young people just access things in different ways now.
"This is all about genuine participation," whispered producer Sam Conniff when we rang him up in a bookshop earlier this evening, "and the power it gives to both individuals and the group.
Meanwhile, a parallel mini-series will run on E4, MTV Base, MTV-1, MySpace and all the mobile phone networks. The story revolves around a young female rapper and her efforts to break into the UK music scene.
DUBPLATE DRAMA SERIES
The first series was the first TV drama to include a viewer voting mechanism like this, and the show's producers are hoping the new series will reach an even wider audience than the 20,000 votes cast in the first.ĭevised by the youth marketing agency Livity, based in Brixton, south London, the series is again written and directed by Luke Hyams and will feature turns from the likes of Shystie, N-Dubz, Mike GLC, Big Narstie and Kano. The film concludes with a short discussion on the height of the British music industry, and how the band contributed to making the British hip-hop scene better known.Series two of urban youth series Dubplate Drama kicks off tonight on Channel 4 at 12.40am – following the struggle of Dionne, a young woman trying to cut that all-important dubplate and ultimately better herself through music, each episode ends with a cliffhanger in which viewers are invited to text in which route they think a key character should take (tonight's is about whether Dionne should stash her cousin's drugs when the police raid the club they're in). Wiley releases his 2009 album, Race Against Time. Footage included in the film includes the band working with Dappy's father and Tulisa's uncle, Byron, performing and mixing material in the studio, as well as interviews with some of the band's label colleagues and well known friends, including Wretch 32, J2K and Angel. Dubplate Drama concludes after series three In 2009, Dubplate Drama, series three concludes and the shows cancelled. The series aired on MTV Base and Channel 4 two national broadcasting channels in the UK and the. Skream - Loosing Control Benga - Evolution Geeneus - Star Buck Zinc - Flim Skream Remix. Dubplate Drama, which was made up of three seasons lasting from 2005 to 2009, follows the story of a promising MC named Dionne (played by the First Lady of Grime, Shystie) and her dream of getting a record deal to provide for her grandmother. At the time, band members Dappy, Tulisa and Fazer were fourteen, thirteen and fifteen respectively, and had begun working with Garage producer Donna Dee, who helped them create some of their very first tracks, and perform some of their first gigs, and is the person who requested that Grace Mellor film some footage of the band. The Official Soundtrack To Dubplate Drama Series 2. The documentary film follows footage filmed by Jessica Grace Mellor, an amateur director and photographer who filmed footage of the band during their early days in 2002, in an attempt to secure them a record deal with a major label. The film features footage recorded during the early years of the band, pieced together with interviews from friends and colleagues of the group, including Wretch 32, J2K and Angel. Before They Were Dubz is a Straight-to-DVD documentary film, directed by Jessica Grace Mellor, that charts the history of English hip-hop group N-Dubz, from their early days when they were as young as twelve, to the point of their major label signing in 2007 by All Around the World Records.