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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This video is a influential video due to the relation with the idea we had, of the kid growing up, contrasting to him in the old ways and how he is now living is life. Although our idea is different in terms of our kid is chasing for the dream and aiming to be a star, whilst in comparison to this video, which is based on 'Jaja' the artist and how he was on the wrong path, doing some bad things and how he is now doing well in terms of music and life. In this video there are a few shots that we can think to use, such as when the younger version of 'Jaja', it freezes and says 'Jaja' also the shot where the younger version comes out of the college and the camera is looking up at home and behind him in contrast is the college and the name of it.

The camera shots were clever and very effective, showing that who is a t the top or he feels like that because he has achieved something in life(jaja), this hot was i the roof, similar to what we plan to do. In addition the transitions were smooth, cutaways were effective and you do not realise it as there is continuos editing.  There are a wide range of mid shots and high shots were the camera looks up at jaja once he has achieved the main objective of changing his ways and becoming a better person and achieving in his music. There was some very quick editing, showing the names, places and the times. Some shots were directly looking at the camera and performing which gives that sense of looking and communicating directly with the audience, sending a message, of wrong doings. Also there a lot of close ups on jaja's face signifying the pain and stress, from his wrong doings in the past. for editing there are some moments where the camera freezes and zoom in, showing the key elements, such as when he shakes hands with the guy leading him on the wrong path.

Overall in the video the shots were based and followed the setting of the lyrics, so both interlinked and worked very well, in addition there is the storyline which is Simultaneously showing the performance and the story line, something we have planned to do as well.