Planning- Extra Research on Rap Music Videos

Because we were still unsure of our second base shot for Ishy's fast rapping sections, I did some extra research on rap music videos as I thought it would help me more on choosing another base shot.

I first looked over Kid Ink's music video 'Sunset'.

I chose this song because it has the sun as a focus of the song which is similar to the concept of our music video. 
From this music video, he only has one main base shot but it is filmed in so many different angles which make it look effective and give the music video a nice structure. Also he uses many locations and he fills it in when the beat is fast to emphasise the beautiful city. This has given me ideas which I will discuss with my group as I think having one base shot it better than two and it will also make our music video different to the original music video by Tinie Tempah as he uses TWO main base shots. 

The second song I chose was Tinchy Stryder's music video 'Spaceship'

I chose this song because the lyrics talk about how the artist has made it when he says 'momma thought I wouldn't make it, but now I'm living in a spaceship'. This suggests that he proved everyone wrong and it follows the same lines as the lyrics to our music video. This video also has one base shot and it looks effective in different angles. Also they have filmed near the river which is what we are hoping to do as one of our main base shots.






Looking over more rap videos has helped me think about our music video's structure more and I think that it is a good idea to use the idea of having one main base shot for rapping scenes as it looks nice. 
I will speak to my group about it and we will decide whether or not to go forward with this idea.