Intertextual References Dan Black Symphonies

The first intertextual reference we are introduced to in Dan Blacks 'Symphonies' video at the begining is when we see a logo on the face of a planet, we as the audience immidiatly recognise this from the famous 'Universal logo that we see at the start of one of their films. The next clip we see is of a lit up street at night, and the running camera effect with the title of the song shown is from a film called 'Lost Highway'. This again is a recognisable shot from the film. The fourth clip in the video is taken from 'The Matrix' and is given a space effect. There is a clip of the video taken from the film 'Starman'. The theme of space runs throughout and films that link with this genre are often used. There is a reference to the film 'Symphonies' which is where the song title has come from, so even the name of the song has been taken from existing films. There is a refernce to the 'Thunderbirds' series and fits in again because of the videos link with cartoon and space race. There is also evidence of Dan Black switching from sci-fi films to old films made in black and white and taking the reference into his video.
Throughout the video he puts the lyrics onto the screen but cleverly takes the font that was used for credits of a particular film that is recognisable and the song lyrics using that font and style. There are some very recognisable openings to films that are shown in Dan Blacks video, the Bond film 'Goldfinger' has a refernece shown from the original version. The lyrics are displayed in the same style that the credits were as visuals are shown where the credits were. The film 'Bonanza' has reference in the video and also shows the lyrics in the typical cowboy font that you would expect to be the font used in the film. There are links to ;E.T' as it uses the same camera shots and lighting effects which the audience can immidiatly recognise. There is a very clever ending to the video, as it takes all the endings of the films it has copied and uses a shot with the copied font saying 'The End'