Song Choice, and Lyric analysis/lyric representation.

Flight of the Conchords is a Grammy Award-winning New Zealand comedy duo composed of Bret McKenzie and Jermaine Clement. They have released 4 albums, and have three television series with HBO. However there first opportunity was with BBC radio 2. They're also known as Also known as Rhymenoceros (McKenzie) & Hiphopopotamus (Clement).

We have chosen the song, This song is featured in their series, episode 3:

'Flight of the Conchords. Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros'

Lyrics:

I'm the mother flippin' Rhymenocerous
My beats are fly and the birds are on my back
And I'm horny
I'm horny
If you choose to proceed you will indeed concede
Cos I hit you with my flow
The Wild Rhino Stampede.
I'm not just wild, I'm trained,
Domesticated
I was raised by a rapper and rhino that dated
And subsequently procreated
That's how it goes
Here's the Hiphopopotamus
The hip hop hippo
They call me the Hiphopopotamus
My lyrics are bottomless
They call me the Hiphopopotamus
Flows that glow like phosphorous
Poppin' off the top of this esophagus
Rockin' this metropolis
I'm not a large water-dwelling mammal
Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis?
Did Steve tell you that, perchance?
Steve.
My rhymes and records they don't get played
Because my records and rhymes they don't get made (^)

And if you rap like me you don't get paid
And if you roll like me you don't get laid.
My rhymes are so potent that in this small segment
I made all of the ladies in the area pregnant (^)

Yes, sometimes my lyrics are sexist
But you lovely bitches and hoes should know I'm trying to correct this.
Other rappers dis me
Say my rhymes are sissy.
Why? Why? Why? (*)
What?
Why exactly?
What? Why?
Be more constructive with your feedback, please. Why?
Why? (*)
Why, because I rap about reality? (^)

Like me and my grandma drinking a cup of tea?
There ain't no party like my nanna's tea party.
Hey! Ho!
I'm the motherflippin'
I'm the motherflippin'
I'm the motherflippin'
Who's the motherflippin?
I'm the motherflippin'
I'm the motherflippin'
I'm the motherflippin'
Motherflippin'

Initial ideas we get from the lyrics alone:

• Awkward movements and ridiculous dancing
• plenty intertextualities, making fun of famous music video's and films
• Mise-en-scene very dirty? representative of the "street"
• Costume, maybe not that of what a rapper would wear, mainly because we want it to be humorous, and therefore we might have to change the rapper stereotype.
• In some places, long shots, for example the parts annotated with (*). And shorter shot lengths for the more faced pace part of the songs, annotated with (^)
• Medium shots, too see the band.
• Panning shots, make reference to Eminem?

Target audience:

The target audience for this music film will be both sex's from teenagers up to the middle aged as they are the people who will understand the intertextually within the film and also find it funny any older or younger and they wont understand nor will they find it funny. Our target audience are those who will appreciate it the most . Just totally average people who enjoy watching comedy programs and also enjoys watching live comedy performances as the band we are focusing on also perform live which is an alternate way of watching them.

Genre:

The genre we are doing is rap comedy. This is because the song is actually a rap song, however since it is a humorous song it's clearly part of the comedy genre. It would typically be under the genre of Hip-hop/ Rap as this is the type of category the song comes under. But however, the comedy value of the lyrics and visuals make it come under the comedy type of song as well, so overall we believes it comes under two song categories.

We chose this because we wanted to make a parody music video, which entertained our audience by making them laugh and we believe this is the type of song that can maintain our desired target.