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Flatbush ZOMBiES My Team, SUPREME

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Flatbush ZOMBiESMy Team, SUPREME

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Elevator PitchThe video will open with a character walking by a church in a rural/green area. The person will be performing Erick Arc Elliott’s verse from the song, it is clear that he is a nice and decent person but he is then tempted by some drugs, he takes them, this is NOT shown explicitly. The screen goes black and he wakes up in a derelict urban area by a decaying building, this is where raps Meechy Darko’s verse which is much darker and ‘evil’ sounding. The end of the video will show both of the characters together in the same place.The video will contain lots of different shot types of the characters and will have more steady editing during Erick’s verse and more hectic/fast editing during Meech’s. The content off the video will have elements that relate to the music and the lyrics and will contain genre iconography.

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Lyrics

[Verse 1: Erick Arc Elliott]Today's agenda, a nation exterminating the piousPray that you never die, don't dare to be deemed the highestOur right is founded by liars, righteous as my suppliersThey wonder where my supply is (Ni**a, where them beats?)F**k a feature, my ether is equal to each of your ownEmbodied the balance of the world on my shoulders aloneBut God bless America, my Gs go hardGs make dreams and these grams make godsI am so compelled, might as well proceed another stepNever took a L, still fresh without the double XManson, ransom, artificial anthemsLadies say he handsome, these ni**as throwing tantrumsTripping to existence is often labelled as miscreantsCause we position it different, real hard to make sense of it Record labels making cents, we sensitive Now we acting senseless, f**k you, Architect for president

[Verse 2: Meechy Darko]I'm on my freeze time, leaping in and out of portal s**t

You on your prick your finger from a thorn, mere mortal s**t

I'm on my Heath Ledger, I can't get my mind in order s**tHitler at a bar mitzvah, torturous, slaughter s**t

I am really that ni**a, call it quits, get off my d**k

Give a camera the finger every time I hear a flick

The code has been cracked and I am the glitch, do you hear this s**t

Like a rabbit t**d, I swing on a track absurd

My rhyme schemes and my bars infinite

I hear your s**t and get a little narcoleptic

I admit you're kind of boring, I was out touring

Stroking kittens with dimples that remind me of Lauren

London on Thursday, Sunday I'm New Yorking

Brooklyn be the birthplace, Kings County caucus

Cut the malarkey, y-y-you don't want no problems

Or drama, with zombies, get off me

Some may say seeing him's like seeing God

I see through all your transparency, oversee your façade

Dog, I raise your card like the paintings of them hounds playing poker

I'm Cesar Millan in the background taking notes

The potent, smoke up, hoes on my scrotum

Now the idle ni**as always higher on the totem

I go son, haters like hoes, they just wanna blow us With them calico bullet holes in my

[Hook x2]My team, supreme, stay clean

Lyrical dreams, zombie regime, we be that

We at where the weed and LSD at

On since I was born, no such thing as relapse

Sourced from – Genius.com

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Erick’s VerseThe video will open with the character leaving a church, he will be dressed quite smartly(a white checked shirt). He will be walking around the church’s yard while performing the song. There will be a variety of mid-shots and close-ups as well as a mixture of tracking shots, handheld shots and shots where the camera is fixed in one place. The character will do hand-movements relating to the lyrics of the video, for example when we hear the line “God bless America” he will put his hands together as if he is praying. He will find a mysterious box/tin and we will cut just before we see him open it and the music will fade out.

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Meech’s VerseWe see black screen for a second and then we see our character laying on the floor next to the box and some drug paraphernalia. He will be in the same clothing as in the first section of the video but will look a lot more ‘gangsta’ for example his shirt will be undone. We see that we are in an abandoned area next to graffiti and a derelict building. Our character performs the verse and acts accordingly to the lyrics (like in Erick’s verse) for example when we hear “I admit you’re kinda boring” the character will put his hands next to his head as if he was pretending to be asleep. When we hear the line “Give a camera the finger every time I hear a flick” the video will freeze frame and will look like a polaroid image to connect the lyric to the music video and linking the music video to Goodwin’s theory.

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Chorus/OutroThe chorus will consist of both of the personalities of the character performing the song, they will both be in frame at the same time as the footage will be layered. This will be achieved through editing techniques on Premier Pro. Then finally at the very end of the music video the character will turn back into his usual self, he will be at a sink and splash his face with water and look directly into the camera as if it was a mirror and then the music video cuts to black..

Example of how the shot of both personalities performing together will look.

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Moods/StyleThe music video will be shot on a digital camera.During Erick’s verse the editing will be a lot slower than during Meech’s verse as Meech delivers his lyrics in a much more aggressive way than Erick and the more ‘hectic’ editing will also fit well with the fact that our character is now under the influence of illegal substances. The music video will predominantly consist of mid-shots and close-up shots.The sequence where both of the character’s personalities are performing will be edited through a process of cropping and layering on Premier Pro.

Mood Board -

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My mood board consists of images that I find inspiring, predominantly due to their composition and framing. Some of the images I like the style of and I think will be similar to the style of my music video. The mood board contains images from the Flatbush ZOMBiES themselves as well as a lot of images from/off KiD CuDi and Kanye West as I find them extremely inspiring, other artists are also included. The mood board doesn’t just consist of stills from music videos and images of the artists, for example it also includes a still from the 2002 Japanese film ‘Dark Water’ (Hideo Nakata) as I find the aesthetic of this film very interesting and would like to incorporate similar themes into my music video.

So to conclude, my music video for the Flatbush ZOMBiES song ‘My Team, SUPREME’ will consist of a character developing a different personality because of drug usage. The two personalities are linked to the verses of the two rappers in the song. There will also be a layered shot at the end which will show both personalities on screen at the same time.

Thank You – Josh Brett