What i am using

Equipment from roboobeat

Digi pack And Poster analysis

Editing The clean version of the song

Due to the lack of clean version of the song that I have chosen, I had to create one with using a basic audio editing program called Audacity.

In able to remove single swear words, i have used the "fade in and "fade out" option on the selected areas which allowed me to remove the sound from it without merging the sound waves together, therefore causing a damage on the rhythm of the music. I have done this on one particular selected area 4-6x in able to get the clears and the best possible outcome.

Due to the problem that the song had a stereo layout,which means the tracks have been layered on top of each other I had to use a different method when they had a so called Double within a certain part of the song. Therefore i ran a noise profile after a merged the stereo track together to a mono track, then I have used the Wah-wah effect on selected areas to decrease the volume of explicit words. At last I have done a noise reduction on the selected area and blended it in to the rest of the track.

Story Board

Here I am going to explain the story of my music video clip that i am creating for the song Wiz Khalifa -So High. The lyrics its self of the song is related to marijuana consumption on a high extent, which i am going to demonstrate by attaching the lyrics to this page. However the way I am going to use the phrase "so high" it will relate to the persona of the music video clip as high in status, who has got a lot of money, busy days, have a lot of fun.

Action : Smoke is floating in the air, while "Wiz Khalifa -so high" fades in.

Shot: Medium -close up

Lighting: High Key, Soft

Action: lighting a zippo lighter creating  the diegetic sound effect matching the video. Black background

Shot: POV, close up shot

Lighting: Natural, soft

Action: Smoke is being inhaled, while we can hear the diegetic sound matching the actions.
The action takes place within studio conditions.

Shot: Close up shot from the side

Lighting: Combination of low key harsh and low key bounced light from 45 degrees on each side.

Action: Presentation of the first location where the character wakes up after a rough night out. We can see clothes, alcohol, and different props on the floor.

Shot: Establishing shot, with a panning movement from a higher angle to present the location

Lighting: Natural low key lighting

Action: Character wake up, looking confused and sleepy, starting his day. The condition of the hair and face is natural, in able to present a realistic way of a person waking up.

Shot: Medium/long shot pointing at the character

Lighting: Natural soft lighting.

Action: Character goes out and plays basketball. This is because of the relation of hip-hop culture to basketball, and for personal entertainment.

Shots: a selection of shots ranging from close ups, medium shots, long shots, and tracking shots, and panning.

Lighting: Natural high key

Action: Making a step forward or backwards, to show of the chuck tailor shoes, due to its important relation to Wiz's upbringing and his record label.

Shot: close up shot

Lighting: Natural, high key

Action: Character blowing out smoke within a studio environment. Creating entertaining environment to the audience, which is the part of the narrative and performance based music video.

Shot: medium shot

Lighting: Combination of low key harsh and low key bounced light from 45 degrees on each side.

Action: Character is in the car, matching and following the lyric of the song.

Shot: medium or close up shot.

Lighting: A combination of low key and highkey light depending on the natural conditions of the weather.

Action: Character lip syncing and performing to the song

Shot: medium long shot

Lighting: Combination of low key harsh and low key bounced light from 45 degrees on each side.

Action: Character is being in a jewellery, shop purchasing expensive items, and products, showing of his money and status.

Shot: A variety of shots such as close ups, medium shots, panning shots, tracking shots, point of view

Lighting: High key and low key lighting made by the stores lights.

Action: Character arrives to a party, where he is drinking, dancing and smoking, with friends.

Shot: variety of shots, such as point of view, medium shots and medium close ups.

Lighting: Unknown






Action: Character arrives home. The place settings are similar to what it was at the very beginning of the video clip.

Shot: Point of view shots, panning shot of the place, and close up shot of the character going to sleep.

Lighting: Low key soft warm lighting.

Audience Research

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Here is my survey

My survey findings show :
-53% male 47% female
-most preferred style of music video - entertainment
-They search online for music videos.
-over 70% is age between 12-25
-majority preferred either narrative or/and performance based music videos
-Pop and Hip-hop lovers
-Preferred video-sharing website is Youtube

Location/Actors/Costumes/Props

Locations for the video shoot:
-Basketball court
-Shopping centre
-My room/house
-Maybe in a car
-Pub/club/house party
-Studio

Location for Photoshoots:
-Studio only

Costumes:
-leather jacket
-Biker jacket
- Sunglasses
- Canvas shoes
- 35 inch gold chain with a lion medal on it
- Long line t-shirt
- Long line bomber jacket
- Vest
- Timberland
- Jeans

