A2 Student Guide for Completion of Project 2012/13

A2 Student Outline Schedule Autumn Spring Production Detail 2012/13

Recording Production Progress

At the beginning of each lesson please:

In your notebook/sketchbook or on your blog record FOR EACH LESSON what you want to achieve in the session - think of it as setting your own learning outcome/learning objective. It only needs to be a sentence or two long and could be bullet points.


At the end of each lesson please:

In the SAME PLACE as you've recorded your aims for the session, please record what you ACTUALLY achieved - a couple of sentences or bullets is fine. This will help you to construct/blog a progression later if you have gaps and will help with your evaluation questions and exam paper (both of which ask you about progression).

Yr 13 blog posts for Half Term

 

Voyeurism- examples and analysis (not repeat of my notes)	1  Individual
Intertextuality- examples and explanations (not repeat of my notes)	2  Individual
Goodwin – 6-800 words analysis of a music video of your choice (not repeat of my notes)	3 Individual
Music Video Director	4 Individual
Band’s Identity	5 Group
Initial Pitch- can scan and place on blog	6 Group
Initial thoughts on lyrics	7 Group
Audience questionnaire – scan and place on blog	8 Group
Audience findings- summarise and place on blog	9 Group
Music Videos that have influenced you	10 Individual  ( 3 researched and analysed music videos for yourselves) GROUP Music videos that influenced the band/artist. (1 video each for example)
Any other media text that may have influenced you	11. Individual
Schedule- timeline- when you plan to shoot?	12  Group

Presentation Guidelines and deadlines...

Your task is to prepare a 10 minute presentation for the next lesson. It should be on your own chosen music video and you must post the finished item on your blog. We will have a lesson on how to export a powerpoint including video. Please note you must also complete your LIPSYNC - see below for guidance.

You should follow the guidance as follows. The deadline is:

13E - Tuesday 18th Sept P3
13A - Tuesday 18th Sept P5

Lipsync deadline for posting on blog - Friday 21st Sept

GUIDANCE

The 10 mins includes time to play the music video through - don't choose one that's too long. Allows time for clips within the presentation too - again, not too long.

Comment on the following:
- Narrative - is there one? is there a partial narrative? why is it important/relevant?
- Representation - who is represented in the video? in what ways? why is it important/relevant?
- Camera movement - does it match the 'shape' of the music? what happens and why?
- Editing - does the editing always cut on the beat? are there any interesting edits? does the editing create meaning or obscure it?
- What is the relationship between the visuals of the video and the lyrics of the song?
- What star 'image' or brand is being presented? How is the artist positioning themselves?

Post your response and label it 'Music Video Presentation'

Summer Holiday Work

So for many of you you're well on the way to starting Yr13 - we will be using the work you have started using Maroon 5 - Moves Like Jagger to teach you advanced editing skills in September.

You need to ensure that you have filmed and captured all the footage you can by the end of the summer term. You should also be working on your Lipsync.

The work that is expected to ALREADY have been completed when you come back is as follows: as with everything else at Coombe, if you don't do the work, you may find that we are reluctant to let you start the A2 course.

TO COMPLETE by SEPTEMBER 2012
1. The Lip Sync sheet - even if you have to do this at home! Most of you have phones and most laptops and computers have webcams - these will do if you have missed the opportunity to film with friends. This will need to be edited and all macs and pcs come with standard editing software which will enable you to complete the task so no excuses. This must be ready to be submitted at the very least, and certainly you should be able to upload your work to Youtube - see the main blog for the student youtube account - click 'Main Blog' above.
2. The evaluation of the Yr13 Music Videos from this year
3. The evaluation of YOUR Yr12 Film Opening Project

Lip Synch

We don't have any from last year so here's my Mrs T's playlist and there is also a link to Latymer's Lipsyncs to give you a flavour...




There are lipsyncs on the youtube account - mediamonkeymovies2

Framework outline to help with review

Here's a link to a frame document to help you review your AS work - click HERE.

Evaluating your Foundation Production

You also need to blog your thoughts on your foundation practical - the sheets have been given out to help you but are also available online. Again, either link to Scribd or the document directly via the gadget on the right or click HERE.

Evaluating the yr13 Music Videos of 2012

You have to blog your response to this task, reflecting on what you have learnt.

The worksheet can be viewed online - either linked via SCRIBD directly - see gadget on the right - or by clicking HERE.

Outline for this term

Yr12 Summer Term Teaching Plan 2012

First Week Tasks

So we'll be introducing you to Music Video and analysing previous years' work. You will be reflecting on your AS work and devising an action plan to avoid problems in your music video production in September.

First you will be looking at the 2012 A2 Music Videos to see what went well, what could have been done better and what pitfalls you can avoid.

The playlist is here:




You will need to work in your group to rank the videos and provide a 'rationale' for your choice.
At the end you will produce your own reflection on how to make a good music video...

Remember to be sensible and act as academic critics of the work - this will be your work next year so treat the work as you would like yours to be treated.

Enjoy!

Welcome to the new 2012-13 Music Video Blog

Hi all - hope your exams went well and that you're all ready and willing to crack on with your studies of Media. We'll be working towards your A2 Advanced Production and things will be explained to you in more detail in class. You'll be issued with another detailed teaching pack and again you will be expected to set up and maintain a blog to record the progress of your coursework. You'll be working in groups to produce a music video and we're going to start now.

We hope you learnt a lot from your AS work, particularly, what to do and what NOT to do in terms of production, maintaining a blog, working in groups, filming and editing, evaluation etc so think about what happened in AS, at least to make sure you don't make the same mistakes.

There will be things to do over the holidays (all fun though!) and you should really start as you mean to go on. There's more to do this year and some of the same problems and issues you had last year will still be there this but this should be more fun because by and large you will be better able to deal with issues and problems and because the music video form is fun to make, breaking lots of narrative film 'rules' is expected and whilst it's more challenging, you'll get more from the process in the end because of it.
 
Whatever you have already done, this is a chance for a fresh start so learn from it, put it behind you and let's get started!