Summer work is below
First - from the sheet
Task One – An Essay Question
You are to spend one hour on this
Explain the methods you used to attract your audience in your AS coursework.
- Think about and describe IN DEPTH the choices you made with regards to Camera, Editing, Mise-En-Scene, Sound
- Why you made these choices
- What your audiences wanted and how you did/did not give it to them
- Audience reaction?
Ext – try to include some of the theory from your institutions and audience work.
Task Two – Research and Understanding
Research and make notes on AT LEAST THREE MUSIC ARTISTS from DIFFERENT GENRES including MUSIC VIDEOS. Look at:
- How the band/artist is being REPRESENTED (e.g. In Madonna’s later videos she is represented as young, fit and desirable whereas 50 Cent will go for dangerous, violent and independent)
- What are the reasons behind choices in SET, COSTUME AND PROPS?
- What are the album cover designs and their significance (the designs, choices of CEMS etc)
- The image the artist is trying to put across.
- Concert Sets
- Newspaper stories
WorkTask 1
Select a genre of your choice and track the conventions of it - recognise the motifs, the CEMS, the structures, the narratives etc. Update your blog with a post on these genre conventions.
Task 2
Read your yellow pack - I will be referring to these through the lessons in year 13
Task 3
Start finding your songs
