Pink Floyds Original Music Video Compared To Ours

Today I thought it would be a good idea to go back and re-watch the Pink Floyd – Money, original music video. The reason I am doing this is to explain how we are doing things differently compared to the original.

Below is the original video:

To start with, the original video is a narrative, and so is ours; however, the meanings are different. The purpose of our music video is to bring up current issues using an old song, for example, we will include in our video dementia awareness, drug awareness, the money monopoly going on with corporations and todays crime awareness.

This may seem like we are trying to be too ambitious. However, I asked some people what they thought of the ideas and they believed it would be possible to pull off these subtle meanings; these interviews will be in a future post. We have also spent plenty of time and our own money investing in props for filming as well as plenty of time thinking of possible locations where we would like to shoot to make the viewer believe we have spent weeks filming and not five afternoons.

Back to the original music video, the video starts with a big sequence of money being produced and what rich people have bought with it. This implies to me that the money was only being generated for the rich and taken from the poor. In our music video during the money sounds, we will cut through some shots we have of fancy cars and old newspaper articles on cash crisis, as well as some scenes of our other scenes. We plan to get loads of cut shots of money floating about, like it is a fantasy to the poor but familiar to the rich, this is all during the first 30 seconds of the song. However, before the song starts, we will add another story. We have two senior men that will be sat around a table talking two each other; we will then flash back to a robbery they commit when they were younger, then shoot back to the current time - 2019, where one of the senior men will get up and play the record, then the song will start. I believe this will engage our modern audience more by adding a bit of a back story compared to the original.

Then, throughout the original video Pink Floyd brings up political issues, something we will subtly delve into but not thoroughly as that would make our video too controversial, this is something we did not plan on doing as we don’t believe we have the time and power to represent this correctly. As well as this the corporation monopoly has become less relevant as time has moved on, so that is why we did want to touch on it a little as that is what the song is about ‘Money’, but we wanted to add a modern twist to it.

Throughout the original music video, Pink Floyd, show that people were getting underpaid in the 70s by these massive corporations and how companies were treating their workforce like slaves. In our music video, we are going to have a scene, where we burgle a mansion of a business owner, then proceed to burn their money in protest. We believe when we burn the money we need to make the scene memorable, to do this, we will include close-ups of the burning money as well as a fast frame rate, so that we can add some slow motion.

Finally, the last thing that I picked up from the original music video, was that the ending happened very abruptly. We plan to make our last shot as memorable as possible, where we will have the two senior men at the table and a slow dolly pull movement outwards; I believe this shot will be the reason that people will want to watch this video again.