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For my video clip, i have come up with the idea to create a mask that will feature in my video. My idea is inspired by a music video by the Kaiser Chiefs where interestingly, there is a scene where a group of 'kids' are all wearing theatre looking masks exploring inner citer youth crime. The video pays homage to the film The Warriors, which tells a fast paced tale about many self sales gangs chasing each other acrosss their different territories in New York. I would like to directly make an intertextual reference to the masks in my video as this has inspired me.

This is something that is on the rise and the video depicts the worries that adults and parents have, believing there is a posibility their children are going to become influenced by these violent acts and gangs that are so frequent.

• In London 2016/17 there were over 102,000 people proceeded against by the Metropolitan Police Service
• Of these, approximately 36,000 were under 25
• This means that approximately one in three arrestees that received an outcome were youths

There have previously been protests in London for knife crime and petitions that float around the internet trying to put a stop to it. This is something i strongly believe in and youth crime is usually influenced through computer games, movies and what kids so openly can see online. So perhaps we can switch this around, and influence generations to come with peace?

This links in with the theme of the song i have chosen for my music video that is based around anti-war and ideas of peace. This is not something the younger generation is not taught enough and is portrayed through the lyrics in the song.

First idea:

This is what id like to create. This are the main symbols/images i want to include on the mask, taking it a step further from the Kaiser Chiefs inspiration to represent symbols of peace. This could link to Barthes theory of semiotics meaning people with a level of cultural competency will recognise them symbols and interpret them as a sign of peace/britishness.
The reason i want to include the mask in my video could also have a deeper meaning to it, perhaps how people who feel oppressed or not at peace mask up these feelings when in fact their voices need to be heard and to do that, they need to take off that mask.

The 30 second clip will be how i make and design this and paint on the symbols. I want to include a British themed colour palette including the flag etc. It means i can heavily focus on the meaning behind it and why i want to include it in the video whilst intertextually referencing other music videos like the Kaiser Chiefs one.