Brief account on Costume, Setting and Props

The genre in which my research is based upon is rap and grime. The setting and costume link together through their conventions, for example, the costume which they wear is normally quite street and casual and this links to the setting due to most grime music being filmed on the street. In our music video, we have decided to keep it as street as possible and contained graffiti constantly throughout the music video in order for it to always fit the genre. 



This is an example of one of our locations. As you can see it is a very large size piece of art which we have found a location in order to get it involved in the shot. We have used underpasses which have graffiti plastered down either side of the walls and by having this, we can constantly shoot in front of it and we can get multiple different shots in just one location.The props that are also usual in a grime, rap videos are flashy jewellery and expensive cars.The videos are also not high budget and will be most probably produced by the artist or an independent video producing company.A lot of things that are featured in rap/grime videos are often illegal. In our music video, we have decided to use a bb-gun which will link to our genre and also to our lyrics. For example one verse is "Pulled that pistol back and then burn it, Friday shit, I bap and big worm it." By having these types of props in our video, it can link to our music video really well and it will help the audience to understand it a lot more.