Research for Hip Hop Documentary.

As part if my work placement I have to research, produce, present and edit a 5 minute documentary of which I could choose the subject.

I decided to go with the Hip Hop scene in the South West as it is something that I am very passionate about.

I've been researching certain documentaries that are on YouTube to get some ideas on how best to structure the piece.



I really like the opening of this video. The strings in the background create a nice bed of audio for the voiceover. The background of Hip Hop is a good idea before going into adressing the issue of who killed Hip Hop?

In the opening they do show both sides to the argument with sound bites of different people saying whether they believe Hip Hop is dead or not.

However the creator of the documentary does let his opinions enter into it by focusing so much on money as the guilty party in killing Hip Hop.

The structure of it is very good. It gives you a historical knowledge and clearly explains the question it is going to be asking.