Blogpost 5: Initial ideas on music videos

二手摩托-KeyL刘聪-Hiphop (trap)

SONG LINK: https://youtu.be/QaR07r33_uQ

Type (form) of music video –

Performance based

Realism

Live footage using at the start.

Represents real life of drifters in China.

Camerawork, angles, movement

Lots of Close-ups

Extreme close-ups

High angle

Hand held footage from video camera

Mise-en-scene

Black and white filters

Use of real footage from a video camera before the song which relates to the narrative of the song

Motorbike crossed between traffic (lonely, poorness)

A shadow of the rapper dancing beside the switching of different images

Represent a daily life for drifters; costumes are reflective of people from a low socio economic background

Lighting the cigarette (close up to the brand of cigarette – very cheap one)

Editing

Switching between different shots (usually after a verse)

Shot reverse shot

Though beats

The shadow of the rapper on each scene.

一挑五 – Damnshine 大傻 – Hiphop （a diss song）

SONG LINK: https://youtu.be/YT2t6i5LZx8

Type (form) of music video

parody of a rap ‘beef’

Performance based

Live footage

Camerawork， angles， movement

Worm’s eye

Low angle

Establishing shot

Lots of full shots

Mise-en-scene

Burning a pair of nike shoes – related to their beef on the basketball court

Sitting on a fridge –(word play, the brand of the fridge sounds similar to higher brothers – inter textuality)

Pointing at the watch he wears (satirizes the Higher (Haier) Brothers wearing fake watches)

The king of fighters video games – hinted he is punching higher brothers face and also killing the beat.

(lots of interesting clues inside a diss song)

Editing

Not much edit there – straight cuts from shot to shot

Transition of different shots

Slow motion

Putting another audio in the song (higher brothers song) for diss.

战争 Edison Chen陈冠希 Hiphop in Cantonese

SONG LINK: https://youtu.be/qBh7Dzi97L0

Type (form) of music

Performance based

Narrative

Live footage

Camerawork, angles, movement

Using lots of close-up and extreme close-up shots

Long shots

Full shots

Shots and reverse shots

High angle

Over the shoulder

Mise-en-scene

All of the rappers in the video are wearing worn-out clothing (they look low class)

They are sitting while singing while lots of people walk through the street and nobody cares what they are singing about (live footage, rebel spirit.)

Editing

Transitions between shots are straight cuts

Tonal change through the video are matched to the editing