ABC Final Major Project – Parents Perceptions

PARENTS PERCEPTIONS

Today Wednesday 20th March 2013, I created my first video diary. To keep track of my work, targets and achievements I’ve decided to make them as a video diary.It’s a lot easier for me to express my thoughts in words rather than writing them down.

This was my original idea. I was so excited to work on this subject because its interesting to see how others live in their cultures, Especially when it comes to young females. Do their Parents agree with their dreams or would it cause problems? My aim was to investigate that.

Thursday 21st march 2013:

My targets:

    • Research the pressure on young people (music related) ( own video footage)

My intentions on this day was to focus on interviewing UK artists that I know. I didn’t get any interviews done because the artists I was relying on didn’t have college on Wednesdays. So it was my fault for not arranging something before hand. I wasn’t organised on that day.

However, I managed to get some research on interviewing techniques instead, to make up for my lack of organisation.

Practice

Practice talking in the mirror or to a video camera on one subject as fluently as you can for a couple of minutes and identify where you are going wrong by watching professional presenters on Tv or online.

understand the topic of what it is your about to talk about. Before you go out and talk or interview do some research determine what it is you are talking about, If its an artist, event or a product, find out as much as you can.

Look into the Camera

Great tip for TV presenting jobs is to learn by heart what you have to say or deliver. It doesn’t look nice if you’re reading from papers. The aim is to make as much eye contact to the camera as possible But, you must know that even if you memorise your presentation, it seem plastic and rehearsed it has to sound natural..

Relax and be natural

You should feel absolutely free and natural while presenting. Most beginners think that you have to be word-perfect but that’s far from the facts. Most great presenters make mistakes but is how they cover them up that makes them exceptional. They have the experience so it doesn’t look like they have forgotten something. So practice the ability to carry on talking even though you made mistakes or even forgot things. It only shows how cool and easy you are about your presentation.

Body Language

display appropriate body language especially if you’re a female. Your body language says a lot about your personality and most women on TV bring a glow and bubblyness to the screen that make you want to watch and listen to them. It tells who you are, how confident and capable you are and how good/bad you are as a TV presenter.

Your Personality

While performing TV presenting jobs, never look hunched, don’t slump in your seat, don’t yawn, don’t bite your nails, and never give that wide-eyed stunned look! If you look bored why would anyone want to listen or watch you? Always engage and give your best personality to your audience or spectators. If you have a magnetic personality, you will be able to hold the viewer’s attention to the TV show and would thereby contribute to the popularity of the show. Also your personality will give you your uniqueness so that you have your own style to separate you from the rest.

In some cases, you will need to ad-lib, especially on live TV or events or where you are interviewing random people who is why it is good to research which ever topic you are covering. But presenters that can ad-lip well will be the ones chosen for live events and to be the roaming presenter. The roaming presenter is the one that you see out and about rather than in the studio. They engage with the public and have to be quite sharp at ad-libbing as it is much more spontaneous. So practice interviewing friends about random subjects and allow your friends to be honest with the answers whilst interviewing them which will push you to become creative with your ad-libs.

Nerves

Nerves will be your biggest obstacle. You will feel confident when you are practising but as soon as your on a set, your nerves will kick in and you will be all over the place. The way to control your nerves is to take some deep breaths & make sure you practice to get as much experience as possible. Too many people say they are presenters after juts one or two low budgets shoots and think they don’t need to practice anymore. At the top-level it’s no joke, you have to get the experience by doing it over and over again so try to humbly do jobs for free to get this experience.

Your Presenters Voice

The last but most important tip is to get your voice right. You may already have that perfect sounding TV voice that the industry is looking for. But if not you may have to slightly adjust your voice. You’d be surprised on how many presenters may slightly change their voice to a more appealing range. Some will lower their tone as high-pitched voices don’t tend to work well on TV. Others will rid their dialogue of slang words, whilst some slow their speech down so as to be able to hear the words more clearly. Work on your voice quality and texture, pronunciation, use of gestures and over all sound of your voice. Listen to the presenters on TV and listen to their techniques and copy them to get an idea of what you need to do.

American Female Rap Artists

I also looked into some research on American Female Rap Artists.

