Here is a playlist of some of the best music videos made by students from The Sixth Form. They are an example of what is possible and moreover – what works:

Task:

Here are the assessment criteria.

Independent Study Tasks

• Embed the video (not the whole playlist), copy the level ladder and evaluate your chosen video in terms of how it reaches (or doesn’t) level four.
• Address the following,  most important criteria and use sub-headings in your evaluation:
  • Appropriate to task (is a music video and what is conventional about it),
  • Variety of shot distances,
  • Mise-en-scene selection (for star image and character representation) and
  • Editing for meaning (narrative sense and conveying of genre).
• Remember to EVALUATE the success of the video with reference to  the assessment criteria with SPECIFIC EXAMPLES from the video  and use  TECHNICAL TERMS.
• Remember to try and get in theoretical terms too (SIGNIFICANCE): ‘brand, break the 4th wall, genre,  code, star image, representation, narrative – almost like a mini textual analysis.

This is an interesting one from another centre.