LITTLE TORMENT- POUND CAKE REMIX

Link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WPONYTGXZg&safe=active

Genre Characteristics The beginning of the music video is dark

simplifying the genre conventions of a grime music theme as it shows how they work hard day in day out on the streets the pain and deprivation

they suffer its in complete black and white with the artist wearing a hoodie which is a key

costume in many grime videos.

Relationships between lyrics and visualsIn the lyrics he talks about smoking, drugs and drinking as soon as he talks about these specific things it shows him smoking holding a bottle of alcohol and dealing with drugs we can see clear link between lyrics and visuals there and these things that his doing in the video are very stereotypical of a grime video.

Relationships between music and visuals

In this grime video there is not much relationship between music and visuals as it is a constant mellow beat that is being played and he is pretty much in the same place through the music video

Close-ups of the artistThere are many close up shots of the artist whilst he is rapping, there is close ups of him with his mates smiling happy whilst his rapping this could imply that even though there on the streets they have a tight relation between there mates that cannot be ever taken away from them even though they might be deprived

The notion of lookingThroughout this video little torment looks at the camera directly which tells us; the viewers that his talking to the audience directly about the

problems he is facing about how they struggle day in day out.

Intertexual reference:

Again in this video there is not much intertexual if any reference and this is due to the fact that its him alone in the video rapping in one place so there is no intertexual reference.