Narrative Performance Conceptual

ADHERE • The day in the life of B.I.G –

starts with friends arriving and having a party then to a performance.

• Clear connection between the lyrics and video – as he keeps the saying ‘sky's the limit’ and

‘when I was a child’.

• The was times when he

was lip-synching.• Clips of things to do with

the lyrics.• The is one performer

throughout – there is a representation of the artist. He looks like B.I.G – you

know he is the main character through the lighting and camera work, he is the focus and always at the centre of the video.

• Youthful concept as they

use children that represents them.

• Has kind of a link with the ‘BUGSY MALONE’ with the gangster style/accepts.

SUBVERT • Our expectation of rap

videos by using children to portray themselves.

The Notorious B.I.G video is a hybrid because it has a narration which is about his life as a rapper

and it also has a performance aspect to the video as they lip-synch and portray things from the

lyrics. Additionally the video ‘sky’s the limit’ has a concept of using children to represent

themselves.