influences and ideas from other videos

In my video I want to focus on the story telling aspects of music videos rather than the performance aspect.
One video that influenced my decicion to do this was the video for Jesus of Suburbia by Green day. The video features little clips of the band performing on TV but is mostly set out from the point of view of a character the band called St Jimmy. It shows this character as a punky outsider who hates authority and spends his drug fuelled days at parties and having sex. It shows his life with the rest of the punk outsiders. The idea of showing the story of a character relating to the lyrics intrigues me.

I like the idea of using siluhettes in music videos as a kind of post-modernist pastiche. The idea of using shadows hides the artists away and if I add a story, shows you that the artist is not part of the story but is instead a seperate part from it. The video for Kings and Queens by 30 Seconds to Mars does this better than other videos.



Intertextuality is also a thing I wanted to include into my video. Using movie/TV influences is something that alot of artists do.

One of my favorite example of intertextuality is the video Never Gonna Stop (The Red Red Kroovy) by Rob Zombie, which uses costume and sets influenced by the Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange. In addition to this, Zombie himself also uses the Kubrick stare, a favorite shot of Stanley Kubrick in which a character is shown in close up with thier head tilted down but thier eyes looking up into the camera.


Sometimes Intertextuality in videos uses actual existing footage. The video for the Wednesday 13 song I Walked With A Zombie uses footage from the George A Romero zombie film Night of the Living Dead. The film is in the public domain, which means that the band could use it without paying royalties.

The horror inspired videos influences me to make a video with influences on old horror films. One of the most recent videos that has inspired this old horror idea is the video for the recent Deep Purple song Vincent Price, named after and inspired by the famous horror actor of the same name. The video (shot in black and white) parodies several classic horror films, including Frankenstien, the mummy and the Vincent Price movies House of Wax & House on Haunted Hill as well as having an actor dressed in Vincent Price attire and complete with a Price like moustache.

I love the frequent use of old horror cliches and have a soft spot for anything shot in (mostly) black and white. The editing suits the music, especially during the guitar solo/pole dance scene. This also uses Goodwin's theroy points- video matches genre, lyrics and music- voyeristic representations of the woman in the video and, of course, intertexuality.