Inspiration for our video

The first video which has helped to inspire me is Rihanna 'Unfaithful.' The way the video has been edited so it fits the beat is a good technique we could take into consideration. The cuts they have used with these are clips of the couple together so therefore we could use this to show past memories from the couple within our video. I shall try this technique within the montages' we shall have within our video. Another technique I can take from this video is the dark colours used to portray the mood of the story.

Beyonce 'Broken Hearted Girl' is a very good source of inspiration because they also use flashbacks to the past. They do this by using a black and white filter. And they play around with the contrast. So it's very high contrasted when seeing the artist to enhance her. Also at parts you can see the difference because the artist is in colour where as the past is black and white so therefore I feel as if that would be a good technique for our video so the audience can clearly see the difference. When the memories are shown its faded around the edge. Also when seeing the artist she is very strongly a silhouette. So therefore I will take this as inspiration as I think it is a very good technique. Also from this video it shows that when you are switching between the past and present it's better to have just simple fades between shots to make it flow better. So I will take this into consideration.  Within this video there is very long shots of footage so therefore it shows that popular videos have long sets of footage too so you can portray the story so we can stick to our idea of having quite long amounts of footage. Also the past memories are repetitive within this video at times with the past memories so to keep the continuity I may do this with our video to show the past memories. Another technique this video does is that you can only partially see the characters when having long shots and it works really well so I may try this.

The next video which has gave me inspiration is from the Leona Lewis video 'Run' this technique is during the editing process where they have faded the edges with a black ring. Also from her video 'I got you' I can take the way she positions her actor at the edge of the frame instead of the centre as it shows that it's not about the look of the actor it's about the meaning and emotion he is going through and feeling. Also from her video 'Footprints in the Sand' the emotion within it is extraordinary. Therefore before filming our actor will watch this video in order to capture the emotion in his acting just like the real life footage in this video.