Lauren-Hello guys, for our music video we have chosen the song ‘Oughta Know’ by Das Racist. It is an alternative, hip-hop, Rap song.
Hannah- we chose this song because it’s up beat with a hint of quirkiness. We didn’t want to choose a slow song because we prefer the idea of creating a concept based video which stereotypically goes with fast tempo songs.
Jess to help us come up with ideas for our music video we have looked at different conventions of other music videos. That is part of the same genre.
Lauren- to start with we looked at ‘Beez in the trap’ by Nicki Minaj. To start with we found that her video confirms to a lot of conventions of hip-hop and rap. Some of these include, bright colours, long establishing shots, often in slow motion, outrageous outfits and close-ups, focusing on jewellery and confetti on this video in particular.
Hannah- another convention that the ‘Beez in the trap’ video conforms to is the location’. One location was a club, including flashing lights and people dancing- when the rapping scene starts the scene changes to a dark room, with nothing on the walls, just a plain room with the artist and the feature rapper.
Jess-after working out ideas for our video, we can tell both ‘You Oughta Know’ and ‘Beez in the trap’ will be linked as they are both conceptual based.
Lauren- we asked our self what the meaning behind her video was and figured out ‘beez in the trap’ meant through her career and gaining her lifestyle she has received enough popularity and fortune to be able to do what she wants. This music video explains to the audience this is how she feels.
Hannah- ‘a hundred mothafuckers can’t tell me nothing’ also to show the meaning because she believes no one can’t tell her to do anything.
Jess- in this video Nicki is represented in different ways. She does have a normal trend of trying to look like a Barbie, by her make-up and her hair colours. She uses her bottom and boobs a lot so she is shown in a sexual revealing way also by jewellery as a girl gangster.
Lauren- when looking at the relationship between lyrics and visuals we realised when Nickis song ‘Beez in the Trap’ she was sitting in a trap of fencing wire.
Hannah- Also when she sings it, she is showing money to show what she means which is ‘She has enough money, she can do anything she wants’. Lastly she pushes her jewellery to the camera which says ‘Beez Trap’.
Lauren- for our music video we are NOT GOING TO SOUNTHAMTON (HAHAHAHHA) we have however decided on a few different locations.
Hannah- one of them is montom leisure centre, we are going to use the squash courts and the swimming pool after closing time for further filming, another location would be a forest and also st.leonards hill.
Jess- we have also decided on some of the props that will be included these are: forest animal masks, fog machines, smoke bombs, dining table, plates etc, powder paints and strobes.
Lauren- we are going to base our video around the most common lyrics in the song which is in the chorus ‘you should never argue with a crazy mind’. This word makes us think of conceptual, so we have decided on conceptual based for our video, with the main idea of making the video odd, crazy and random.
Hannah- we also worked out that our video wouldn’t be narrative or performance based after mind mapping all of our ideas.
Jess- the genre conventions that we will confirm to are the close ups and long shorts, different locations, different bright colours and artist rapping to the camera. For casting we have got approvals from some of our friends which are 17 years old, saying they will be small parts in our video. But as for the rest of our cast it is just going to be us three.
Lauren- we haven’t decided in all of the effects yet but some of the ones we will be doing are:
Hannah- quickly flickering between two moving clips or one moving and one still. To get a good idea of this one, Nicki Minaj uses this effect in ‘stupid hoe’.
Jess- we will also be using split screening. This will involve three or more clips being played at the same time, some of the ideas we have are using our mouths singing the chorus’s and miss matching our faces and joining them together. We have also decided to use text in our music video to make the visuals more interesting.
Lauren- lastly another effect is using defocusing and focusing on faces, which is shown here (point) all of these effects we will be done using the video camera and also using my sisters HD camera to catch the detail of the splash when we use the swimming pool. It is also will be done using final cut pro.
Hannah- we do have a few ideas for our music video and these are: to have two or more people running and jumping into the swimming pool but before the song drops we will make the clip jolt to the rhythm of the song. When the song drops the people will then do slow motion in to the water.
Jess- our next idea is to use a forest, which will play parallel to the rapping part, we will put a long dinning table, set with food and plates on it and place it in the middle of this forest. People will be sat around wearing animal masks and the rapping will start with the person at the end. This scene will also include smoke bombs and paint.
Lauren- the last idea for the rapping scenes is to have some running along a road and being filmed by someone who will be sitting in the back of a car. With this idea we are going to try and reverse and fast forward the background.
Hanah- this music video will be trying to represent having a crazy mind to go with what it is saying in the song. Thank you guys for watching
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