RESEARCH ON AMERICAN FEMALE RAP ARTISTS

  • Eve

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Taking the rap world by storm as Ruff Ryders first lady, Eve proved that she could hold her own amongst the hard-core male rappers surrounding her. Striking massive success with her debut album Let There be Eve…Ruff Ryders First Lady being the second female rap artist to reach #1 on the Billboard charts. Going on to reach international success with “Who’s That Girl,” which showcased her singing ability along with her equally impressive rap skills, Eve continued to gain praise for her work. She landed her first Grammy for the single “Let Me Blow Your Mind,” a collaboration with Gwen Stefani and went on to gain platinum success for her work on the song.

  • Nicki Minaj

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Nicki Minaj is on top of the world right now, and anyone who’s listened to her brand new album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded The Re-Up, knows she’s not stepping down from her throne anytime soon.

But while she basks in the spotlight now – and she does love to bask – what about all those other female rappers who once ruled but then disappeared into oblivion?

But it’s like they say – keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Just look at Foxy Brown, who got onstage with Nicki this past summer in New York but would otherwise be completely irrelevant, making headlines not for her music but for assaulting manicurists and what not. (Lil Kim on the other hand, still hasn’t learned her lesson and is still picking fights with Nicki every chance she gets.)

“I believe in giving props where props are due,” Nicki said before bringing Foxy onstage to perform “B.K. Anthem” and “Oh Yeah.” “And sometimes it happens to be one person that has influenced me more than any other woman. I wanna bring the baddest bitch out that ever did this sh*t.”

From fly girls to street spitters, we rounded up some of our favorite female rappers from the past to see what life has been for them after hip-hop’s spotlight.

I managed to find an interview of Lil Kim speaking about the drama she has with Nicki. I thought this would be a great example of Showing another struggle females go through in the industry and in life. As well as competing with male rappers and trying to fit in, Females also have to do the same when it comes to other female competitors. This is the perfect example of how petty and competitive females can get.

Using Nicki and Lil kim as another example, separate to their little drama that’s happening. I wouldn’t be surprised that parents would be against their daughters becoming Female rappers due to the past of artist like these. Im not judging at all however some families are old-fashioned and don’t agree with the behaviour of others. Lil Kim is comfortable with her X-rated lyrics and her freaky past, but to have that sort of role model promoting sex to young women should a parent be okay with that? Nicki also started out rapping about sex and other x-rated things but has become more commercial.

Lil Kim

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seventeen years ago, seemingly overnight, Lil’ Kim became hip-hop’s alpha female.

Unflinchingly raw, her 1996 debut, Hard Core (Big Beat/Atlantic/Undeas)—copiloted by Bad Boy Entertainment’s breadwinner Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. the Notorious B.I.G—defied conformity. But these days, more than her audacious singles (“No Time,” “Crush on You,” “How Many Licks”), pasties-peppered wardrobes, over 6 million records sold or shelves full of shiny trophies, it’s Lil’ Kim’s beef with hip-hop’s reigning—and undoubtedly Kim-inspired—queen, Nicki Minaj, that’s given her a chance at a comeback. It even compelled Kim in March to drop a mixtape, Black Friday—which sold for $10 a pop on PayPal—intended to dismantle her newfound nemesis.

She was born Kimberly Denise Jones in 1975 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn to Ruby Mae and Linwood Jones; and blew up after Biggie plucked her from the streets as a teen and thrust her into America’s arms. Here, Kim’s closest friends and business associates chart her chaotic, sometimes unbelievable, journey and ponder how the Queen can rebuild.

“I like a real subtle guy who’s getting paper. A father figure because me and my father weren’t really that close. Like Biggie—he sheltered me. I like a protector. Fathers don’t let nothin’ happen to their baby girl.” —Lil’ Kim, VIBE 1997

Rob Marriott (writer, VIBE June/July 2000 Lil’ Kim cover story): Her mother worked at Macy’s. And she was a very stylish woman. She sent Kim to catholic school [Queen of All Saints] and tried to put her in the best situations. But her parents divorced, and Kim went to live with her father.

Tasha Smith (childhood friend and Sarah J. Hale High School classmate): Kim felt when her dad remarried he changed, and it all escalated from there. ’Cause now you have a woman in the house, whereas it was always just Kim, [her older brother] Chris and her dad. Things that were maybe unacceptable, the stepmother would bring to her dad’s attention.

