Inspiration

Yuck - The Base of a Dream is Empty

This video has a very hand-made ameteur-ish style, and suits the song well. It features stop-motion as well as vintage looking family home movies, with no performance, and repetition of clips.

Blind Melon - No Rain

The video for this song shows the band performing in a field, interspersed with clips of a girl dressed in a bee outfit dancing. The technicolor effect of the video as well as the way the band look reflects the content and style of the song.

Sum 41 - The Hell Song

This video features dolls performing instead of the artists, with the band's hands intentionally in shot, controlling the dolls. This is a good style of video as it can be adjusted to suit any genre of song.

The Arctic Monkeys - Cornerstone

After The Arctic Monkeys created a video for Crying Lightning, in 2009, the remaining money left for creating this video was $4. The video was directed by British comedian and director Richard Ayoade, who also directed other videos for The Arctic Monkeys. This video shows frontman Alex Turner singing into a tape recorder in a white room, and dancing in an awkward but self-aware manner. There are no edits or changes in the scenery throughout the video until the end when the lighting suddenly becomes sepia-toned and Turner walks out of shot. The other members of the band are not present. This video is similar to the Pixies' video for their song Velouria, which also has no editing and is very simple in style.