Evaluation

My music video HALLELUJAH is by a group called GMAQK, they rap and sing, the video I made has the characteristics of the hip-hop rap genre like the fast lyrics, the camera movement from place to place and the swift beat used for the music. The video is performance based and concept based as well, like when one of the rappers IKING says “no need to hustle” we can see that earlier on he was playing basketball and with easy he did a lay up and got it right at the first attempt. There was a slight bit of intertextual reference in the first rappers verse ROB when he said “am rooted in him like a tree” and he is standing right in front of a big tree. The rest of the video is performance based.
When I finished the video people commented on my opening credit the effect I used on the word “HALLELUJAH” and about the freeze frame with names of the rappers, also some people said the black and white works on it. These characteristics of my video in similarity to some other rap videos like “Bibles Bibles” and Victizzle’s “Jam yourself”. These videos are similar to mine with the fast cuts and dissolves used also with the rapping and moving camera giving the scene life and movement.
The Hip-hop genre and rap is more about the male domination and most times when any music is made in the hip-hop rap genre the artist is either a male or a group of male artists which my group GMAQK is.
I think the video came together well with only two days of shooting and at most 2hrs each day as well as the editing and the hitches I encountered like loosing my video edits twice and having to re-log everything and re-edit but I think it still came out well. To exhibit my video I will get young people who are interested in rap and show it to them on a projected screen or a computer screen via youtube.