Marriott: She had a real violent relationship with her father. She once stabbed him with a pair of scissors.

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I spent so much time thinking about what i wanted to do rather than actually doing it. I knew what I wanted to do but found it difficult to take the first step.

I had interviewees in mind but I didn’t make time to set up times and dates.

Personally, I can have so much motivation to do something but once I get sidetracked or distracted I go off task, and that’s what had happened.

Part of my plan was to interview my mum. I wanted to start at home and compare my family beliefs to other families. You would think that being able to interview your mum would be the simplest thing ever, which it is. From when you live with the person its easy to ask them for 3 minutes of their time just to ask a few questions and get their out look on the situation. As easy as that sounds I didn’t even get an interview with my mum. She was very busy attending to other things and I can’t lie occasionally I just forgot. However I managed to have a discussion with her about it, I just didn’t get the chance to have her in front of the camera. She told me she would support me with whatever I wanted to do but as a mother she would have her concerns.

My lack of motivation was horrendous.

To try to get back my motivation, I sat down and discussed my work with Roxanne and she persuaded me to narrow my work down to one section rather than have all these categorises to cover. So we came up with the idea Can Females Rap?  ‘Can females rap’ was suggested to be a ten minute documentary which explores the culture of rap music and what women are doing to break in to a male dominated industry. The documentary was aiming to look at the struggles females encounter whilst competing with the male side.

My plan was to then to find out what;

  • The attraction is
  • why do women want to become rappers
  • how did they break into a male dominated industry
  • what is their image to the audience
  • profile on the subjects (the main interviewees)
  • What is it likely for them to say

As a female that has been brought up in south London I personally like rap music. Even though my immediate family don’t listen to it, growing up I was around it a lot, whether I was playing out or if I was at school there was always some form of music around and rap music; being from UK artists to American artists caught my attention .

I have strong beliefs when it comes to females being equal to men and since it was more likely for a guy to be a rap artist it made me want to be in competition.

At lunch time or break times I was always with boys free styling or having clashing matches. I then got to the point of only listening to rap music. UK Artists like Giggs, K Koke, Benny Banks, other Uk grime artists and American musicians like Eminem, 2pac, Biggy ect.. I would have my music full blast in my headphones walking round my house thinking I could be just like these Artists, and one day my mum said I shouldn’t listen to that genre of music because im meant to be a young lady and females shouldn’t speak like that. Just like most teenagers, by my mum telling me I shouldnt do something made me want it more But at the same time it made me very conscious about it. At times I felt stupid for wanting to be a female rapper because I was afraid of what people would have to say and how they would judge me but music was my way of expressing myself and i wasn’t willing to let anyone take that away from me. Most rap can sound very vicious and angry so I suppose I had a lot of anger inside me and rap was a way of getting it off my chest.

I did some research on music on its own:

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I also looked up some female rappers.

RESEARCH ON BRITISH FEMALE RAPPERS

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  • Shystie, 29-years-old, London, @IAmShystie

Resume: Albums: “Diamond In the Dirt” (2004), “Pink Mist EP” (October 2012) . Mixtapes: “Grand Theft Auto” (2006), “You’re Welcome” (2011), “Blue Magic” (2011), “Gold Dust” (2012), “Gold Dust 2” (August 2012).

Sound: “Hard, emotive, full of bass and crazy melodies. I like to call it ‘orgasmic energy.'”

Inspiration: “The first time I heard Missy Elliott, I was just totally blown away. I was like, ‘This just sounds so sick!’ She just looked as if she was having so much fun with it, the videos were so animated and out of this world – from that point, I was sold. She totally motivated me to want to bring that kind of energy to the UK music scene.”

Female Rappers: “I definitely feel there’s a lot more desire to see females in hip-hop today. When I first got in the game (2005), I used to feel the male barrier — people would look at you at on stage at clubs like, ‘What the hell are you doing? Get the fuck out of here!’ I think with the success of artists like Lil Kim, Eve, Missy, and now Nicki Minaj, Azealia Banks and the influx of UK females, there’s definitely a lot more support — especially in the UK. This also might be to do with the rise in female power around the world in general.

Future: “Well, my music style is very diverse and my image is a mix of high fashion and urban/street, so I can see myself representing UK music in countries all over the world but also getting heavily involved in fashion. I design my own clothes and have featured at London Fashion Week. I walked at New York Fashion Week for designer, Stevie Boi. I’m totally focused and 100% working towards being one of the top music and style icons in the world. Period.”

