A Rapper's Ambition

Avis Review

A Rapper’s Ambition is a film which follows our Asian male protagonist in a journey which he takes in order to try and be successful in the music world. Our task as a group of 4 was to produce a film trailer were it would attract our target audience to come and watch the film; if it ever came out.

Our first stage of our practical production was when we got the camera and started to film. This stage was when the group was at a high level of enthusiasm which slowly decreased as time went by. The first range of shots that we got were very good as they varied, however they were criticised for being too dark making it hard to see our villain.

The next stage was test screenings were we had to show the class what footage we had and how we planned to use it. This was the time when the group were de motivated and heartbroken as we were accused of having done nothing and just wasting our time messing around. Teachers, mentors and even fellow class members thought that our production was a “joke” and that we will not finish in time at a satisfactory standard.

Following on from the criticism and accusations which we took on the cheek, we managed to turn things around and made progress in an instant. We finished in time and followed the correct conventions for a film trailer and we as a group were happy with our final production in the end.

Our aim as a group was to get 65 out of 65 but we managed to get 62 out of 65 which was good enough and we also joint with two other productions for the three best productions which got 62 as well.

Review of A Rapper's Ambition

Nabil’s Review

A Rapper’s Ambition is all about ambition for music; it tells a story of a gifted young Asian artist having a desire or ambition should I say to become a successful rapper and make it to the top of the mainstream music industry however overcoming tough obstacles in order to get to the top

Moving on, Our filming started pretty good, we adapted well to the use of the camera and managed to get excellent shots on our villain, however our group was criticised
for having too much footage in dark scenery and we lacked more footage in open light, but we quickly managed to get more footage in light than dark.

However we did struggle during the test screening, our production, compared to the rest was all over the place and like Ajitpal said, we did get A LOT of stick from people and from there on, people began to doubt if we would ever finish on time. This motivated the whole group really which made us commit every single day and evening filming and editing until we had achieved our target of producing the best trailer

Furthermore, we managed to shrug of the criticisms from people and put our heads together and worked thoroughly hard to produce the final piece, everyone in the group did contribute effectively and we implemented all our ideas professionally which was the reason why we did prove everyone wrong (including Mr Bush) and to get the top grade and also the reason why ‘A Rapper’s Ambition’ is in the running to become the best production

Nableeeeee

Ajit's review

Well, the practical production started out with just a few rough ideas put foward by the whole group, however we all agreed on two things, firstly that we were going to be making a trailer and lastly that it was going to be based on music, which is something that we all follow and have an interest for. As for the production, this is what happened.......

We were all enthusiastic about the production and the different types of shots we would use and how exciting filming would be and you can remember our excitement with the shots of the ducks we shot, however we soon realized that most of our shots were done in the dark and we took quite a bit of stick for that, not mentioning any names (ms jones), anyway....

As we as a group got further into the production our filming started to fall apart and that kind of reflected itself in the test screening and again we took alot of stick for that, not mentioning any names (ms jones) anyway, we soon got back on track and we were alot more commited to the task in hand and we took our new found glory into the editing process where we continued to get excited over the effects (they were good though) but all in all everyone took part, even though me, avi and amit would do most the editing nabil still contributed by gving ideas (the glass) and updating the blog and uploading the footage.

However the best bit of the whole production was to see the look on Mr bush's and Ms jones's faces when they saw the final product, and to think that they ever doubted us, we always knew we could do it, how about that for a review.
kool, ajit

RESULTS ARE IN

WELLL WE WAS HOPIN TO GET 65/65 BUT IN THE END WE GOT 62/65... SO WELL DONE LADZ.. AND WE'RE ONE OF THREE GROUPS IN THE RUNNIN 4 DA BEST PRODUCTION.. FINGERS CROSSED IT WILL BE OUR GROUP BUT WE'LL SEE INI... GOOD LUCK 2 THE 3 GROUPSS... A RAPPER'S AMBITION ALL DA WAYYYYY EVERYYDAYYYYYYY

NABLEEEEEEEEEEEEEE H.B!!!!

HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT

A RAPPER'S AMBITION HAS NOW BEEN COMPLETEDDD POWW POWWWW.. GREAT TURN AROUND, ITS LOOOKKSS SICKK AND HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET A TOP GRADE FOR IT AND WHO KNOWS, MAYBE DA BEST PRODUCTION.. BIG UP MYSELF, AVI, AMIT AND AJITPAL FOR ALL THE HARDWORK AND EFFORTTT.. WELL DONE BOYZZZ


NABILLLLLL

EDITING PROGRESS 9/04/08

WELL SINCE I HAVENT BEEN AVAILABLE LAST WEEK FOR EDITING DUE TO UNECESSARY CIRCUMSTANCES, ILL ROUND UP ON WHATS BEEN HAPPENING IN THE SO CALLED "NAAA" PRODUCTION LOL PRIVIATE JOKE.. OKKKKK WE HAVE LITERALLY 2 DAYZ LEFT TO COMPLETE THIS PRODUCTION AND I HAVE TO SAY HATZ OFF TO EVERYONE IN THE GROUP BECAUSE OUR PRODUCTION IS LOOKIING PERFECT, JUST ONE MORE SCENE LEFT TO FILM AND THEN JUST CAPTIONS NEEDED AS FINISHING TOUCHES SO THE CAPTIONS CAN BE DONE ON FRIDAY, OUR LAST SCENE WAS MEANT TO BE DONE TODAY BUT DUE TO HEALTH PROBLEMS TO CERTATIN GROUP MEMBERZ, IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE BUT HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET IT DONE ON THURS SO FRIDAY WE WILL HAVE LESS TO DO AND WE WOULDNT HAVE TO WORRY ON THE LAST DAY AND RUSH INTO THINGSSS.. OKAY THAT BIT DONE, MOVING ON...

WE RECENTLY FILMED FOOTAGE OF VARIOUS SURROUNDINGZ IN THE AREA YESTERDAY, AMIT AND AJITPAL GOT SOME REALLY FANTASTIC SHOTS OF A PATHWAY, MORE LIKE A SUBWAY FROM THE SO CALLED "DEVILS ALLEY" BIG MANZZZZZ BEING SOLDIERS ENTERING THE DIRTY AREAS, AND HATS OFF TO AVI FOR THE GHOST EFFECT ON THIS PART WHICH HE FELL IN LOVE WITH AND KEPT ON WATCHING IT OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN HAHA BUT TO HIM IT WAS WORTH IT SO YEH.

TODAY WE DECIDED TO BRING SOME FEMININE ASPECTS INTO OUR PRODUCTION, AS WE HAD LATISHA AND INDI PLAYING SHIV'S ROLL SINCE HE HAS GONE ON HOLIDAY DOING A TYPICAL RELATIONSHIP BREAK UP SCENE AND ENDING WITH INDI SMASHING A GLASS BOTTLE ON THE FLOOR, WE USED AN EFFECT CALLED REVERSE ACTION SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND IT LOOKED REALLY WICKEDDDD SO ONCE AGAIN HATS OFF TO AVIIINASHHHH AND YES HE DID FALL IN LOVE WITH THIS EFFECT AND WATCHED IN CONTINOUSLY. ALSO I FROGOT TO MENTION ABOUT OUR TITLE, THIS TITLE IS OFF THE CHAIN AND IN MY VIEW THE BEST TITLE SO FAR IN ALL PRODUCTIONS, TOOK AGAES TO DO BUT IM NOT GOING TO GIVE AWAY WHAT IT IZ AND HOW WE DONE IT, YOU CAN SEE FOR YOURSELFS WHEN ITS SHOWN.

