Summer Holiday Research work

Please get this stuff on your blog and completed before we come back in September. 

Any problems please get in touch. Any queries please get in touch. Any requests for equipment please get in touch. My details are to the right of this blog.

I'll be checking in with your blogs throughout the summer so that I can keep a track of where we're at, so even if you only update or improve a small piece of work at a time, please feel free to upload just so that I know things are moving along!

Also: enjoy the break!

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A2 Media Coursework Tasks - Research

Evaluation examples for AS media

The important thing to remember throughout your evaluation is that you're wanting to do 2 main things:
1. Show that you understand key ideas about Media products, audiences, technology and industry.
2. To show off! You want to make it clear how hard you've worked on your own film and that everything you've done has been done for a reason and a purpose, linked to point 1 above.


With that in mind, ensure that you use your evaluation as a place to really show off your knowledge and skills, but also make sure that this is easily visible. By this I mean, don't bury your knowledge and skill in a huge heap of text; use a wide variety of media skills, ICT programs and apps and ways to present your ideas. Make key points easily identifiable, answers linked to questions and general points easy to spot.

Below are various links to Evaluations and Blogs, none of which I make any claims for about their quality-some are frankly poor, others really good. Have a look, read, examine and ensure that you're being influenced by the good stuff rather than the poor! Use some the techniques or websites they've used and similarly keep an eye out for things to avoid! For most you'll only be linked to an individual question from the Evaluation but in most cases you'll find links to the other questions on the right hand side of their blogs. It's also worth noting that not all of these are for the product as you've been making; the Media course allows us to choose from a range of products and we choose the Film option, so you might see Evaluations for magazines, music, photos, websites etc. These are still useful to look at in terms of the overall presentation and the range of techniques used in presentation.



http://graveneysevaluatorelliotpreece.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/in-what-ways-does-your-media-product.html

http://fredericawilliamsdaviesmedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/unit-g321-evaluation.html

http://katierowland2132.blogspot.co.uk/p/g321-evaluation-questions.html

http://2015tavi3541.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/g321-evaluation-question-1.html

http://jenniebrighton.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/as-media-studies-foundation-portfolio.html

http://hacamediastudies.com/2016/01/28/year-12-media-studies-g321-evaluation/

http://tfa6105.blogspot.co.uk/

http://piersthorleyasmediag321.blogspot.co.uk/

http://tfa6064.blogspot.co.uk/

http://thrillerproject.blogspot.co.uk/

http://graveneyg321evaluation.blogspot.co.uk/

Lesson 2: Tuesday 25th June

To be completed for next Tuesday 2nd July at the latest. 

1. Update Labels for last week's work.

2. Create a SlideShare account.

3. Design a PowerPoint presentation that answers the questions from last week. The better presentations should have YouTube videos embedded. (Although these won't necessarily show up on the Slides due to the restrictions on the network).

4. Upload the PowerPoint to SlideShare and embed this on your blog.




EXTENSION AND/OR HOMEWORK
1. Investigate another presentation method, such as a podcast, vodcast, Prezi (I'd love to see someone do this) or a Pintrest Board.

2. Use this presentation method to create a presentation on your favourite music videos and why and a song that you'd like to create a video for.

Lesson 1: Tuesday 18th June

To be completed for next Tuesday at the latest (25th June):

• What is a music video? (Find a definition)

• What are some early examples? (Link to or embed them)

• Important music videos with explanation why. (Link or embed at least 5)

• What are some of your favourite music videos and why? (Link to or embed at least 3)

Task 9: Equipment

This task is a technical exercise that asks you to demonstrate planning and awareness of technology.

You should have a break down of the equipment you will need to use to plan, make and edit your music video, with a simple explanation for each where you will need to use it, for example, still camera - to take photos of locations when planning initial ideas.

Task 8: Lyrics from your music video

For your chosen music video you need to post the (correct) lyrics.

They should also be correctly credited: who wrote them, what year and where you found the lyrics.

Task 7: An analysis of a music video

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 a similar narrative or style to your initial ideas.

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.

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.


This does not need to be an especially long analysis, rather an exercise in showing that you can conduct research and provide analysis of music videos.


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

Research Task 4: Target Audience

For this task you need to explain who the target audience is for your chosen artist and who the target audience will be for you your own video.


Firstly, explain who the target audience is for your artist, using evidence from their videos, lyrics, sales figures, internet research or any other relevant information.

Secondly, you should explain who your target audience will be and how you will be able to meet the demands of this target audience. For example, what do your target audience 'like' and how you will reach their expectations and needs.

Research Task 6: Similar music videos

This task is an opportunity for you to present your research into music videos which you feel could provide some form of influence on your own video.

You should use YouTube to find and embed a range of videos. Each video should have a short explanation underneath detailing:

Who the artist is.
What the song is called.
What happens in that video (very briefly).
What you like about that video.
Who you think the video is aimed at and
What elements about that video could be used in yours.



Aim to add about 5 videos and each MUST be embedded.

Research Task 5: Locations

Your location post should primarily be a series of photos that show the different locations that you wanted to use in your video. You may not have used this locations in the end, but should show where you thought would be suitable.

For each location there should be a photo (ideally taken by you and not just found on the internet) and an explanation of where the location is, why you want to use it, how it fits your video idea and any thoughts about how likely or not it will be to use this location.

You can present the photos how you like but you show aim to 'show off'; you could use a Web-album such as Flickr or Picassa which you can then embade on your blog. You could upload each photo directly onto blogger and type underneath each or use PowerPoint to create a SlideShow that you can embed.

To really reach those higher marks, you could use movie making software such as iMovie to create a short film about each of your locations with appropriate music and subtitles to explain each location.

Research Task 3: Clothing

This is the mood board created in your initial lessons:
Please download from my blog and complete before re-uploading to SlideShare and adding to your own blog.


For this task, you should explain in your post your ideas and plans for your video and where you took inspiration from. You should then explain what you SlideShow shows, but let the SlideShow tell the reader most of the information.

Clothing

View more presentations from Ian Moreno-Melgar.

Research Task 2: Explanation of initial ideas

Having decided what your song will be, there should be some form of your initial ideas for your video.

This could take the form of a mindmap (either on paper, scanned in and then embedded on your blog or done electronically), a series of pictures and videos or text with photos.

This post should reflect the process you took as a group in reaching your idea so should have a range of ideas, not just the one you finally chose.


Any pictures, photos or embedded media must be explained with annotations and should reflect your thinking process and group discussion.



An example can be found here.

Research task 1: Explanation of song choice

Your first Research task is to choose a song to create a new music video for.
This song should be one that you'll be happy to spend time with creating your different products and also one that you will be able to justify the choice of.


For your first task, you need to explain:

What song you have chosen and who the artist is.
When and how as that song released.
Why you have chosen that song.
Who you think the main audience will be for that song.
What initial ideas you have had in creating a new version of the video.

And finally, the video embedded on your blog from YouTube.