Influence

As we were beginning to bring our ideas together, we took a variety of different influences from other videos. The difficulties of visualizing a video is creating an aestetical template to work around, or having a guide line to follow in order to make it seamless.

One artist we though had a similiar music style to Jason Mraz was Jack Johnson. Johnson, however, has a more thematic writing style which he usually puts into his video. Themes such as surfing and beaches are commonplace in his videos. Although this does not directly influence our video, it is clear to notice a motif or continuity in his videos, and these patterns are things that we can take influence from.



We also watched a lot of Parkour videos. The interesting aspect here is the way the city and urban buildings are used. We are intending to use or film around urban buildings, and the dynamics that are in the parkour videos reall exhibit the environment well.