My visit to JumpOffTV

While i was researching on UK hip hop, i decided to attend Jump Off which is a well known rap battling venue, it is also where Professor ! Green became famous. When i went there, first things first its so small! As in the venues is smaller than i thought it would be whenever i watched the videos of the past battles. The size of the venue reflects how big underground rap is in England where as a battle that is this well known in the US would have bigger crowds bigger spaces and probably more promotion. An example of this is is 'Em See' which is sponsored by Red Bull and is based on the storyline of Eminem's film '8mile' and involves rounding up rappers from different states and making them compete in a championship. It was good to see what community our music project would be contributing to.

2 Music Videos aren't we lucky?

Here is our first draft






Here is our final video


Finally the video has been improved and finished.

Cast and Crew

 So finally filming is on its way, we finally have a cast!!!! Getting a crew was easy, we just had to share the roles among each other (Daniel, Martin, Stanley and I), the toughest thing was finding a girl to be the leading actress, as the member of the group who was suppose to be responsible for recruiting the cast got an actress who unfortunately backed out in the last days towards the video shoot. SO WE WERE PULLING OUR HAIRS OUT ON THE LAST FEWS HOURS BEFORE THE FILMING DAY!!!!!!!
From 9pm to 2am in the  morning!!!!!! It was 5 hours of searching through all our of Facebook friends for a girl who preferably had blonde hair and would be free for a week after school who was pretty enough to make the idea realistic enough. After all the time searching for a girl on Facebook we concluded that a girl who had blonde hair would be a luxury more than a necessity all we needed was a girl who wasn't black as diversity in the music video was very important to me. So Stanley saw a friend of a friend on Facebook (who was October) that he thought would be the perfect girl for the video and when we saw her we felt the same, luckily i actually met her and could contact her on Facebook. I did and she was so comfortable and happy to do the video plus she was available for the week we planned to start filming so everything was perfect!


Final Cast 
Martin: Kashif's Friend No1

 Daniel: Kashif's Friend No2 

 October: Main Girl
  Stanley: Kashif's friend No3

  Ayomide:  KdotC (himself)

 Elsie: October's friend

Sam: SVF (himself)

Kashif: Main Guy