Guide to making a music video

Here is a useful website about music video making. It may be worth reading this, summarising the main points (and acknowledging the source of course...) and then having a meeting with your group (record it or video it rather than loads of writing) where you can discuss some of the decisions / issues it throws up!

http://musicians.about.com/od/musicindustrybasics/ss/makeavideo.htm

Useful guide to music video directors

The article below is very useful for research into famous music video directors. I suggest looking at their work, how it got noticed, whether there are repeated stylistic devices or techniques and whether or not you may use some of these techniques in your video. This is also useful for the evaluation eg: We have taken some influence from Spike Jonze's music video style as we have incorporated various references to popular culture into our video.'

http://www.metacritic.com/feature/music-video-directors-turned-film-directors

Top marks for research and planning!

Please see the attached blogsite for an example of a candidate that got top marks for research and planning. The level of detail is impressive but also the links to audience/genre theory and knowledge of the music industry and how it works.
Please note:
(a) It is for your reference and to help you with ideas for research as well as the portfolio checklist. Also her range of presentational techniqes was impressive although I would like to see more video/audio based research (recorded focus groups/more interactive presentations).
(b) Do not COPY her work as that is plagiarism - plus I marked it so it wouldn't be the smartest piece of plagiarism in the world!
http://amypiercea2media.blogspot.co.uk/