Bands and their inspirations

Band / Track	What is inspirational / creative? Technical approach – camera / editing, mise-en-scene, effects	Where the promo draws inspiration from
Fatboy slim – praise you	The dancing in this is all straight from the spot, as well as the idea for this kind of video being imaginative and creative as it hasn’t been done before.	Possibly what happens in real life as to the dancing and it was making it recognised.
Peter Gabriel – sledgehammer	All stop motion, which would have been different at the time and very unique as it hasn’t been done before, loads of different shots and styles.	Dali with the images of people forming, the face made out of fruit.
Nirvana – in bloom	Breaking conventions / expectations of their own band in the video. They’re all perceived as someone else.	Taken inspiration from an old 1950’s TV show.
REM – everybody hurts	Uses a lot of different shots but remains in the same mise-en-scene throughout a traffic jam. There is narrative at the end of the video.	Could come from everyone joining together to help each other in times of need, or moving on from what’s happened.
Johnny cash – Gods gonna cut you down	A lot of different celebrities involved in tribute. In remembrance of him.	The inspiration comes from Johnny cash’s life, and is effective in black and white.
Weezer – pork and beans	Reference to viral videos, parody of the viral videos or getting the actual stars from them involved.	This is inspired by modern day viral videos.
A-ha – take on me	Extremely different to anything at the time, all animation at parts, being dragged into the newspaper. Merges animation and real video together.	This could be inspired by a romance between these two people and that they couldn’t be together but they found a way, as in the video.
Blur – Coffee & TV	It is unconventional as it has some sort of animated puppets that do not follow the lyrics at all which is disjuncture. It is narrative reliant. However there is performance in their as they are seen as if they are rehearsing.	The inspiration could be about simply a person that is missing and found a milk carton with a picture of him and returned home.