpose: To show the popularity of the song to increase it views for the
video.
Inspiration: A successful live show.

12. Song: Budapest
Artist: George Ezra
Genre: Pop
Type of Video: Performance
Purpose: Promote his look and style of music.
Inspiration:

13. Song: Listen To The Man
Artist: George Ezra
Genre: Pop
Type of Video: Performance
Purpose: Promote his style of music.
Inspiration:

14. Song: Everything Nice
Artist: Popcaan
Genre: Reggae
Type of Video: Performance
Purpose: To show their cultures relaxed lifestyle, showing off their bling,
smoking weed and chilling with girls.
Inspiration: The black and white effect creates a professional piece of filming.
Its unique and would help our music video in helping to tell a story.

15. Song: Ghetto Gospel
Artist: 2pac
Genre: Rap
Type of Video: Narrative
Purpose: To highlight gang culture in America
Inspiration: His own life as well as previous black rappers deaths.

16. Song: My Life
Artist: The Game
Genre: Rap
Type of Video: Narrative
Purpose: Highlight police brutality against black people
Inspiration: Gang culture in his life.

17. Song: Shutdown
Artist: Skepta
Genre: Grime
Type of Video: Performance
Purpose:
Inspiration:

18. Song: Fireflies
Artist: Owl City
Genre: Synthpop
Type of Video: Conceptual
Purpose:
Inspiration:

19. Song: Overjoyed
Artist: Bastille
Genre: Indie
Type of Video: Narrative
Purpose:
Inspiration:

20. Song: I Bet My Life
Artist: Imagine Dragons
Genre: Pop
Type of Video: Conceptual
Purpose: To create an original but popular video.
Inspiration:

21. Song: Elastic Heart
Artist: Sia
Genre: Pop
Type of Video: Conceptual
Purpose:
Inspiration:

22. Song: Banana Brain
Artist: Die Antwoord
Genre: Rap Rave
Type of Video: Narrative
Purpose: To promote the South African ‘Zef’ culture that Die Antwoord live by. They
describe it as when you aren’t rich but you still live a lavish lifestyle, or wearing heels
with tracksuit bottoms. It shows their originality and strange lifestyle.
Inspiration: This music video is very original and helps portray the artists lifestyle. I
believe adding a strange and edgy feel to our video could help it stand out and help
deliver a message.