Production

Productions For this viral video assignment, we decided to create a rap music video using characters we created from socks. The music video is called “The Angry Sock Song”. The idea of the socks song came about through random conversations while brainstorming for this assignment, we called ourselves the puppeteers and thought of the idea of doing a puppet video using socks. Our ideas converged out of researching silly, absurd, and mundane yet familiar images mediated and appropriated through pop culture. For instance, the infamous Anton Dodson, “The Bed Intruder Song”, Rebecca Black’s “Friday”, and Japanese anime character Mudkip from Pokemon. All these random examples have two things in common, they involve music and their messages are meaningless. Therefore with our interests in hip hop/rap culture, our studies in critical analysis of media, and videography; The Sock Song could be considered as a culture jamming media text, similar to the styles of Nikki Lee’s hip hop project. We wanted to create viral content that is familiar to young people that can identify with the symbols and icons of rap/hip hop music in North America from ages 15-25.