Homework for Summer Holidays - Analysis of a Music Video and first stages of a plan for your own

This task is an opportunity for your to display your analytical skills in Media. You are to choose a music video (not the one that your are going to create a new video far) that uses is in the same genre that you have been looking at. 

Once you have embedded the video in your blog post, you should then explain who the artist is, when the song was released and what genre of music it is. You also need to include the lyrics in your post. 

The opening sentences should be an explanation of the specific details about the artist-who they are, how successful they are and why, when the song was released and how successful or not the song was and information about anyone important linked to the video, such as a famous director or actor/actress. 

Your analysis then needs to explain the narrative of the video and any 'messages' or key ideas from it-for example, does the style of the video match the genre, the audience expectations or the lyrics closely? You should also pick out a couple of key camera angles and explain their significance. You should include screen captures of parts of the music video to demonstrate your ideas. Finally, you should grab and embed screen shots that demonstrate what things seen make it suit the genre of music it is of and also what things that feature you would like to include in your own video. This could be something like clothing, or a location, an editing technique or a special effect used. 

This should be a fairly long, rigorous and detailed analysis that uses different analytical skills and ICT skills as well. 


This is due in on your first lesson back after the holidays, the date of which I'll put on here when I find out and of course, I shall be checking your blogs throughout the summer to ensure that this is done. I would do this task sooner rather than later so that I can feedback to you and tell you how to improve the work. 

Any questions or issues, please let me know. 


A good, but not brilliant, example can be found here: http://jamieallisona2media.blogspot.com/2010/09/analyse-of-africa-shox-leftfield.html

Lesson 5: July 16th

Good afternoon all.
Apologies for my absence.


Your task this afternoon is to work individually to create a storyboard for a song in a certain genre.
Attached to this post is a storyboard which should be downloaded and printed off (some of you may need to swap Macs to do this, or one person who can print should print off enough copies for everyone. Failing this, ask Miss Myers for copies as I emailed her the same document this morning).


Your storyboard should:

• Be for a song that exists but be firmly set in the genre you have been exploring so far. 
• Look nothing like a music video that may already exist for that song. 
• Include a range of details and features that show that it is clearly part of that genre. 
• Have a variety of camera angles and shot sizes in. 
• Either, have the lyrics to the song underneath the boxes OR have times (in seconds) in/near the boxes to show how long each shot will be on the screen for/when to jump to the next shot. 

This is NOT a task about your artistic skills, rather your ability to visualise a concept for a video, but still needs to be more detailed that stick men. Remember: we need to see props, locations and costumes that clearly associate the video with the song. 

If you complete this task in class today you should go into my classroom and collect a camera to upload your storyboard to your blog. I'll be checking on your blogs from this evening. 

If this is not completed it should be taken home to be completed along with the homework listed in the next post. 

Storyboard

Lesson 4: July 9th

To be completed by end of lesson; main task: 

A collection of images that visually explains what typical features of genres are seen in music videos.

http://slide.ly
http://www.cincopa.com/media-platform/services/create-slideshow
http://visualslideshow.com/
http://www.photosnack.com/
http://www.photovisi.com/


(This should have been done last week.)

Homework:

For your identified song of choice, create another collage/pintrest board/upload examples of what you would want to potentially use for; clothes, props, locations.

(This should have been done last week.)

Lesson 3: July 2nd

To be completed by the end of the lesson:

1. In two groups, identify as many different music genres as possible. 
2. Choose 3 and begin to brainstorm what you would expect to see in a typical video for this genre. Make reference to both technical features and more obvious visual elements such as costume, make-up, performance (mise-en-scene) 
3. Using a Pinboard style website, such as Pintrest or try http://www.voxmagazine.com/blog/2012/12/10-alternatives-to-pinterest/ and http://mashable.com/2013/06/27/pinterest-alternatives/ create a selection of key features for at LEAST 1 genre. However, you MUST do a different genre to someone else in your group. (By the end of the lesson, we should have a range of differing genres to look at for inspiration) 
4. Embed this on your blog and explain what you created and why. The better examples of these will use embedded videos to prove that your ideas are based on fact. 

Websites to consider:
http://dribbble.com/
http://notcouture.notcot.org/
https://svpply.com/
http://dwellinggawker.com/
http://designspiration.net/
http://www.siteinspire.com/
http://www.baubauhaus.com/
http://fontsinuse.com/
http://notventures.notcot.org/


You may want to use more than one to find and store different images, for example Fontsinuse.com for the style of writing you might use in a music video (and later when designing the cd cover) and notventures.notcot.org to store images of locations.

 Homework, for July 9th. 

1. Select 5 songs that you would potentially like to make a video for. Embed these on your blog with a simple explanation why for each. 
2. Create a pinboard of initial ideas for ONE of your songs. This should include ideas on things like locations, costumes, props, location for your chosen song.