RATLIN

TIMES OF A GOOD LAD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmLvZaiiTqE

Genre

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The beginning of the music video is not as the typical grime video

where its normally in the dark this video starts with Ratlin in the

morning walking down a pair of stair cases however his costume in the

video is still of a grime culture were he is wearing a cap and t-shirt and

jeans.

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In the lyrics he talks about smoking and immediately it shows him lighting up a cigarette straight after he talks about how he use to play football when he was younger it cuts to a shot of him looking at little kids playing football whilst his watching them

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In this grime video there is

little relation between music

and visuals as he talks

about his past there is

mellow music being played

suggesting that he is sad

about what happened in the

past you can tell this further

due to his facial expressions

however there points were

he talks about the present

which he is happy about

and u can see him smiling

and laughing with his fellow

peers.

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There are many close up shots of the artist whilst he is rapping, there is close ups of

him with his mates smiling, close ups of him sad when he

talks about his past there is close up of his clothing when he talks about how his made

a life for himself shows the branded clothing which was

Gucci.

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Throughout this video Ratlin looks at the camera directly

which tells us; the viewers that his

telling the audience directly about his story, how at one

point he was such a football star

prospect but that went down the drain

when he got released he left

football and looked to the streets for

comfort.

Inte

rtexu

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refe

ren

ce: In this video there is not

much intertexual if any

reference and this is

due to the fact that its

him alone in the video

rapping about his past

so there is no intertexual reference.