Initial Ideas

Now that my research is completed, I started looking for songs that I could do a music video to. I tried to find songs that had some kind of narrative as this would enable me to be more creative for my music video. I listened to a variety of hip-hop songs all with different moods; from happy and upbeat, to sad and aggressive. After looking through 100's of different hip-hop songs, a couple of songs stood out which had a good narrative, a clear message, but wasn't too enclosed so I could be creative with it and come up with my own ideas.

In the end I narrowed it down to a song by the rapper XV called 'Rabbit Hole'. This song is about the change from being a nobody, to becoming famous, and the efffect it has on friends, family, relationships with people, and just life in general. I paticular like this song because the concept is quite realistic and simple to understand, however the lyrics are quite complex when you go into more depth.

After listening to this song, I visualised lots of ideas, different transitions I could use for it, the scenes, storylines to it, and many more. This is why I have picked this song. After thinking long and hard, I came up with a mindmap to help me with the overall theme of the song and what to include in the music video. These were my results:

Mind Map