Evaluation link between the Twilight film and our music video

When we were planning our storyline, we decided to incorporate some scences from the film Twilight. Part of the story was similar to ours, so we decided to make a link and copy some of the scenes. However we were still careful to make our video unique and different.

Bedroom scene

In Twilight, Bella has a dream of waking up and seeing her partner standing in the bedroom watching her. However when she wakes up startled and looks over to were he was, he is not there.



We decided to do a similar thing. We had Becky asleep with Ricky standing in the corner of the room. We then filmed Ricky sat in the bed watching over her (as a dream) She then wakes up and eagerly looks to see him, but he is not there.







Tree scene


Another scene we took inspiration from was the tree scene. In Twilight, Edward carries Bella to the top of a tree and tey share a moment there. So when we filmed in Regents Park, we decided to film Becky and Ricky in on of the trees in the wooden area.





We chose to incorporate these things as we knew the film twilight is very popular, and we felt it would help give our video some popularity. The use of intertextuality would mean when the audience watches the video, they would think "This reminds me of Twilight" and therefore when they watch Twilight it would remind them of our video. However this would only work if they had watched the film, otherwise they would not understand the reference.

This makes our music video postmodern, in the fact that nothing is original and there are no more new ideas, so idea are copied 'borrowed' from other texts.