The document discusses influences and inspiration for a dark, gothic-themed music video. It lists influences from artists like YUNGBLUD, Billie Eilish, and Bring Me The Horizon. Common themes in alternative music videos are identified like black baths, blood, dolls and flowers. A mood board is presented with dark, creepy images to convey the intended aesthetic including bears, masks and sketches of a deflated actress.

1. Initial responses
FMP

2. Influences
• YUNGBLUD especially videos from his album 21st century liability.

3. Influences
• Carol’s daughter – violent
• Billie Eilish – when the party’s over

4. Influences
• Bring Me The Horizon – Parasites eve
• Bring Me The Horizon – Teardrops

5. Influences
Common themes in alternative music videos:
• Black baths
• Lots of blood
• Bears
• Baby's/porcelain dolls
• Dark lighting
• Messy beds
• Roses/flowers

6. Inspiration – mood board, aesthetic

7. Mood board
• I am aiming for a dark gothic, creepy theme for my music video so this
is why all the pictures I chose for my mood board are quite dark and
some are slightly gory.
• I used some pictures of creepy bears because I think they look really
cool and I want to include something like that in my video.
• I chose quite a few pictures of people with masks on because the
masks make everything look a lot spookier which is the aesthetic I am
going for.

8. Mood board, sketches/art

9. Mood board art
• The first two drawings are how I imagined the actress in the video to
be feeling especially at the start of the video she would feel kind of
deflated.
• The last picture is a collage I made that I think conveys the same type
of dark theme I want to have in my music video.