Genre and Our use of it

Band Name

 So Millie and I have come up with band name 'Bacci and Filter'. Not only because the lyrics are from the actual song but we believe the whole brand and genre are suited with the name.

This is a screen shot of Frank Ocean's video for 'Novocane'.
The song is simply about him numbing pain, 
and his use of smoke allows his audience to feel 
they can relate to him through 'numbing'
the pain.


  

 As our genre is the hip-hop/pop mix it suits and is quite a quirky name. The reference of cigarettes is used in a strange 'cool' way in today's music. The majority of our target audience use smoking to lose themselves and feel good in some way, which is also what we hope our artist will bring to our audience but obviously just by our music.  

On the other hand we used this as you always need the bacci with the filter. For this song to work, you need the rapper and the singer, as well as the serious and the humorous which we both have. It all fits together for a nice modern band name.

This is a screen shot of Snoop-Dogg's album 
cover. Here the smoke from his mouth is
clearly the main focus of the advert.
To promote himself to look 'cool' to his 
audience. Throughout his video's he 
uses a male gaze and lyrics of explicit nature
to also appeal to his audience, whereas we 
are using smoking without trying to create 
it in an explicit nature.

Here Arctic Monkey's; an English successful
 band use smoking on their front cover.
This is used all for image which also proves how
 smoking is quite a focus on the youths of today.

   

All three artists are using smoking 

to appeal to the same audience 

that are hoping to attract. Through 

using the idea of smoking, we're

 conforming to other artist's, as 

we're all competing for the same

audience to buy in to our brand.

Both Snoop Dogg and Arctic

Monkeys use a stage name rather

than their real name, to again create

a 'cool' image to their target audience

in which we have done to

promote ourselves.

Brand Images

All of these images give me some 
inspiration for our music video. 
I really love the idea of some sort of face paint.
 As our idea is more of a story in a story, 
which is Millie and I being a band duo 
who are trying to make it, but my character
 is not as serious about our career as
 Millie's character is, therefore this is 
where the facepaint could work, 
as it's a quirky childish aspect to the video
 giving good colours.

As much as I dislike Cher Lloyd and her music; I really like the colour sceme to this video. It suits our pop-alternative genre. The colours would be appropriate for us, and it I enjoy the continuation throughout the video of the colours. I wouldn't really think about the use of balloons as it wouldn't really suit our narrative although in this video it does look quite effective.

I like all these pictures as they all have some sort of relevance to us. The colours make me think closely about the type of shots and the colours we could bring in to the video. It's quite an old indie themed collage of photo's which probably doesn't suit us but as our song brings in so many different themes with the indie music and rapping it all can be bought in in to one. The above vintage photo is the type of colours we are looking in to doing our video in. It brings a sense of youth and age in to one video, which could be interpreted in many different ways by our target audience.

I like how this band (OFWGKTA) use a bicycle. It's quite a humourous and quirky prop. It could easily fit our theme and we could get some great shots from it too, which I've already thought about.

Inspirational shots

Whilst watching inception, this shot caught my eye and I thought how we could use something similar which still involved water. I love how the slow motion water blends well.

Voyeurism

Funnily enough, Rizzle Kicks use voyeurism in their video. They start with using the boombox and putting their own track in to it with a video of themselves. It shows how they're listening to something they've produced.

It's also used in this video, which is once again; Rizzle Kicks. The use of the record is the voyeurism in this as they're some what looking at their own track.

Voyeurism is seen in quite a few videos, mainly more upbeat tracks like the two above. Cher Lloyd uses voyeurism in two of her video's which brings quite a quirky feel, as it shows she's listening to herself. The same phone is seen in both video's, it could show a catchy continuity theme for her audience to notice in each video.

Lyrics

Yo, you might hear me make a racket like Wilson
Cause I love summer no Rachel Bilson (YES)
The winter will come,
We just have parties inside it's still fun,
(We're jammin') pump this (We're bangin'),
Chase your boyfriend let's 'av him,
We're rowdy, girls make our judgement cloudy,
but when the sun comes up we're still alcys,
We don't wanna be lowsy, or shameless,
but we're running round like we're brainless,
now I've got grass stains on my brand new white trainers
(ON MY BRAND NEW WHITE TRAINERS)
Ummmm... I know a few guys hate us,
they're as compelling as neighbours so laters,
it's blaters we've got our own sound, you know now,
so go wild and get hosed down, n-no no

Chorus
YEAH YEAH
Let's get down with the trumpets (x4)
WHAT
Let's get down with the down with the (x3)
YEAH YEAH
Let's get down with the trumpets

When I get down,
I get respect now,
and when our tunes drops,
you know it makes your head bounce,
yeah I move with the flow,
and when I enter the room it shows,
I move sick (WHEN I DANCE)
then chicks (WANNA DANCE)
move in and move quick (WHEN I DANCE)
at risk (WHEN I DANCE)
just be careful you don't lose your chick (WHEN I DANCE)

that might just happen,
so listen deep,
stick with your madame,
or she might just leave

CHORUS
YEAH YEAH
Let's get down with the trumpets (x4)
WHAT
Let's get down with the down with the (x3)
YEAH YEAH
Let's get down with the trumpets

Ummm... how much sound from the brass to the air,
will it take, to put your bras in the air? (PARDON ME THERE)
just don't pretend that,
if I wasn't older you wouldn't wanna dance with me yeaaah
you're the last of my fears,
I was top boy of the class in my year,
well not really but I was half way there,
and I coulda been the headmaster so yeah
got vibes and charisma (lighter and rizla)
baccy and filter (shine for me mister)
I want the sun to (SH-I-I-INE)
till I'm looking at a bright blue (SKY-Y-Y)
yes, and we drop it like anvils,
bring your whole crew to a stand still, still,
stick us on at clubs and I
guarantee that no body would stand still

CHORUS
YEAH YEAH
Let's get down with the trumpets (x4)
WHAT
Let's get down with the down with the (x3)
YEAH YEAH
Let's get down with the trumpets

Change of mind

After a team meeting, we've decided to completely change our ideas. We've gone from an indie/rock artist to a pop-alternative genre.
We have the concept of not taking ourselves too seriously, as last year we came across as quite a serious group but this year we're hoping to get our humour through in our video with the quality of shots from our video from AS.



 The song has a quirky feel in which we like. The song has a british feel and the band has two artists. Millie and I are hoping to take on the persona of the two artists, but be quite humorous in doing so. As the artist is sung by two males, we're going to use being females to our advantage by conforming/going against different theorists for music video's.