

Plan B- End Credits
(By Joe)
Plan B or Ben Drew, is an English rapper, singer-songwriter, actor and first emerged as a hip hop artist releasing his critically acclaimed debut album 'Who Needs Actions When You Got Words' in 2006. This single 'End Credits' collaborated with Chase and Status managed to reach top 10 on the UK charts Singles Chart. As well as music production, Plan B has a successful career as a actor participating in popular films such as 'Adulthood', 'Harry Brown' and '4 3 2 1'. The duo Chase and status are an electronic drum and base production from London. Saul Milton known as (chase) and Will Hennaed (status) created the sound and the vocals were by Plan B. As the genre of the song is drum and bass, the main focus is around gang culture and crime.
Background-
Lyrics
When the blood dries in my veins
And my, heart feels no more pain
I know, I'll be on my way
To heaven's door
I know when I knock
I'll be hoping I don't drop
To a place where I will rise, like befor
(2x)
I can feel, something happening
That I've never felt before
Hopeless dreaming will start
Dragging me away from heavens door
(2x)
When my mind stops thinking
And my eyes stop blinking
I hope...
Somebody's there
When my heart stops beating
And my lungs stop breathing
In air...
I hope somebody cares
When the blood dries in my veins
And my, heart feels no more pain
I know, I'll be on my way
To heaven's door
I know when I knock
I'll be hoping I don't drop
To a place where I will rise, like before
(2x)
I can feel, something happening
That I've never felt before
Hopeless dreaming will start
Dragging me away from heavens door
When my mind stops thinking
And my eyes stop blinking
I hope...
Somebody's there
When my heart stops beating
And my lungs stop breathing
In air...
I hope somebody cares
When my mind stops thinking
And my eyes stop blinking
I know...
At the end
To begin the music video is the introduction of Plan B falling with a medium close up, low angle shot. However, the artist has been slowed down in synchonization with the slow instrumental guitat sound thus creating the tense atmosphere. Tension is also created by the change in tone of the guitar near to when the vocals are about to start. The use of all these features presents Plan B more subtler juxaposed to the usual screamo rap that is expected by the artist which is a form of pathetic fallecy used to create the heartfelt emotion of the song. In addition to this, the main vocal point in the next show is Plan B himself indicating that it is his song and he is the one singing it which captivates the audience to know what story he is revealing about himself .
Mise en scene- He is wearing a grey hoodie with the hood up as he is falling to the ground. This instantly tells the audience what kind of genre it is and the main topic of the video will be about crime, violence and show gang culture. As he (Plan B) is falling there is a dark disfigured man in the background, he too is wearing a hoodie, he seems to be watching Plan B fall. After there is a close up reaction shot of the side of Plan B's face as he hits the ground, this is shot has been slowed down like the first shot. Personally I feel that this is very effective, especially for the start of the music video because it keeps the viewers wanting to carry on watching the whole of the music video.
Throughout the video, it has been filmed at night and most of the shots have been filtered to create a sense of coldness and to make it gloomy. This is a typical technique for music genres such as drum and bass. About 45 seconds into the video, vocals start with lip synchronisation. This close up shot shows Plan B waking up after falling to the ground, his eyes are looking from left to right with confusion.
As soon as the drums kick in, there is a series of fast close up shots of photographs of a murder investigation, people with blood on their faces and medium shots of Plan B. The fast close up shots match the beat of the song showing that the director of this video has matched the video with the rhythm of the song. Straight after this Plan B is shown wearing a suit and sitting at a table with people who are questioning him, there is no other dialogue just the vocal of the song on the music. This scene is shot in a dark small room with a green or blue filter to create a sense of coldness. Being the people who are questioning his is a clone of Plan B but he is wearing a grey hoodie as we have seen him before wearing this. No one else can see his but Plan B who is sitting at the table; this means that he is imagining this as his own conscience. His clone looks as though his is mocking the police who are questioning Plan B who are wearing a suit. There is another quick shot, this time it is in white filter showing a man’s face towards the bottom half of the shaky camera. This could be put in so that it breaks up the tension that has already been shown in the video or to show a behind the scene footage.
