How to make a music video

Evaluation Questions [20 marks]

In the evaluation the following four questions must be addressed:

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
• How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
• What have you learned from your audience feedback?
• How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation
stages?

Reminder of deadlines

Video - TBC

Digipak & Advert - TBC

Evaluation - TBC

Any student who does not meet the above deadlines will be referred to HoD and ST.

Pete Frasers Media Blog

Petes blog link

Music Theory to Consider...

Theory - Music Video

Synaesthesia - Ferdinand Saussure
iconic indexical symbolic signs
Roland Barthes Mythologies
Interpellation Louis Althusser
Hegemony
E. A Kaplan visual hook
Laura Mulvey
Intertextuality, parody, pastiche
Andrew Goodwin
Sergei Eisenstein - montage
Classic Narrative text
Lyrics and visuals - High level of incoherence, amplification, disjuncture, contradict, undermine
Dyer - utopia
Dyer - star quality
Hybrid of identities
Postmodern text - hyperreality, state od simulacrum
WE Media Gillmor

Digipak Clarification

Your digipak must be composed of the following:

• Front
• Spine
• Back
• Membership postcard/flier
• Lyric section
• Disk impression
• Band info section/booklet
• Free image/poster

Useful tips from OCR - Teacher use mainly!

link to OCR Get Ahead Blog