Music Video - Draft Ideas

This is a draft for the ideas of our music video. The concept of the video is to illustrate the lyrics. The rapper is speaking to himself through a camera. This is meant to show that he is disturbed, angered and somewhat depressed.

The title at the beginning (Yonkers) shows the name of the song we could possibly be doing by this artist. The other on screen titles show some of the words which the second character of the song is saying (this character is meant to be the disturbed voice who is 'controlling' the main rapper).

Our main focus on the music video will be with the editing. The editing is crucial to represent the entire theme of the song, and to ensure that not only it goes to beat, but that the music is in sync with it all. The cinematography also plays a huge role in the music video as not only do we have to focus in on the rapper, but focus in and out of the camera to show the view he would see if he saw himself. This is difficult and our draft doesn't quite represent the idea's just yet.

The music video will be primarily black and white, with some special effects, overlays and certain colors which will appear unedited. This is to make points of interest visible to the viewer and to give the 'darkness' of the narrative much more of a meaning.

Our places of shooting the video and costumes are still being decided so this draft does not entirely represent the mise-en-scene which will be  shown in our official music video.