My chosen music piece is " The Spider And The Fly" which is a rap with a man playing the spider and a woman playing the fly. The rap artist i have chosen to advertise is called ' Master Disaster' or 'MD' for short . This works well because the 'Master' shows dominance where as the 'Disaster' shows violence a topic which most rap artists thrive on. It uses a play on its rhymes to make a link between the spider praying on the fly to men praying on women. Their playful banter (although its meant to be from a spiders an a flies point of view) keeps the audiences attention with the sexual play on words . For example, the spider mentions to the fly about resting on his bed and says he will 'snugly tuck you in ' the fly then replies that things that stay in his bed never wake and the spider gets very offended by this and makes accusations to the "ladybug" saying stuff about him. this is familiar to when a man gets a name for himself as a bit of a get around. a use of elongated words and a creepy sounding voice tells the audience that the spider is the bad guy. where as, the high pitched , very feminine voice of the fly tells use that she is the damsel in distress character with a twist . you find out that because she is to smart for the spider he cannot have his way. i think that because of the way that the two characters in the music are portrayed as opposites they should be shown as such on the video . For example, the spider is quite a dark character so he should be shown as such with a dark dingy miese-en-scene where as the fly should have a bright and beautiful miese-en-scene.
The genre of the piece is a form of tongue in cheek rap much like Bus ta Rhymes Woo Haaa ,due to this i am planning on having a series of wide angle shots, close-ups and strange angles in order to create a surreal atmosphere. The tune in the for ground is very upbeat and a good use of a synthesiser tells audience audience that the genre of this piece isn't a serious one. Due to this my video must have a fantasy feel to it. Due to this my target audience is 15-20 year old male teenagers , i chose this gap because due to the sexual intent of the lyrics it couldn't be heard by people under the age of 15. However, due to the immaturity people over the age of 20 will rarely find it entertaining.
What i will need to have in my video:
: there will need to be a contrast between the miese-en-scene of the spider to the fly(jux-to-position)
: there will need to be a use of costumes in my video (spider and fly costumes like Dizy Rascals shark costume on Bonkers)
: use of odd angled shots and different coloured shots to create a surreal feel in my video
: use of props (such as a bed) in order to follow Goodwin's theory.
: Good use of shot reverse shot ect to show conversation between spider character and fly character.
1 comment:
Excellent ideas for the production. But who is your artist (make one up)? Who are your target audience? What channels will you aproach your target audience through? Hip Hop videos have very high production values. How will you approach this problem with no budget to speak of?
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