Music Video Wild Child influence

In considering both how i am going to photograph my “wild children” and how to style them i thought it would be good to take inspiration from the music video’s of Florence and the Machine. Her music video’s are often completely crazy and the style of madness and wild nature of the people is what i would like to capture in my photographs.

The first video is “The Dog Days are over”. Basically it revolves around the plot of this group of wild people having captured a sane person and they slowly get her to let loose and join them. All of the costumes in this video are completely bizarre and weird which is what i think really makes a difference in making the people themselves appear so crazy. Colour is a key focus in the the costumes of the people. They are dressed and painted in bold, bright primary colours which make them stand out vividly against the natural environment around them. I think this is important to consider in creating my “wild children” as the dens i am going to be creating are going to be made up of bright and vivid colours and therefore this should also be reflected in the costumes of my portraits. I feel like as i am going to be taking the two sets of photographs separately i can colour co-ordinate elements of the “wild children’s” costumes to the dens, which could look really interesting when the images are juxtaposed together. I think my wild children costumes are probably going to be more subtle then the boldness of the face paint in this music video but it is interesting to consider the impression all bold colours together give. These people look very vibrant and there is an energy to them because of the colours used. I want my wild children to present this childish energy and i think using bright colours is a key way in which to do this. Material also seems to be a very key element of their costumes and crazy hair. I think again it might be quite interesting to have this link between the photographs of the dens and the portraits by including bits of material in the subjects hair or somewhere within the frame. I think it will help establish a further link between the two photographs.

Above is the second music video for “Dog days are over” which i have also taken inspiration from. It is a lot more abstract then the other video through there are some key parts i have picked out to consider. I was planning to mainly photograph just the faces of my subjects and maybe there shoulders. I hadn’t really considered photographing the whole body of the subject but after considering this music video it might be quite interesting to photograph some kind of movement of my subjects. As i have taken the photographs of my dens at night on a low shutter speed it could be quite interesting to take photographs of my subjects on a low shutter speed as well with slight movement. These photographs could then be juxtaposed together or layered and it would create more experimentation towards my final idea. Also in this music video they only use one colour for the subject, a red for both her makeup and her hair. In the above video i was considering using all bold bright colours and i could experiment with the difference of using one bold bright colour to using several.

The above music video i considered because of the effect that light has on the portraits and also again it features movement but this time within an environment. The light in this music video is very bright and abstract to the point that the face shots become blurry with the amount of light. I quite liked this effect of the environment influencing the portrait. It got me thinking how i could alter the photographs so that they are more influenced by the environment to use the effect. Also again the movement in this video works really well in conveying a childish, possessed atmosphere. Material and clothes in this video is also again significant as the flowing material creates a real sense of movement. I feel like if i’m going to take photographs of the whole body of my subjects then i really need to incorporate in this sense of movement and widl attitude and i think this can be done by using material.

The last video is completely different but i wanted to consider it in the sense of how it tells a story. I want my final presentation of images not to tell a story exactly but to have elements of a story. I feel like by including people into my den project it has more connotations of a story and then people can make up their own interpretations.