Inspiration...

Most memorable music videos…Inspiring?

The video for Justin Timberlake’s ‘What goes around comes back around’ is one of my favourite music videos due to the film like nature of the video and was ranked as itunes fasted selling music video of all time. The video begins with titles slowly appearing on a black screen accompanied by eerie sounds, which sets the atmosphere and forebodes events to come later in the video.

Shortly after the titles, we see a short dialogue between Justin Timberlake and his ‘love interest’ of the video, which is played by Scarlett Johansson, this dialogue was written by Nick Cassavetes who successfully adapted the screen play in order to make this song in to a short film. Award winning Samuel Bayer directed the video and included the two minute interlude from the track of which he used to his advantage to create the climax of the video.

This video has really inspired me to have some sort of dramatic performance either side of the soundtrack to have more of a short-film feel to it.

                                                         

Inspired...

Justin Timberlake’s ‘what goes around’ has showed me that a music video doesn’t mean starting when the song starts, and ending when the song ends. It’s about beginning a story, creating a world and ending that story or even leaving open to interpretation. I really like the idea of maybe breaking the song in the middle for the climax of my narrative and then bringing back the song for effect.

Quest to find an unsigned artist…

At first I thought I would find an artist with no hassle, but the more I contacted, the harder I found it! Also, I think I may have too high expectations for the song, so I may need to just see what I am able to have and work with what I’ve got. After all, it’s not the lyrics that are being examined, it’s my creativity!