This site is quite useful for standard documents related to film making. Some of them may seem quite irrelevant for your film/video but it is a good piece of research and planning to show that you have got your performers to sign a contract etc...
http://dependentfilms.net/files.html
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Tuesday, 5 November 2013
OCR Music Video blogsites - check for research and planning examples
Have a look at the following links and check out the marks they received. These are from the very useful OCR Media Studies weebly site - make sure you have a look at each of them and the marks BUT also read the short comments explaining why they got that particular mark.
Examiner feedback - check Andy and Sam
Andy Dennis
SamP
important: by all means use ideas from these blogsites (methods of presentation/approaches to research and planning/ways of working/ways in which you may improve on this student's work...) but DO NOT copy these students' ideas. (a) It is plagiarism which is both unfair to the student and dishonest (b) As they are on OCR's official website it would be possibly the least effective bit of cheating possible!!
For your music research and planning, use your advanced portfolio checklists and if you come up with your own ideas and are not sure whether they are useful pieces of research and planning then check with myself or Mr Hudson.
Remember: All research and planning to be up on blogs by deadline 29th Nov (changed from earlier date of 22nd Nov)
Examiner feedback - check Andy and Sam
Andy Dennis
SamP
important: by all means use ideas from these blogsites (methods of presentation/approaches to research and planning/ways of working/ways in which you may improve on this student's work...) but DO NOT copy these students' ideas. (a) It is plagiarism which is both unfair to the student and dishonest (b) As they are on OCR's official website it would be possibly the least effective bit of cheating possible!!
For your music research and planning, use your advanced portfolio checklists and if you come up with your own ideas and are not sure whether they are useful pieces of research and planning then check with myself or Mr Hudson.
Remember: All research and planning to be up on blogs by deadline 29th Nov (changed from earlier date of 22nd Nov)
Examples of music videos from OCR
Below are some links for recent music videos and the marks they received. I don't have the commentary available for those but you have included the marks for L1/2/3/4 and the criteria for L4 below. Remember the main production piece is out of 40.
Music videos
Level One: 0-14
Level Two: 15-23
Level Three: 24-31
Level Four: 32-40
Level 4
The candidate is expected to demonstrate excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:
• shooting material appropriate to the task set; including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot sizes and close attention to mise en scene
• editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions, captions and other effects
• recording and editing sound with images appropriately.
Where a candidate has worked in a group, an excellent contribution to construction is evident.
important: by all means use ideas from these videos (presentation/shots/approaches to /ways of working/ways in which you may improve on this student's work...) but be critical too - look at the weaker ones and work out why they DID NOT hit the criteria.
Music videos
Level One: 0-14
Level Two: 15-23
Level Three: 24-31
Level Four: 32-40
Level 4
The candidate is expected to demonstrate excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:
• shooting material appropriate to the task set; including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot sizes and close attention to mise en scene
• editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions, captions and other effects
• recording and editing sound with images appropriately.
Where a candidate has worked in a group, an excellent contribution to construction is evident.
important: by all means use ideas from these videos (presentation/shots/approaches to /ways of working/ways in which you may improve on this student's work...) but be critical too - look at the weaker ones and work out why they DID NOT hit the criteria.
Sunday, 20 October 2013
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
http://musicians.about.com/od/musicindustrybasics/ss/makeavideo.htm
Thursday, 17 October 2013
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.'
Monday, 14 October 2013
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/
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/
Tuesday, 24 September 2013
Textual Analysis using YouTube
Remember you should complete at least 3 textual analyses of existing products: music videos or short films (Danny). There are a variety of ways of doing this but seeing as all of you are doing moving image based briefs then I would recommend annotating a YouTube video. This quick video tutorial shows how to do it: it's so easy I may well do one myself!
Using Youtube for textual analysis
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