HALF TERM HOMEWORK I
Take digital images of all your chosen locations
à use a combination of images from primary sources (your own pics) and secondary sources (other people’s images from online, magazines etc.)
2. Upload images to your blog and annotate them.
Comment on Health and Safety and organisational issues
o weather restrictions
o clothing / footwear
o any hazards (cables etc..)
o possibility of interfering with general public
o ease of using props etc.. on location
Annotate your images, commenting on
Ø Suitability for your song
Ø The lighting (will you need to alter it, if so how?)
Ø How easy is it for everyone to access?
Ø What props will you need once out there?
Ø Who will you need to contact regarding the use of the location?
Ø What is your ‘back-up’ location if these are not in use.
Also take pictures of you at your locations: this acts as a personal touch to your blog, as well as ‘proof’ to examiner you were actually there!
HALF TERM HOMEWORK II:
Update your Blogs
By this stage of the course your blogs should have evidence of:
Lip synching and filming practice
Research into similar artists in your chosen genre
Email to the record company requesting permission to use band's song --> you need this to cover copyright infringements
Genre research: what is genre? What genre does your chosen song fall into? What are the conventions of a music video in your genre? Comment on mise-en-scene; narrative/performance/concept style of filming; iconography and symbolism often used; style of camera angles/movement etc.
Gaze theory and examples of videos using gaze theory
Freud’s theory of voyeurism and how you will use it
Band brand: your band’s name, style, fashion, make up etc.
Uploaded video of your treatment pitch
Andrew Goodwin: conventions of a music video
Initial ideas for your storyboard à take pictures of spidergrams or prezzies you’ve made
Notes on Group Meetings you’ve had – take pictures of your and you group sitting at iMACs / holding tripods / take photos of r group 'on location' etc.
If in doubt, look at an example of A* grade student last year:
