Intertextuality

Regarding intertextuality we looked at many videos to decide on what shots to use for the recording of the performance clips as inspiration. We decided to take shots from the front, but as close ups from the chest/shoulders and up as we felt it was best to focus on the face and the emotion for the deliverance of the lyrics. It's also similar to our song in its genre and target audience so that helped.
Also we decided to use shots without any of us in them and just of scenery like in the actual use somebody video and in many others as we felt it created a nice calming effect without much effort, and since it happens so much we consider it one of the conventions of the videos of this genre and decided to use it for that reason.