Our Life....the problem

With the song we ran into a problem as the 2 artists on the record are unavaliable to record the song, but where i was one of the people that produced it i have rights to use the song for this and have decided that we will use this song to make our music video to. So because we are unable to get the artists we are going to be having different people mime the lyrics so it looks like everyone in the actual video is rapping along to the song. We took the insperation from a song by So Solid Crew called Broken Silence

The Locations we hope to be using...

In this image we hope to use this location as a kind of hang out for the characters to stand around looking shifty and dangerous.

We have thought a lot about what locations we are going to use and we have decided that we are going to use locations that are run down and shifty looking places, such as Elephant & Castle, Stockwell and Brixton.

This area is where we hope to get a line up of the characters and we will pan down the line of people.

We have already taken photos of the places we are hoping to use and the pictures have come out pretty well, and we are going to use some of these places that we have taken pictures of, we will also be using places in our 6th form.

This is a corner that we thought of using for another gang of people to look shifty.

Our Insperation...

We were looking at different kinds of music videos, so we looked at many different videos that have been filmed in the London area. We looked at a particular music video from artist Dizzee Rascal called "Jus' A Rascal" and we liked the idea of people standing in a row with their back to a wall. So we decided that we would use that kind of shot in our music video of people lining up to show that the issues mentioned in the lyrics affect not just the black community but all different types of communities. i.e the Asian community and the white community.

I Cant Believe I Forgot About It

We finally have a song that i completely forgot all about, its a song that i had produced a few years ago called "Our Life" that has alot of issues in it like black on black crime and what young people face today on the streets not just in london but around the planet. So we have decided to go with this song and we have already started coming up with ideas. We decided that we would take photos of places where we could film so we are getting the cameras today....im definatly excited about this project now because i was starting to lose faith.

Another Bump...

we encountered yet another bump in the preparation to our filming, unfortunately the artist we had agreed to use known as Rizla has had to decline a day before we were due to meet with him. This is very unfortunate as we do not have a lot of time to plan our video, film it and then edit it. However unfortunate this is we must push on and so we are now asking one of our old friends who has recorded a few songs, if it is possible to use her songs and record her singing in the video.

We hope she will agree to this as we have had a lot of bad luck over the last few weeks moving on from 2 artists and now on to a third. i don't think that we are going to do very well with the music video as now it really is a last minute thing we have a little over a month to record and edit. So from here on its full steam ahead with this project......i just hope we finish in time.

Teenager Questionnaire

We handed out 12 questionnaires to teenagers and came up with our information for our blogs.

7 people said that they like the story behind the music video. 4 people said they like the use of attractive people/characters in the music video aswell as the dancing, the song/lyrics, materialism, small films, the artist themself over the music video and what it implies. 1 person said they dont watch music videos at all due to the fact that it is full of foolishness, like hidden images and messages.

A Bit Of A Bump.....

We came back to media today after a whole week off and we run in to a bit of a bump. The song that was being made for us by an artist called Phoen!x was unable to be completed due to unforseen circumstances. However Amina came to our rescue as she knows a artist who goes by the name of Rizla who has agreed to let us take one of his songs to make a music video.

On the 10th November myself, Fatiat and Amina are going to meet Rizla to discuss what ideas we have for the music video of his song. We are also gonna ask him what ideas he has about the music video as i believe it is important to have the artists input aswell as our own.