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Top Tips
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The Task
•Package: album (digipack), website, music video
•100 marks: research and planning 20, video 40, digipack 10, website 10, evaluation 20
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Plan for everything
•Storyboard- you can always shoot extra
•Plan people, places, props, costumes
•Get everyone’s mobile numbers
•Aim to shoot it early, not up against deadline
•Make sure your performers have rehearsed and know the words
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MUSIC VIDEO TIMELINE TASK
Using the TIMELINE SHEETS, breakdown your MUSIC TRACK into verses, chorus, instrumental parts, key
phrases and sounds - (USE COLOURS to help differentiate the parts).
Once you have deconstructed the track - start to annotate the timeline explaining
which part of the song is accompanied by what type of visuals.
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know your equipment
•Do test shots to try out effects
•Check any quirks of the camera
•Make sure you have tripod (and ‘shoe’)
•Is the disk loaded ?
•experiment with edit program before the main thing
•Have you got the music and an audible source?
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the shoot•Shoot the performance at least ten times all
the way through with different set-ups
•Make sure you have plenty of cutaways
•Experiment with extra angles and lighting changes
•Don’t forget: lots of close-ups !
•Enthuse your performers- they must give it plenty!
•Shoot more than you think you will need
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the edit
•Synch up performances first
•Get the whole picture rather than tiny detail
•Cut and cut again
•Aim for a dynamic piece of work
•Do any effects work last
•Upload a rough cut to your blog and get feedback
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look elsewhere for tips
•petesmediablog
•Cranford school wix
•Latymer school websites, digipacks and videos
•Hurtwood media
•Islington Sixth Form
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Text
http://petesmediablog.blogspot.co.uk/2012_11_01_archive.html
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http://cranfordmedia.wix.com/mod2013
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http://www.latymermediamusicvideo.blogspot.co.uk/
http://latymermusicvideo2013group3.blogspot.co.uk/
http://latymermusicvideo2013group2.blogspot.co.uk/
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Hurtwood blogs
• http://oliviadarceyhawthorne.blogspot.co.uk• http://hurtwoodmedia12beesupavarasuwat.b
logspot.co.uk• http://gregfellows72.blogspot.co.uk/• http://mollyeve73.blogspot.co.uk/
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Good Housekeeping
• tidy desktop• storage of footage• labelling files• tidy blog
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Evidence 1
• real music videos• real music videos of your genre• any visuals that have influenced you (films,
TV, adverts, music videos, photos)• ‘steal-o-matic’• costume photos, location photos, test shots
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Evidence 2
• real album covers• real band websites• early exercises designing album covers• changes to your designs- screengrabs• show how it is a ‘package’
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Random ALBUM COVER exercise
Step 1: Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomThe title of the first random Wikipedia article you get is the NAME of your band.
Step 2: Go to: http://quotationspage.com/random.php3The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the TITLE of your album.
Step 3: Go to: http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/The third picture, no matter what it is, is the COVER of your album.
Step 4: Use Photoshop to put it altogether and design the front and back cover of the album.
[Photoshop canvas size: H 12 cm x W 24 cm / 300 dpi]
Step 5: Upload your finished album artwork to Flickr
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Re-makes
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Evidence 3
• student music videos, digipacks and websites with comments
• photos and clips throughout• storyboard and animatic of your video plan
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Evidence 4
• rough cuts of your video• screengrabs of your edit in progress• ‘behind the scenes’• regular commentary on what you are doing• feedback from your peers
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when to do website/digipack
• in parallel, NOT at the end!• taking photos for later use• having lots of extra ideas• can do more than one design within the
group
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Your blogs so far: strengths
• Lots of posts (some 40, several 20+)• Illustrations• Depth and detail• Sense of journey
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Your blogs so far: weaknesses
• few posts (some 11 or fewer!!!)• Not enough planning evidence yet• sharing posts of others in the group• Danger of getting ‘hung up’ on the original
artist• Some tracks very long
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Advice
• Get in role and simulate real practice- twitter feed?• If it doesn’t work, change it!- don’t be ‘precious’• Pay attention to costume, makeup, hair, lighting, camera
movement• Maybe reduce reliance on location• Rework blogs so more INDIVIDUAL (label group posts as
GROUP?)• Aim for 100 posts• Get the three elements underway in parallel• CONCEPT not STORY
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Group choices
• Ed Sheeran- hard to sustain + one of most frequently chosen artists at A level
• Lana Del Rey- performer? Length…slow song• Get Cape- edit faster than original + include
performance• Rifles- good choice for pacey performance
video• Ellie- forget the ‘Skins’ video!
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Group choices 2
• Bastille- good pace, look for some fast edits• Donovan- retro is hard, song is long,
intertextual opportunities to ref 1960s?• Paramore- good possibilities but forget the
band’s image!• Emili Sande- very hard for performer- must be
very strong! Forget her image, look at other solo ‘soul’ type singers
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finished student videos