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  • Lady Leshurr, 22-years-old, Birmingham (UK), @LadyLeshurr

Resume: Mixtapes: “01:21” (2010), “L Day” (2011), “Friggin’ L” (2011), Every Little Counts (2011), “DJ Whoo Kid Presents: 2000 And L” (2012) .

Sound: “Fresh, distinctive and flamboyant.”

Inspiration: “Sister Nancy, Eminem, Ms Dynamite and Lil Wayne.”

Female Rappers: “I think it is gradually getting better and males are accepting female rappers more. Before, it was very rare to see a female rapper doing her thing and actually be good at it, instead of just exploiting their body to sell records. People are more for the talent now instead of the image, which was a greater deal before then it is now.

Future: “I plan to take my music career as far as possible, and I’d like to do some more acting and producing. I’ve set up my own record label, Gutter Strut, so I want to be signing talented people to develop and launch my merchandise to the masses. I also want to own a restaurant and build youth centres for kids.”

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  • Amplify Dot, 25, London, @AmplifyDot

Resume: Mixtapes: “Dotty’s World” (2010), “Born Ready” (2011). Albums: “Short Back & Sides” (February 2012).

Sound: “Pretty fluid and changes depending on my mood. I like to experiment and rap on everything from hip-hop to reggae. But whatever the genre, I always try to make sure that my sound bangs.”

Inspiration: “My early influences were Salt-N-Pepa and TLC, and I’ve also been massively inspired by the likes of Jay-Z and Lauryn Hill, as well as old school reggae artists, like Bob Marley and Gregory Isaacs. Growing up in south London, So Solid Crew were a massive local influence, seeing them come from the same area as me and then ending up on TV was like, ‘Wow! Maybe my music can do that!'”

Female Rappers : “I think the hip-hop world has always embraced female MCs, with the likes of MC Lyte, Queen Latifah, Foxy Brown, Da Brat and more recent artists like Nicki Minaj all having their time. It’s been the UK that has taken a while to get to grips with the fact that there are talented female MCs with a lot to offer. I think the reason we are finally being embraced over here now is because we have forced the recognition. In the past two years, female MCs have made so much noise and so much good music that people have had no choice but to take notice. I feel proud to have been a part of this movement, because it’s definitely been a pivotal time for hip-hop in the UK.”

Future: “In the next five years, I hope to have delivered a stand-out album that defines this blossoming era of female rap in the UK and that also stands the test of time on a wider scale. My main aim is longevity and to keep delivering memorable, timeless music.”

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  • RoxXxan, 23, Birmingham (UK), @RoTripleX

Resume: Mixtape: “Prepare For When I Land” (September 2012).

Sound: “Hard, raw, British, edgy and honest. It’s basically RoxXxan as a person, but through sounds. It represents my personality — from Mikey J’s crazy productions to my tongue-in-cheek lyrics.”

Inspiration: “When I was younger, it was artists like Nenah Cherry, Lauryn Hill, Dizzee Rascal, Missy Elliot and Busta Rhymes. These artists have more than just songs; they have a unique identity and sound.”

Female Rappers: “I don’t think the hip-hop scene has become friendlier towards the ladies, I just think that the ladies have started playing by different rules. We just haven’t had such strong female rappers since your Lauryn Hill’s and Missy Elliott’s and Lil Kim’s. That’s why everyone is so excited about it now — it seems more “female friendly” because, now females are allowed to be more than just sexy, they’re hard as well. They can bar and flow like the guys and are better than a lot of them, too.”

Future: “In five years, I want to be an internationally-known artist, selling out tours, making hits and still working hard. I want to be seen and respected as a female rapper and an all-round artist. Hopefully by then, ‘Backpackgang’ will be a worldwide thing, and I’ll still be loving what I do.”

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  • Mz Bratt, 23, London, @BrattOnline

Resume: Mixtapes: “Elements” (2011). Album: Untitled (Winter 2012)

Sound: “Real, energetic and gritty.”

Inspiration: “I was inspired by the likes of Lauryn Hill, Missy Elliott and Ms Dynamite — they were creative and, as a young female, Ms Dynamite taught me about having morals and self-worth, so it was beyond music.”

