It is hoped by doing the Egg Hunting course, I’ll be able to explore the myriad possibilities conceptualising a music video, learning and sharing ideas with fellow students, overcoming obstacles or difficulties positively,  brushing up on my video camera skills, and most importantly, experimenting with the form. Overall, push my curiosity out a bit further than usual. I’m not really familiar at all with making a music video, though I’ve seen a fair few over the years. I guess the challenge will be working no budget and achieving our aims.

Anyway, as I was away on Monday (Melbourne Cup weekend), I had to play ‘catch up’. Groups had already been sorted themselves out for the music video project, thus I was allocated to ‘Cool Ridge’, comprising of Sean,  Luka and Melody. They’d already decided what artist they’d do the video of which turned out to be Sean’s friend, Willy Dynamo, a local Hip Hop artist in Melbourne. Willy likes to reference a ‘pimp persona’ reflected aptly here below:

With this in mind, Sean and Luka wish to pursue the ‘pimp’ theme, though I think we maybe constraining ourselves in what we can thematically and conceptually if we stick with this.
Another issue which may rise to some conflict is that Luka and Sean wish to do three short music clips as our final. The issue here of course is that we have to come up with three different concepts and somehow link them. This appears to be more work than I am prepared to do and hope to convince them otherwise.

Willy Dynamo with his song Irony:

We sat together working out concepts in Rohan’s brainstorming sessions which were quite helpful in terms of freeing us from judging too much and then sharing these ideas with the rest of the class. We’ve come up with one idea of filming inside a dojo where Willy gets to fight ‘himself’.
After going through Willy’s catalogue,  we were able to narrow it down to  ‘Who’s World’ something that Willy wants us to make a video of.