Inspiration from other music videos

I took inspiration from this video because i appreciated the originality behind it. However in my work i do not intend to replicate this dance but hopefully manipulate that dance into our own.

Letter Requesting Permission

16\07\10

jasmine.graham33@gmail.com

To whom it May concern;

We are media students currently studying at Hartlepool Sixth Form College. We are interested in using your song ‘ Bruised Water’ in our work, which will consist of us creating a music video and try to attempt to portray the music in an original way. We are hoping to create a performance-based video, in which we are contemplating on also including a narrative within. Our initial ideas consist of five individuals painted in blue and purple glow paint, in which we have tried to represent, the hurt they are feeling on the inside shown on the outside. So mental scarring shown on the outside thus relating to the lyrics ‘ I bruise easily’. We also are planning to attempt dancing within our video, but jerky so you can see our characters are hurting. The beginning of the video we plan to have our characters dressed casual looking over a cliff and next they are lying in different locations they then head towards the beach at the end you see them walk into the sea and when they are walking out the sea they are normal again. As if their worries and pain have been washed away. The camera will be on top of the cliff filming the characters walking out the sea thus relating to the beginning of the video where the characters are looking down. Thus leaving the viewer wondering who is watching them leaving the narrative ending on an actual cliffhanger. The costumes are bright blue glow paint with purple bruises their makeup will consist of large eyelashes to extenuate the eyes which will have white contacts in. Perhaps representing that they are blind to everything around them and focused on only the hurt in which they are feeling. Also running black mascara will be used. Backcombed hair and black dresses with slits in showing red glow paint representing more scars on the inside. We have decided to create our characters in a kind of trance due to the fact the genre of music is trance. As you can see we have planned our video thoroughly and would be extremely grateful if it would be at all possible to use your song. Our finished product will be professionally finished and further contribute to the popularity of your song.

Yours sincerely,

Jasmine Graham, Coral-Anne Houghton, Grace Peel.

Proof of asking for permission

We got in contact with chicane when wanting to ask for permission to use their song by sending them a letter in a message on the social networking site myspace.

Inspiration for movement.

We got inspiration as odd as it may seem from this speeding advert due to the fact of the grotesque stiff movements shown by the girl. We were inspired to use this because we find it relates to our video because the characters in it are harmless but due to the way they look people find them quite disturbing to watch just as the little girl in the video. We thought this would be extremely effective in our music video.

Costume ideas

Video Ideas