The Thrills Influence.

The Thrills' music, videos and image are all heavily influenced by 1960's/70's America, particularly the west coast. They've been discribed as retro, surf pop, country, rock and indie, which allows us to be more inventive as it gives us a wide scope for making a music video for them as it doesnt have to fit many conventions of a particular music genre. The most constant theme that runs through The Thrill's entire body of work (music, lyrics, videos, image, album covers and advertising), is 60's/70's America. This is evident through lyrics such as "hey, hey you're the Monkees, people said you monkee'd around", the california settings of their videos, the old-fashioned, slightly sepia tint that they use on the shots in their videos and many more nostalgic American references in their songs.

In our video, we plan to try and capture the 60's/70's American spirit by using historical references such as the hippie age, Bob Dylan, and John F. Kennedy, and also striving to create the same sepia effect on our shots that is particularly evident in 'Big Sur' (image shown below).

We are also going to further this nostalgic 60's America notion, by using intertextual references in our video. For example i have researched televsion programmes, films and bands/singers that were around during the 60's.

Television programmes: The Beverly Hillbillies, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, Scooby Doo, Popeye and The Alvin Show.

Films: Lolita, The Music Man, To Kill A Mockingbird, Psycho and Spartacus.

Bands/Singers: Elvis Presley, Surfaris, The Crossfires, Marvin Gaye and Bob Dylan.

Although some of the above are better known than others, we will try to include a few intertextual references sourced from them to make our video as authentic and in tone with the rest of The Thrill's videos.