BUT YEAH ON COURSE TO FINISH ON FRIDAY, OR MAYBE THURS IF WE ARE LUCKY BUT ITS A GREAT TURN AROUND AS THIS TIME LAST WEEK DURING A SCREEN TESTING, OUR PRODCUTION WAS ALL OVER THE PLACE AND IN PIECES SO GREAT JOB TO EVERYONE. AITE ITS NEARLY 3AM HERE I DUNNO WHAT IM DOING HERE, I'LL GET BACK TO MY POETRY WOOOHOOO :D.. BLESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS


NabiiiLLLLLLL

EDITING PROGRESS 01/04/08

Well since Amit couldnt be bothered to update the blog since hes too busy practicin for his ECB coachin shanannagenz, i thought id do the honours and fill you in whats been going on lykkk.. well yday we had out hero Shiv make a suprise appearance at school to take some shots of him much 2 ajitpal's delight, him and amit were beh happy he came (haha), moving on, AMIT AND AJITPAL, filmed him 1st in the school studio in the F block (i never knew we even had a music block let alone a studio), rapping on the mic with the headsets on, when it came to capturing it, on the software, despite the fact me and Avi thinking this studio is profressionall, it just turned out to be a classroom wiv instruments so it didnt look good as there was school surroundingz that were being shown BUTTT, we did however manage to find some good decent shots in that scene which we have used so yeh that scene is done and dusted. the next scene which involved Shiv was a long shot of him kickin a paper ball and then picking it up and opening it and the camera closed in to the paper which was the rap battle leaflet so it creates a bit of narrative to the audience as they will be aware whats the main story to this film, there was also bit of dialoigue but i dont think we have used that part but we're still contemplating. Also today we took shots of out black artist (Lanzel - ARIESSSMANNNNNNN), saying a few words, filmed by Avinah and Amit, quite a few shots where taken such as close ups and side shots of Lanzel saying few lines of dialougue, we also go him punchin the screen towards the camera, this shot will relate to the scene where Shiv falls on to the floor, we already have captured that scene, but no idea wheather we will use what we have or re-film that. Also we sequenced everything in order of what we got so far, and added a soundtrack which goes well with the trailer, the 1st 15 seconds will have shots of our institutions and then when out beat kicks in, thats when our trailer kicks in.

at the moment our trailer is looking very good and we are all pleased, just a few little bits and bobs left to do, but we're happy with what we have produced so far and hope we continue with this hardwork. also id like to give a shoutout to the mentors who assist us, they have been very helpful , alot of advice given on their blog, especially from Athar despite the fact we both diss eachother lol but yeh Athar especially has been doing his job perfectly as well as all the other mentors (yes Nazia that includes you can stop crying now) they all have been doing their job well and thanx for the advice, help and contribution in some way.

but yeh thats all i gotta say now, ill be back more and yeh - C'MONNNNNNNNNNNNNNN BOYZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ BIG UP MR BABU

Editing Progress

well, so far, we managed to get more filming done over the weekend with our protagonist SHIV. we took long shots of him walking up and back down an alleyway and also had abit of magic (haha) with a random person appearing next to shiv for a split second and then disappearing, magic right there lol. also we had a shot of shiv falling on to the floor slowly, this shot will relate to the scene where the enemy (Lanzel) throws a punch towards the camera and the next shot will be a shot of shiv falling down on to the floor on his side and we will slow this down to create an effect to the audience. I captured the latest footage on to the computer and we then trimmed them all down and put them in a temporary order just for now, we stayed until 7pm this day which was long as there was so much footage to capture and we had to make sure we took note down of the timing and we captured it correctly

well right now (20/01/08) we are currently editing at the moment trying out different effects for the introduction of our protagonist character shiv, we have come up with a good effect for this opening which no one approves off lol but we think its really good and we will keep it. I was given the job of updating our blog as its been a while since its been updated so i thought might as well make myself productive :D, so overall, we're making good progress with jus 1 or 2 scenes more to film and then the soundtrack and an order for it.


