Inspirations and ideas

We looked at videos by Rihanna because her videos are always different but engaging. We picked up on a few ideas which we thought we could use and interpret in our own film.
Firstly we looked at Russian Roulette:
There is a light beam between 0.36 and 0.55 seconds which we thought gave a great effect.
The editing is brilliant in these videos, and at about 1.09 the scene moves really fast. Cross fading is used frequently and there is a cross faded flash which we enjoyed at 3.05, and at 1.43 there is a fast zoom out.
Another great effect we found was having the foreground in focus and the background out of focus. There is also a fast zoom at 2.36.


Secondly we looked at Rude Boy which is a completely different genre and tempo to Russian Roulette:
Even right at the beginning (0.02) there is a fast forward/reverse manouver, which gives the audience straight away the impression that this video is going to be less serious than Russian Roulette. It is also great editing as it fits perfectly with the music.
We were thinking about lip syncing in our video, and also having shots of just lips as we are considering a song about love. Coincidentally, this song has many lip shot sequences including 1.03, 1.13 and 1.50.


Russian Roulette:




Rude Boy:




One last idea we had was to use photos instead of film. This is a different and original idea. However it would take alot of time to do this, so we are going to research further and decide whether to continue this idea.