Record Label and Production Company

Before Atlantic Record he was distributing his music through his own record label called Taylor Gang. The Taylor Gang was originally coined in 2006 to refer to "Taylor's" who are supporters of Wiz Khalifa.
Taylor Gang Ent. was founded in 2008 by Khalifa. The record label was named after Khalifa's alma mater, Taylor Allderdice High School, and his affinity for Converse Chuck Taylor All-Star sneakers.Taylor Gang Ent. began as Khalifa's fan base network, street team and home to his crew. The entity later became a full entertainment company encompassing record label, management services, production & film companies. Chevy Woods, Berner, and Tuki Carter all signed to the record label in 2011. In December 2012, Juicy J joined the entertainment company.In 2013, Ty Dolla $ign joined the company as well. In 2014, J.R. Donato signed to the label.King Ken & Kmatic KelZ signed to the label in early 2016.
The record label also doubles as a super group and announced plans to release an album as a group in 2016.

Taylor Gang Ent. partnered with brands to create licensing deals, most notably, Grenco Science in 2014 for a series of vaporizer products and Neff to produce a special 26-piece apparel collection composed of T-shirts, jerseys and hats, which were a creative collaboration among the label's artists and Neff. The label signed a distribution deal with Atlantic Records although some artists on the label are still distributed by EMPIRE.

Reasoning For Chosen Artist And track

I have chosen my Wiz Khalifa as an artist, because he has a very different style compare to other Hip-Hop, rap artists. This is because of his look, the way he behaves, and the way he speaks. His different style within the industry gives him an extra attention, especially because he has his own record label company at the side of his main record, Atlantic Records, and his music is not distributed through VEVO in Youtube which would give him extra advertisement. Also he has the 2^nd most listened music on Youtube with over 2 billion views.  

I have chosen Wiz Khalifa – So high song, because it is one of my favourite song from him, and its lyrics has a lot of meaning and signifiers behind its surface.
The beat is quite slow and acoustic which we can hear at the beginning of the song. The beat joins in at the 58^th second of the song. The beat under the track is quite light but it has a faster tempo to it, which is very unusual to a hip-hop song, especially, because we are talking about Wiz Khalifa a modern rapper.

 At the beginning of the music we can hear a lighter lighting up and Wiz Khalifa inhaling and blowing out which is a non-diegetic sound and it also helps the audience associate smoking with Wiz Khalifa. 

This is a major part of his image, and it could have been created to enhance this particular feature of his image and present it to his target audience.

The course has a the same beat however it is louder and much harder and Wiz Khalifa’s voice is being looped and copied onto each other which has a really powerful effect and  that leads the music on to its peak. This could be because this part of the music relates the most to the song’s name.
The line “so high” is being mentioned in the hook a several of time. The “so high” could be an expression of Wiz Khalifa, that makes a statement about his status and feeling. It could be a signifier of him being high, as in status, that could represent how much money he has, how much records he sales, of how famous he is. Or it could also just mean that he gets high on marijuana, which as known is a big feature of his.  The song relates to smoking when saying “take toke” “hold it till you choke”, “so stoned”.

Another major reason why I have chosen this particular song is because, it does not have an official video clip to it. This will allow me to use my imagination and not to be bias about the video clip, or try to copy a particular setting.  I will be analysing Wiz Khalifa's video clips and follow the theme of it, while i will be creating a clear representation of his image and believes

The song appeals to all his target audience, which are 15-30 mainly male partly female.
this is being shown by “night, until the morning, we are rolling, rolling, rolling

My Chosen artist - Wiz Khalifa

Bio
Cameron Jibril Thomaz (born September 8, 1987), better known by his stage name Wiz Khalifa. His parents served in military, therefore he had to move several times. Khalifa lived in Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan before settling in Pittsburgh where he attended Taylor Allderdice High School. His stage name is derived from Khalifa, an Arabic word meaning "successor", and wisdom, which was shortened to Wiz when Khalifa was a young boy. Also his grandfather was Muslim, and he gave the wisdom name for him. Therefore, his stage name’s meaning is Wisdom successor.

His image
His image is is really important. He is covered in tattoos, he smokes weed all the time, he really likes Bombay gin and he tries to keep himself to his image as strictly as possible. He did a large range of collaborations with YG, TY Dolla, Snoop Dogg, Miley Cyrus, Juicy J, Ludacris.
Working with Snoop Dogg was a major influence on him as an artist and as a person as well, because Snoop is a big marijuana smoker as well, and they created several songs that were very successful, such as “Young wild and free” that has 291 million views on YouTube. Wiz and Snoop have also made a film called Max and Devin go to high school, which helped them to boost up the sales and the number of audience for the album they have made together. 