Nabillllllllllllllllll

Editing 11/03/08

wats good, yeh editing has been the same as the past few days, we've just been tying out new effects on our footage and see what goes well, but also we managed to finish off our sequence and decide on how it will be structured. we also going to start our last filming tomo on 12/3 and finish the filming and then hopefully by the end of the week, our filming will be finished and we can start to sequence our trailer and add music and a voiceover. so at the moment its all going well. stayed until 7 today :|, longest ive ever stayed in a clasroom all my life haha but yeh, we have abht 4 key scenes to film now and then we can try out different pieces of hip hop music soundtrack and see which one suits our production and how it looks.

and another thing, some of the media mentors need to calm down while chatting 2 out group, one mentor (not mentionin names) threatend us today :| and kept shoutin at us for no reason thinkin we aint takin it seriously but we are tho, i may have over reacted when sayin our group gonna win the best production, but we know we have a good chance of achieving that because we are confident. we may be laid back during editing but that dont mean we dont care about dis production, so a message to that mentor, JAM UR HYPE lol, nah really dont shout at us unless u got a reason to

okay im off now im meant to be doing work here so chek u all ina piece blessss


Nabil [x]

Progress part 4

well even though we havent finished filming, (lol) we have captured all our footage on adobe premiere software and we have a lot of footage and it loooks really good and we got great ideas on how 2 structure how the trailer will start, the main scenes and the ending. we decided (without ajitpal) that since we have 3 or 4 weeks left 2 finish ediitng, we decided to choose 1 weekday and 1 weekend, depending on the availability of our asian artsit shiv, to COMPLETLEYYYYYY finish da last few bits and bobs of our filming and BANGGG.. we can capture that on adobe and begin to build our trailer by addin the special effects and soundtrack, so we are all on good track!!!!! nice one boyzzzzzz


Nableeeeee (Nabil)

......?

well erm, i dont know that beeen happening here now with out filiming, we have two days until we have to give the camera back and we aint finishedd =|, well lets see.. Friday was meant to be filming day but out main artist couldnt be bothered to get out of his house and he lives in slough grrr so we didn film den.. then saturday i had things to do and toilets to fix (dont ask why) so no filming on saturday, and then yday we decided to do all the scenes we had to do b4 we finished.... but then again, it floppedddd!!! grrr boiz if ur reading this, we need a group discussion ifu know what i mean, we have groups like rajan, simmren and nafisa who have nearly finished and they where flopping before =| c'monnn boizz lets sort it outttttttt but yeh all in good time we only have 2 or 3 scenes to film, and whoooooooooooooooosh, we're off to the editing stage so Avi, Amit, Ajitpal... its time to pull our socks up and show everyone why our group is going to win best production.. till then god bless ur souls and we need to add music to this blog man its so quiet :| but yehh blessssssssssssssssssss

NabiiiLLLL

Progress part 3

Here's another progress report just updating you on the latest installments in A Rappers Ambition. On monday we filmed some more intruiging shots, however there were not shots of our male protagonist but there were shots of the protagonists enemy (Lanzel). Firstly we shots some scenes of the enemy answering a call from the protagonist who failed to get some money which results in some serious consequences. We took roughly about 5-10 shots of that scene (my hand was cold, it was freezing that day). We shot these scenes in a car however to get the angle right we had to shoot from an awkward angle but it's all good because the shots came out perfect with the brilliant acting and emotion shown on screen.

Anyway after we got that scene perfectly done we then went around the corner to cranleigh park where we had the enemy running for the chasing scene and me and Amit and Hamsa took some handheld camera work going along with the enemy as he ran outside the gates. In these shots we got some good mise en scene with the estates being caught in the background and we varied the shots with on eof the shots being a pan sideways and the other shot being a still frame shots catching a glimpse of the enemy.

Well progress is going good so far so more brilliant shots will be on their way shortly.

