How I would design the video 2

Now this is more of an upbeat song, again I believe that the video matches the song perfectly but there are some aspects that I would change and add. To start the video I would have the band exiting an airport in Tokyo, this would have much greater beginning for the song. I wouldn't of used the day scenes in the video as those scenes attempted to add humour to the video which I do not believe it did. Instead I would have an all night theme to the video of them not just in clubs and bars but of maybe in open spaces in Tokyo. I believe that this would make the video more interesting whilst still keeping in key with the original music and lyrics. This is not all, I would have them in some scenes in a heavily crowded area of Tokyo maybe on a road as I believe that this would go well with the lyrics of how they want to go back. To finish the video I would have them in the middle of a crowded area as I have just stated and as the song ends I would lift the camera to view the landscape of Tokyo, this I believe would complement the song.

How I would design the video 1

As this is one of my favourite songs and one of my favourite music videos I believe that the music video for this song is as close to perfection for this song as can be. If I was the one to design the video for this song I would definitely make sure that I had an empty scene throughout the video so that the visual aspect connects with the song, such as a beach, field, park or an empty highway to emphasise the sorrow of the song. For the time scale in the video I would have the focus point of the video (singer) travel threw the day from sunrise to sunset, this again will strengthen the idea of loneliness.

What Makes a good Music Video

Now as soon as I knew that I had to start looking at existing music videos for ideas and to find out what makes a good music video, I knew that I had to use 'Sledgehammer' by Peter Gabriel. I love this music video and I believe that it is a video that I can gather a lot of inspiration from. this video. As good as this video is, it is clearly an extremely difficult video to make. As the music video has to be completely my groups creation, to make something like this would be nearly impossible to make in time for the deadline thanks to all the animations. I do like the idea of maybe using some short animations that seem to be random but makes the music video more interesting.