Influence in videos =]

The Streets - Blinded by the lights

In this video there are a lot of elements that we as a group believe we can try and emulate and adapt to our own video.
Firstly the Mise-en-scene includes the location (a club or party) the costumes (shirts, smart trousers and ties). These are elements we want to use and so when we saw the video for The Streets we thought that it was very influential as it helped us really piece together how we wanted our video to look.
Secondly the way in which it's filmed with the POV shots and slightly canted angles looked very original for a music video, which is why we experimented with test footage where 1 of us would place the camera in our palm facing ourselves (face framed to 1 side of the shot showing the background always changing but our person staying in the foreground).
Also there was great use of lighting and points where Mike Skinner is practically attached to the camera so he looks like he's floating (an effect used by Spike Lee in many of his movies).
The narrative is also very good because it tells us a story of how his night develops as he does various drugs and becomes intoxicated. He also stumbles across other sub plots like where he goes in the toilet to do drugs and in the other cubical there is a girl and a guy together who become involved in the story.
we were definitely inspired into using similar shots as this video and feel confident that our video will be in a similar genre as 'Blinded by the Lights'