Female Rappers: “Back in the day, you had so many females in hip-hop: MC Lyte, Lil Kim, Foxy Brown, Eve, Remy Ma and Lisa Lopez, to name a few. They all did their on a commercial level, but now there’s seems to be only one female rapper dominating, and that’s Nicki Minaj. Although there are so many female rappers today, it feels a lot harder to push through on that commercial level.”

Future: “I’d love to be able to open doors for other musicians, or even just inspire people’s lives. I’d love to take my career beyond boundaries and hopefully through my musical journey learn a lot about what life has to offer. Five years from now, I will definitely still be doing music.”

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  • No Lay, 26, London, @No_Lay

Resume: Mixtapes: “The New Chapter” (2007), “No Comparisons” (2008), “Big Trouble In Little London” (2010), “I Am Legend, I Am Future” (2011), “Drop Me Out” (2011), “Rebellion” (2012).

Sound: “Experimental and hard-hitting, with a good balance of old and new school hip-hop.”

Inspiration: ” Big L, Lauryn Hill, Nas and predominantly East Coast rappers. It’s the music I grew up on and could relate to, because it’s about real life.”

Female Rappers: “America has always been accepting of female MCs, I just think the UK is starting to catch up now.”

Future: “I want be at the top of my game. I want to be the most successful female rapper to come out of the UK. The next few years for me is about taking it to that next level and kicking down doors, making as many opportunities as possible and not dreaming small when it comes to projects. Look at the likes of Jay-Z and Pharrell, they’ve built empires and not just within music — that’s the road I’d like to be on.”

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  • Lioness, 22, London, @LionessOfficial

Resume: Mixtapes: “LochNessMonster” (2010), “RoarNess” (2011). Album: “King Of The Jungle.”

Sound: “Eclectic story-telling. I’d say that I’m a mouthpiece for females.”

Inspiration: “Absolutely no female MC has inspired me to do music. I can see why people love some of them, but no one has really grabbed me like that, personally. Eminem, though, now that’s a different story. The way that he tells stories, the way the he constructs his bars, it’s just amazing.”

Female Rappers: “It’s a lot more friendly for us female MCs now. I think it’s because females are generally more accepted in the world. Beyoncé wasn’t lying, yo. We’ll soon run the entire thing.”

Future: “I hope to mean something to a little girl in India who sells fruits and vegetables in the market (laughs). I never really like time scales, but I just hope that I’m happy and I’ve done everything that I’m supposed to do five years down the line.”

Male rappers outnumber female rappers, but talented female rappers will inevitably break through commercially. Every hip-hop era has been male-dominated but has also had some important female rap stars — and they range from Queen Latifah, MC Lyte and Salt-N-Pepa in the ’80s to Foxy Brown, Nonchalant, Da Brat and Lil’ Kim in the ’90s and Eve in the early 2000s.

From the beginning, hip-hop had a lot of testosterone; it has often functioned as a form of musical sportsmanship.

That said, hip-hop hasn’t necessarily excluded a feminist perspective either — the female rappers who have succeeded in their field have had a reputation for being assertive, take-charge women.

No one could ever accuse MC Lyte, Roxanne Shanté, Queen Latifah or Foxy Brown of projecting a wimpy image or coming across as shrinking violets; if anything, the fact that hip-hop (hardcore rap more than pop-rap) tends to be so competition-minded forces female participants to have more of a feminist outlook.

The first example of a female rapper recording as a solo artist came in 1980, when the Philadelphia-based Lady B recorded her single “To the Beat, Y’all” for Sugar Hill Records. After that, Lady B didn’t make rapping her main focus; she ultimately made her mark as a radio DJ in Philly. Nonetheless, she is a historically important figure, as are the members of the Sequence.

Lil’ Kim’s debut solo album, Hard Core.  Kim has never been the least bit shy about having X-rated lyrics. Kim commands a large following, but she also has her detractors; some feminists have argued that her willingness to exploit sex promotes the objectification of women. But if anyone is being objectified on Kim’s albums, it’s men. Kim has always projected a take-charge image on her albums — if anything, Kim’s releases have portrayed her as the dominatrix and men as the submissives who do her bidding. On the song “Not Tonight,” for example, Kim bluntly states that she expects any man she is intimate with to perform oral sex on her — and that men who cannot pleasure her in that way shouldn’t even bother wasting her time.

