'Thunder Man' by Xavier Wulf is a rapper based around L.A who is up and coming to his raw spoken styling of messages within his lyrics. Released December 2014 he has already been recognised in cultures such as the BMX scene in which I have analysed the 'OSS' and 'The Come Up' filmed John Hicks who actually filmed Wulf's Video for 'Thunder Man'.
The videos Mise En Scene is a range of dark night themed scenes mixed with certain sections where a sun set sky is seen. The dark lighting and midnight setting creates a shady theme between the Spooky tones in the bassy backing track and a high pitched melody, Xaviers hooded jacket presenting him as undercover, the darkness covering his body all mixed in with the lyrics about social problems which he is preaching about in song. The camera angles give Xavier power within the video, with many low angles looking up at him which ties in well with the expressive aggressive hand movements he uses as he raps. This gives him dominance despite being covered by the darkness as he fills shot and his actions present a sense of strength which is reinforced by being looked up on in shot. Being covered by darkness then gives a sense of rebellious nature which links to the lyrics of his song complaining about social issues. Many shots are slowed down to a mid paced slow motion, where John Hicks well know style of creative structuring of shots is seen as side on shots of Xaviers head smoking is often shown and a focus of the smoke is a opposing to his aggressive body language. This also links in well to the rebellious nature of his words and actions as the use of drugs being smoked presents the idea of not caring well as a symbol. Many of the shots are shaken as an after effect which is added to shots to add and emphasis Xaviers aggression.
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