Practice Task 4

music video research

we found love- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg00YEETFzg

• representation of artist
• artist is singing
• representation of target audience
• narrative message
• hand held camera

Titanium-  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-D7--_o4eQ

• narrative
• no performance/artist
• linear but compressing time
• slow motion
• stereotypes- it doesn't have time to create a character

weapon of choice- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEyY6LEUWUw

• Actor dancing in an empty hotel
• performance- not by artist
• linear

Hey Brother- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cp6mKbRTQY

• non-linear
• actors portraying narrative
• flashbacks

Weapon of choice- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCDIYvFmgW8

• actor dances around an empty hotel to the music.

Faded- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ItHLz5WEA

• man in hood (hidden identity)
• wanders round abandoned town

Closer- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT2_F-1esPk

• actors portraying narrative
• lyrics shown
• high production cost
• location- mostly the beach

I've picked a song to use for my music video: 'Faded'

Teachers Comments

You have a really good range of photos here. You have clearly given plenty of focus to the task and I hope that you found it useful in terms of coming to understand the way that the camera works. I'm particularly impressed by your use of studio lighting, which seems to be an obvious strength. In your next task, which is a mock assessment on music magazines and website, really focus on the layout, design and use of fonts. In addition, when you find a particularly effective combination of iris, iso and shutter speed, make a note of the settings for use when you undertake your full production. A good start. on Practice Tasks 2 Thank you for getting your magazine up onto the blog. I appreciate that it is quite the learning curve at times and it can be quite daunting. Stick with it and you will find the programs become gradually easier to use. Your research and production are both sound, though your choice of fonts and attention to the little features like barcode will need more careful consideration as you progress. Those little elements really stand out when everything else is good. Give some time to working out how to embed your powerpoints. You have clearly done the work, but again, little steps like that make a big difference when it comes to presentation. A decent start. Well done. on Practice Tasks

Practice Tasks 3

Practice Tasks 2

Pictures taken 

Low Key Lighting

High Key Lighting

Side Lighting

underexposed

overexposed

shallow depth of field

shallow depth of field (2 people)

Deep Focus

Deep focus (4 people)

Action shot

Magazine cover

Magazine cover (2 people)

Long Exposure (2 people)

A copied image- the image we created is a lot darker than the picture that we copied. We could have increased the exposure or lit it more. We copied the picture on the right because we like the framing.

Practice Tasks

Magazine Covers

Headline: same colour and font. Big letters dominates the screen drawing the attention of reader to the brand of the magazine.
Strap line: reinforcing the topic of magazine.
Neither of the magazine covers had a bar code this could be because it is on the back of the magazine so it wasn’t in the way. The one one the right has the price written (£3.99) in a small font on the left hand side under the headline. Just above the price is the month the magazine was published, in the same font.
Both magazine covers have the number of pages in a big

font. Colour scheme: the magazines all consist of the colours red and white. Red is a very eye catching colour used to draw the attention of shoppers to the magazine on the shelf.

Codes and Conventions of a magazine cover research link:
https://www.slideshare.net/liam-lim-horgan/codes-and-conventions-of-a-magazine-front-cover-11085506



My Magazine cover design

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