Inspiration & Themes

The person that inspired us was the well known music video director Spike Jonze, in particular his video "Drop" by rap group Pharcyde.



We found the reverse time effect very interesting, and decided we wanted to incorporate it into our own video. However one major difference is that we wont have any performance shots in our video, so we will not have to worry about lip syncing backwards. By doing it in reverse it will help add to the twist at the end of our video.

Another source of inspiration was the film Fight Club by director David Fincher

This film was particularly inspirational due to the exploration of the human mind, and an insight into schizophrenia, a theme we are portraying in our music video. By using 2 people to represent 1, we are shown an insight into the main characters alter ego, in the case of Fight Club portrayed by Brad Pitt.

Song Choices

At first we chose to use a song from the soundtrack to the game Quake 3 Arena



We first chose this song because it had lots of different sounds, and a nice build up to an intense beat, it also suited our original location. In the end we decided not to use the song as our location became in accessable and could not find a suitable replacement location that could fit the song.

We changed our idea and location and chose a new song, White Light by Gorillaz



We felt that this song has the intensity that we could build our ideas around, whilst still incorporating some of the original ideas we had in mind. The constant repition of "white light" allows for an opportunity to have many cutaway shots from the narrative, and the calm and mellow section in the middle is a good opportunity to have a drastic change of tone and pace to keep things interesting.

Location Shots

These are location shots we took of our original location, however the location has since become unaccessable and therefore we have to change it.

Introduction To The Group

Eric Elavia

Role: Director


Tom Bell

Role: Cameraman


Steven Dollman

Role: Editor