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Preliminary exercise: Music video extract

  1) State the  song and genre  you have chosen for your music video. The song I haven chosen is "somebody's watching me" by artist Rockwell. The genre for this music video is pop/rock. 2) Choose at least  three  music videos similar to your song or concept and watch them several times. Make  bullet-point notes  on everything you watch, commenting on camerawork, editing and mise-en-scene. BLOW - You killed me on the moon The short-film aesthetic as the start of the music video (close-ups and extreme close up) The setting is based in a forest. Mise-en-scene (props and actors) two men and one female, subtle love triangle. The car is a Roosevelt sedan (Marmon) famously used in the 90s.  The synergy between the lyrics and the music video Medium shot of all three of the actors however throughout the video they're seen eight times shot together.  The scenery is used as 'pathetic fallacy' as the rain and fog connotes the darkness and heartbreak the man in the Hawaiia

'Ignite presentation learner response'

  1) Type up your feedback  in full  including the ratings out of five for each of the six categories. Research (through presentation and blog): 3 Music video concept: 4  Language and Terminology/theory: 3 Representation: 3 Audience and Industry: 3 Delivery: 3 Total: 19 WWW:   Good slides as in limited texts, audience (demographics and psychographics), clear ideas & narrative with great use of representations, Well use of theory Hall & masculinity, terminology used.  EBI:     Planning and preparations (timing was off), industry budget £1200 wasn't realistic and sponsorship was headphones.  2) Use this feedback, comments from peers and your own reflection on your presentation to  self-assess  and write a detailed  WWW  and  EBI  for your own coursework concept and presentation as a whole. From what my peers have stated and what my teacher has also stated a WWW for my presentation would be the limited texts that I had written and how I explained thoroughly my concept, the fa

Summer project tasks

  my media presentation for MV 1) Research: music video analysis  You need to write a  200-word close-textual analysis  of five (or more!) music videos in your chosen genre. For each music video, focus on a different aspect of media language, and embed each one on your blog: Music Video 1: Narrative How is narrative used in the music video and what impact does this have on the audience? Can you apply any narrative theories to the story in the music video? Bastille - Pompeii,  Narrative is used in this music  video as we are introduced to the protagonist  (which is the lead singer Dan Smith) as soon as the music   starts  at (0.06). The narrative portrayed by the artists reveals that   in this video states the conversation of two people after the Pompeii  volcano eruption. However, the narrative portrayed in the music video is about the protagonist searching around an abandoned city were he starts to see people with black eyes and is very confused with what is going on. The lyrics state