Influences on our planning and decision making

For our first choice for our music video, we chose "Seventeen Candles" by "Pink Spiders". For our initial ideas on how we were going to produce and structure our music video, we were influenced by other videos. One influence was the viewing of a candle burning slowly over a time lapse.

This was a big influence on our video, because we thought creating our own time lapse to work with our video it would be very effective. This is because the name of our song is "Seventeen Candles" so we thought it worked well with that, and it would also be the re-occurring theme within our video. This would consist of shots throughout the video showing the candle slowly burning on our own time lapse. The candle would be lit at the start, and by the end of the video it will be burnt out as throughout the video you see the whole candle slowly burn.

Another strong influence on our video choice was a video produced by "Pink Spiders". We watched this to influence ourselves as that is the same band that produced the music to the video we will be producing, and we believed that if we watched their style and ideas within a different video we would understand their music and be able to produce a music video that works well with there style, ideas and genre of music.

This video inspired us with the idea of doing a performance based video, that also has a narrative within it. It also influenced our ideas on costumes, as they were a band they all had the same clothes on which was a white suit, and in our video we will also have a set costume that we will all wear to comply to the genre characteristics and to work well with the performance element of the video.

This blog was created by Toby Moffat, Graeme Beck, Andrew Thomson and George Tibbett.