Costume, Props, Extras and Equipment

Costumes

Lil' Wayne and The Game (From left to right)

One of the scenes Lil' Wayne is wearing a dark blue bubble coat, jeans and black trainers. The Game is just about wearing the same type of clothes but with a red jacket showing his top, we chose this theme as coming from a tough area we thought it would be suitable. With the context of the lyrics, we thought wearing formal clothing type such as suits wouldn't fit with the whole concept of the video.

This is another scene in where Lil' Wayne is simply wearing a black hoody with a black hat, we chose for Lil' Wayne to wear black because it represents a much darker theme as most people in the 'hood' like dark colours.
The Game has a black jacket on with a white top, white combats and trainers. The Game shows a contrast in his costumes, we chose this because he's trying to get out of this 'hood' but he's in two minds, this is why we picked this costume.


Props

These are our main props we used in our video. This was to represent that our video is about different people, diffierent cultures and different areas. We chose these two colours as they are most effective as they represent the two biggest gangs of America 'Bloodz & Crips'.

Extras

These are the children in our music video we chose to add them into our video as it creates the sense of people choosing the right path in life at a young age.

These are the people that are involed in the crime scene of our music video. The idea of these people shows how the crime scene happened and how the person at the crime scene died.

This is a shot of The Game with his friends showing that he keeps tham close and that they are important in his life.

this is the police woman in our video. we chose to have her in a close up shot as it showed the emotion on how she felt about the scene.


Equipment


We used a Canon Legria FS306 camera to shoot different parts of our music video. When we were not using the green screen camera's we used this camera as it was easier to take it onto our filming locations. Another advantage this camera had from the green screen cameras was that all of our filming was saved onto a memory card which speeded up the process of getting all of footage from the cameras to the apple mac computers.



In the above picture there is a tripod which we used to keep the camera still when we were filming, this made our shots look more professional as if we hadn't used a tripod most of our shots would have been handheld and more on a canted angle. The tripod made it very easy to get very still panning and tracking shots because of the tripod which keeps the camera still and straight.

This is a picture took while Ekuiki was using the green screen DV high resolution cameras to film parts of our music video. This camera is a lot better than the other digital camera we have used to film as we were able to use the shallow and deep focus more effectively straight from the cameras. These cameras have extended our knowledge on new technology as we were able to cut from three different cameras which allowed us to get a variety of shots in one take.

This picture was took whilst Molly was making sure all the camera's were in place ready to record on a live production software called Tricaster. After everything was set up correctly, she was able to record everything to how she and the group wanted it to go. Molly was able to cut from different cameras on the Tricaster set up and choose which shots would positvely impact the groups music video.