Wake Up by Hilary Duff

I have decided that for my music video I am going to do the Hilary Duff song 'Wake up.' I will shoot the artist singing in front of changing backgrounds of the different cities in the song. I would like to be able to use the comic book idea with the screen being split in a comic book style to show all of the cities at one time. The original video for the song is above.

Sin City Trailer

During my research into the Timbaland music video, I realised the intertextuality to the film 'Sin City' directed by Frank Miller. The use of dark streets and animated rain adds to the comic book effect of the film and the effects in the Timbaland video are very similar.

The shot in the music video where the camera pans over the city also replicates that of the shot of Sin City in the trailer, this shows that the creators of Timbaland's video may be directly basing the video on the movie.
The shot from Sin City:

The shot from Timbaland's video:

Timbaland's Throw it on Me Video

The new video for Timbaland's song 'Throw it on me' struck me as an interesting idea when I first saw it, the use of the big fonts and boxed off shots create intertextuality for the audience, and give a comic book effect which I would be interested to use in my own music video.

I think the use of some of the lyrics being written across the shots of the artist is very effective and makes the video more interesting than just a simple performance by the artist. I especially like the use of the words coming out of the artist's mouth, I think this is a clever effect but I feel if it was not done properly, it could make the video look very amateuristic.



What strikes me as being very impressive about the video is the combination of animation and real footage. In one shot, Timbaland is performing with animated rain falling around him. I am interested to use effects like that in my own video. I also like the use of the split screen to show the Hives and Timbaland performing at the same time.



I also like the idea of the video being a story that needs to be followed and the use of the moving camera shot of 'To be continued' also creates intertextuality to other comics.



Watching this video has given me a few ideas of what I want to include in my music video, however during my generic research I will be looking at several others as well.