Ajitpal

Progress part 2

well heres antother report, we filmed on monday and yesterday. on Monday we filmed both artists having a showdown, we used a pan movement to show their expression and their facial looks towards each other. we must have taken 25 shots for this as both artists could not stop laughing at each other when they were having the staredown which was pretty funny but in the end we got it done and we got good shots and angles of this. Next we had Avinash stand on top of his dad's prized BMW (haha) with the camera and filmed the asian artist coming out of his house and following him with the camera and then we had the black artist walking near his house and as they past each other, we got a good shots of them looking back at each other so this would build tension, then we zoomed out so we can see both of the artists looking back.

On wednesday's filming, it was pretty straight forward, slough missions we did with the asian artist. we filmed the asian artist in the train writing lyrics and 'spitting' the lines himself and we also got a shot of his notepad and the written lyrics, also in the background there was some graffiti so its creates a good image of what kinda conventin a rap film would bring. we still have to film that scene again because now we have to film more graffiti and more trains going passed. this should be hopefully done tomorrow night down central london (dont ask, i didnt wanna argue) so at the moment.. once again SO FAR SO GOOD and our rhythm is smoooth and going well. safeeeee


Nableeeeee (Nabil)

Progress in our production

well at the moment we have made a good start to our production. we have filmed our location for the film, we have filmed good shots of the black artist rapping and good shots of the male protagonist (who cares if i spelt it wrong im tired here). also we filmed some ducks aswell in the canal on spikes bridge, your probably thinking why are we doing this and whats this got to do in relation with a rap film, but you will see as i am not givng out any 'BAIT' ideas here. there is still alot to do as we have more scenes to film and bring the story together. one of my group members will post up some of the footage im hoping because i dont have it but overall, we are making good progress with our production and are close to making the BEST production. 65/65 all the wayyyyy !!!! peace.



Nableeeee (Nabil)

Past Students Production Analysis

Kabhi Socha Na Tha


Media Language-

• The setting of the trailer is mainly in a park. The park signifies peace and equality which goes we with the music in the production as it portray's romance within the film.
• As all of the trailer is filmed outdoor; in daylight, I'm assuming that they were using natural lighting to make their production look more authentic.
• The sound that has been used in this Bollywood trailer is non-digetic as they have used the movie's soundtrack over their editing.
• In the trailer the female protaganist is wearing traditional indian clothing to give the trailer a greater sense of realism.
• Close ups have been used on the protangist when crying, to show the audience her facial expressions which the audience will then question why is he crying?
• They used dissovles to blur scenes from one another.This was goos as it made the trailer look soft and subtle which gave the trailer that calmness and romance.

Institution-

• The films distributor in the trailer is the famous bollwood Yash Raj Films.
• Yash Raj Films are the second largest film industry in the world.
• The company started out as a film making company in 1970 and has grown from strength to strength over the last three decades.
• In 2004, Hollywood repoter carried a survey on the "Biggest Film Distribution Houses" in the world, in which Yash Raj Film was listed as the 27th in the world, making it thereby the number 1 film distribution house in India.

Genre-

• The genre of this Bollywood film trailer is a stereotypical romantic love triangle were the female protaganist has to choose her love.

Representation-

• The representation of the trailer shows a typical Asian girl in a love triangle, were she then has to choose which boy she wants; her best friend or the one she loves.

Audience-

• The target audience for this traile i would believe is for an older Asian generation. Mums and Dads who enjoy the romance and love.
• The secondary audience for the trailer would be people who like a bit of drama and are constantly involved in realtionship.

Avinash

Rap music (good or bad?)

There are many different views of rap music and the main views of rap music are that rap music is mysoganistic and degrading towards women and the other view of rap music is that it a form of expression however there are two particular groups of people who have these two separate views, one is the parents and the politicians and the other is the people who are involved in rap music, the artists.

"The world of hip hop would have you believe that rap is a very poetic way of expressing yourself through music".

