Music Video NEA Idea Inspiration

 Music Video NEA Idea Inspiration

Music Videos

The Music Video for Chris Hadfield's cover of Space Oddity is iconic. The video shows many different shots of Hadfield playing along to the music whilst floating around inside the International Space Station. This is the first music video to be shot in space, with previous videos with sci-fi elements using CGI to achieve their look.

Aerosmith's 'I Don't Want to Miss a Thing' splices together clips from the film 'Armageddon' and the band playing the music. I want to employ a similar technique in my music video of cutting between the main action and shots of the music being played to help better link what's being shown on screen to the music.

'Next Year' by the Foo Fighters uses stock footage of the Apollo 11 launch and footage of the band playing astronauts as if they were the ones on the Apollo 11 mission. The first act of the video specifically stood out to me with the frequent closeups of Dave Grohl's face through the space helmet showing his expressions as I want to use similar ideas in my music video where the idea of wonder and excitement must come through to the audience.

Film and Video Inspiration

'SOLSTICE - 5' is an online series on YouTube using the 3D software Blender to create incredibly detailed sci-fi scenes at a huge scale. For my music video I want to try using Blender to create epic sci-fi scenes to match the theme of the lyrics of an alien coming down to earth.

Star Wars as a whole will be a large influence for this idea as it revolves around spaceships and interaction between alien species. However, I'd like to focus more on the ships aspect mostly from Star Wars creating shots similar to the opening scene of Episode IV, A New Hope.