CD Cover Research 1 (Eminem - Recovery)

Video Mise En Scene

For our music video we need to concentrate on what we want to be seen in our video. We need to think about what looks good and what are some conventions in a Grime music video as that is what genre we are doing. Looking at some similar UK Grime artists and where they located their videos, the one that we liked most was Kano ft The Streets - Nite Nite.

This video is located on the beach cutting from night shots to day shots and it goes well with this type of song. This song is very similar to the song that we are doing with the emotions reaching out to the audience and it is sort of a slow song like ours.

In our music video one of the main locations we will be using is Brighton beach and the pier. Hopefully it will be a clear cold night so that will give off a good effect and also during the day it should be nice. We will be using Tyler's car and we will be shooting a couple of shots inside and outside of it. These types of shots inside Tyler's car are typical and they are in nearly every Grime video. They use these shots to show a sense of wealth and power.

On screen there will be shots of Casey walking along the pier and the along the sea front skimming stones across the water to give off a sad and depressed look. He will be standing not dead in the centre of the camera as we will want to show the audience what is behind him in the back ground. The shots of the waves will be in our video asit gives off a calm relaxing mood and it goes with the lyrics in our song.

In this video 'Nite Nite' it is different to most Grime videos as we are not seeing the big flashy cars and the flashy clothes and chains. Kano looks very casual and he looks approachable. He is just walking casually down the sea front and in the flash backs shown when he is walking with the girl down the road he is just being normal like any other person would. Not like in the big American rappers videos where they would most probably would be in a flashy car driving down the road.

Grime Genre

As a group we have decided that the genre we are going to do as our video is UK Grime. We have looked at many different videos that relate to this and many famous artists that this genre relates to. For example we looked at videos from tinie tempah including pass out, frisky and miami to ibiza. In miami to ibiza, tinie tempah collaborates with the swedish house mafia which are a drum n bass band. Here are some images from this video. In our video we will use similar images to this as it will suit our genre of UK Grime.

In these photo's tinie tempah (the artist) is a stereotype of a typical grime artist. This is due to his clothes. For example he is wearing sunglasses and black leather jackets. This is what we will be using in our music videos.

West Papua Torture Story

What happened?

In the video we see many civilians of West Papua being tortured in brutal ways such as; being kicked in the face, strangled, trodden on and just severely beaten. I think this is totally out of order and should not be happening, I think that there must be a problem in West Papua for this to be happening, the people that are torturing the civilians must feel out of power or need to get a lot of anger off their backs for them to want to do this because there is no other reasonable explanation. So I think that there is a power issue in West Papua and this needs to be resolved soon before this torture leads to death.

Would this of come to light if there was no mobile phone footage?

I don’t think that this would have come to light, because after seeing the footage it looks like a normal occurrence and that it has been happening for some time so therefore no one would have known that this was happening.

How has this type of reportage ( mobile phones used by non-journalists) influenced the way we receive and perceive information?
This type of reportage has opened the worlds eyes to many things that we didn’t think occurred however they do, I think it also makes the rest of the world realise the seriousness of what is happening in other countries and makes people realise how privileged we are.

What other examples have you seen recently?

An example of this that we have seen recently is the death of Neda Agha Soltan, we saw her die on a video phone during the Iranian protests in 2009. This is a very similar incident however people would have known about this because it was at a worldwide event

Permission Letter

Location Shoot Planning

Favourite 2 Music Videos; Guardian website

Favourite 2 Music Videos:

Cee Lo Green – F**k You

My favourite music video on the Guardian website was the “Cee lo Green – F**k You” video. There were many reasons behind this being my favourite video and one of these is because the music has a very pop style to it. And pop is one of my favourite styles of music, also the video is an amusing one and also pretty different from regular popular videos.

I like the idea of a younger person doing the performance in the video, it gives younger people a chance to enjoy the video because alot of pop videos these days are very sex related and immediately blocks out the younger generation.

Another reason why I like this video is because of the way it is a type of storyline type of video and that we are progressing through the video with the song, this is because we the person in the video walking through several different locations.

However overall I think this was my favourite video because of the genre of the song and the way that the video will be targeting a younger audience than a normal pop video. My favourite part of this video is the fact that we are taken through the video throughout the song and are shown several different locations.

Radio Head – Live in Praha

I really enjoyed this video because of the way that the band got the audience involved and the way they pleased there audience. Even before the band began singing the crowd were screaming and clapping and getting excited about the bands performance.

Another thing that I like about this video is showing how good the bands talent and ability is, this shows that the band are not edited like some artists in the music industry at the moment and that they can both perform live and record a song in a studio.

Another thing that I like about this video is that the band are playing instruments, this shows that they are multi talented and that they are a complete band that can both sing and play instruments.

My favourite part of this video is the instrumental parts of the song, it shows really good quality in music and instrument playing and shows that the band are very versatile and also enjoy their music, this is because alot of artists neglect instruments in their songs and just sing and rely on the rest of the band/partners to play the instruments.