Infuential Videos: Wiz Khalifa- Work Hard Play Hard

This song is by the artist 'Wiz Khalifa' and is called- 'Work Hard Play Hard'. This video does really relate to our song in the way that it motivated a person, as we go on we are focusing more on the kid becoming popular, will known and in conclusion being a successful artist. This song is definitely something that is in a similar genre, maybe not the visual or the actual story exactly in the video but, this definitely relates to the main principal being Go In Go Hard, our song. They both mean and show that you need to work hard and go in whilst you are doing it, for you to be able to achieve something good. In this Wiz Khalifa video its all about, people working doing there own jobs, all motivated and doing there own thing not lazy or inefficiently, but actually working hard, the result of working hard than leads to playing hard, which is seen at the end of the video, where Wiz gets all the workers acting in the video into one club/room, they mess about and have  party. Wiz Khalifa could be relating to him self for this song, that now he is playing and living life how he wants, due to him putting in focus and attaining the factor of playing hard.


In this video it is not the conventional music video about achieving in life, as other rappers have done this, but is not on this sort of focused level, as other rappers tend to show their wealth and are on a bit more towards the serious level, in comparison to this, keeping it in a celebration mode and showing that something has been achieved in our case it would be the actor to become a real famous artist. In the way we are to portray this is by having him struggle, having to work really hard, keep on going and stay motivated until he reaches the top level of his abilities, he will have a bully, someone who will be deterring him and demotivating him and a girl who pushing him forward, this means tow forces battling it out and as all good videos/stories end the good guy wins beating, with even the bully coming onto his side congratulating him. In comparison to Wiz Khalifa's video they people are there working really hard, they are working to the best of their abilities, Although instead of our take where the main character would become famous, in this video all the people party and have fun, play hard. There is a clear link between the lyrics and the visuals, this works very effectively to get the point across and we will be doing basically the same sort of method, although we will have performance and narrative on continuous strip, some not related and most of it connected to the lyrics.
In terms of the camera angle, the shots throughout are mid shots, this could be represent full focus on the artist, as well as the surroundings, in a sense the people who are behind him, the location is set, letting people know the whole story, another reason could be that the song is not just about him, having the mid shot, gives the chance for other people in the video to be seen, as it is about those who work hard an play hard, there is no full focus on the artist as it is not just about him an he is targeting to all people, although even with this we still having the artist giving attention, by maintaining the eye contact directly towards the audience.

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