http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Muller
usual style:
- Close-ups of artist
- Animation and lights
One music video she did is 'Murder on the Dancefloor' by Sophie Ellis-Bextor
The music video centres around a dance competition. The winner's prize consists of a pair of golden high-heel shoes and a substantial amount of money. Desperate to win, Ellis-Bextor proceeds to sneakily injure and disqualify the majority of the other dancers. She causes one to slip on butter, before tripping-up another, who sees her do it and angrily points at her to no avail. Next she slyly poisons a trio of potential rivals by spiking the punch during a refreshment period and then unstraps a female contestant's clothes causing her to run off. She finally frames a male dancer of cheating on his partner, by planting a G-String on his person, this results in his partner slapping him and exiting the dance floor. Ellis-Bextor then turns her attention to the trio of judges. By using what seems to be chloroform, she incapacitates the only female judge on the panel. Once the competition is down to the final four couples, Ellis-Bextor notices that the lead judge has a weak spot for beautiful women. Using this to her advantage, Ellis- Bextor approaches him when he is alone at the judging table and seduces him. Lovestruck, the lead judge succeeds in persuading the remaining judge to have Ellis-Bextor declared the winner, much to her fellow dancers' disapproval. The video concludes with the other dancers grudgingly applauding (before promptly deserting) Ellis-Bextor and her dance partner, as she happily clutches her cash prize and the golden shoes on the winner's podium.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_on_the_Dancefloor#Music_video
Another music video is 'She Will Be Loved' by Maroon 5
The beginning of the video features the lead singer, Adam Levine standing in front of a swimming pool. As he prepares to dive in, flashbacks appear: a younger woman swimming in a pool, Levine and the younger woman sharing a kiss, Levine comforting another woman who appears to be in distress, the older woman hiding alone in her car, and the older woman embracing the young man. Levine then dives into the pool via front flip and cools down when submerged underwater, unaware of what's to happen to him in falling in love that summer, while flashbacks appear: both women are walking side by side in the city, someone watches them from his/her car and the three protagonists are face to face.
When the young man and his girlfriend attend a social gathering at her rich parent's home, the couple dive into a swimming pool and kiss. After which, his girlfriend introduces him to her socialite mother, who is helping her dry up from swimming and glances in the young man's direction, who is captivated by the older woman upon seeing her for the first time. However, everyone, except Levine, are oblivious to the fact that not everything is going well in the mother's relationship with the much older man. After the mother goes to her husband for affection, the old man has appeared to grown tired of her and would rather talk with the other wealthy men about his status, neglecting his wife. Having her love unrequited, the mother twirls around seductively, catching the attention of several male guests
One night, the young man descends down the stairs and finds someone unconscious in the room. Recognizing the unconscious to be the mother, the young man goes to revive her and flashbacks reveal the cause of the mother's condition... Earlier, the mother's husband began inflicting verbal and physical abuse on her. When the mother tried to apologize, the old man immediately silenced her by smearing her lipstick with his hand and striking her across the face. Horrified of the abuse from her husband, she left to their mansion and concealed her face of the ruined makeup in an attempt to avoid suspicion from the party guests. Descending the stairs, however, she succumbed to the trauma and fallen unconscious. In the remorse, the mother awakens to find herself being comforted by the young man and they kiss.
After the kiss, the young appears to become more protective of the mother, parking his car outside a building one day to watch her and his girlfriend go shopping.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Will_Be_Loved#Synopsis
A third one is 'Love Today' by MIKA
It is noticeable that in many of her videos she puts emphasis on the artist, and if their is a story it revolves around the artist. She also uses animation, for example in the background of Mika's video you see the black and white spiral.
A final music video is 'Crying for No Reason' by Katy B
This music videos is one of Miller's more recent videos. She puts emphasis on lights, animation and close-ups of Katy B.
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