Thursday, 10 November 2016
Friday, 21 October 2016
Thursday, 20 October 2016
Friday, 14 October 2016
Andrew Goodwin
Andrew Goodwin
Illustration – literal meaning of a song
Amplification – using performance and narration to connote
the meaning of the song
Disjuncture – Ignores the content of the song/genre
and presents something completely different and unusual. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ULVQOneeZE
Writing a Treatment
You'll be given love
You'll be taken care of
You'll be given love
You have to trust it
Maybe not from the
sources
You have poured yours
Maybe not from the
directions
You are staring at
Twist your head around
It's all around you
All is full of love
All around you
All is full of love
You just ain't receiving
All is full of love
Your phone is off the
hook
All is full of love
Your doors are all shut
All is full of love
Thursday, 13 October 2016
Awful music videos
http://www.nme.com/list/50-worst-music-videos-ever/253198
Here is a list of music videos rated by NME as the worst. We will watch a couple in a class to consider how these might have failed in their project planning.
Here is a list of music videos rated by NME as the worst. We will watch a couple in a class to consider how these might have failed in their project planning.
Aim and objectives week 6
Aim
Project planning process
Objective
Explain the relevance to task one and the treatment overview tomorrow.
Discuss what goes into a music video project
Research a production cycle you will conduct and create your own
version.
From your cycle create a tick list that lists the production elements
you will under go.
Learn on Screen Awards 2017
http://bufvc.ac.uk/events/learningonscreen
There is a competition for students who are making moving image productions. You may wish to get involved and submit your films from last year. Please review or see me if you fancy giving it a go. Remember that this can look very good on a university and job application.
There is a competition for students who are making moving image productions. You may wish to get involved and submit your films from last year. Please review or see me if you fancy giving it a go. Remember that this can look very good on a university and job application.
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Thursday 6th October
Aim
How techniques work with practice
Objectives
Discuss how the technical
elements inform the practical approach.
Go through professional
expectation of putting up a tripod.
Go through professional
camera techniques. What are the functions on a camera which are most useful to
know when filming a music video?
Go through the range of
cameras that are available to you for your production. How does each camera
differ? This might inform your planning.
Set a target of what you aim
to complete in the session on your presentation.
Go through PPT with tutor.
This should includes the purpose, style, convention and technical structure of
that example. You may need to research using books, websites, fan forums.
Please be mindful of safe web
searching during this exercise.
Please make sure that you
record effectively the useful websites.
To help with referencing you could use an online toolkit.
Sunday, 2 October 2016
BBC Work Experience
BBC work experience
If this is something you are interested in please see James Izzard in student services for further information.
If this is something you are interested in please see James Izzard in student services for further information.
Thursday, 29 September 2016
Andy Medhurst lecturer on the North
This is a good opporuntity to see what a university lecture is like. Andy Medhurst is well known for producing a good lecturer experience. He lecturers at the University of Sussex which is near Brighton.
Andy Medhurst Lecture
Andy Medhurst Lecture
29/09/16
11.30-13.50
Aim
Designing your PowerPoint / editing styles and conventions
Objectives
Listen to the overview of editing as this might be something
to add in your styles and conventions.
One half of the lesson:
Look at the example of the PowerPoint.
Go back and try to add the information required for the PowerPoint
to achieve the distinction grade.
Make sure you address spelling and grammar
Remember that this is going to presented as well so use the
notes to add information if this is helpful.
One other half of the lesson:
Load the footage of the couple meeting into the music video.
Try to edit to the song.
Look at some of the tips on the blog and try to be
adventurous with this task. It is about refreshing you on the editing software
and giving you some practical experience to think about the editing of your examples
in your PowerPoint.
Editing Links
Some of the links below give an overview of the editing for music video. There are lots of links on the internet so please do look through and if you find some please comment on this post and add or send me the link and I will upload it.
Adobe specific editing but some useful ideas (there is use of bad language though)
Some music video editing terms explained
Creative Cow thread - some good ideas for planning and editing in there
Some good tips about structure and style
Adobe specific editing but some useful ideas (there is use of bad language though)
Some music video editing terms explained
Creative Cow thread - some good ideas for planning and editing in there
Some good tips about structure and style
Friday, 23 September 2016
Friday 23rd of September
Techniques
of music video – come back to the summer project.
