Research and Planning: A nostalgic look at the bane of my life(Part 1 the main task)

As we stagger towards the inevitable end of this, most irritating of educational journeys, I am here to take you through one element of my course, that simply put,I should have done a lot earler. Research and Planning, I write it know, as my endeavours to create a time machine have not been as fruitful as I hoped, I must express my thoughts and feelings in some sort of reminicsent drawl suitable for it's own backward looking boxset.

Resarch:

As my main task took a very grimy, cheap, dirty take on modern pop conventions, the idea behind the research was themed appropriately. The artwork, (brilliantly designed by Rav) website were all meant to have a similar guise, and the artists that we researched were in short meant to have the same pikey style intentions as I.


In my video, there is a lot of running, a lot of chasing, involving me, and a group of suprisingly jolly hoodies - (seriously they were like elves that had been thrown through JJB) and this is reminicent of the film adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel Trainspotting - famed for among many things, including the famous running scene where a sprightly(and heroin filled) Ewan Mcgregor runs. A lot.





Another example of the simple act of sprinting in movie format and musical one is Jamie T's song "Sticks and Stones" in a movie that shares a few scenes with my own(again the running, and a nice "Shameless" style council house party) In addition to this, the music between Mr T(haha) and my own band is similar in essence - rap of guitar with a sung chorus and indie style chordal and composition structure.

Check it out, here it is:




Obviously the musical elements took a great hold in terms of inspiration for my video, as the music dicates the thematic layers and style of the video.

So it's impossible to do rap nowadays in our style without being inexplicably linked to this man:



Now this is a live video, my apologies, I coudn't find a movie that represented my themes both visually as well as sonically - but here the remix of Nirvana's Grunge Classic "Smells Like Teen Spirit" mixed with Dizzee Rascal's own tune "Stand up tall" is great example of modern day Grime rap over classic heavy instrumentation.