Thursday, 26 September 2013

The Concept

Having spent the last week coming up with different ideas and suggestions, it is now time to commit to a clear concept. Your concept should clearly incorporate your knowledge of music videos and therefore should have at least 3 and possibly 4 'strands'. Your concern should be less with what the narrative of your music video is and should instead focus on aesthetics: - What (kinds...

Monday, 23 September 2013

Lyric Annotations

Whether the lyrics for your chosen track are very clear and direct or extremely obscure and open to interpretation, the visuals for your music video should to some extent be a reflection of them. Your lyric annotation can be done by taking a screen grab of the lyrics and...

Friday, 20 September 2013

Peer Assessment

Please look through your allocated blog and provide a mark for each. You should be looking out for issues of content (both quality and quantity), presentation and use of ICT. Please also go through the checklist and ensure that no posts are missi...

Friday, 13 September 2013

Audience Research: Writing a Questionnaire

As your target audience is very likely to be a younger demographic, another useful website when researching audience is to explore the site www.uktribes.com and to explore whether you think your music video could/should be looking to reach these audience groups. You may wish to take some screen grabs and use some of the descriptive phrases. The password for the site is bkqtee...

Tuesday, 10 September 2013

Push A Little Button Activity- Editing Instructions

1. Slot the SD Card into the back of the MAC computer. Close any windows that pop up. 2. Click on the Adobe CS6 button on the dock and then click on Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. 3. Once open, click on 'New Project' check that work is being saved in the location Users/12cms OR 12dmv/Desktop/Video Work and name the file Push A Little Button and then your names/initials. Change Sequence settings to...

Sunday, 8 September 2013

Record Label Research

In order to develop a deeper understanding of music videos and why they are made, it is important to have some knowledge of record labels. You will need to do a case study of 3 different labels and consider the following: When they were founded Where they are based What companies (if any)...

Friday, 6 September 2013