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Preliminary Exercise Planning

1) State the song you have chosen for your preliminary exercise. Vandalize - ONE OK ROCK 2) Choose at least three music videos similar to your concept and watch a clip or more from each. Make bullet-point notes on everything you watch, commenting on camerawork, editing and mise-en-scene. Video 1 - Setting; desert, quite gloomy - Costumes; people covered in blue and red -  Mysterious atmosphere - Shots and video feel quite sombre and not extremely fast paced Video 2 - Lots of close-up shots of singers - Fast paced editing - Cuts to computer animated scenes - Occasionally cuts to Sonic and the Starfall Islands - Atmosphere and/or vibe is very solemn Video 3 - Narrative set throughout the video - Costumes, lighting and effects reminiscent of the 1980's - nostalgic to audiences - Setting is unknown, not in the middle of civilization - Editing is seamless 3) Write a short music video treatment for your extract (this is basically a script for your TikTok music video). You can find an exa...

Ignite LR

1) Type up your feedback in full including the ratings out of five for each of the categories.  WWW: good delivery: - intro, use of questions, emotion/expression good slides: - design, images/graphs used excellent concepts: - link to conventions - great sense of language very well structured: - sections changing audience: - audience research links to changes in media landscape: - foreign music audience/representation: - photographs; links to narrative - excellent conclusion EBI: - pacing and time management Total score: 28/30 2) Use this feedback, comments from peers and your own reflection on your presentation to self-assess and write your own detailed WWW and EBI for your coursework concept and presentation as a whole. Learning from my LR and the whole class feedback, in general my slides and concept were pretty good along with my sense of language and representation, but what truly was lacking was my pacing and how I didn't get to finish most of the time. The research and presen...

Summer Project: Coursework Planning

Research VIDEOS: Narrative Camerawork Mise-en-scene Editing Music video conventions Product placement Narrative The video itself is a compilation of shots from the artist’s previous shows and appearances. The shots and videos progressively get older and older, showing the progression of time as the video progresses. It shows the artist’s rise in popularity in reverse; first showing his success, and lastly showing how he got there in the first place - his origin as a YouTuber. A narrative is then formed in the video; a narrative of success and fame, rags to riches if you will. The caption, “12 years in the making” reinforces this as well - the simple fact that this artist started out from nothing, but kept up his dream and slowly but surely built up his popularity over the span of 12 years, eventually getting to where he is now. Applying equilibrium theory in reverse, new equilibrium is established at the start, disequilibrium is established during his rise and initial equilibrium is es...