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.

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)

Final Music Video

http://youtu.be/0aFL7XOm8Z4

Final Task - Evaluation

Activity 1: In what ways does your media product use,develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

 Activity 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

 Activity 3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

 Activity 4: How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?



 Activity 1: This part of the evaluation asks you to explain what examples of 'real' products that you have looked at have influenced your final designs. This needs to be done to explain what you wanted to create for your own video, print advert and digipack. For each, you will need to include 9 examples, either as screen shots or in the case of the videos, an embedded YouTube version of the video. For each example you need to explain the specific parts of the poster, digipack or video that you were influenced by and why. For each section, once you have explained what you were influenced by you will then explain how these ideas fit in with your own ideas and own song.

 Some good examples can be seen here: 
http://chloestevenson.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/a2-g324-evaluation-of-music-video/ and http://musicvideoalexanderwhitcombe.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/nine-key-frames.html http://musicvideoalexanderwhitcombe.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/evaluation-task-one-part-two.html


 This will be a long blog post with much detail in it. Use the examples above as a guide if unsure.



 Activity 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
This question asks you to think about what the point of your work is and how well you managed to achieve what you set out to achieve.
Is your music video like any of the videos that influenced yours? Does your video feature any of the techniques that you wanted to use, such as ones that are used in the videos you looked at? Does your video get across a key idea or emotion in a way that you wanted to?
Don't forget about the technical side of things-did your editing or cinematography create an effective video for example?

You also need to think about how your other products combine and work with your video to promote the song as something that you want people to buy. How well have you managed to make your poster look like your digipack for example? Have you used a feature or technique in one product that you've used in another that helps to make all of your products look 'similar', like they have an identity. What could you do better? How could you create a clear identity for your products by changing them? What sorts of things might you do differently when creating the 'whole package'?


 Activity 3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?
You will firstly need to get some people to watch your final video and to look at your final products and then ask them to complete a questionnaire about it and their feelings of it.
Then you will need to evaluate what you have learnt based on this feedback.

Was the feedback positive? Was it negative apart from one specific area? What was the audience's favourite aspect of your video? What did they like about your poster or digipack?

What is crucial here is not to simply explain what your audience told you about your products, but more about what you learnt from this feedback and how this would change or affect your choices if you were to make these products again.