The next scene shows the outside at night, giving another edgy effect. This is a high angle shot of a gang crowding around someone who is lying on the floor getting badly beaten up. Giving more evidence to what the genre is by showing gang culture. There is also graffiti on the walls and the pillars on the building. It is then followed by a medium close up of an old man who is looking out of his window watching the gang beating up someone. We then go back to the close up of the side of the singer's face that is lying on the floor. All of the closes up shots of Plan B wearing the grey hoodie are shown in lip synchronisation. This shows that the director has chosen to do the lip sync in one steady shot and not to go through scenes with different outfits on, making it easier to get the lip sync right at the first few times when filming it. We get another repeated shot of the gang outside and the old man looking out of the window, this reflects why the police want to question Plan B for evidence.
The next scene is inside a dark tunnel with graffiti all over the walls, it has been filtered in blue to emphasise the coldness of the main characters feelings and to show what they are doing is wrong. The main focus is on the right hand side of the screen making the background blurred but the audience can still see a little of who is in the background. The main character can see himself but wearing the grey hoodie, he is reflecting his own conscience warning him not to do bad things. From this point, low angle shots of the main singer makes him look dominant from the rest. A man with blood on his face enters the tunnel saying "he's got a gun". Plan B uses the gun to shoot the old man who is trying to shoot them. This gives the audience more information to why Plan B was being questioned by police detectives. The use of weapons is common for this type of genre as it mainly shows gang culture.
This music video tells the main character's (Plan B) own version of the event that happened. Without having that much dialogue it lets the audience know what he might have said to the detectives. It also shows the audience how Plan B was involved in this event. Little dialogue is used other than the lyrics of the song such as "fuck you" and "he's got a gun", emphasising in emotions by showing anger and frustration to why the police is accusing his of doing something wrong. However, dialogue is not used when they are in the police detective room; instead the video helps the audience understand what he might have said to the police for his witness of the event. A cheeky side of Plan B is shown at the beginning of the video, he smirks at his conscience that is behind the detectives as if to say "you don’t know anything". A series of shot reverse shot of Plan B and the detective room marks the end of this scene.
After, a new scene start with an establishing shot of Plan B falling the background, just as we saw it at the beginning of this music video, the shot was slowed down to create impact to the audience. It also reflects what the audience have seen at the beginning of the song. But this time he instead of falling down, he seems to be lifting upwards. A series of fast shots of smashing windows and fire shows his memory of the event, and people have gone out of control. An old man whom we have seen previously in the video is hurt, but Plan B's conscience seems to be mocking him. They are beside a bridge again at night, there is not that much light. Shot reverse shot shows Plan B running away from the old man and the old man hurt falling to the floor. In the shot reveres shot there is also shots of Plan B who is wearing a grey hoodie singing with lip sync. This scene shows the evil side to Plan B and why the police wanted to question him. This is then followed by the consequence to his actions of another series of shot reveres shots of the old man in hospital and Plan B wearing the grey hoodie. Throughout the music video lip synchronisation is only shown by medium close ups of Plan B wearing a grey hoodie.
An establishing shot begins the next scene, showing rioting police with shields. This shot is also a shot reveres shot of the police and Plan B wearing the grey hoodie and singing in front of the camera with lip synchronisation. This shot reverse shot reflects the beat of the song giving it more rhythm. This shot them leads into showing people rioting and throwing petrol bombs. The audience see a different shot of the main singer with a long shot; he is standing on the left hand side of the camera showing the audience people rioting behind him. Giving more reason to why the police wanted to question him. We go back to the medium close up of Plan B singing and shot reverse shot of the old man getting beaten up as we saw before.
Establishing shot shows a new scene, this time Plan B is on the roof top of a building, he is singing with lip synchronisation. He is crouching on the floor on the right hand side of the camera. Around him are people that have been badly beaten up with gun wounds and blood over their clothing. This scene shows the consequence to the violence that was going on. Next we move on to a new scene beginning with a panning close up of three men, one f them is talking to the other two showing he is the main leader, but the audience can't hear what they are saying. This grabs the audience’s attention; they want to find out what the characters are saying. A tracking shot follows them, the camera is hand held giving the music video edginess. This shot is intertwined with shots reveres shots of Plan B singing. The tracking shot leads the audience to the beginning shot of the music video of Plan B lying on the floor marking the end on the song. As this is the last scene the music fades out giving it a gentle end.
