This is a few images from Lil Waynes ideo featuring Static Major, this will give a bit of a clearer view of what I ment in My textual Analysis.
Thursday, 24 September 2009
2nd Textual analysis
Lil Wayne - lollipop
Video starts off with a lit up view of New York city, which then allows the beat to kick in, where Lil Wayne is standing in the bathroom getting ready, this shot shows him getting ready to go party, couple of cut shots of different women, that will potentially will be going out with him, then a more close up, story telling shot of him shacking some lollipops, then a few more shots emphasising women as stereyotypical hip hop women, with their big breasts, playing around with money.
The main verse is mixed between Lil Wayne and Static major, so once the chorus kicks in their are several cut shots of the two artists.
Lil Wayne and Static Major are shown to be ready at 0.34 into the video which shows them getting ready to go into the limo, which has just been pulled up outside their mansion, then the second shot is a women dressed in lingerie whom is the driver to go open the door for the pair this is at 0.41 seconds into the video.
A shot that follows through the limo shows the mass amount of women waitin upon the arrival of Lil Wayne and Static Major, several close up of women to emphasise on their beauty, but also shows how typical hip hop women and how they are used as objects and props to premote the artist and the single.
Flashing lights are used to set the theme of a party going inside of the limo, this is very obvious because they lights only started as Lil Wayne and Static major came into the Limo.
1.03 seconds it shows that Lil Wayne has started rapping & a large amount of women start jumping all over him as the limo is shown to be driving around New York City, which is a fairly stereyotypical movie as it shows how hip hop artist lives thier life, spending unbeliable amounts of money on showing off what they can afford and women.
1.31 minutes it shows Lil Wayne ontop of the Limosine, driving through New York City, rapping about all the women, money, cars etc he has had, A guitar scene comes where we the guitar starts playing and through the cut shot it shows that Lil Wayne is playing along to the song.
In the video they show all the worldwide popular luxuries around the world, giving us the message that Lil wayne and Static Major visit all the sites, such as Palm Springs hotel, Casino's showing how American hip hop artist live the life.
At 2.04 minutes it shows that they have arrived at a well lit up Mansion where Birdman ( Lil Wayne's dad) is at the entrance of the party welcoming them in, once again flashing light and vibrant colours are shown as they have been partying and are looking to have a good time, in the mansion with a large amount of women.
As the video is called lollipop one shot is allowed to emphasise a women laying on a vast amount of lollipops, this shot was taken from a birdseye view at 2.52 minutes, then the video goes on for another 2 minutes, with the same concept, of women and the chorus and a dedication to Static Major whom died shortly after filming his first proper Hip hop video into the Music industry.
Friday, 18 September 2009
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Textual Analysis
Killaz Group-Pod Blokiem/Jestem Szejkiem
Pod Blokiem/Jestem szejkiem by Killaz Group was directed by Dariusz Szermanowicz. The video was made to promote a movie about Polish hip-hop/rap culture called “Blokersi” and was also a promo to a first mainstream album by Killaz Group called “Nokaut”.
The video starts off very simply, with a flame to introduce the song, then the rapper is standing thier next to a barrel which is alight and rapping next to it.
He is very stereyotypical with his hand gestures and his baggy clothing.
He is in a dark and deserted area, which looks derelict in the way that the doors are rusty, their is debris all over the floor, thier is a similiar video, from an American artist, with the same concept as this video, Eminems music video Beautiful, it gives the same sort of vibe.
The video has not been constructed and navigated very well as thier is a few different shots, where the artist is rapping but the camera is behind a crane trying to take shots of him rapping.
Then come in the second two rappers, it is the same sort of surounding, however they are outside, also with typical hip hop clothing, baggy clothes, slanghted hats etc, they have a few cut shots int he video half way where they have shots of them greeting their freinds on the streets, then it cuts back to the artist, then they cut back to the crowd of freinds who are standing thier looking intimidating, then they do a crane shot just to emphasise how many of their freinds are actually thier with them.
The third and last artist come into the video, where he is in also the same sort of surrounding to keep the vibe of the video going, he also acts like a stereyotypical rapper, with the baggy clothes and all the hand gestures, the video itself isn't as stereyotypical as an american video but holds the concept of simplicity and keep the video to a minimal as it doesn't to anything extreme, just a few simple cuts from artist to artist, and a few props such as the Barrel on fire.
Killaz Group-Pod Blokiem/Jestem Szejkiem
Pod Blokiem/Jestem szejkiem by Killaz Group was directed by Dariusz Szermanowicz. The video was made to promote a movie about Polish hip-hop/rap culture called “Blokersi” and was also a promo to a first mainstream album by Killaz Group called “Nokaut”.
