A2 Music Video

Showing posts with label Research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Research. Show all posts

Banana Phone - Creative Filming and Editing Tasks


Creative Filming and Editing Tasks

1)    Filming a person sitting down with the monitor window open and with another camera film the monitor.

2)    Cloning editing task – tripod and camera must remain still in wide shot. Actor is filmed moving in different parts of the shot. Standing by the board, sitting down. 6 different shots. Go to premiere link on how to edit it.

3)    Depth of field task –

·       Do a distance little and large shot so that someone looks very small in the background and another very large.

·       Place an object like a cup or a ball down maybe with grass background - place the camera level with the object quite far away and then zoom into it so the object is sharp but the camera is blurred.

·       Place your artist in the background and add various cut out props to the foreground to float around the artist.

4)   Reverse shot – while the artist is singing get them to walk carefully backwards, but to add excitement to the shot add obstacles for jumping over and ball throwing so it can be reversed.

5)    Wheelchair / Tripod – we are going to simulate tracking and dolly shots. Camera on wheelchair film artist moving towards you singing to camera one take 30 seconds.

Tripod shot – raise the front leg of the tripod so the camera is pushed forward on the back legs.

6)   Lego stop motion – 30 still shots of lego action (one second each)



Premiere editing techniques to practise

-         Cloning shots -

-         Split screen

-         Blurred background

-         Make someone colour and the rest black and white

-         Glow effect titles


Cloning Shots   using cropping or linear wipe tools



Split screen



How to make background black and white and artist colour



Blending two videos to get a fantasy effect



There are hundreds of how to channels on youtube but I really like these easy quick instruction videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC46antF70V5qEFoW8xbGnoA

Stop motion lego task

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC46antF70V5qEFoW8xbGnoA

Creative music videos

Student video

Representation in Music Videos

This presentation takes you through some of the key issues and theories to do with representation in music videos (focussing on the representation of women).

Your blog tasks are outlined on the last page of the presentation.




Star Profile

Star Profile
Each of you need to research a ‘star’ and analyse how their image has changed and been shaped over time. You will need to research and watch a variety of their music videos and information about the star in order to fully understand these changes and why this representation is important.
- Research the star – use the prompt sheet on the blog to help with this research.
- Look in detail at (at least) 3 different videos to compare the representation of the artist.
- Begin compiling notes (copy notes up onto blog afterwards)

http://www.billboard.com/photos/428558/madonnas-fashion-evolution-her-most-iconic-looks/4

Here is a good example of a star profile:










Music video parodies

This is how you do a lip synch



My son showed me these music videos. I think the parodies are a great way to study conventions of the various genres in terms of camera shots and angles and editing. Horrible Histories are genius aren't they? They've taken them off youtube so apologies for the Brazilian subtitles in some. Also Yeo Valley ads are brilliant.











And the Yeo Valley ones are ace - can you think of any more?


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What Music Means To Me

'What Music means to Me' - presentation to the class

As preparation, pick 3 tracks that mean something to you - in some way are a reflection on your life, and prepare to talk about your choices. One track should be from your childhood, one from your early teens and one that means a lot to you today. It's about honesty not about what your friends will think of you.

As with every hwk/task write about what you learnt from the task and each other. Basically what it says here and your own reflection:

The purpose of this task is to get you to use music in an autobiographical way and to think about the significance of music personally, culturally and socially.

10 Steps to a Level 4 blog

1. Regular postings and updates, with no long gaps between them (unless these are explained)
2. Ongoing evidence of individual research, analysis, theory and ideas as specified in the coursework tasks
3. Ongoing evidence of development, change and progress including diary style summaries of your individual contribution to the project as a whole
4. Ongoing reflections/ thoughts/comments on the progress of the group project
5. Communication between you, the teachers and the group
6. Links to the video, research and planning, evaluation
7. labelling of posts, using a labels list; labels should be individual research, individual planning, evaluation
8. List of links to external websites you have found useful/inspirational
9. Availability of the correct tools for editing posts, browsing etc
10 Your own unique blog style to represent you as a media student/music consumer


Assessment in Research and Planning

Assessment: to achieve Level 4 (16 - 20 marks) in Research and Planning, you must demonstrate
  • excellent research into similar products and a potential target audience
  • excellent organisation of actors, locations, costumes and props
  • excellent work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or storyboarding
  • excellent time management
  • excellent level of care in the presentation of the research and plannning
  • excellent skill in the use of digital technology or ICT in the presentation
  • excellent communication skills
Assessment: To achieve Level 4 in production (50 - 60 marks*) you are expected to demontrate excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:
  • holding a shot steady, where appropriate
  • framing a shot, including and excluding elements where appropriate
  • using a variety of shot distances, where appropriate
  • shooting material appropriate to the task set
  • selecting mise-en-scene including colour, figure, lighting, objects and setting
  • editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer
  • using varied shot transitions, captions and other effects selectively and appropriately for the task
  • using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task
Where a candidate has worked in a group, an excellent contribution to construction is evident. Differences in the contributions made by individual candidates must be clearly indicated on the teacher marksheets. When marking the production, teachers must focus on the quality of the brand identity across the promotion package as a whole, as well as on the indidvidual productions.

*The main task will be marked out of 40 (level 4 = 32-40 marks), and the two
ancillary tasks will be marked out of 10 each (level 4 = 9-10 marks).

Introducing the Music Video



Advanced Portfolio Brief

Brief 1

A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with two of the following three options:

- a website homepage for the band;
- a cover for its release as part of a digipak (CD/DVD package);
- a magazine advertisement for the digipak (CD/DVD package).

The unit is marked out of a total of 100 marks:
20 marks for the planning and research and its presentation;
60 marks for the construction;
20 marks for the evaluation.

In the evaluation the following questions must be answered:
1)In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2)How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
3)What have you learned from your audience feedback?
4)How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?