Intertexuality

Intertextuality is similar terminology to homage, this is where a film pays respects to another movie by showcasing some aspects in their film. This is somewhat like Intertextuality, the directors take inspiration from other aspects in life, the take certain elements of the things in life such as a costumes, make-up, the shots of the work and sometimes have pieces of their work incorporated into the music video. An example of intertextuality is in Robbie Williams- Let me entertain you. At the start of the music video Robbie goes to bite the head off of a dove then he stops and releases the dove, this in an intertextuality reference to Ossie Osbourne who bit the head off of a bat at one of his concerts.

Another example of intertextuality in this video is in the clothes that Robbie wears has a similar reference to the band kiss and other rock songs, we will use this information in our work when creating a video to make sure that we have some references to other work and therefore the audience will be able to look at our music video and find the references and what image we are trying to put across as well as give them a sense of escapism for the audience. An influence in which I would like to include in our music video would be the use of Flares which are used in Snow Patrol- Run, this I believe would have a really unique effect and when combined with lens flares to create line streaks across the scream would be a great effect and would make the audience more immersed within the story, also it would have some reference the lyrics, and would give the connotation that the flare burning out is almost like the person burning out and changing their life like a new light of a flare.