Friday 15 April 2011
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Friday 14 January 2011
portrayal of deaths in our music video
the portrayals of death in our music video are not done to glorify violence they are simply there to show audiences what happens on the streets of london on a regulaer basis and make them ask themselves whether "it is suppose to be like this?" we are trying to show the bad side of the violence and display how valuable life is and how it should not be ended so easily. we would like to hope that videos like this would help to stop violence in the future if they were widely displayed in the media rather than videos that show people that commit violent acts as powerful or authoritive.
Editing
Editing our music video has been a very long and hard process. it has taken 10-20 hours but we have managed to get it done and successfully. My main aim whilst editing was to create emotion from the cuts that would add to the emotive lyrics used in the song. i have done this by having shots played for longer than a usual music video, this is done to create almpst a documentary feel to make the audience feel that the story was more real. i have seen that this works from watching the video "runaway" and "ghetto gosepel" where the shots are much longer and i have seen this work well. also i came up with an idea to have a flashback just before the protagonist dies this is also done to portray emotion for the character being brutalised and insinuate that life is short. also the shot where the protagonist first kills somone this is mixed with him holding a knife to show that, it is a flashback and it is something he is thinking about. the chorus is used to portray narrative because it adds to the storyline more than the rapping areas does.
Pioneers of the rap/hip hop genre
Rap music first started on the streets of the bronx in new york, the music origanally stemmed from American music and poetry, the poetry at the time had a significant effect on starting the civil-rights movement in America, the poetry eventually evolved into music and became increasingly popular with the rise of block parties in which a whole community would be involve, Dj's at block parties would isolate the percusion breaks of popular soul and funk songs and the rap artist (or MC) would rap over the beat. In the 1990's rappers such as Tupac Shakur (who is also considered to be one of the greatest rappers who ever lived) and his rival Biggie Smalls (Notorious B.I.G) helped to propell the expansion of rap music around the world with hits like "Dear mama" and "Juicy". Eventually in europe hip hop started to evolve from underground music into the mainstream audiences. In Europe rap music was the domain of ethnic internationals and immigrants. In britain rap music was evolve into a sub-genre called grime. Grime started on the streets of east London and for a number of years was exclusivley produced in London by artists known as Wiley and Dizzie Rascal who have now brought grime more into the mainstream and have now manageded to spread grime to America and have started collabarating with American rappers.
Grime Genre
Grime is a genre used in music videos; these music videos are represented in many ways to show the grime feeling to the audience. The way the music video is represented shows the grime genre, the cloths and the location are big hints of the genre, showing the audience a grime lifestyle. The genre we used for our music video is grime we used many different scenes objects and ideas to make it look like a grime music video. One of the ideas the group though would be great to represent the grime genre is using a storyline about gun and knife crime, the cloths of the characters we used were.....
Thursday 13 January 2011
Reviewing early stages
When we were first presented with songs to make a music video for by our teachers, the song we ended up using (Broken Silence) was not an option. When we first heard the options presented to us by the teachers me and my group were feeling not only dissapointed but nervous because there were no songs we could see ourselves making a music video with. i believe this was the case because the teachers were not aware of the music we were into (grime/rap). This may have been the case because of generational factors, or cultural factors. However we confronted our teachers about the problem we had and they were very willing to allow us to use a song which woulkd allow our creativity to be exploited to its maximum level.
Monday 10 January 2011
Inspiration for shots
I took inspiration from other media texts in order to gain inspiration for our music video, I found the use of extreme close ups work very well whilst trying to show emotions, and considering our music video's key aim is to evoke the sympathy of th audience thse shots would be key. Firstly the use of an extreme close up with a knife... this both allows us to see the victims expression against the prop and the attacker!
I like the way the protagonist is in the centre of the frame, this highlights his vulnerability and allows the audience to sympathise with him. I particularly like the way the attackers hand is in the lefthand third of the frame. In our final music video we used a similar shot, to help portray vulnerability.
This shot is very chaotic as it includes both the protagonist and a police car! this connotations of this shot typically conform to the conventions of a grime music video and violence is dominant and the police is seen as the enemy! I think this shot in our music video could represent the split between wrong and right! I likt the way the frame is split into two, we have also used this similar shot!
A shot of the protagonist on public transport is rather essential, as it represents a journey and it allows us to show the the audience where we have set the video... In our music video an underground sign reading, (SOUTH WIMBLEDON) like the one behind the man in this inspiration shot is used! We stressed the importance of this shot as it represents a typical london atmosphere.
Changing our music for our video!
When we where told about producing a music video, we where all initally very eager to begin brainstorming ideas, however the audio avaliable, didn't necessarily stimulate our thoughts... my group felt that the choices our teachers provided would hinder us, because we could not necessarily provide all the materials e.g. instruments needed to make a believable video. We understood that purhaps our teachers didnt include music that we could possibly relate to, because our idea of relatable music may seem a little risky to them, because of the violent connotations of grime music, my group therefore thought what if we could challenge the typical conventions of a grime music video. We chose broken silence by so solid crew, we picked this song because it was very obvious to us that with this we could achieve our aim! The song broken silence, discusses the difficulties faced by youths caught up in violence. We thought that we had many resources that could realistically portray our attempt to challenge such conventions.
Friday 7 January 2011
Issues with the genre
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