Video Influene, 'Tik Tok' - Kesha

'Tik Tok' By Kesha is one of my favourite music videos. It is a strong influence of mine in planning and creating my own music video; there are a number of reasons why i particularly like this video, the main ones being it is fun, sassy and lives up to it's target audience perfectly, relating to the younger generation, teenagers, and their habits at the weekend!

The video was a major influence for me because of the particular aspect of teenage drinking, i found this relevant to my music video 'Waking Up in Vegas' and to a few of the opening lyrics such as ' You gotta help me out, It's all a blurr last night, we need a taxi cos' your hungover and i'm broke'. For the beginning of our music video we are aiming to create an image reflecting the lyrics, and open the song with a teenage girl, ' the morning after the night before'.
This is one of the reasons why i found Kesha's video an excellent example of what we are trying to portray. The beginning of Tik Tok shows Kesha in the bath with one shoe on and the other off, this immediately creates an impression to the audience that she was drunk the night before.
I think the beginning of the video in particular is extremely clever, as the camera shows an empty bottle and her remaining shoe on the floor, then her asleep in the bath, it also shows very quick glimses of the party the night before and intersperses the two shots acting as a pattern, bathroom, party, bathroom etc. The camera shots applied are very effective, as we only see bits of her body, such as her shoes, and her hands and head, before we see her fully.
I am inspired by the opening to this video as it is exactly what i am aiming for in my video, it has given me a number of ideas and camera techniques i could use to create a much more interesting and involved video within only a few seconds.

I have analysed the first verse in particular when Kesha is in the bathroom, again i am very impressed with the variety of different shots all portraying the 'state' she is in. I feel like the aspect of the video has been portrayed brilliantly and i will learn from the different techniques i have seen allowing me to create a better and more effective video, gaining a number of skills and make an impressive music video.