Our ideas are expressed quite similarly in this music video by Ellie Goulding called 'Goodness Gracious'. There is a strong theme on bright lights and colours, which is also what we are going for.

I noticed a shot of a girl wearing neon lipstick in a dark place, which is what we are going to do. The shots where the main artist is dancing with neon strips on her shoes is also an idea we had of doing in our video. There is not a strong narrative, just a concept of young friends living life and having a great time which is what we were going to do too.  

This video 'Lights' by Ellie Goulding has lots of varied shots using lights and a dark background so there is not narrative. We can get some shot inspiration for our video in our scenes using a lot of lights.

In this music video 'XO' by Beyonce I like the concept of happiness and having fun with friends (the fast pace of the video also helps to express this). I like the opening shot which is of blurred lights. I think it would work well to put a shot like this one in our video to break up the fast pace, make the visual more varied and therefore keeping the viewer interested.

I like this video because of its use of effects. in the first 30 seconds of the video, visually it is quite slow and there are no effects but in the middle and the end of the video there are lots of fast cuts, and lots of fast animations and other effects. The light colour changes also quicken. This is something we will be doing in our video.

I would like to use effects like these in our music video towards the middle/end to make it look more visually interesting and busy as the pace quickens. The idea of not putting everything in from the beginning was suggested to us by Jake Wynn the director, because otherwise it would be too full on and could become boring. whereas if the video gradually becomes more visually interesting then the viewer will be more hooked and less inclined to stop watching.

These are screenshots from an A2 music video created last year. They created a solo pop artist. I like some of the effects and different shot ideas they had. There are hundreds of cuts in this video which makes it look interesting and professional.

In the video by Neon Jungle called Trouble it introduces the band by shining a moving spotlight over them individually. I like this idea and think we should use it in the beginning of our music video.

In the video 'How You Doin' by Little Mix there are split screen shots where there are close ups of all of the singers individually but put together in the same screen. We like this idea and want to do this in our video. By having each girl  with a different background shows off our identity within the  band. 

We are taking inspiration from Little Mix's video 'Move' for our dancing shots where  it is quite dark but with bring lights in the background so you get a silhouette effect. we think this looked impressive and professional.

In this video we liked the fast pace, quick cuts, use of lights. I noticed how the pace quickens towards the end of the video and I think this makes it successful. (This was also a piece of advice that Jake Wynn the music video director gave us). It is very fast but then ends on a longer shot which helps to end the video. I like how there are shots on top of other shots (e.g. blurred lights over the top).