Thursday 22 September 2016

Chosen Genre

My chosen genre for my music video is Pop, the reason i have chosen pop as the genre is because the style and ideas i have for the music video itself goes well with the majority of pop songs. As i researched into songs and genres i found that the most songs i had picked were in the genre of Pop, however i did look into other genres like R&B, Acoustic and Dance.

Chosen Genre

My chosen genre for my music video is Pop, the reason i have chosen pop as the genre is because the style and ideas i have for the music video itself goes well with the majority of pop songs. As i researched into songs and genres i found that the most songs i had picked were in the genre of Pop, however i did look into other genres like R&B, Acoustic and Dance.

Audience Profile


We made a audience profile for our music artist that explains the characteristics of our audience, as see above we have explained who and what our audience members are like. For example the age of them, occupation , nationality, and interests. we have given a overall summary of what there like so you can understand who's going to be in our artists fan base.
 

Friday 16 September 2016

Genre Research


I began research on genre types and i found that are so many different genre types put there, however not all of them suit the style i like and want to do my music video on. Even though this diagram doesn't show a lot of development as my own personal spider diagram, it does show a basic knowledge of all the genres.

Out of all the genres i most preffer Pop, R&B, Dance and Rap. These are the genres i personally listen to therefore making me want to base my music video around these genres.











Thursday 15 September 2016

Unit Brief

When centres choose briefs to offer to candidates, they should be guided by their strengths in terms of resources and expertise. Centres should also bear in mind the key areas: forms and conventions, production contexts, the role of technologies, audiences/users and representations. 
The set briefs are as follows: 

Print 
Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program. 

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style). Maximum four members to a group. 
All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of FOUR images per candidate. 

Video 


Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule. 

Main task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes. 
All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source. Both preliminary and main tasks may be done individually or as a group. Maximum four members to a group. 

In all cases, candidates should be encouraged to see the evaluation as a creative task and the potential of the format chosen should be exploited through the use of images, audio, video and links to online resources. Marks should be supported by teacher comments and may be supported by other forms such as audio or video presentations.

In the evaluation the following seven questions must be addressed:

    • In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real 
      media products? 
    • How does your media product represent particular social groups? 
    • What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? 
    • Who would be the audience for your media product? 
    • How did you attract/address your audience? 
  • What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? 
  • Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from 
    it to the full product? 

    The production element and presentation of research and planning may be individual or group work (maximum group size is four candidates). Where candidates have worked in a group, the evidence for assessment may be presented collectively but centres will still assess candidates on an individual basis for their contribution to aspects of the work, from planning, research and production to evaluation. 

    G321 is marked and internally standardised by the centre and marks are submitted to OCR by a specified date, a sample is then selected for external moderation. The unit is marked out of a total of 100 marks: 20 marks for the presentation of the planning and research; 60 marks for the construction; 20 marks for the evaluation. 

Unit Brief

When centres choose briefs to offer to candidates, they should be guided by their strengths in terms of resources and expertise. Centres should also bear in mind the key areas: forms and conventions, production contexts, the role of technologies, audiences/users and representations. 
The set briefs are as follows: 

Print 
Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program. 

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style). Maximum four members to a group. 
All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of FOUR images per candidate. 

Video 


Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule. 

Main task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes. 
All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source. Both preliminary and main tasks may be done individually or as a group. Maximum four members to a group. 

In all cases, candidates should be encouraged to see the evaluation as a creative task and the potential of the format chosen should be exploited through the use of images, audio, video and links to online resources. Marks should be supported by teacher comments and may be supported by other forms such as audio or video presentations.

In the evaluation the following seven questions must be addressed:

    • In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real 
      media products? 
    • How does your media product represent particular social groups? 
    • What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? 
    • Who would be the audience for your media product? 
    • How did you attract/address your audience? 
  • What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? 
  • Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from 
    it to the full product? 

    The production element and presentation of research and planning may be individual or group work (maximum group size is four candidates). Where candidates have worked in a group, the evidence for assessment may be presented collectively but centres will still assess candidates on an individual basis for their contribution to aspects of the work, from planning, research and production to evaluation. 

    G321 is marked and internally standardised by the centre and marks are submitted to OCR by a specified date, a sample is then selected for external moderation. The unit is marked out of a total of 100 marks: 20 marks for the presentation of the planning and research; 60 marks for the construction; 20 marks for the evaluation. 

Tuesday 13 September 2016

Adorno and Horkheimer

Adorno and Horkheimer were two german theorists who created a book called the "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" (1944)