2. ‘I NEED YOUR LOVE’
The song I am going to be looking at is ‘I need you love’ by Calvin Harris
featuring Ellie Goulding. Calvin Harris is DJ, singer, songwriter and record
producer specialising in genres such as electro house, progressive house and
nu disco. All of these genres of music are dance related and so they are fast
pace and up beat. Ellie Goulding is a British singer-songwriter who focuses on
music within synthpop, folktonica and dream pop genres. These genres show
the diverse range and abilities that Goulding has within her musical talents. ‘I
need your love’ was written by Calvin and Harris and features Ellie Goulding
in both the song and video. The song got primarily good reviews from critics
and got to number 4 in the UK singles charts and was in the top 5 for 5 other
countries.
3. BACKGROUND TO THE VIDEO
The music video features both Calvin Harris and Ellie
Goulding as a romantic young couple on a trip to Miami.
Throughout the video it switches from professional director
shots to amateur-like ones from Harris and Goulding. The
video starts off with Goulding in a bed and Harris coming in
and showing a romantic relationship with her. The shots
throughout the video then show the couple on their trip
around Miami together. There is also shots of other people
as the ‘camera’ that they were using together is left at the
beach and an individual picks up the camera and starts
skateboarding around the beach and then he takes it to a bar
where another individual end up picking it up. He then rids
his motorcycle down the highway with the camera on the
front of his bike. Another person then gets hold of the
camera and takes it on a helicopter tour of Miami. And the
to someone who is jet skiing until they drop it in the water
and it gets washed up onto the beach. It is then picked up by
someone else and then it gets taken to a night club where
Harris is performing and gets the camera back. There is a
shot of all the people at the club dancing and jumping
around. There is then all the shots fast forwarded till it stops
and the two of them in the room that they were filming in at
the start of the video.
4. ‘AMATEUR STYLE’ SHOTS
Both Harris and Goulding are seen at
various points in the video holding a
camera and filming their antics around the
Miami area in places such as a resort, a car,
and at the beach. We want to use the idea
from this video within our music video. We
want to make a video that we can have
some ‘real life; shots and have those who
are acting in our video look as thought
they are the ones recording. Within ‘I need
you love’ these shots are done to show the
close relationship between the two
characters showing their trip with each
other and so we want to make sure we can
do the same.
5. OTHER IDEAS
Just before the video ends there is a speeded
up version of the main sections from the
video that get shown. We want to do this
within our music video to highlight the main
points of the shots in a ‘flash back’ feel. We
also want to incorporate another idea from the
‘I need your love’ music video. The start shots
of Goulding in bed is in the same room as the
final shots where she is joined by Harris. We
want to do the same thing and so we will start
and finish the music video with similar shots
as each other in the same location. We also
want to use similar shots such as that of
location, clothes, close up of peoples faces.
This will help give the feel of our video a real
raw feeling, with all the shots together along
with the ‘amateur-style’ recording I think we
will be able to successfully accomplish this.
