Black Hoodie Rap- Machine Head from Black Hoodie Rap on Vimeo.
It’s only the beginning for this video, but we’d like to thank everyone involved thus far. You all know who you are. We have really high hopes for this, and we don’t even want to pretend to hide that. We’ve sat around this past year coming up with ways we’d like to see videos done, and we finally walked the walk and did it. From the narrative of the video itself to the story building video shorts, this is how we thought it should be deeeeeed.
We’ve got something to say and a lot of ways to say it. I hope you all enjoy it, and take the message to heart. We appreciate every single one of you who takes the time to watch this, because a great deal of work went into it. We’re also grateful for anyone who send this thing to. I mean, without one person seeing this, and sending it to their friend, we’d just be talking to ourselves.
I’ll let Brandon explain how we approached the video itself, since the video realm is kinda his thing:
When it comes to music videos, we are firm believers in placing story above all else. The characters within the story need to grow and change as the story progresses. So, with Machine Head we wanted to make sure we made this a story with compelling characters and an obvious character arc for Lo-fi, the protagonist of the video. Good stories normally have a three act structure and ours is no different. Act 1: Set-up, Act 2: Conflict, Act 3: Resolution, see if you can peep where each act begins. I swear we know what we’re doing!
Credits:
Jahmel Reynolds- Lo-fi
Terrance Young- August Vincent
James Jones- Body Guard
Edward Pages- Cinematographer
Brandon Dottin- Director
woww guys i’m so proud of you both. this is awesome!
Thanks lala!
great video its sumthing different with style. i really liked it.
thanks ariel thats exactly what we were going for, put a little story into the music video
This is only the beginning , thanks Brandon and Mark for allowing me to be a part of this , This video turned out great . I wished we taped a behind the scenes
No prob man, we couldn’t have done it without you guys.
i really liked this video..it had soo many diffrent elements_im proud of you jahmel keep up the good work
i enjoy the beat
thanks rita
[...] Here’s Brandon and I’s latest Black Hoodie Rap music video. We’re very proud of this, as this is what we think a music video should look like. If you want to read more about the concept, go check out the entry on the BHR site. [...]
You guys are KILLIN it. Hot beats, hot flow, great video. It’s true too. All this techno crossover autotune bullshit hip hop. I like electronic music, and sometimes it works, but for the most part, there’s a lot of people putting the same ‘new’ crap out rather than a new idea/style.
Hey Panch. Thanks for your comments. We just want people to be themselves, and if everyone’s doing the same thing… well, you get it, haha.