Task 6 - Influence of Style

Influence of Style on PhotoPeach


I picked these photos as influences of style. I think they have inspired the type of music video that i want to make. I looked a bit at my artist and another artist from the genre. The artists both wear all black costumes excluding accessories such as chains and I think this is the modern day look for the hip-hop style where as an older hip-hop style might be a lot more flashy and bright. I think in my video I will mainly be looking at the modern style as the artist is very modern and my choice of song will be as well. The costume also goes with the type of video that the artists make which are usually very dark. They use hard lighting and colour filters to show a very dramatic video. I looked at some of the styles in the artists such as influences from 80s style arcades and oriental influences. I also looked at a photographer called Brassai who I think will be really inspirational to my video because of the lighting. I like the silhouette style long shots as well as Brassai's two shots with a romantic theme which is used in a few of the videos in the genre. I also added the film Sin City 2 as an influence. I feel the black and white style can be conventional in the genre but I also like the hard lighting and high contrast. I also like that they use the colour red to symbolise violence as I have found is conventional in the genre. From this, I feel I have a much better understanding of what I want from my video and have been inspired by other sources that I will be reffering to throughout the construction faze.