ASSIGNMENT 1a and 1b

We are nearing the early completion deadline for your first coursework and Thursday's lesson will be dedicated to tidying these up.

Please ensure that you have EVERYTHING you need with you and be prepared to submit your work at the end of the double period.

I will provide you with individual support through the lesson but it is ESSENTIAL that you finish.

NEXT WEEK we will begin the formal teaching for the second assignment and you will also consider how you are going to approach assignment 3 - your Moving Image assignment.

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STORYBOARD

For your Homestudy you need to have

• made your choice of music track
• drawn, source photos, written ideas for storyboard
• indentified the main conventions of the genre of music and written in brief about what you have done.

Spend 45 minutes maximum on it this week. We will hope to complete this in lessons this coming week and for Homestudy.

Also, you will need to do the second draft of your Assignment 1a.

The deadline for both of these is in your GCSE support pack along with other helpful details.

Good luck.

Mr H

ASSIGNMENT 1a

Well done Ladies. Excellent progression with your assignments. The next stage will be to consider part b - the song you are going to 'storyboard'.

With the knowledge you now have about music video construction and appeal to a specific audience, this should be easier. My tip is to let you imagination run riot for a while and enjoy the creative freedom with pen / pencil / paint / paper. This represents 5 marks and should be a fun thing to do.

See you Thursday.

Mr H.

Assignment 1

For Tuesday

Drafting of Assignment 1.

Batool - to include notes from Thursday and redraft.
Georgia - to type up draft and begin refining.
Meena - refining draft and editing
Hodo - either re-fining draft OR new video and first analysis
Hamda - first draft analysis
Thulani - refining draft and editing
Cloe - first draft

Please submit these by email at the latest 8am Tueday.

Thanks

Mr H

Homestudy for GCSE

Here is the link to a useful site for research which I didn't get the chance to show you. You can login and explore.

UKTRIBES

The password is: consumer

Excellent to help identify audience.

Please email your work to me at:

tholloway@brentford.hounslow.sch.uk

ASSIGNMENT 1

Home-study task

Continue research and complete draft analysis in detailed note form to be typed and emailed to me with a link to the video you have chosen.

Include selected evidence: quotations, reviews, stills form video etc. in draft

Deadline: Next Thursday

TIPS

Review the information underneath which gives you details of how you could approach your analysis.

• applying media terminology: shot sizes, camera movements, mise on scene, lighting, editing, SFX, etc. etc.
• considering the effect of media language: how they impact on the way the video is seen, how they add to detract from the music, how they reflect current or past cinematic styles etc.
• applying analytical techniques such as denotation and connotation: what is shown and our interpretation of what we see.
• identifying how genre is established: is genre analysis relevant to your chosen music video?
• discussing how narrative is suggested or not?
• representations: Does the music video offer particular representations of gender, age, race, colour or creed?
• making judgements about who the target audience might be:
• Things that you might comment on:
• Locations
• Use of signs or signifiers
• Colour
• Choice of camera positions
• presence (or lack of) of the band itself

Assesment Criteria

• Level 6 9–10 marks
• Candidates produce convincing and effective analyses of media texts.
• Media terminology is used extensively and effectively.
• The consumption of texts by particular audiences is discussed in detail.
• Responses are cogent and well structured with precise and accurate use of language and arguments clearly supported by evidence.