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Thursday, 31 March 2011

Focus group - P Money - Slang like this


Slang like this is a Grime genred music video which features P Money. The video is a typical of a grime video where it incorporates estates and very urban areas though it doesn't use the gritty dark side of grime. The song maintains a very light mood which is done when the song goes to the chourus and you see many diverese people of all races and colour. The video doesn't have any narrative structure and most of the camera shots follow P Money and he's walking thorugh the different urban enviorments.

Genre characteristics - 
The music video uses the very typical Grime scenes which incorporate estates and alleyways littered with graffiti. Also the people who star in the video is what you would call typical of the genre with a few exceptions, you mainly have young male and females that are wearing urban clothing which you'd associate with Grime. P Money and other grime artists like D Double E.

Are there any relationships between visuals and lyrics? -
Yes there are, during the chorus the video has the words being lip synced by a diverse range of people as well as the main artist P Money. This could incorporate part of the chorus as well as the song name which is "We speak in slang like this", "Slang like this".

Are there any relationships between the music and lyrics? -
Not really, the song maintains a light grimey beat which is mostly lip synced to. Other than that beat does have a dancey theme to it where the people on screen dance and bop to the beat, an example of this would be toward the end were the instrumental is playing and P Money is bopping away to the beat.


Are there any close-ups of the artist and star image motifs? - 
Yes, throughout the music video there are several close-ups of the people in the video during the main parts and chrous. But mostly the close-up shots are of P Money and D Double E. There is also a bit are the start where the camera see P Money walking through a tunnel and as he gets closer to the camera it changes to a track shot + mid shot.

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