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