The list of other female rappers who started recording in the ’90s is a long one. It’s a list that includes, among many others, Nonchalant, Da Brat, Mia X, Foxy Brown, and many more. Gangsta rap was very male-dominated in the ’90s — like rap in general — but it did give us Sh’killa, a Bay Area rapper who set out to be the female equivalent of Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg or Warren G. Sh’killa’s Gangstrez from da Bay (released by Priority in 1995) was right out of the Dre/Snoop/Death Row Records school of West Coast G-funk.

The majority of female rappers have been black — at least in the United States. But some white female rappers have recorded albums over the years, and they have ranged from L.A.’s aggressive, in-your-face Tairrie B (who was very much a hardcore rapper) to pop-rapper Icy Blu In 1990, Tairrie went after the hip-hop world with her debut album, The Power of a Woman, which didn’t sell. And subsequently, she shifted her focus from hardcore rap to rap-metal and alternative rock as a vocalist for the band Manhole (more recently known as Tura Satana).

When the 21st Century arrived, rap wasn’t showing any signs of becoming less male-dominated — the high level of testosterone that rap had in the late ’70s and early ’80s wasn’t any weaker in 2000, 2001 or 2002. But if women were still a minority in rap, they were a commercially viable minority; Lil’ Kim and Foxy Brown (just to give two examples) continued to command sizable followings, and the early 2000s were a great time for the Philadelphia-based Eve (whose first album came out in 1999). Again, every hip-hop era has had some major female stars, and there is no reason to believe that the future will be any different.

Da Brat was one of the first of a new breed of hard-edged female MCs to hit the hip-hop scene during the ’90s. Although sexuality was certainly part of her image, it wasn’t as important to her as it was to Lil’ Kim or Foxy Brown; instead, Da Brat made her name as a tough, profane rhymer whose hardcore attitude and lyrical skills were never in doubt. Da Brat was born Shawntae Harris in Chicago in 1974, and started rapping at age 11. Still a teenager, she was discovered by producer Jermaine Dupri in 1992, when she won an amateur rap contest and got a chance to meet Dupri’s protégés Kris Kross. With their endorsement, Dupri signed her to his So So Def label and produced her debut album, Funkdafied, which was released in 1994. The title track was an enormous hit, going to number two on the R&B charts and spending nearly three months on top of the rap singles chart. Its success — as well as that of the follow-up singles Fa All Y’All and Give It 2 You — helped Da Brat become the first female rapper ever to have a platinum-selling album. Funkdafied also hit number one on the R&B album chart, a staggering achievement for a debut release by a female rapper

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MC Lyte

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Salt and Peper

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I don’t think anyone could be any more dissapointed at this that me. This Footage is the worst possible recording ever made by me. Unfortunately it had to be my Final Major project. The only effort put into this was the research on the script. I’m very ashamed that ive had to use this but it was the last resort due to my lack of determination and work. This is what happens when you don’t stay focused and get easily distracted. I’m not happy with this footage at all but this is what i get for not trying. I read from a script which I’ve put in my bibliography.

Whilst making this footage I used;

  • A Panasonic SD 900 because this is the camera I’ve always used when recording my work.
  • I needed a Tripod to hold the camera still whilst filming .
  • I was hoping to use a Lapel Mic because it picks up exactly what im saying but there was something wrong with it so i ended up having to use a normal mic.
  • I also read of a really big tv screen because I didn’t want to be holding a piece of paper in front of the camera, it looks unprofessional even though the whole footage was unprofessional
  • Instead of using the green screen i just stood in front of a one toned wall to make it easier. I was hoping to edit it with a lot more passion but I was on a time limit and just rushed it. I was planning to create some black and white effects but I got confused and frustrated because I couldn’t do it so once again I let myself get distracted.
  • USB Cable – When I finished filming used the USB cable to connect the camera to the computer and uploaded my footage.
  • iMac – The Mac is the best computer to use when editing, I just wish I was better at using the software.

I spent most of my time researching information instead of getting the filming done. This final major project is appauling.It was so easy getting caught up in watching videos about artists arguing or videos on the hottest Female MC in the charts, I now regret not making the effort.

NAMES OF ARTISTS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Female_rappers)

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