The mirroring effect here was also a technique we used a fair bit, and again to pastiche Rihanna’s “Rudeboy’ music video as well as make intertextual references to the inspirational video used within our research and planning stages of the project. The smoking shots were inspired by a shot from the introductory sequence from ‘True Blood’. The homagistic style of vertical intertextuality is not directly replicating signs from the text but has taken inspiration from it, including the muted colours as shows in the narrative portrayal in our music video. Also the silhouette was inspired by iPod's advertising style which we incorporated as a nod to the music industry.

Still from video

True Blood smoke

iPod silhouette