Music Sites For Inspiration

Music sites that i explored were billboard and RollingStone. These two music sites are very influential as they both contain Hip-hop. They also make magazines which feature upcoming artists with their new album and magazine advert covers.

Storyboard

This is the storyboard for our chosen song. The song we chose to do was Moment of Silence by Lucidious ft. Josh Woods. This is a narrative story board as we have gone for a narrative based video, instead of a performance based video. There are still performance based actions used, but it is mainly narrative. 

Our Music Video Pitch Powerpoint

Narrative Theorists

Vladamir Propp was a Russian critic who analysed hundreds of fairy tales in the 1920s. He came up with the concept of defining characters to clearly defined purposes, rolls and functions for the story.

We could use this theorist towards our video when evaluating our characters and the rolls they play. For example in our narrative structure we are hoping to reveal the reality of unhappy family life, the affects of bullying and the after affects of loss. Here we have come to the conclusion to use one character to express the emotions and realities behind these situations. Therefore we have defined the roll of our character as someone who will exploit the realities of emotional ordeals.

Tzvetan Todorov was a literary theorist who suggested that at the main protagonist of a story always starts with a state of equilibrium (where life is normal and happy). The state of normality is then disrupted from an outside force and an event of resolution occurs to reinstate the equilibrium.

We have decided to use this theorist in terms of instating an equilibrium or sorts at the beginning of introducing our narratives main character/ protagonist. This will be shortly lived however because our protagonist will be facing difficulties in all angles of his life (socially and with his family as well as through the elements of social media and the internet). These angles and disruptions will allow us to conform to the theory as they will act as outside forces which disorganise the equilibrium. Unfortunately we are exploiting the realities of how some people would choose to go in situations like this by presenting our character as someone who will never encounter their equilibrium again due to them committing suicide as a drastic measure.

Distinct In Comparison to Non fiction artist

Eminem 

  

Witt Lowry 

Lucidious

Watsky

Distinct 

These are artists which have inspired what out final image for our artist looks like. We have ideas from each artist and incorporated it into our own artist. Each artist here has a very casual style. This is something that we have decided  to go by as it doesn't just relate to Hip-hop, but also pop as well. Witt lowry was probably the biggest  inspiration as he always wears hoodies  and tight skinny jeans. This is a style that  could easily be used for our artist. The bomber jacket has mainly come from Eminem as he is shown to wear a bomber in most videos, after 2012, relating to the tome of Hip-hop. 

Final Clothing Ideas

As production has gone on, we have decided to go for a casual look for our artist. We don't want our artist to wear stereotypical Hip-hop clothing as we have taken inspiration from artists who wear casual outfits.  With a casual look, i believe it can fit in with the old style of Hip-hop, instead of integrating into the new side.

Mood Boards - Setting