His image always remained the same in terms of what he does and what he likes, however his look has changed a lot throughout the years. He had his natural hair, afros with blond highlights, purple dreadlocks, blond dreadlocks, this is because he tries to sync his music and the changes in his style with his look. 

At the same time, whilst being represented as a gangster, with a joint in his hand all the time, who is covered in tattoos, with a lot of girls in the video clip, he also has a son From his EX wife Amber Rose. Wiz still loves and respects Amber and mentioned it in many interviews, that just because they broke up it does not mean he needs to forget about her. Also there are a lot of Snaphat videos that the media has promoted where we can see him playing with his son where we can see a different side of Wiz Khalifa.

Record labels
He signed to Warner Bros in 2007, then he moved to Atlantic Records in 2010. At the same time he was building his own empire in 2008 and he found his own record label Taylor Gang records.
This takes a big part of his life, this is because Taylor Gang is all his friends that he had from Taylor Allderdice High School, and ever since then they are still together and working on their project. He said it is “My movement that we started in high school, it is a lifestyle, a way of living”. This shows what Wiz Khalifa is really about. Also this is a major importance in his life, because he said he loved shoes however he could not afford Jordan’s or Nike shoes therefore he was wearing Chucks, (cheap version of Converse shoes) and all his friends were wearing it too, therefore they named themselves the Taylor Gang.

Khalifa Kush
He has his own branded weed that he distributes through medical marijuana shops. Khalifa Kush is a hybrid marijuana specifically planted for him that does not make u lazy but increases your creativity. 
This creates a new way of advertising his music, or his music advertising his Weed, which is a great synergetic way of working through different platforms. He has songs about it, he gives it away to fans, he shows it in video clips, which makes him brave in a way, because in some states it is illegal to smoke marijuana. 

On an interview on Heart Radio he admitted that he has been in jail 23 time s just because of Weed, but he will not stop, because he is who he is and he does not want to fool his fans by pretending that he does not smoke weed in public.
 

Initial Ideas / my mood board

The following mood board is that I have created to show my inspirations to complete the task. It shows the elements of hip-hop, which are all on the mood board.

Music Video Directors

Julien Christian Lutz (born October 31, 1975), better known as Little X, X or Director X, is a Canadian music video director. He also has his own clothing line X Fit. He was born and raised near Toronto, Ontario and is of Trininadiand  Swiss descent.

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Bryan (born December 20, 1970) is a music video and motion picture director. He has directed many music videos for popular artists.

Barber's videos convey a classic mood often taken from previous era hits. Barber's ability to be heard as a clear and distinct authorial voice lay in his defining a unique visual style, a postmodern style that relied heavily on the use of classic film and TV clips. For example, Barber referenced Grease in the OutKast music video Roses and the Beatles' Ed Sullivan appearance in the band's video for "Hey Ya!". In the process, Barber emerged as a talent and imparted an original image to the hip-hop movement. I have chosen to look at his work due to the fact that he has had a great influence within the hip-hop industry.

Some of his work

Harold "Hype" Williams (born July 1970) is an American music video director, film director, film producer, and screenwriter.

Awards Williams has received for his video work include the Billboard Music Video Award for Best Director of the Year (1996), the Jackson Limo Award for Best Rap Video of the Year (1996) for Busta Rhymes' "Woo Hah !! Got You All in Check", the NAACP Image Award (1997), the 8th annual Music Video Production Association Award for Black Music Achievement (1997), MTV Video Music Award in the Best Rap Video (1998) category for Will Smith's "Gettin' Jiggy wit It", MTV Video Music Award for Best Group Video (1999) for TLC's "No Scrubs", and the BET Award for Best Director (2006) for Kanye West's "Gold Digger". In 2006, Williams was honored by MTV with its Video Vanguard Award, presented in honor of his achievements as a filmmaker.
In the December 2007 issue of Playboy magazine, Williams shot the photographs for cover subject Kim Kardashian.
He directed the music video for Kanye West's single "All of the Lights", which premiered on February 19, 2011.
He was a huge part of the hip-hop culture and its development during the 90's and 2000's  which shows an advantage of looking him up and learn about his work.

Real World Resarch with Freedom Of Speech

Please note, the following video has been uploaded by me earlier on the 26th of September 2017, with different elements, however it has been taken off for copyright issues that I have not realised later on of my coursework. That is why the date within the post and the video itself will not match.


In this video I have collected some footages that I have recorded on my camera when I have attended on a music video shoot, for a UK Hip-Hop, Rap band called Freedom of Speech - Turn up the dance.
It has been a great experience and I have managed to learn a lot about lighting that they have used, the camera and its settings. Further more it has shown the amount of effort that a shoot like this requires, including the stability of the camera, costumes, lightings etc.

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