Preliminary exercise: Music video extract
Task: Create a short extract of the music video you plan to make for your video production coursework. 1) State the song and genre you have chosen for your music video. The song is called ' I'm not racist' by Joyner Lucas The genre is hip hop, rap. 2) Choose at least three music videos similar to your song or concept and watch them several times. Make bullet-point notes on everything you watch, commenting on camerawork, editing and mise-en-scene. Common - Letter to the Free slow paced camera movements low-key lighting The video is in black and white to emphasise the meaning of the song and not to take any attention away from it The prison setting is used to give audiences an insight into the problems of the prison system and how bias it is against black people. Gilroy's idea of black diasporic identity can be applied to this music video Hall's theory of race representations Donald Glover- This is America Black and ...