Influences and inspirations

Our influences as to why we chose Runaway -

The shots were good as the face is covered which can help the meaning of the lyrics to be shown. The costume choice did stand out and that's one of the things about the video that influenced us and caught our attention as it was different and stood out more as it wasn't just the face. However now its been created as this style with no face shown.

We liked that it was different to most music videos it had a different way of displaying a story line. We liked that the face was hidden and the majority of the shots are a dark silhouette with bright lights in the background.

Now we'd like to recreate it but with close up shots of emotions shown however using similar shots as were used in the original as they we're effective but we'd just like to create a different atmosphere.

We liked the song before looking into what songs we could recreate... this helped us as we were confident on the lyrics already and it gave use ideas on how to recreate this music video in a different way so that it related more to the lyrics than the original as we felt that the video didn't really fit well with the lyrics, it didn't show the story very well.

Other influences -

We wanted to pick a song that had a meaning to it and 'Runaway' has a meaning to it which is quiet easy to pick up on, its rather understandable just by listening to the lyrics.

We both like Pop type of songs, we like other genres but our most liked was 'pop' genre therefore this was the best option for us to go for also.

Things that inspire us through music videos -

In a music video we like to have something to follow whether it be a story or an artist so we have something to be able to watch through out, Runaway didn't have that, it was mix and match however it was different to most videos so it made it stand out and made it memorable. However usually it's preferred to have something to follow.

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