Kano - Fightin The Nation..... Our track

Fightin’ The Nation finds Kano commenting on Iraq, police fights and general western hypocrisy against the backdrop of an original piece from Junior Murvin’s reggae classic Police & Thieves. The acoustic guitar is particularly effective in allowing Kano’s flow to take centre stage.

Our ideas are simple yet satisfy what we feel the song is about , it will probably be filmed in the city , which at times can be busy with people rushing through day to day business,this in a way shows how people get by their lives yet many do not take the time to think about these events and views brought up in lyric, of course we will include some footage of someone sitting with an acoustic playing in the streets or in another location , this will add the feel to the song and help it on its way , cutting in bits of lip-sync in our video would be good because in a way the whole song revolves around the artist telling us of stories and the goings on in london, one downfall I suppose is that we will not film in london and will probably result in using cambridge town as our main location however if we film it properly it shouldn’t look out of place.

Other ideas consist of shots of police , maybe a few of surveillance camera of police patrolling or scenes of theft, just different scenes in different spots in the city to show different lives, different stories and it should flow nicely with the lyrics, having listened to the song many times over we can see that many things are brought up and it would be nice to get little bits of each included in our video , we will probably not include guns and knives and fighting in the video as looking at kano’s other work we can see that his focus’ are not about the guns and violence but the stories behind them, he tells stories of things that have happened in his home town , having guns blazing ever where in our video would just not fit in with the story that the song tells, in a way it would probably ruin it to have scenes of violence and aggressive nature, the song is not like that , it is more peaceful yet tells story of the above mentioned.

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Here is Kano's Myspace , which includes many pieces of his work such as songs and videos, there are pictures and information about him there too, this will be useful later on in the project when we really need to put ourselves in his shoes.

www.myspace.com/kano679

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The track we are going to be making a video for is on Kano's New album , Titled 'London Town' it contains a variety of styles and Kano works with many different artists in achieving this , a good site which has lots of information on his new album , to be released later this month, is

http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Music-Review/kano-london-town

Which talks through most of the tracks on the album and has information about them including who he worked with and the main themes of each track, it is very useful and has lots of information we may need to look at later on in the project.


..WC..