Examples of Other Texts

As me and Molly have different tastes in music, we have met in the middle and decided to go with an upbeat Indie song. As Molly prefers to listen to Hip Hop and R'n'B more than the Indie genre we first listen to songs written by the likes of Kanye West. Although he has nothing to do with the Indie genre we both agreed that we love the way he expresses himself through music and how he holds himself as an artist. We both agreed that we want our band to hold the same confidence as he does and to portray a great persona. Thus resulting in one of our influential texts to be Black Skinhead by Kanye West.

For someone that enjoys a wide variety of music, I feel that the Arctic Monkeys, an Indie Rock band have played a huge influence on me personally, I love the way the conduct themselves and believe their style is second to none. I believe that they influence me as a listener and think that they are a brilliant band and the music they produce is unique and different to others of the same genre. For this reasoning the song "Snap Out of It" is an influential text for me personally and if I had no budgets and the capability to recreate this video, without a doubt I would.

Other influential texts would be "Lights Out, Words Gone" by Bombay Bicycle Club. The band themselves we see as very similar to the band we have created both in style and song production. They have a very similar style, simplistic and casual yet sophisticated. They are all we reasonably groomed and believe the type of music they produce fits our bands image perfectly. Not only does style and image play a huge role in terms of how the video is viewed but it is a way of the band expressing themselves whether that be through bold coloured and pattered shirts or just a plain and simple t-shirt and black jean combination. I believe that with a high quality product and awesome music video the success of the video can be down to the execution and ideas. Bombay Bicycle Club are always very creative with the idea in their videos, examples of which can be found in "Sleep Alone", "Luna" and "Beg".