Inspiration for music videos can be drawn from currently existing videos. It could just be the type of music video or specifics that can be taken from them but looking at all different types of music video gives you many different ideas. After searching the web for my favorite music videos, I have narrowed it down to my top 5. However, they wont be in any specific order in my top 5 as it would be harsh to compare two brilliant music videos when they are different styles.
So in no particular order, my top 5 music videos:
1. Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity
This video, I feel, is one of the best of all time due to the fact it is simple and complex at the same time. On the face of it, it's quite simple: it shows a plain room with a sofa and chair in, and the camera only moves a couple of times throughout the whole video. However, the complex part comes in the form of a moving floor and some CGI effects. The lead singer, Jay-Kay, uses the moving floor for dancing on moving towards and away from the camera. Some very clever choreography must have been used since everything is so precise between the music, the moving floor, Jay Kay, the sofa and chair, and the occasional camera movement.
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop
The video for 'Can't Stop' is in my top 5 because it is so wonderfully random. Most of the video is the band acting strange and random, with the exception of the parts where they are performing on the middle of a room. The acts they perform make no sense and don't immediately relate to the lyrics, however when reading over the lyrics, they seem just as random. At the end, some sense is made since it finishes on a sign saying "inspired by the 'one minute sculptures' of Erwin Wurm"
3. Weezer - Pork And Beans
Pork And Beans is in my top 5 since it parodies many viral internet videos that have been uploaded onto youtube and other video websites. The videos parodied have attracted millions of views between them and Weezer have used the popularity and stupidity of most of these videos to turn it into their music video. The video does relate to the lyrics of the song since it is about not conforming to typical stereotypes and not being what people want you to be. The viral videos are all people being them stupid selves, and not caring what other people think of them, and Weezer take that idea into their video.
4. R.E.M - Everybody Hurts
The video Everybody Hurts has a video which makes you think and realize things, and also has a strong relation to the lyrics. It starts with the band in a car on a motorway joining a traffic jam, which would dampen most people's spirits. As the singing starts, the words are at the bottom, making you think the lyrics are provided, but when it shows a different car with different people in, it is showing different words to what is being sung. That is when you realize that it is showing what people are thinking, and it is all very unhappy thoughts that people have. The lyrics link to this with the song title 'everybody hurts' telling us everyone feels bad sometimes, and you are not alone when you feel really down. The lyrics also encourage you to hold on and don't feel down and this is translated into the video at the end with everyone getting out of their cars and walking.
5. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
The actual video for bohemian rhapsody, admittedly inst that great, but it was the first big music video, and paved the way for the concept of music videos. Without it, things may have been very different. This video is great because of the influence it had on others at the time. It was new, it made people go 'wow', it sold the record, and that opened the floodgates for all other music videos to be made and released.
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