Intertextuality in our music video - Alex

We gained huge inspiration from the 1970s Cop TV show Starsky & Hutch with their introduction of the characters by using a still image of the actor and the addition of text that displays the actors real name and their character's name. We believed the style and retro quality scheme easily linked and matched our music video of 'Stayin' Alive' as both of them where released in around the same time of the era. The implementation of this style also portrays to the audience exactly who is playing what role in the music video so they can easily identify us with the costumes.


Linking to the retro/futuristic style that became very popular in the 1970's, we incorporated the colour scheme from 'Miami Vice' (another popular American Cop TV show) thus creating the vintage overall artistic style that we intended to re-create and replicate in our music video.
Stunts and action scenes in films; for instance "Dukes of Hazzards", became very popular due to the technique and practice needed to master their complexity and dangerous nature for the actor. The inclusion of this technique also helps create a more interesting setting and action being portrayed by the actor as the audience will want to know more about their logic and thought process in doing the action. Furthermore, this popular technique slightly incorporates a sense of comedic tension and edge to the different shot types; because of this we decided to film the ending scenes from different viewing angles to help us display our camera work and knowledge on different shot types.

Get Smart was another good example of our comedy and professionalism that we was influenced to include into our own video, as Get Smart was created in the 1970's, this helped us add to the retro stylisation that was seen regulatory on television in those times.



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