By Nicole Oliver

Location Influence

For one of our main influences, we have been looking at Rihanna's music videos, the screen shot on the left is taken from Rihanna's famous music video ‘only girl in the world’, we have chosen this music video as one of our main influences, this is because we believe the locations are ones that

we would like to use in our music video. For example the field she uses in the picture seen above is what we would want our location to look like, as we believe it fits with our song of choice. There is also a scene in this video where Rihanna is seen on as swing in the field, which was one of our original ideas after watching this video, and we have a location planned for this. We liked these ideas because we believed they wereeffective and went along with the music very well, And we believed they would work for our music video.

Location Influences

• Another one of our influences was from a previous A level year from our school. They produced a music video filming footage in London, this was our original idea as the scenery would be effective with our song choice. We believe the graffiti and alley ways with brick walls looked very effective, and made the music video look very professional.

There were other various locations used in this music video but as a group we believe this was one of the locations we thought was most effective, This is because it fits in well with their song. This location is seen in the images shown.

Location Influences

Another one of our location influences was from Cheryl Cole’s music video ‘Call my name’. At the beginning of the music video Cheryl is seen walking and dancing in an underground subway. As a group we believed this looked effective and gave us ideas for our own music video. As Cheryl Cole’s music style is similar to the style of music that the song for our music video is, we believe this will be equally effective for our music video, giving a professional and stylish look. Our group already has a location similar to this one in mind, we have decided to use this location for the opening scene of our music video.

Camera Shot InfluencesWe have also been looking for variouscamera shots that we could use for ourmusic video. In most pop music videos there are a lot of close ups, and sometimesextreme close ups. This is to exaggerate a certain feature, maybe an eye with bold make up. We believe that these are effective shots and are frequently used in all genres of music video. This type of shot is frequently used in the music video’s of the artist of the song that we are using asour music video, this is one reason why we have decided to use close up shots inour music video.

Camera Shot Influences

Other camera shots used in our genre of music video are shots such as wide shots, long shots, low and high angle shots and also establishing shots at the beginning of the music video to present the scene. These are shots that are very effective and ones that we will use in our music video.