This is one of the sides that i was talking about, this side being the music enthusiasts who are into music and the other side: "Eighty percent of the rap music in the top ten charts contains violence. They glorify acts of beating up another person or even worse shooting them".

This is a typical view of a politician or a person who is just not involved with the music scene so has to find room to critisize.
These are the two main views of rap music, do you believe in any of them, you decide.
Laters.

Ajitpal

Overview of 'A Rapper's Ambition'

Our production 'A Rappers Ambition' will challenge the typical stereotype of our main genre RAP. the typical conventions of a rap genre are drugs, sex, money and crime. our production will be based on an upcoming indian artist whose AMBITION is to make it to the top of the rap industry but struggles as he faces many obstacles which lead to blood, courage and the creation of a rep. the reason we have chosen an indian artist is because we wanted to challenge the stereotype of a rapper and we will challenge this by having a typical black artist challenge the upcoming indian artist and from there his journey begins to become the absolute best. another reason why we chose to do this is because we wanted to show someone who lives in a poor background, earn himself a reputation by competing with the 'big boys' of rap. we were inspired by Bullet Boy (2004) for this location of an urbanized area and the poor background. We were also inspired by films such as 8 Mile (2002) and Get Rich or Die Trying (2005) because they were successful formats and we felt that these two films suited our production as they have similar storylines and conventions. By doing this and meeting our objectives, i feel that we can produce a successful production and with the knowledge i posess from GCSE media i can teach my fellow partner Avi who is new to this some new skills. Our camera shots are important because different shots create different impacts, shots like close ups create impact in relation to emotion and sympathy and shots such as low angle create power and a 'king' We hope that we can put all this together and create a successful production as our aim is to win the best production so fingers crossed.

Here is a short piece of 'MIGRAIN' analysis of our film explaining what intended meanings will be created:

M - the shots used will create impact and power and a sense of sympathy as we have included scenes such as the obstacles he has to overcome. this relates to the audience as they can feel sympathy

I - MTV - a popular company which will attract audience

G - a new convention will be challengd as an indian artist has a desire for rap and is challenged by a stereotype black rap artist so this will bring something new to the audience.

R - the indian artist will be represented in the film as an underdog and he will challenge the typical convetion of a rapper.

A - seeing this new challenge, the audience will feel willing to see this as the stereotype is challenged.

I - that we are not going to follow out typical stereotype and how a new stereotype will be conveyed in the production.

N - A use of Todorov's theory? probably but maybe Propp. it wil be structured in a unique way with the rapper becoming sucessful over the stereotype and a new one is born



Nabil

Genre conventions

The genre of the film trailer that we are going to be creating is more of music and the type of music is going to be more along the lines of rap music (maybe a bit of hip hop) so the normal type of conventions that you would expect to see in movies such as this one would be lots of special effects to keep the audience hooked on what they are watching for example, in our trailer there will be an instant where some of the lyrics being said will appear on screen.

There are three other things that you might expect to see in music movies and there are drugs, sex and violence, now the drugs part is only suitable to some movies and normally it depend on what kind of a storyline is in place, the sex again depends on the story line set however sex might not be suitable in our production because of the storyline and the type of target audience we have chosen to direct our trailer at. Violence is what you expect to see in most movies and this one will certainly be no different. For example there could be a scene where the male protagonist will get attacked on the sly by his enemy.

There will be some extra things in our trailer that you might not expect to see in others for example, there will be a number of rap battles so the target audience can look at something that they can all relate to.
They are just some of the main conventions that you would normally see in a film with the same genre as ours so keep a look out for them. Check you later.

Ajitpal

Get rich or die tryin film review

Director: Jim sheridan

writer: Terrance winter

cast: Curtis jackson
Terrence howard
Bill duke
Joy bryant

Rap superstar 50 Cent - aka Curtis Jackson - follows in the footsteps of Eminem in Get Rich Or Die Tryin'. While it boasts a first-class director and is loosely based on the singer's own life-story, the results leave you feeling a little, erm, short-changed. Sadly, it is Jackson himself who takes most of the rap for this. Kicking off with a botched robbery and the merciless shooting of its central character, Marcus (Jackson), the film then re-tells his life story from the events leading up to the murder of his mother while he was still a kid.

