Final Week of term...

What you need to do is ensure you have done the following:

1. Get your pitch for your video approved
2. Complete your storyboards for the video
3. Shoot 1 min of you talking in groups/working at the computer or some other such study process in the class and get it up on your group blog
4. Make sure we have linked your GROUP blog to the main page!

These MUST BE READY so we can start filming the FIRST week back in JANUARY!

As a secondary issue, you need to do the following, bearing in mind you can do some of this at home but points 1 and 2 you need to do in groups in school:
5. Blogged everything - see the checkpoints on here
6. Read through the purple booklet over the holidays

7. You MUST read the guide on completion - it's on the blog - you have NOT been given a paper copy...

Urgent to do this week (6th Dec) and what to write about your Lipsync

So FIRSTLY                                                                                                                               

Finish your lipsync asap. If you've only got 50 secs done, that's enough - the point is to learn the editing program and learn about the processes involved in making a music video.

For your BLOG, you need to post your response to these two outcomes:
1. What did you learn about editing and how did you feel about it?
2. What do you now know about lipsync-ing that you will use to help you complete your real music video?

This is REFLECTIVE and EVALUATIVE - what did you learn? How did you feel? How has it altered your understanding? and practice? Was it good? Was it effective in teaching you something? If not, why not?

SECONDLY

You MUST get your initial idea approved by submitting a TREATMENT to Miss - it can be the lyrics with rough ideas of what will happen where and a short presentation to miss OR it can be a proper treatment - like those in your packs!

You MUST be storyboarded and have all your shooting plans and schedules ready by the end of this term - there's only THIS week and NEXT week - a max of 8 lessons so GET A MOVE ON GUYS!

After/During Lipsync - what to Blog

What you need to do during or after your lipsync edit and BEFORE you move on, is to blog the following:
  1. How did you feel about the editing programme and learning to use it?
  2. What did you learn about making music videos from this exercise and...
  3. How will what you have learnt affect how you approach you proper production?

On your group blog you should put your answers BUT obviously there will be your personal responses as well as your group response so make sure you write something on BOTH BLOGS.

Star Image Collage

This week, your assignment is to generate a collage of a star's image.
Use both pictures and text to create a very interesting and informative collage.
You can use cut/paste or the computer (photoshop) as tools to help you with this task.
Do not forget what we discussed about star image in lessons. Make reference to various ideas/theories.
This assignment should be posted on your blog by next lesson. If you have done it on paper, you can scan and post it up.

Star Image

Star image

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IMPORTANT - What you MUST do by the end of this week (12/11)

1. You must have come up with an idea for your production company name and set up a blog in its name - the blog must have a separate email and log in that EVERYONE in your group knows - and tell ME so I can link it to the blog!

2. You must START the Lipsync activity - choose a song you know ALL the words to - make sure you use the same music file to sing to as you can use to import into the editing programme (If they're not the same by even a fraction, you'll never get your sync right!!)

3. You MUST be presenting your TREATMENT to me - this is a brief outline of how your music video will look - it should be a few paragraphs. You CANNOT go ahead without this approval. There are exemplar treatments in your teaching pack.

As a reminder, you are supposed to be filming and have edited a basic rough cut by Christmas - that is THREE school weeks away, only 12 lessons - in other words, you must
GET A MOVE ON!

Things that should be on the blog...

Check out the CHECKPOINT posts - see the labels!!

1. Response to 'Changes in the Music Industry' video
2. Your chosen artist -how they use the internet to market themselves
3. Fake Band Marketing work
4. Your work from Mr Maddison or Ms Kassam on analysis of music videos and comparisons
5. Some of your own music videos you like and why with some SHORT analyses
6. Some work on your group discussions so far - name of production company and first ideas
7. Album Art - some discussion of album covers at least 3, showing conventions

This week you need to:

1. Plan and execute your lipsync exercise - notes on how to shoot it have been given, cameras are ready. Do it as it says on the sheet as you will need this footage to learn editing
2. Get your blog up to date
3. Set up your group blog and give address to me
4. CHOOSE YOUR REAL TRACK and submit a brief treatment of your ideas to miss before continuing onto starting your storyboards

GOOD LUCK and Have Fun!