My group for the Music Video

PLANNING FOR MY MUSIC VIDEO

I thought about how I would make my video.  I was considering whether I should find a group to work with or work by myself.  After considering it for awhile, I decided that  I will be working by myself for this music video project.

I choose to work by myself because it is easier for me.  It is hard to get people together when there is so much going on.  Everyone I know has a lot of things going on; sports teams, church, school work, applying for college, stuff like that.  So it's hard to get people together even to see a movie on the weekends.

As for me, I am very pressed for time to do the project because I have a lot of commitments. Some of the commitments are band, tennis, marching band, dog walking, homework, and college applications.

I know that I will  have trouble making time to meet someone else to do this project. So I decided to go for it on my own.

For my music video, I choose the song 'Kick, Push' by Lupe Fiasco.  I have always liked this song, because my family plays it a lot.  I love to skateboard, and that is what the song is about.  It is also about pursuing something you love to do even when no one wants you to do it.  The song is about a kid who gets into skate boarding from a very early age, like I did.

Lupe Fiasco's song is on an album called 'Food and Liquor.' He released it in 2006 'Kick Push' has become a popular rap song, and won the best song Grammy that year.  

I love the style of the song because it is hip hop, because my family loves it, and because of the way he mimics the movement of a skateboard with the repetition of kick, push. He uses words and music to paint the picture of what is happening.  I think it is very cool.

I want to illustrate the lyrics, especially the part where he says he fell off his skateboard and had injuries and he had to speak with a lisp. Although that didn't happen to me, I also used to fall a lot!  The point of that part is, to me, that he kept trying to learn how to skateboard even though things were hard at first.

Then he describes how he skated in his neighborhood and they kicked him out.  So I need to show that authority of a cop or a security guard in my video.  I need to see if I can find someone who will be in the video and either is a cop or will play a cop or something like that.

Wherever he went to skate they kicked him out. I want to figure out a way to show that in the video.

Lupe Fiasco  also raps about when he went to the park and they kicked him out because he was there all night and day and they had to close.

All of his lyrics end with the repetition of "kick push," for the chorus.

But the bottom line is, the point of the song: he was obsessed with skateboarding and loved it.

The story he tells is inspiring to young and old skateboarders as well as to people with a dream.

I love the song and want to make a video that will show that.  I also want to show pictures and videos of my skateboarding through the years.  That's my plan!