Forced to deal drugs in order to survive, Marcus yearns for something better and fancies a career as a hip-hop artist. But it is only a stint in prison that really allows him to focus his talent and enables him to meet a fellow gangster (Terrence Howard) who agrees to serve as his bodyguard and manager. The hustle and flow that follows plays out like a greatest hits selection of 50 Cent's own musical reflections and countless other movies besides, taking in the usual petty rivalries, gangsta' bloodshed, pimps and whores.

What makes Get Rich Or Die Tryin' most disappointing, however, is the presence of Irish director Jim Sheridan, whose very best work includes In The Name Of The Father and In America. Here, he is ill served by a clichéd script that reduces most characters to stereotype and a curiously flat performance from Jackson, who is accused on at least two occasions of failing to show any emotion by his co-stars. Without a charismatic leading man to guide it, the film struggles to maintain a worthwhile rhythm and ends up sounding like a broken record with nothing new to say.

That was just a review of Get rich or die tryin, i know it's good

Ajitpal

8 Mile film review

The film 8 Mile opens with Jimmy "Rabbit" Smith who is in the middle of a rap battle and he freezes in his first contest at the shelter.

With himself being to embarresed he returns to what he used to do at his previous job and carries on living with his mum in a trailer right next to the 8 mile road which separates the white suburbs from the largly black inner city.

The next rap battle he gets is just a week away with him trying to achieve redemtion himself from the embarresment of freezing on the stage.

Scott Silver's script garnishes its clichés with effective social commentary. The former Marshall Mathers, meanwhile, is fine, if somewhat self-conscious, as he skulks about wearing his trademark look of wounded insolence.

The rapping is the real star. When Eminem takes centre stage, he's back in an arena he knows - and his charisma and remarkable linguistic dexterity make these profane, clever and funny scenes the best of the movie.

So this was a review of the movie 8 mile, hope you like some of the stuff i've put together.

Ajitpal

About rap music

The word rap was originally associated with hip hop music, which was first established in the 1970's and it came from the streets of Kingston Jamaica and it was most popular amognst the afro americans and the latinos. However you know rap as people rapping or MCing to different beats that are sometimes made up or sampled from different songs.

Gangsta rap was first introduced in 1988 with the album from N.W.A. 'Straight outta Compton', and this was a contriversial matter because most of the material on the album was to do with drugs, sex and violence. I'm sure all of you lot already know about the thing that was going on between 2pac and Biggie so i don't need to talk about that, so anyway this is just a brief history of the rap scene and where it came from and who made it famous so i'll check you lot later

Ajitpal

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NABLEEEEEEEE

welcome

Welcome to our blog. The official blog of A rappers Ambition produced by Avinash, Amit, Ajitpal and Nabil. Any other blog you see of this sort is a total fraud.

life & lyrics analysis

This is a film trailer of the film life & lyrics (2006). I have decided to analyse this trailer because we as a group hope to make our production something along these lines in terms of genre and theme and our target audience will be quite similar to this film as this film is successful and popular amongst the audience. In our production we will portray a single 'Asian' male protagonist in contrast to a whole group of 'black' artists in this film, as we do not want to copy previous hits and we should just follow the main conventions and make use of them in our production. We are going to use some of the main conventions of film trailers in this genre like fast cuts between scenes to ensure that not much of the story is revealed and yet the audience have a little taster of what the film is about. we will also use different types of shots for example low angle shots to give importance to a subject, high angle shots, close ups, long shots etc. Finally we hope to attract a mass audience through a professional and realistic finish to our production because film trailers are the first sight the audience gets of a film and there is nothing worse than leaving the audience not being impacted or convinced enough to watch the film. we also hope to attract the audience my breaking a few stereotypes such as having a 'Asian' protagonist up against black artists, no use of drugs etc.

