Researched music videos

During gaining my ideas for the music video, I have looked over many music videos around the same genre of hip-hop/grime/rap to gain ideas of how the videos are shown. They include;

T-Pain ft Lil Wayne - Can't believe it
T.I - What you know
Fabolous - Diamonds
Swizz beats - When I step into the club
Tinchy Stryder - Breathe
Liquid - Keep grinding
Jelluzz - Hold on
D Stubborn - Ryder
Snares & Kicks - J-amp
K.I.D - No wifey season
Dutty Menace - Dreamin'
Hammer ft Dexplicit - Stinkin'
Illamadi - Top boy
Adam Tensta - Before you know it
Danjah - My love
Lazee - Im not pop
The Game - Better on the other side
Choong family - Adrenaline
Tay Dizm - Dream girl
Tinie Tempah - Tears
Kid Cudi - Make her say

This is just a small list of some of the songs which I have been looking over for ideas and inspiration. Others I have watched were by the same artists as listed, and also those posted below, such as Freeway, Ludacris and Ace Hood. Most of the artists are focused around the Hip Hop scene, but artists such as Lazee, Adam Tensta, Kid Cudi, Liquid, Tinchy Stryder and Jelluzz include the relaxed atmosphere, and grime setting in some of their videos which I will be wanting to include with my video so that it meets the genre, and the audience which these artists will know how to meet, due to them being well-known and successful.

Obviously as my artist being a new upcoming artist to the grime scene I will want to create a fresh appearance to the video and the artist, but looking at these videos helped to give me an idea of what the audience are looking for. This includes;

1. the artist rapping to the screen,
2. bright colours on their clothing,
3. rapping into a microphone,
4. many different sets of clothing/apparel,
5. alot of shots
6. unsteady cam
7. use of black and white to contrast with the colour
8. special effects
9. specific accessories - sunglasses, caps, hoods up, stylish trainers, custom designed clothing
10. Close ups and medium shots
11. Including friends and people they know

As far as promotion and advertisement is concerned, web 2.0 is important for advertising the artist, with social networking websites such as Facebook, Myspace and Bebo, where the artist creates a page where they will display their new upcoming music, display blogs to tell fans about news like gigs, clothing, meetings. The artist, for grime music would be commonly shown on ''Channel U'', due to it being a grime-based music channel, where all new upcoming artists are shown.