Analysing Music Videos

For the MS1 Analysis Section, you could get one or several music videos to analyse.

Read your notes on Music Videos, then have a go at analysing the following video: Generator by The Holloways. Focus on analysing the visual, technical and narrative codes:




Optional Extension Task:

If you want to explore music videos further, here are a few more you could view to compare how they use visual, technical and narrative codes:

Analysis: Video Games

TOMB RAIDER TRAILER FOR ANALYSIS:





If you want to do the optional homework essay, here is the title. the work should be handwritten and take 35 minute to plan and write. You can, of course, revise the topic first!

Using your own detailed examples, explore the representation of  regional identity in the media today.



OTHER VIDEO CLIPS TO EXPLORE CONVENTIONS OF GENRE FURTHER:

Trailer Analysis: Skyfall Trailer

Here is the clip for analysis - a recap of the task can be found on p 103  of the yellow booklet:

Genre PP

2012 genre from ddoggart

Here is the PP on genre that we are using in class:

Mise-en-Scene Examples

Describe the Mise-en-Scene in the images below and analyse the image it helps to build up. Consider all angles: setting; costume, colour, character movement/ placement; lighting.

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Homework Task for 28th September: Analysis

The task and materials for your homework are included on the PowerPoint below. The finished work should be either handwritten or word-processed and be written in continuous prose (no sub-headings or bullet points!). You can print off a copy of the poster if you want, by downloading the PP, using the buttons at the bottom of the PP (3rd button along?). You do not need to hand in the grids you have used to make notes.

Film poster analysis homework from ddoggart

Welcome

Hello and welcome to my AS Media Blog!

We hope you enjoy the Media Studies course and do well at it. This blog is part of our strategy to help you get the most out of the course.

How?

Well, important information for your group will be recorded here - I hope to put a weekly summary of what we have covered in class and each week's homework tasks in a new post. This way you can check you are up to date. If you are absent, you can check what you need to catch up on. No one has an excuse that they don't know what the homework is!

I will also add additional notes and material relevant to what we are doing and add important notices/ dates etc. as the year progresses.

There are also links to the right of the blog to the other central blogs for AS Media. These have copies of a lot of our Power Points and handouts - most will also be in your booklets, but here are live versions!

So, it is part of your responsibility to check this blog several times a week - it is your job to be up to date, not ours!

A few other starting notices. You need to be PFL - Prepared For Learning every lesson you have with us. This means:

• Have bought your packs for the year and have brought the relevant ones to class
• Have paper and a pen
• Have a positive attitude to learning and a willingness to participate in class
• Have your homework diary to hand to record all homework/ follow-up tasks

Do all this and you will get the most out of this course!