MIGRAIN ANALYSIS

Media Language - The film trailer on the whole is really fast moving which is made like that by the use of fast cuts between scenes. The trailer starts with a long shot of buildings at night and which then zooms in before the scene is changed. A lot of close ups are used to show the facial expressions of the actors. A point of view shot is used where the audience is watching from the characters point of view; this is the shot where Ashley Walters is attacked.
There is diegetic sound used which is of the dialogues spoken by the actors and there is non-diegetic sound which is the soundtrack and the voice over. The sound track used is also parallel which accompanies the scenes in the trailer. The key settings shown in the trailer are club, recording studio and streets. The props used are DJ equipment, car. The costumes worn by the actors are mainly 'tracksuits' and 'hooded tops' this makes the primary audience relate to the film.

Institution - Universal

Genre - Musical film

Representation - Black men are stereotypically represented as young music artists and there is a battle between two very talented groups of black men to make it big. There is also a female character featured in trailer along side the male lead 'Ashley Walters'.

Audience - The primary audience for this film are young middle class people aged 14-25 who enjoy musical/ reality films.

Narrative - There is not much of the story revealed as it's a film trailer but there is a clue given to the audience on what the basic theme of the film is.

AMIT

Research

Above, is the film trailer of 8 Mile. We hope to produce a film trailer smiliar to this as it appeals to the same target audience we hope to attract. The use of hybrid genre is used within this film which helps appeal to a wider audience. With our production we wish to portray our rap artist in a similar way so we can also meet a greater audience aswell. The use of the deep voiceover works will which we also may do as the voiceover drowns the audience into the moving images. However, we do not want to copy previous blockbuster hits such as 8 mile but we do want to make our production as professional and realistic as possible. We hope to create a sense of reslience within our audeience by showing them to go for their dreams and as our production has a asian male protaganist we should get through to the audience more easily as it is not stereotypical.

Avinash Masih

this trailer is from 'Get Rich Or Die Tryin' (2005) starring hip hop senastion 50 cent. our production will be similar to this because we are trying to show a rap artist struggling his way to make it to the top of da rap industry wheras in get rich or die trying, 50 cent wants to get away from his crime at concentrate on his passion which is music. another film that really is similar to our production is 8 mile (2002) starring Eminem. in this film eminem wants to be the best in the rap industry but when he starts spittin, his words dont flow and everyone laughs at him and thinks he cant make it to the top. this is the case of our film but im not going to give much away. i was hoping to add the trailer of 8 mile but my internet explorer decided to be funny with me. but thats allim saying but trust me this is going to be a successfull production and 65/65 all da wayyyy lyk!!!!!!!!

Nableeeeeee

Shot list (some of them)

wassup people i'm just gonna give you a flavour of what kind of shots are going to be used in the trailer so you get a rough idea of what it's all about.

The first shot is in the streets of our ends, and the scene starts with the camera focussing on the sky and then the camera tilts down and takes a look at a street lamp where you can see mans spitting.
Then the camera will move to a different location where it will record the music artist in the studio recording some beats, then the camera will switch location as the rapper jumps on a bus and ia practising to himself as some of the lyrics appear on screen (maybe), and then you see the artist in a number of rap battles where he's spitting his lyrics.

That's a brief idea of what we are doing, i know it's good but try and keep the excitement inside yourselfs for the finished product.

Ajitpal

wassup people, this is the basic outline of the trailer, a name ain't been decided yet but don't worry the name will fall into place soon.

The trailer we are going to produce is for a film about young music artists and how they struggle to make into the mainstream music scene. The trailer shows how the protagonist struggles from being a guy who raps on the streets to him making his dream a reality and becoming a mainstream rapper.

Ajitpal