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Reece

During our free time, my group took a trip to London and visited areas people selected from our evaluation and also our own ideas. This allowed us to create a visual imagery of the different places we could possibly use for our musical video. We also managed to capture various types of imagery which would help in creating our video. The primary purpose of this was help us maintain a focus of having an urban tone our video.

Brick Lane

During our feedback session, many people mentioned Brick lane as one the location having an edge to it.   This prompted us to visit brick lane in search of inspiration.  The pictures below show some of the art which we found which illustrates the different pictures which has inspired out final product. These pictures are essential as they show the process we went through our pre-production stage.

We visited PEDLEY ST. E.1

Which led us to Allen Gardens, which contained amazing graphite which we believed merged well with our urban theme.

 Brick Lane

We chose Brick Lane as one of our options due to the amount diverse cultures we will be able to pick out in scenic (Long shots). It will gives us a platform to express the British rap culture and how it shares similarities such as graffiti which is commonly attached just to the American culture. The above imagery depicts the various graffiti found in Brick lane. It is also important to mention that the graffiti does not only feature spray paint but crayons and normal abstract painting which I believe will complement our theme successfully. Saliently, these abstract paintings. As research has shown some artist deploy the use of such paintings to help reinforce the message of their lyrics. Thus this is a concept which could be implemented into our final musical video. Furthermore, the addition of this in our video will also contribute to the urban tone this video seeks.

London (Streets)

Oxford Street, Greater London w1

This is a scenic long shot of London, which we thought to use at the beginning of our video as it would allow us to set a scene through an establishing shot of London. We may shoot our scene during the night as this would contrast well with our type of music. Also having key parts of London in the background such as Big Ben allows us to project the London Urban street culture and reinforces us to keep our London identity. This will allow our niche alternative hip hop audience to feel proud about the community they’re from.

Gun Street, Shoreditch, Tower Hamlets, London E1 

This is a long shot of Gun street in Shoreditch, we decided to use this street as it’s not a typical busy road you would associate with London. It also adds to our urban tone. The street lights are designed in an old fashion manor which unfortunately you cannot see in this shot however, you will see them in the musical video. We also liked the close compact atmosphere which is created by the street being small therefore, creating a visual juxtaposition as the building in the backgrounds are tall compared to the actual street size. My group personally believes this complements our urban tone being created.

Black Horse Road

Blackhorse Road Underground Station London Underground Ltd. Blackhorse Rd London E17 6ND

Before our tour of London, we decided that we would like to look at a few underground stations.

Parts of the London Underground are derelict and unfinished, which will add to our mise en scene by creating a disturbing environment which will allow the urban culture to project itself to the audience.

It’s important we twist a typical ‘common tourist perception of London ‘in order for us to appeal our music to the audience as this is what attracts them to London.