Summer Project letter

A2 MEDIA STUDIES SUMMER PROJECT

CARDINAL HEENAN RC HIGH SCHOOL

30th June 2017

Dear Parent/ Guardian,

Over the summer holidays your Son has to keep up to date and complete the following in full in preparation for his A2 Media studies. 

Below is an outline of all work to be completed.

We have been working on our A2 work for the past three weeks and all posts can be found on our A2 Media Studies blog, which can be accessed via:

http://a2-chchs-media-17-18.blogspot.co.uk/

Post 1: Welcome to A2

Hello all and welcome to the beginning of your A2 course.

I hope you are all ready to embark on your next two units:

G324:  Ancillary Task & Main Task:  Music Video & Full evaluation (4 in depth responses).

Briefs 

A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with two of the following three options: 

• a website homepage for the band; 

• a digipak for the album’s release; 

• a magazine advertisement for the digipak. 

G325:  Critical Perspectives: Two topics from six topics to be studied & coursework presented for external moderation

G325 Exam - June 2018

Post 2: Intertextuality in Music Videos

Watch this to begin with: http://www.slideshare.net/lauraraxten/intertextuality-im-music-videos

You are to watch all of these videos in full and also Robbie Williams, Rock DJ an abstract piece.

Firstly: We will discuss the above videos to get the ball rolling and discuss methodology.

Secondly: You are to choose FIVE of your own videos that you really like and add link and stills for the video. Use screen shots to further analyse mis-en-scene. Insight into style, techniques used, genre, lighting, director, year produced, lyrics and Cost.

Have fun and I look forward to your responses.  Personal is best please chaps.

Post 3:  Five to TWO:  In Depth Video Analysis with storyboards

Taking TWO from your five videos you will now go into further detail of video, shot by shot. Analyse methods, styles, lighting mis en scene in further detail. 

Create storyboards for the TWO videos.

In depth discussion on camera angles, reasoning behind shots, importance of lighting, location, context of video, era, 70-80-90s etc.

More details = better marks (see mark scheme at beginning of blog).

Look at our drawn map on previous posts for more details

Post 4: Lipsync - practice - know your lyrics - timings

•    Ok so you all went down to green screen room and began to lipsync on the cameras and your mobile phones....great!!

•    Upload your files onto Pen drives/ cloud/ external hard drives as well as on the shared drive:  YOUR INITIALS New A2 Greenscreen June17-18.

•    As well as keeping your personal files, your name and lipsync 01, 02 etc.

•    Each individual lipsync needs to be edited (with screenshot evidence) in appropriate editing software. 

•    Sony Vegas, MovieMaker, iMovie, Premier Pro

•    Final versions and drafts to be posted with analysis please.

•    If on green screen you may decide to superimpose a background relevant to your song lyrics, genre etc.

•    Have fun and remember to evidence your progress.

Post 5:  Planning your video - lyrics - storyboard - shoot - MAKE IT – EDIT IT

• Using all of your knowledge and skills gained before the summer break, during our lessons. 
You must use your planning sheets, lyrics printed out and linked into your shooting scripts and storyboards to aid you in creating your music video.

• Make and edit a Music video over the summer holidays.

•  Constantly critically analyse your progress and development.

•  Take as many clips as possible for your formal music video when you get back in September, sunset, sunrise, waves, slow motion, time lapse.


All have fun and enjoy your Summer.

We look forward to seeing you all with lots of evidence in September.

Mrs P. McDonald-Holmes & Mr Dougan