Task 1
‘In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?’
What to do:
- A collage of nine images from three professional music videos of the same genre (to include your own performer if possible) + brief explanation of how that example is conventional compared with nine images from your own video: comparing it with the conventional features identified from the professional texts.
- Images should illustrate the convention of the genre and the form (technical conventions) i.e. urban feel, breaking the 4th wall, close up on performance, generically typical themes, expressionist visual style…
- A comparative collage of print materials (DP and Advert); using call outs (text boxes & arrows) identifying conventional design and generic features and including an explanation on how these features were used (or not) in your own texts.
Help
Video Collages
In your collage of conventions and forms from music videos. You could consider some of the following conventional features to use in your analysis of the professional texts and then your own:
- images that shows a link between themes in the music and how they are amplified / illustrated in the visuals
- images that represent a generically (un)conventional star image
- images that represent your artist as ordinary / extraordinary
- images that demonstrates conventional use of camera
- images that demonstrates conventional use of lighting / colour
- images that demonstrates generic mise-en-scene
- images that show an (un)conventional use of narrative
- images that show you’ve drawn inspiration from other music videos & media texts
- (words in bold italics could form some of your sub headings for analysis and comments)
- FORMS – those technical conventions of lip syncing, editing to the beat, repeatability, narrative/performance ratio/ type of narrative
Number the images in the collage and then beneath or between write a brief (1-2 sentences) comment explaining what the conventional features are:
You should use at least three professional videos to draw examples from:
This is one layout with a separate commentary but is more complicated to navigate.
This layout is easier for the examiner to read.
TASK 2
Re-do your audience research from earlier this term using a Survey Monkey tool.
Use this blog page as a guide for what's required in terms of how you'll lay this out.
