Task

Finalise your draft 3 edit and then…

When your draft 3 is complete please turn your name on the spreadsheet green.

Feeding Back

Feedback on 2 different student’s music videos

1. Below is a sheet which lists who you should be sharing your Draft 3 with on YouTube.
2. Your peers should respond to the video in the comments section in YouTube, which you will then snip out and upload to your blog (below draft 3) as feedback.
3. Summarise and reflect on their feedback. When you are giving feedback make sure you use media terminology and provide constructive criticism and suggestions on how to improve the edit.
4. Make sure you review the videos that are shared with you, either directly or find them on the student blogs.

It is your responsibility to review their Draft 3 to enable them to move forward with draft 4.

Please use this link to edit the spread sheet. Turn the cell green on your name once you have given feedback. You may be in twice for a different video.

You must contact those listed to let them know it is on youtube and give them the link.

IF YOUR CANT ADD COMMENTS TO YOUR YOUTUBE ACCOUNT AS THERE ARE CHILDREN IN IT OR YOU LOOK LIKE A CHILD, THEN TAKE A SNIP TOOL OF SOME EMAILED FEEDBACK.

Creating Animates Lines in After Effects

Creating Animates Shapes in After Effects

KEY TERMS

Risk, danger, mise en scene, props, make up, setting, costume, lighting, acting, body language, gesture, facial expressions.

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TASK

Use the these documents and ensure you have ample detail on them to cover yourself and your actors for risk and also you are absolutely sure about props, make-up, costume, locations etc.

Take copies and put them in a shared Google Drive Folder

Production Meeting Agenda

Risk Assessment

KEY TERMS

Structure, coverage, chronology, conflict, disruption, resolution, equilibrium

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STORYBOARDS

These are examples of really detailed storyboards.  In the professional world you would be required to complete individual drawings for each and every shot.

TASK:

• Break the narrative into key scenes i.e. bedroom, park, dancing in flour, escape…
• Each separate scene becomes one A4 landscape drawing – stick people are fine.
• Each A4 sheet is annotated with specific shots and descriptions of angles, movement, framing that you want to take and ensure you have when you are shooting that scene. This will ensure you have coverage, a variety of shots and enough footage to be able to convey the narrative.

AN EXAMPLE:

KEY TERMS

Illustrative, disjunctive, amplified, anachronic, linear, episodic, thematic, binary oppositions (conflict), stock characters.

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Now that you are aware of the elements that help contribute towards a narrative in terms of structure, characters and key themes, you will need to outline your own ideas.

The more detail you can add at this stage the better as then you will be able to complete a storyboard much more easily.

TASK

Take a copy of this document and complete it as a group.

You will have developed a simple narrative structure to your video in three parts:

1. The Beginning – How do you establish the story / theme in the video/ characters?
2. The Middle – What is the development of the story or the conflict within the theme?
3. The End – How does the theme/story resolve or does it? What end message do you wish to communicate?

Shaping the narrative in your music video.

Even if your video is thematically based (images and ideas about jealousy for example or entrapment or starting over)  you should consider it as a narrative. This means, however abstract and thematic your video might be, you should show narrative development and characters progression.

‘TERMTASTIC’

Narrative Structure, characters, binary opposition, theme,

Remember the broad ways in which the narrative of a music video can be described…

• Illustrative? – give examples
• Disjunctive? – give examples
• Amplified? – give examples

Task 1

In pairs, retell a classic fairy tale to your group.  Once upon a time…..all the way, to they all lived happily ever after. Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood etc

• Linear?
• Beginning, middle and an end or…
• EQUILIBRIUM, DISRUPTION, RESOLUTION AND NEW EQUILIBRIUM
• Example in a music video?

Task 2

Now identify the key moments that might relate to the key terms above for the classic narrative structure.

Task 3

What about the following terms too:

• Anachronic? (flashbacks, flash-forwards, out of sequence)
  • Examples of student work?
• Episodic? (Short self contained scenes usually thematically linked)
  • Example of music video?
• Parallel? (Cross cutting between two scenes that meet at the climax)
  • Example of music video?
• Linear – runs in chronological order
  • Example

TASK 4

Drama is conflict (the resolution often reveals the theme)

What are the binary oppositions/conflicts in your fairy tale:

• Love v Hate?
• Rich v Poor?
• Greed v Generosity
• Old v young
• Innocence v corruption

TASK 5

What narrative function do the character have?

• Who is the villain?
• Who is the victim?
• Who is the hero?
• Who is the donor?
• Who is the adviser?

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Remember: music video narratives are rarely complete as this does not encourage an audience to revisit it as there is no need to – everything has been said.

Music video narratives are often thematic and have episodic and anachronic elements to make the narrative more challenging and therefore likely to be ‘watched again and again’.

You should use these key terms as part of your reflections on narrative – pay particular attention when outlining your narrative story-line in the next post.

You must use proper file and folder management during any project.

Please follow the instructions below for setting up your project folder on the Media / Film computers.

Some of the file types may vary, so if your doing a print project the edits will be Photoshop or Indesign Files instead of Premiere Files. Equally your drafts will be PDFs and Jpegs rather than video files.