Initial ideas for final music video: Yankee and The Brave (ep. 4)
The video idea I have had is a fight scene set to the song "Yankee and The Brave (ep. 4)" by Run The Jewels - the video in question will be a narrative, tongue in cheek postmodernist pastiche parody of 80s and 90s Kung Fu and samurai movies as well as combining it with tropes of school movies. The song I have chosen is an anthem as it is made by the radical progressive band Run The Jewels and is the famous debut single on their 4th album RTJ4 which released in 2020, the song is one of their most successful and is popular amongst fans and non-fans alike and remains a prolific protest song to this day due to it's criticism of police brutality I plan to use the connotations of Yankee and The Brave - that it is a parody of Saturday Morning Cartoons which ran adjacent to the 80s and 90s media I will be basing the video on. The video will be composed of two parts - the intro, which will be parodic of consumer culture and will be me and Anton beginning to watch the rest of the ...