Okay doke. Here we go...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV_Video_Music_Award_for_Best_Rap_Video
2006 Chamillionaire (featuring Krayzie Bone) — "Ridin'"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtwJvgPJ9xw
Umm... looks a fair bit like what you brought to the table. I dunno. (I dunno WHY this won best video!)
- Have cops chasing your "shiner" boys? (In principle, of course. Yours is in the bag/can, so to speak).
- Put some rolling track and crane shots in?
"This award was last given out in 2006, as MTV did not bring it back in 2008 like it did with other genre awards. Instead, artists and videos that were previously eligible for Best Rap Video are now eligible for Best Hip-Hop Video."
Alrighty, then...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV_Video_Music_Award_for_Best_Hip-Hop_Video
2008 Lil Wayne (featuring Static Major) — "Lollipop"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IH8tNQAzSs
- Dolly shots
- Don't be bashful: Get the"Honeys" in there. Big trucks and big... tits. We love 'em both in the South.
- Consider including brief portrait shots of individual instrument payers IN ADDITION to the the two primary rappers. I'd especially do this for solo/bridge pieces.
- Dress up your Bandits in jest. They seem to have one helluva good ol' boy sense of humor.
- Git dem Bandit boys on top of their trucks! The band, too!
- It would appear that a "shining" song accompanied by a "mudding" video was incongruous.
- use some more fisheye lens work
- Have their "shine" attract the honeys. Boys will be boys. (Again, in principle).
- Throw in some friendly competition between the two lead rappers and general horsing around.
- Make them into redneck legends or gods.
2009 Eminem — "We Made You"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSdKmX2BH7o
- Dolly, track, pan and zoom
- Again: humor, if not plain mockery via parody, is cool.
- There's just a few spots of B&W in this one, but prior to this I was thinking, if production budget allows, if the Moonshine Bandits wanted to do a retro B&W, origins of NASCAR (which is shine running, BTW) that would be cool. Put 'em in a bouncy car in front of a green screen. Could be fun.
- Back to the humor thing, there's a moment of some chick singing with Enema-em's voice singing. See if the guys wanna try that in their next vid.
2010 Eminem — "Not Afraid"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5-yKhDd64s
- Find some rockin' scenery. I don't know where you guys like to go shooting, but find/scout something "dramatic".
- I see some widescreen lens distortion in there. What'sat? About a 0.40X fisheye @ 0:41?
- Some up-angles.
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Suggest a (nebulous) story. Don't gotta spoon feed it.
(As an aside, doesn't aiming your camera into direct sunlight destroy the sensor? Or was that effect amplified in post along with all the SFX, which I don't think your guys are up for to this extent?)
Goodness. 233M views. That was cr@p. Whatever.
Alright.
I hope this was good for something.
Fun and a smidgen of enlightenment for me.
GL!