Build up to Male Character/Artist, Female Character and any other props needed

Male Character Inspiration Our male character is inspired By

Akon. Akon is a diverse Hip Pop artist. He portrays both looks, gangster look

and formal look, very well and has done very meaningful songs such as; 'Oh Africa.' As Akon has done such meaningful songs it is necessary for him to keep is his origins and original look, however, also have a formal and decent look. Our character will have both a formal look and a gangster look as well. Therefore, our character will follow the conventions of Hip pop also.

Male Artist Inspiration

Our male character will be the male artist and its necessary for their to be a distinguish in clothing between both the roles

Our male Artist is inspired by the main character in Step Up. He is good looking appealing and has a sense of masculinity within him. He stand out from the crowd in a good way. The male character will also follow the conventions of Hip Pop. However, he will wear casual clothing but different from everyone else. Our male Artist will be shown in chorus mainly and he will be wearing casual clothing's in casual settings.

Female character

The female character must be glamorous and different.

I have looked at couple of stars and have analysed the film Honey when Jessica walks in to the club, her dress sense is different to other girls. She’s not wearing typical girly clothes. However, she is still attractive and based on what Jessica Alba wore, our main character will be an inspiration of her in the film Honey.

Conclusion on characters Female Character- Glamorous but

different. Ages between 20-25. Male (rapper artist)- Formal and follows

conventions of Hip Pop. Our male artist must look between ages of 25-30. Therefore, it's vital that our rapper has a light beard to show his masculinity.

Male character- Smart, Handsome and different from everyone else in the club, possibly wearing a suit.

Biography of Female character

PRESS PHOTOS

Biography of male character and artist

Locations an props needed

Car Bar called Horizon in Hounslow- Bar

tender Car, Outside Monique Burke’s

Residence Phone

Clothing of Male Artist

Our male artist will wear a black hooded jacket. The reason

why we have chosen these kind of jackets is because it shows the masculinity of

the artist and allows it to look big in size.

Dark blue jeans

This grey cardigan is casual and smart at the same time.

This shows that my Artist can carry out both styles, formal

and informal, easily.

The trainers are casual and branded. The new era cap are conventional features of Hip Hop male artists.

Clothing of Male Character

Our male character will wear a light grey suit and a black tie. The light grey suit will stand out in the bar and the

contrast between a light grey suit and a black tie makes the suit stand out better. The shoes we had chosen were

dark black with laces, these kind of shoes are very expensive and are worn in formal places.

Clothing of Female Character

My female character will be wearing

black jeans as it compliments

the male character and

allows the dress/long top to stand out.

This dress is very classy and simple. It portrays the nature of the character in my music

video. She is simple yet classy. The reason to why we have chosen a yellow colour is because the song is called

sunshine. Through lyrics analysis we figured out that the female character is the sunshine and therefore, we decided that by her wearing

a yellow top it’ll allow the audience to emphasise with the artist and gain a better

understanding of the message the artist is trying

to convey.

My female character will be wearing a

black blazer to make her look

formal and stylish.

Female accessories and footwear

As a group we decided that the female character

will have curly big hair.

This is the jewellery our character will

wear.

Black heels to give a

good posture.

Analysis on Female Character clothing

Feminism- is the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes.

Based on this theory and the views of the actual artist of the song Sunshine, we felt that it is not fair that female characters are shown as ‘sex symbols’ in Hip Hop music videos. Therefore, we have decided to give the female character the upmost respect an honour by the male character, we will be conveying this by gestures shown by the male to the female. Also by the clothing our female character will be wearing.

Meeting the needs of our audience

We will meet the requirements of our audience by, making sure that the Hip Hop conventional features of settings and locations are kept the same, for example we will using; graffiti area, bridge, basketball court, bar and expensive car.

However, we are not including or promoting any crime, violence or gender discrimination in our music video. As we feel that the original artist of this song, Lupe Fiasco, was against vulgarity and anti-authority behaviour being shown in Hip Hop music videos.