The document outlines Oscar Gibb's initial plans for generating music video ideas for a class assignment. It provides 3 potential music video ideas for different songs: 1) A dancer walking through a city and countryside to the song "Renegade - Friends Within" exploring different aspects of their identity. 2) A portrayal of Logic where the student poses as him writing and performing his song "Midnight" while hinting at themes of abuse and bullying. 3) A parody version of Post Malone's "Candy Paint" set on a countryside farm showing tools and tractors instead of flashy clothes and objects. Strengths and weaknesses of the ideas are discussed, along with potential research topics like other cinematic rap music videos.

1. Initial Plans
Oscar Gibb

2. Idea Generation
• Select a song/track that you like [or don’t like!]
• Generate three ideas for music videos employing styles, techniques
and conventions that we have looked at in previous sessions. Explore
how you could interpret the song differently using different methods
• You can add any extra info you think is relevant, images, mind maps,
etc
• For quick mind maps you could use bubbl.us to generate these

3. Remember…

4. Idea one
• The video will be 2-3 minutes taken from the song by Renegade -
Friends Within
The video will follow a dancer with just a speaker as he walks the
streets of york and a remote pathway in the countryside as his clothes
change which creates a difference of who wants to be and who he
really is which was inspired by the song Avicii – levels this idea was
created due to how every music video is just them in front of their nice
cars and no music video shows talent which allows a viewer to be
interested to see someone with talent like dancing other than them in
front of their expensive cars etc.
I will use a combination of medium shots and close ups with worm eye
views to create the theatrical effect when they dance, there will be a
number of different shots like long shots, wide shots but will mainly
focus on the medium as it allows to make the dancing more effect and
over power everything else that may be in shot.

5. Idea two
• This idea will be the music video for Logics – Midnight
This would be a much easier video to produce as it is a very quick rap
but a chill beat for most of the song so I may pose as a wannabe logic
with posters of him in my room then go out in the countryside writing,
dancing and singing a song I have created which will be Midnight. He
preferably wears hoodies and circular glasses. It will just be a standard
music video for a regular song but the child will be a victim of abuse at
home and a victim of bullying due to how logic does a lot of work for
the community like his song on suicide. The song may be able to gain
more popularity as it hints to it linking to the fact that the abuse
happens to everyone.
I will mainly use close ups to extreme close ups to show my technique
and skill with a green screen as well as a lot of medium to long shots.

6. Idea three
• The video will be for Post Malone's song – Candy Paint
It will be a countryside parody of a regular music video as instead of all
the nice flashing clothing it'll be a farmers mucky clothing and will be
mostly filmed in the fields as they show off all the land and farmer
tools they have as they talk and show off the tractors. This will be an
inference due to how ,because of the current rappers just rap about
inanimate objects.
This would use a lot of long to wide shots with a lot of a of close ups as
I would stay away from filling it up with medium shots as they are very
stereotypical.

7. Mind map of ideas
[summary of ideas]

8. Summary
• Strengths of your ideas you could use
• It shows a serious scene which may allow the viewers empathize with
it.
• It allows me to be creative with what I do as the song I prefer is bout
I'm becoming the famous star he is so I get to do the build up and
research who he used to be.
• It also allows me to get used to using a green screen and get used to
different editing techniques.
• Weaknesses of you ideas
• It may rely on after production editing as the effects are the main
part
• It has to be shot mostly in the day due to the backdrops
• It may be very limited to the shots and angles due to a lack of
help/cameraman etc.

9. Final idea – artist/title/info
• Midnight by Logic
• His real name is Sir Robert Bryson hall 11 was born in Maryland and
is an American rapper, singer/songwriter.
• Childish Gambino, Eminem etc. lyrical rappers
• Rap tends to be violent explicit language and not used to make the
political or socialistic views across logic is a different kind of rapper as
he goes against the stereotypical views on rappers being aggressive
etc.

10. Final idea – track summary
• The song begins quite quickly like a regular rap son but then changes
drastically and the beat slows down with the pace of the lyrics as this
may allow the setting of the music video to change with the beat

11. Final idea – your idea
• My video will be in the style of a regular rapping video just the
scenery and backdrops are all in the countryside's its against the
stereotypical expectations of rap videos being in a nightclub etc.

12. Final idea – techniques and styles
• I may use such techniques like using the green screen and for effects
like placing odd scenes on a different backdrop. I may also use the
mirror effect on premier pro as well as some other after effects

13. Summary
• Strengths of your ideas you could use
• The after effects may be much better than the actual production
• It may create a different style of rapping video as it trangresses
stereotypical views
• The backdrops will be much more cinematic
• Weaknesses of you ideas
• May be too reliant on after editing
• Limited to what shoots and angles I can do
• The song doesn't’t have a proper meaning so makes it hard to give it
one

14. Potential research targets
• I would research other cinematic rappers who have made very
successful music videos like Childish Gambino as he links to
researching lyrical rappers too.I would also research normal
cinematic music videos from different genres like indie music and
many others.