INITIAL IDEAS

Tyrisha Lendor-

Black

Soca Music

Video

Who is the artist you have chosen to

make a song for and What is the name

of the song?

Who are you working with?

For my music video I will be working alongside Akasha. I have chosen to work

in a group so that there is a larger variety of ideas on how the music video

can be constructed.

The song that I am going to be using is “Get On” by Fay-Ann Lyons.

Are you going to have performance

and/or narrative in your music video?

For my music video I am just going to have a narrative as it will be rather

difficult to include a lot of performance as it is unlikely that the song is going to be repeated the amount of times that I will need it to in order for everything to fall into place. Therefore, by including

only a narrative I am able to keep to the conventions of the genre.

General overview of ideas for the

music video so far.

My general overview for my music video is that it is going to include

scenes from carnival and also demonstrate the ‘journey of

carnival’ including events such as panarama, the journey to carnival, jouvert and the procession itself.

Why is the idea appropriate

for the chosen song?

I think that this ideas is appropriate for the song that we have chosen as the song as it is

related to carnival. Therefore, by using the aspects that I intend to

include it links in with the conventions of the genre as most Soca videos have pre, during and

post carnival moments.

Idea link to the lyrics of the

song.

The idea that we have generated does link to the lyrics in the song

because they are about ‘getting on’ at carnival. ‘Getting on’ is a reference

for enjoying yourself. Therefore by using these aspects it shows what

has to be done in order for someone to ‘get on’ at carnival.

How does your idea fit

your genre?

My idea fits my genre by keeping to the stereotypical conventions of Soca music videos. This is the likes of having someone play steel pan,

showing everyone enjoying themselves at carnival and jouvert.

As well as this, the artist usually has the same amount of input into

the narrative of the video as the actors.