Song Searching/Writing...

We are looking for a song to use,  it would be easy to take a song from my favourite artist that they didn't make a video for however i'v known that we will be directing a music video this year since last year and it was a dream to make a song with my first music video. So with these wishes in mind the brainstorming for a song idea began.....

Hopsin- The type of wild appearance
I would need for Hadouken 

After AS examinations fellow classmates and I discussed what we wanted to do for A2 regarding the video and song, their wishes were similar to that of mine and one of them produced his own beats named Martin. From then we started listening to his beats and thinking which ones we liked and ones that we could make good videos to, we chose a beat called Hadouken as i was inspired by the technique used in the beat called sampling. Here is the link to youtube video of the beat 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tERN-Sd-oKY' so i was set to write lyrics for the song over the summer, i wrote lyrics easily within a week i used my daily experiences as inspiration, however the characteristics of the persona in my lyrics was different from my usual persona of past written songs.

This an example of a dark video
with exaggerated shadows. Shot from video
  'Paranormal Activity pt 2 -Konan'

So this meant that I would need rebranding or to find a way to explain to the audience that i was trying something different from my usual musical concepts.  Daniel and I started thinking about how the video was supposed to look, if we were going to have a simple video with just cuts and transitions or if we going to have major need for editing and effects that would require a green screen. We also started to think of costumes, cast and locations for scenery. We wanted to go with a music video that had a cold, gothic theme.
Exaggerated shadows,contrast and probably some colour filtering. To give focus on an object such as a weapon or make an eye look extraordinary. It would also make the representative of persona look mysterious  which could be interestingly developed to make a better relation to the key lyric in the chorus 'Hadouken' and maybe make the persona look like he supernatural powers similar to the character from Streetfighter who has a move called 'Hadouken'.

So...we finally have an idea, lyrics, song concept so it should be simple correct? WRONG I came to the realisation that there would have too much time and effort into the process of things I would have to do to keep my audience informed enough for them to understand my motive behind the song. Also due to being  heavily accompanied and lack of communication together the group only decided we wanted to create another song entirely after a week into our A2. So we decided that a Love/'Sweetboy' song would be the song we going to do for various beneficial reason such as music artist image wouldn't need changing, it would be simple to make the video as clean as possible etc.  Martin (Magnificent) whose speed in producing beats lived up to his musical alias had a beat that would fit the song concept and i listened to it and let myself become entwined with the beat so i could produce lyrics that could blend together with the music.

Fl Studio 9

FL Studio 9
This is the software that Martin used to produce the beat, the program is called Fruity Loops 9 its widely used by producers and has a good user interface that can be comfortable to use after seeking help from tutorials.



With this notion i began to start writing lyrics for a love song and as i classed myself to be a romantic partner in past relationships i  thought it would be pretty easy to accomplish....but like most things in life it wasn't that easy but only took a few days for me to write the first verse.  It probably would have been quicker task if I didn't have other a  levels to attend to. The next verse came more naturally and within a week i had two verses ready and ideas of how i wanted the chorus to sound like.  I wasn't sure if i wanted the chorus to be sung or rapped so i asked around, asked Martin, the rest of the group and even my english teacher whose musical knowledge and interest in my creative concepts had always been profitable.

In the process of writing my lyrics theses songs were the most influential....

An artist's cover for Lady Brown

Nujabes - Lady Brown 
Youtube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjqTiQhOgU8
This is a big song in the underground hip-hop scene Lady Brown is a great example of what a love hip-hop song sounds like, this inspired me to have poetic language in my lyrics that involved romantic imagery and more complex interpretations than the weak meanings in the words of commercial (pop) love songs.

A fan's cover for So Special

Lil Wayne - So Special featuring John Legend 
Youtube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U6qhYAgE1M
This is a song off Lil-Wayne's most recent album called 'Tha Carter 4' with soul-sensation John Legend, this song inspired me by its composition; Lil Wayne normally has a faster flow in his songs but he chose to rap slower in this to ensure that it targets a broad female audience and John Legend has a strong voice that really touches the soul of the audience.

The beat that Martin had given me was called Aloha, he named it this because he felt the beat took you to a tropical scene when you were listening to it, somewhere like the Caribbean islands.

Survey Monkey Survey:
We made two surveys on survey monkey to try research on what type of music our target audience enjoy listening to so we knew what impact we would have when the artists made the song.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9NW5WQJ
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LSRZM9V

Lyrics

Volas' Lyrics: Verse 1

 Travelling in busy terrains,via bus or trains. Tired of dull animation, manmade imagination. See a rare picture, ruth like creature. Like ancient scripture,so I wna lips ya. Use them to flatter, your perfected matter. With a sun-like smile, that promotes your style. Don't wanna call you bird, Your melodic dialect's unheard, a blessing to hear, let's baptise my ear.Lips are crimson like passport, my tongue passes this port. Our souls connect, I don't want to infect. Your gradually healed heart,I'll play my part. So don't back up,I won't act up, Take the man's role, take control, heal the soul, the x stole,be effective, better your bitter perspective. Of guys, show truth from the lies. Show fakes from the reals, my soul your aura thrills.

Verse 2

Get lost in your eyes, from midnight to sunrise,well it feels like that, when you look under my hat. To see my soul windows,I feel like I'm the one who throws,the clock,flying tick tock. Spinning in the air, like black silk hair, crowning your head, tender like rose bed. Yeah real peaceful, makes me so gleeful, looking at you, looking at you. You're like sweet medicine, take that back, you're sweet medicine, to my thinking brain. When dawn feels like midnight, things are looking dark, your like golden sunlight,making things alright. Sitting with ya, the greatest feeling, take away my, tribulations you're stealing. Pushing them in the open, after my long-holding,of them now,I hold you.

Bridge

We've had different foundations, varied pronunciations,but you call my name, the way I call your name. Problems don't matter, be joyful til the later,remember how we began, so bring it back now.

Chorus(SVF)We met at the corner store,we both know we needed more,thinking about the days before, happy that I didn't ignore you.(SVF)We met at the corner store,we both know we needed more,thinking about the days before, happy that I didn't ignore you.Saw you at the corner store,knew that I wanted more, never seen your kind before,someone I just can't ignore.

Sitting by the seashore, know that I want more, never seen your kind before, how can I ignore.

We met at the corner store,we both know we needed more,thinking about the days before, happy that I didn't ignore you.

(Volas): Your face I'm always... (SVF): Looking At You

When you walk past I'm always...           ''

You're face is best when I'm...                 ''

Everything's bless when I'm...                 ''