Lip Synching and Emailing Record Company

This week's tasks:
 
1. Evaluate audience feedback from your treatment pitch: create separate label called 'Audience 'Feedback'. Evaluate: what changes will you make in light of the feedback?

2. Contact the music producers for your song: write an email asking permission to use their song, print screen and upload onto your blog

•Dear…

•My name is…

•I am studying… (explain the course)

•Explain what this project involves

•Request to use their song

•You have no intent to sell your video

•Assure won’t be copyright issues as it will solely be used for an educational purpose

•please contact if any concerns at above email address

 
3. Lip-synch Practise. Take a camera and film all group members lip synching your song. Upload onto your blog&edit. Take a behind the scene photo of yourselves.
 
THE IMPORTANT BIT: evaluate what you have learned about lip synching from the practise. What will you do / not do when filming for real?

 

Song Choices and Mood Board

Homework Tasks to complete by Friday 18th September

1) Complete your rollover genre research task

2) Decide on your song choice for your video

3) Upload the lyrics to at least two different song choices.

4) Evaluate the song choices - ie comment on why you think songs will be good choices and why you’re discarding ideas.Write about WHY you have chosen your song (make links to Andrew Goodwin's theory eg more symbolism from the lyrics, better visual ideas)

5) Upload a mood board for your song and make comments on ideas: colours, representation/symbolism etc.

6) Print off the lyrics to your song and annotating with ideas for narratives / performance.

How to make a MOOD BOARD

•Use PRIMARY and SECONDARY images of locations

•Use KEY WORDS in your comments: mise-en-scene, atmosphere, settings of music videos, links between visuals and lyrics, representation, genre, audience etc...

•Costume, Fashion, Props, Instruments

•Themes

•Symbols and connotations

•Inspiration from other music videos`