British Hip Hop

Rizzle kicks' music is part of the british hip-hop/ rap Genre

British hip hop is a form of urban music from the unineted kingdom, originally influenced by the dub/toasting introduced by Jamaican immigrants in the 1960s–70s, who eventually developed uniquely influenced rapping in order to match the rhythm of the ever-increasing pace and aggression of Jamaican-influenced dub in the UK and to describe street/gang violence, similar to that in the US. UK rap, or speed-toasting, has also been heavily influenced by US hip-hop
Typical istruments used include turntables, synthesizers, rapping, drum machines, samplers and guitars.
The first UK record label devoted to releasing UK hip hop acts was founded in 1986. Simon Harris' Music of Life label was home to rapper Derek B - the first UK rapper to achieve chart success
Grime however has an originination of 'london' rather than the unineted kingdom, making it a slightly different genre, although they are very similar.
Places such as 1xtra and channel AKA are where it is most likely you will find the broadcasting of British Hip Hop
  

Inspiration for a camera shot

 

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Whist watching ‘Scouting For Girls- She’s so lovely’, I noticed the very close tracking shot that was used while he was lip synching ‘I think that you are lovely.’ I thought this make him look rather dopey, which I hope to achieve for my main character. If we did this while he was eating chips, and he was lip synching, it would be a bit disgusting, showing how un-kept he is as a character showing a correct representation. Of course, if this is too discomforting for either the actor or the audience, I would make more of a zoom out to get more in the frame, so the chewed up food is less of a focus.   

Music Video Survey

Letter to the record company

22 St Peter
London
England
W6 9NW

Dear island records,

     My name is Briony Anne Dillon and I am currently studying at St.Annes Catholic high school. I am writing this letter in the hope that you will allow me to use Rizzle Kicks song ‘couch potato’ for my Media A-level coursework, in which we make a music video from an already existing song. The hilariously witty lyrics would be perfect for me to work with. Not to mention that it would be a privilege to make a music video from one of my favourite songs from my favourite band.

If you would allow me to work with this song I would appreciate it very much and it would mean a great deal to me. However, I hope you do not feel pressured and I would understand if this is not possible.

I would finally like to wish you the best of luck for the future and show my appreciation for your work.

Yours sincerely,

Briony Anne Dillon   

Mood Board

This is the mood board I created for the song Couch potato. I included pictures of things that reguarly appear in the video, such as mayonaise, the nagging mother and friends. I also wrote song lyrics over the images to  enforce the purpose of the images.

Music video Treatment

Music Video Treatment

My video will be mainly performance based but still some aspects of narrative will be focusing around our main character, who will be representing Jordan from Rizzle kicks. As matching with the lyrics, I will be focusing on the laziness of a man who is a ‘couch potato.’ I will start with a hilariously dressed mother nagging our main character, followed by the very typically Rizzle Kicks video idea of performing to the camera, where we will need to use lip synching. Lipsynching will be needed almost throughout the video, woven into our short skits of narrative. I then have a moment where he says ‘I don’t no play games yo’ and will show him playing on his x-box for humorous irony. He then says ‘make me a sandwich with a little bit of mayo,’  so we show him eating a sandwich really messily and then through the next line or two, he will be mouthing the words with food in his mouth, whilst still playing his x-box. Next bit I stage in my neighbours gym, I have a close up of the exchange of £30 as say in the lyrics, then when inside the gym, he walks by the clock, it says 12:30 then fast forewards through to one, then camera shows him sleeping, then he wakes up checks his watch and walks out. Next, as it says ‘all I do is watch friends, probrably the reason why ive not got friends’ shows him laughing at friends with no one next to him. Later he says ‘yo getting texts of my ex wanting sex’ so it shows him pull out his phone, and I will speed up the pace of him walking to the girls house, girl opens door, door closes. Then on his ‘way home’ he stops in to the chip shop because it should arrive on the line ‘what? And if I do go out well I’m getting cheesy chips on the way home.’I then return to his house, where he is sitting on the sofa with a big pack of crisps stuffed under his top, and at ‘jobless fat and dumb,’ he pulls out a packet of crisps from under his top so he looked like he was imitating being fat. Mum then comes onscreen to spray deodorant for the line ‘yard reeks having let my bath leak since last week’ my main character seems careless. I then have for the rest of the song him mouthing the responses so lip synching whilst displaying how much of a ‘couch potato’ he is; eating, on his phone, very messy, puts dirty socks on table. Then to end ‘check me out’ will be a mid-shot of him looking rather proud of himself.