The video starts off very simply, with a flame to introduce the song, then the rapper is standing thier next to a barrel which is alight and rapping next to it.
He is very stereyotypical with his hand gestures and his baggy clothing.
He is in a dark and deserted area, which looks derelict in the way that the doors are rusty, their is debris all over the floor, thier is a similiar video, from an American artist, with the same concept as this video, Eminems music video Beautiful, it gives the same sort of vibe.
The video has not been constructed and navigated very well as thier is a few different shots, where the artist is rapping but the camera is behind a crane trying to take shots of him rapping.
Then come in the second two rappers, it is the same sort of surounding, however they are outside, also with typical hip hop clothing, baggy clothes, slanghted hats etc, they have a few cut shots int he video half way where they have shots of them greeting their freinds on the streets, then it cuts back to the artist, then they cut back to the crowd of freinds who are standing thier looking intimidating, then they do a crane shot just to emphasise how many of their freinds are actually thier with them.
The third and last artist come into the video, where he is in also the same sort of surrounding to keep the vibe of the video going, he also acts like a stereyotypical rapper, with the baggy clothes and all the hand gestures, the video itself isn't as stereyotypical as an american video but holds the concept of simplicity and keep the video to a minimal as it doesn't to anything extreme, just a few simple cuts from artist to artist, and a few props such as the Barrel on fire.
Synopsis
We decided to go with the Polish rap group called Killaz Group. The song we are going to make a music video of is Manewry.Intro of the song:Lead singer walks towards the camera, with the car headlights shining behind him, making him appear as a shadowy figure. We will need to show two more artist entering the set, we will either do it the same as the lead singer entrance(one after another) or come up with different ones. All the entrances will be shown in slow motion, we will also use jump cuts.Chorus:In the song the chorus appears 4 times, so we will try to come up with different way to perform the chorus each time, different set up, people etc. Person performing the chorus is the lead artist so we will have to keep this factor the same, we were thinking of choosing different locations for each chorus, different clothes, the way people move and act. During the chorus we want the whole set to sing the lyrics with the artist and while doing so, bouncing and moving around in typical to rap genre way. The other two artist will appear in every chorus as well as in the rest of the video but the focus will be on the artist currently rapping.
We decided to go with the Polish rap group called Killaz Group. The song we are going to make a music video of is Manewry.Intro of the song:Lead singer walks towards the camera, with the car headlights shining behind him, making him appear as a shadowy figure. We will need to show two more artist entering the set, we will either do it the same as the lead singer entrance(one after another) or come up with different ones. All the entrances will be shown in slow motion, we will also use jump cuts.Chorus:In the song the chorus appears 4 times, so we will try to come up with different way to perform the chorus each time, different set up, people etc. Person performing the chorus is the lead artist so we will have to keep this factor the same, we were thinking of choosing different locations for each chorus, different clothes, the way people move and act. During the chorus we want the whole set to sing the lyrics with the artist and while doing so, bouncing and moving around in typical to rap genre way. The other two artist will appear in every chorus as well as in the rest of the video but the focus will be on the artist currently rapping.
A2 media Studies
In A2 media studies, we was given two options of which we would prefer to do, either a music video or a short film, me and my other group member Denis Biela have decided to do a music video, simply because we had a go at a short film in AS which we didnt think worked really well for us & we are both fairly intrested in making a music video, however we need to make the decision of which language we would prefer to do it in, English or Polish.
The reason for this is that Denis and two other people intend to Lip Synch the rap & they would rather prefer to do it in polish as it is their first language and they we think that this alternatively would be beneficial, for our group i.e getting us a better grade.
The initial idea is to keep it a simple video, however on the verge of a typical music video, we want to make it reasonably realistic, i.e with the props etc.
We are going to have flashing lights etc to create the effect of illusion in a way.
In A2 media studies, we was given two options of which we would prefer to do, either a music video or a short film, me and my other group member Denis Biela have decided to do a music video, simply because we had a go at a short film in AS which we didnt think worked really well for us & we are both fairly intrested in making a music video, however we need to make the decision of which language we would prefer to do it in, English or Polish.
The reason for this is that Denis and two other people intend to Lip Synch the rap & they would rather prefer to do it in polish as it is their first language and they we think that this alternatively would be beneficial, for our group i.e getting us a better grade.
The initial idea is to keep it a simple video, however on the verge of a typical music video, we want to make it reasonably realistic, i.e with the props etc.
We are going to have flashing lights etc to create the effect of illusion in a way.
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