Test Shoot - 9/10/10

on our first test shoot of our pop video we filmed the scences of our protagonist in his room, we have also shot the scences when he was in the alley way and he was murdered. we encounted some problems when filming the alley way scene such as it was too dark and the camara could not pick up anything clearly, therefore we have decided to shoot the scene at a brighter time of the day.

location

we have chosen a location in the south wimbledon estates we have chosen this location because we think it can reflect the gritty hard lifestyle over our main protagonist and the hard life he is going through. Another location we have decided to use is a friends room who is also a teenage boy as the protagonist bedroom which reflects his youth but however some sequences in his room we show that he isnt innocent by showing various sucpicious items in his room. we have also decided to use an alley way in south wimbledon which our protagonist gets murdered, we have chosen this location because alleyways are sterotypically known to be dangerous even thought we are going to be filming in the day.

this is a good example of typical grime gang song which glorifies violence. our choice of song is strongly against this and defys the conventions of violent rap and hip hop. whilst having a postive message

Filming saturday 9th october

We are planning to film two of the main scenese of our music video which is the scene showing the post death of the protagonist, the other is the scene of the protagonist at his girlfriends house showing an argument between the two of them which then leads to him leaving in a hurry to continue with his drug selling. we have a clear idea of what were filming on this day hopefully it goes well!

Initial Ideas

Our group plans to make a video to the song Broken Silence which is by a group called the So Solid crew, This song is of a london genre called "Grime" but is similar to rap as seen in america. This song is about the struggles of teenage knife crime, Gun crime and death of people they known, we had an idea to have children miming the words of the lyrics of the song in the video, to show that they also witness whats going wrong with these things in society but we realised that this may be hard to replicate as accessing children of a young age that are able to mime all the words affectively would not be easy. So we decided to have a narrative and display how and why these things may happen through a short story, we aim to let the audience gain a relationship with the protangonist by showing his family life, school life and his life outside of crime to make a point that not all situations are caused by heartless youths, but mislead and confused people who dont know what else to do to earn things they aspire to gain. This video will have intertextuality to the film "Bullet boy" as the protagonists younger brother who isnt a part of any crime at all will also find his brothers gun or weapon and it will cause trouble in the younger brothers life. I think this production would be unique as most things about gun crime are from the victims point of iew and you dont always get to see both sides of the story, This also goes against typical insinuations of rap as it has more meaning and is not just about money, cars and girls. Similar to the music video "Stan" by "Eminem" and "Brendas Got A Baby" by "2Pac" These videos are inspirational as they both involve the audience emotionally into the narrative and get the meaning of the song in the strongest way possible.