Objectives
Refresh
and how this links with the techniques used to consider when making a music
video.
What
are the technical elements which impact on an art music video / performance / narrative?
Pick
a song and begin to create a storyboard. Make sure you understand the purpose,
style and convention of that music video.
Thursday, 22 September 2016
Week three aims and links
Aim
Style and conventions of music video
Objectives
Refresh on referencing from last lesson.
Discuss the importance of referencing in text. Practice this type of
referencing.
Discuss the terms style and convention. Make a note of the
definitions.
Discuss some examples where style and convention are important in music
video.
Add examples from your own experience which links to the areas of style
and convention discussed. How do those you have already discussed in purposes
fit with these?
Please make sure spelling and grammar is considered while making notes
and writing your ppt.
Style refers to the types of music video available.
Styles: popular music genres;
in-concert and ‘as live’ footage;
Bruces Springstein
animation (stop motion, digital);
interpretative;
Running up that Hill Katie
narrative;
Weezer
impressionist;
Gotye somebody I used to know
surrealist;
Rihanna Disrurbia
pastiche;
Man I feel like a woman
parody;
Real Al Yankovitch
Hybrids – 3000 Busted
Nick Cave
Conventions:
lyric interpretation – listening to the song and
creating a music video fits with the lyrics. Blurry
extending or consolidating song’s meaning – this
could also be the tone of the song. Wall street music video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w211KOQ5BMI
allusion; Beautiful
/ Do they
know its Christmas
links to other artists – Stan / Beyonce
D1 and D2: a fuller and more extensive explanation,
better application of examples, and provision of argument to support points
made, plus the higher quality expression, will discriminate between this grade
and the merit. Learners will justify points made using supporting arguments or
evidence, develop ideas critically (that is, compare, assess and discriminate)
and draw out of an example precisely what it is about it that exemplifies the
point it illustrates. For example, a learner might note, ‘One of the greatest
advantages of music videos is that they enable the performer to be seen on TV
when they are not actually performing. Obviously you can’t play music on TV
without anything happening on the screen so the video was developed to give
viewers something to watch whilst listening to the song. This extends the
playability of the track considerably.
Sometimes
the video goes a stage further and becomes a cult item in its own right. It’s
more than likely that Robert Palmer’s song Addicted to Love would be forgotten
by now, were it not for the video. From their very beginning, there has always
been a tendency for music videos to try to grab our attention with their use of
high-tech effects. Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody looks dated now but its use of
split screens, strobes, and multiple and overlaid images was seen as
groundbreaking at the time. Very simple ideas can work just as well, though.
Addicted to Love used one set, five people and was shot in an afternoon, but it
still works because the basic idea is so striking.’ Technical vocabulary will
be secure and used correctly and confidently at all times.
Friday, 16 September 2016
Thursday, 15 September 2016
Aim
Music Video Terms
To give an overview of the terminology of
purposes.
Objectives
Make a list of subject terms and their meaning.
Reflect back on the purposes of music videos - use the homework to help you.
Start to build your presentation slides with
your own examples using the terminology discussed. You want to build slides in
Powerpoint or Prezi about the purposes of music video. Remember to use examples from your own experience.
[Some people still need to send me their reflection on the music video from the summer]
One to one with tutor to discuss ideas.
Please make sure spelling and grammar is
considered while making notes and writing your ppt.
Music Video Terms
Thursday, 8 September 2016
Thursday 8th September
Aim
To re-introduce music video and start to look at the purposes of music
video production.
Objectives
Tell me about the music videos you made last year – what were the
technical issues you came up against? dcreed@centralsussex.ac.uk
Overview of the unit structure and the next few weeks.
List the purposes of music videos.
In small groups see if you can come up with some examples which
illustrate the purpose.
Analyse and discuss these and other examples.
Individually complete a grid on the purpose of music video using your
own experience or those discussed in class.
Understand/justify why is it important to understand the purpose of
music videos?
Please be mindful of spelling and Grammar in the notes you are making as
this will help when coming to complete your assignment.
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