Nice Opening Credits

http://www.spike.com/video/napoleon-opening/2974420

I am making a playlist of interesting and EASY credits on JOHNCASSMEDIA channel on youtube. Check them out - see if there's something good for your genre.

FOR MS WARRINGTON'S STUDENTS ONLY: homework questions

Ms Warrington's year 12 should post the answers to the following questions, worked on in the lesson, on their individual blogs.

1. The BBC is supposed to be impartial. Has it ever been accused of being biased (the opposite of impartial)? When and why? (Use the internet to research; check your sources carefully - is the website you are using BIASED itself?

2. Why do you think it is important for the BBC to be impartial? (Think about the way it is funded)

3. Do you think it is POSSIBLE for a media institution to be impartial? Why/why not?

4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of trying to be impartial, for a media institution?

5. What do you think could be the advantages and disadvantages for CONSUMERS of public service broadcasting (like the BBC) compared to consumers of commercial radio stations?

The BBC Radio Quiz

***MS WARRINGTON'S AND MS GEORGIOU'S CLASS ONLY***

Hi year 12 students,

This work is to be done by end of Thursday, 16th December:

Please find out about the history of the BBC as a media institution & how it has made use of technological change to reach its audiences. Answer the questions below in as much detail as you can, either on your blogs or in your exercise books, using this website (and any other sources you wish to find):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/innovation/index.shtml

1. Who invented radio and when?

2. When was the BBC formed?

3. What was the vision of the first general manager for the BBC's purpose - and what was his name?

4. What does it mean that the BBC is 'independent' or 'impartial' and why is this important?

5. In what decade was TV invented?

6. How did the BBC change during World War II?

7. What new radio stations started up on the BBC in the 1960s?

8. Why did the BBC quarrel with the government in the 1980s?

9. What major technological development saw the BBC change the way they broadcast radio in the 1990s?

10. How have the ways the BBC reaches it audiences developed since 2000? Give as many facts as you can.

12. How the arrival of digital broadcasting affect BBC radio (name some of the new stations that were created)?

If you missed the lesson, or you didn't fully understand it on first viewing, you should watch the technological convergence video again now.

Thanks, Ms Warrington

ALSO for Ms Warrington's class: ONLY 3 STUDENTS have attempted to put their radio station research work up on their blogs. Not only have I totally lost my voice, I'm now disappointed too :-( Please sort this out before I next see you. You know who you are. Your task was to write a detailed post on your blog about a station you listen to, covering all three sides of the media triangle: target audience - who listens to it, where &and why; institution/producer - who makes it and how they broadcast it incl. use of convergence; product - what it's like (website design, typical programmes, kinds of music/djs)** The star prize goes to Asad for the best research post so far.

Cover Year 13 Ms Georgiou Friday 10th Dec

Sorry I’m not in guys :(
Can you please make sure you use this time productively as the deadlines are drawing near!
As you had 5 hours on Wednesday and now an hour today, I am expecting all ancillary tasks to be in by Monday. You should spend today’s lesson and after school if necessary in ILC completing these. Everyone must have a print task they can out their name to, so if your in a group of four I’m expecting two digi packs and two mag ad rough drafts- one each etc. In addition to this you should then create collective final pieces- which you have all had an input into. This is the best way to make sure you show a process in the creation of these print tasks- the journey and also will show how you collated your ideas as a group.
So by Monday
1. Research into real products from your chosen genre
2. Simple sketches of your designs/ examples of your ideas on paper
3. Rough designs which you did on Wednesday, playing around with images and photshop
3. Final print pieces which carry the style of your music video and link to each other.
(As always, make sure all designs and ideas have been influenced by your research. So you can say- this is what I have seen and therefore this is what we did!)

Music Video Planning and Research Checklist
- Research/ Examples of music videos: Post examples that you have taken inspiration from and comment on the ideas which you would like to use, eg, 'we noticed in this video and others of this genre there is the convention of an urban street setting, therefore we will aim to choose a similar setting so as to meet the expectations of the target audience for hip hop music'
It could be the props, the transitions, the editing pace, the use of costume - you are researching them to gain some idea of what the audience expect so make sure you use these expectations in your product.
Planning:
1. Song choice and lyrics
2. Rough brainstorm of initial ideas
3. Your idea- your narrative (if you have one)- at this point GET AUDIENCE FEEDBACK
4. Cast list- preferably with photos so you can explain the image you have chosen and how it fits with your song
5. Props and Costume lists- again with pictures
6. Recce photos- locations you have chosen.
7. Storyboard- remember this is twice as long as your film opening and will have at least four times as many cuts because of the pace. You need a detailed guide in order to ensure you film enough to fill the song. (Think back to the Britney swede where the whole class storyboarded only the first 30 sec of the song!)- at this point GET AUDIENCE FEEDBACK
LINK ALL YOUR PLANNING IDEAS BACK TO YOUR RESERACH AND YOUR AUDIENCE FEEDBACK. Show that the decisions you are making are based around how much you know about what that audience want and the expectations from successful music videos.

- Examples of cd covers and magazine adverts. The mag ads are slighty harder to come by online and we may need to buy in some music mags but cd digipack anaylsis should be done by now. Post a few examples of real digipacks- again say what ideas you like, recognise what the creater has done, eg, star construction/ portatying a particular image through codes and signs.

Planning: Then post a sketch of your idea- based on the research you have done. Your research must inform your ideas or it is pointless!!!! The sketch does not have to be wonderful- its the paper draft of your digipack. Maybe even do a few - at this point GET AUDIENCE FEEDBACK
Dont say 'all the cd covers for RnB artists we looked at had the artist looking into camera and in the centre', and then do yours differently!! Remember you are looking for ideas and inspirations as to what the audience is expectingand how insititions sell their product.

GOODLUCK

Next we are ready for the real work- filming, refilming, re-shooting, re-storyboarding due to cast problems/ weather problems/ crew problems and continuity issues, filming again, editing, editing , editing and really creative evaluations. :)

Oh yeah, before you film you need to do a risk assessment. :)

original genre research