17 - analysis of original video

This is the original video of the song 'disclosure' which we are using for our music video.

SHORT SUMMARY OF ORIGINAL VIDEO:
This video follows a narrative and set concept, it has a main character and performer, his role is clear through his costume as he is wearing a 'SECURITY' coat which shows this is his occupation, we follow him check into his job, and then make his way into an abandoned warehouse where he begins to dance to the soundtrack, and then he begins to dance outside in another abandoned area, the video ends with him dancing with another character which was shown at the beginning of the video.

DIFFERENCES TO OUR VIDEO:
Our video will not be similar to the original video.

•  this video follows a narrative and has a character, however our video will not follow a narrative (as house music videos usually don't)
• Our artist is the performer and narrator in the video, unlike the original video which has uses a character/actor as the performer.
• This colour scheme in this video is very dull and grey (which may be down to editing), however this is the complete opposite to our video, as we plan to have very vibrant, bright colours.
• The setting in this video is very  'grunge urban' with dull scheme and abandoned settings, our setting will be very 'retro / modern urban' meaning we will use a lot of bright lights, city scenes, and colours.
• This video moves quiet slowly, our video will be more up tempo in the speed of the shots and edits.

SIMILARITIES AND INSPIRATION FROM THIS VIDEO:
Although our video will be relatively different from the original, we have taken some ideas from this video to use in our own, for example the setting is a very urban setting which will be moderately similar to ours, for example:

 

In this scene of the video, there is a skyline setting of the city, in our music video we plan to use a skyline setting in the city for our artist to perform in front, this is one of the aspects of house music videos that we will be following, the use of city settings and scenery.

Another similarity from the original video, is that our video will also include a lot of tracking and panning shots of scenery (the scenery will not be the same but the type of shots will be)

the main focus throughout the video is the character dancing, in our video we will also have a character in the beginning dancing, and we will have our artist dancing throughout the video aswell, this is a common feature of house music videos.