Thursday, 8 September 2011

Generic Conventions;

Genre; Hip-hop & Rap
The conventions of a hip-hop/ rap video would be things like:
  • Flash cars and jewellery
  • Guns
  • Muscly men
  • Nightclubs
  • Girls
  • Fast short takes etc...
Other genre conventions of a Hip-Hop/R&B music video would be things such as...

Content;
- Male artists performing to the camera
- Women often wearing revealing clothing, sexulised dancing
- Men are often also wearing baggy clothing e.g American style sportswear
- Displays of money so things like; cars, jets, jewellery


Style of the video;
- Low angle shots to make the male artist seem powerful
- Editing to fit in to the pace of the music
- Use of bright lighting to make the artist seem important, impressive or powerful

Stills which support this;




Some videos which illustrate these typical conventions are for example..





Potential Songs;
- Tinie Tempah - Pass Out
- Lil Wayne - How To Love
- Calvin Harris - Bounce
- Chris Brown - Look At Me Now
- Wiz Khalifa - Black And Yellow

1 comment:

  1. Are these your potential song choices at the bottom? You need to say,

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