Ideas for Music Video - Black Swan and Pixie Lott

With a rough plan of the narrative for the music video planned out, we began looking for similar films and music videos that could help us with ideas and inspiring us.The two we found was firstly the opening dance from the award winning film, 'Black Swan'. This was chosen because of the ballet theme and storyline and also the cinematography of parts of the film when the ballet dancing is taking place. Also the second music video for the song, 'Broken Arrow' by Pixie Lott this includes contemporary dancing which shows emotion and fits in with the narrative.                                         
In the opening dance at the very beginning it is a black screen then a spotlight appears and focuses on a ballerina all dressed in white, this could be highlighting she is in a dark place and is trying to get out through the light. This could relate to our narrative for the music video where the young girl is trying to escape from the troubles of her homelike through ballet. I believe using this spotlight will be symbolic to her emotions and trying to get through it and will also relate with the lyrics of the song, 'Battlefield'. 

In addition the extreme close up focused shots of her feet when she is dancing is something also we want to include in our music video to show her technique and advancement as she grows up.The miss en scene for the dance, is a white ballet outfit which connotes purity and innocence which the girl in the video will have as being vulnerable.

Furthermore, Pixie Lott's music video, 'Broken Arrow' is partly based around a contempaory dance routine which is showing her emotions and creating a relationship between the lyrics and visuals, Goodwin's theory. The video also like, 'Black Swan Opening Dance' is dark and has minimal lighting to create a emotional atmosphere.However she is dressed in a black floaty dress in, 'Broken Arrow' which connotes pain. For our music video using dark tones for the style of the video could be affective and supports our decision to video it in black and white.