SEPTEMBER CHECK LIST

SEQUENCE OF WORK:  

• Research (investigation of genre codes and conventions)
• Planning (your own music video)
• Construction (filming, editing, audience feedback, revising your own music video
• Evaluation (4 Evaluation questions)

By the end of September, you should have completed Research and Planning. You must document these stages in detail and use a range of new technology.

Here is a checklist (in order) of what you are expected to provide under  Research 

1. RESEARCH: British Music Experience  (account of your study day; presentation of what you learned; evidence; photos; timeline of music video history). This will be a really BIG post, probably in sections. Need help remembering? Look at MediaKnowall HERE on popular music history
   
   
2. RESEARCH:STUDYING MUSIC VIDEOS SLIDESHARE or PREZI : what you learned from Andrew Goodwin (Dancing in the Distraction Factory) Guidance given on how to do this HERE on our blog as work set due in by Thursday 19 September
3. RESEARCH: DIRECTORS' LABEL Account + DVD cover pictures; you studied music video auteurs Mark Romanek ( Red Hot Chili Peppers Can't Stop; Nine Inch Nails Closer; Jay-Z 99 Problems); Chris Cunningham (Bjork All Is Full of Love;  Portishead Only You), Michel Gondry (Bjork Human Behaviour), Jonathan Glazer (Jamiroquai Virtual Insanity) and Spike Jonze( Fatboy Slim Praise You; Daft Punk Da Funk) 
4. RESEARCH: MUSIC TV CHANNELS
5. RESEARCH: STARDOM Richard Dyer Stars. Dyer proposes that: A star is an image not a real person that is constructed (as any other aspect of fiction is) out of a range of materials (eg advertising, magazines, films , music videos).Their image often contains a USP See:  Essential reading about STARS here 
   
6. RESEARCH: MORAL PANICS See this article on the BBFC's policy on music video
7. RESEARCH: TRENDS What has been really popular this summer?
8. PERMISSION: Write to the record label asking permission