Section A revision task

Task 1: List 10 stories/debates/examples that you could use for the Identities and the Media question. 

E.g. fourth wave of feminism (#everydaysexism); gender identity issues (e.g. Caitlyn Jenner; Chelsea Manning, North Carolina LGBT law etc.) If you’re not confident enough to use all 10 in an exam situation then research, revise and create notes/revision cards until your knowledge is sufficient.

Task 2: List 10 stories/debates/examples that you could use for the New/Digital Media question.

Here, there’s no question you’ll have enough examples (your two NDM case studies are perfectly acceptable here) so it’s more about quality. Choose your 10 strongest examples to prepare for exam use – e.g. Citizen journalism and the #blacklivesmatter campaign against US police brutality; social media impact on TV news and newspapers (e.g. Paris attacks); streaming services and changes in the music industry (Tidal Twitter promotion) etc. Again, if you’re not confident enough to use all 10 in an exam situation then research, revise and create notes/revision cards until your knowledge is sufficient.

If you complete all 10 on your blog, create revision cards for each example with the key details, statistics and quotes. 

critical investigation LR

36=B

WWW-

1.  passion and engagement 

EBI-

1. Written English is one factor keeping you out of the top level: some spelling/grammer but more organisation. you need clear topic sentences that show where the essay is going.
2. another factor keeping it out of the level 4 is the lack of academic research (books and journals). you have 30 footnotes but how many from books or journals?
3. check references: no page numbers. also, come of the bibliography is in the incorrect format.
4. another aspect holding this back is the lack of media theory. where is the feminist theory? what about using Mc Robbie  to explore an alternative to you main argument- that women can use their sexuality to empower themselves.
5. id like more reference to primary text...you barely mention it after the second page of so.

Linked production: Research and planning

With your preliminary exercise completed, we now need to turn our attention to the actual Linked Production. Your initial task is to complete the research and planning for your production. Work through the following:

1) Confirm your production brief. You write this yourself but it's absolutely crucial this is clear, appropriate and achievable. You should have done this already - the original blogpost was here - but it may have changed as a result of your preliminary exercise.

2) Research: notes on at least THREE similar texts to the one you are creating. What are the key conventions? What can you learn/borrow from the examples you have looked at?

Song:

Rihanna- pour it up
Beyonce- feeling my self 
Krept Conan- freek of the week

LETHAL BIZZLE- FESTA REMIX feat: STORMZY, CHIP 

video:

GEKO-its alright (performance)

Alessia Cara - Here (setting)

¨Promotes a single and, normally, an album

¨ Promotes the  artist or band

¨ Creates, adapts or feeds into a ‘star image’

¨ Entertains the audience

¨ Sets the ‘meanings’ of a song  by the use of images

¨Performance

¨ Narrative

¨ Thematic

¨ Symbolic

Often contain shots of the artists performing

Can be a live stage performance, with shots of artists and audience

Can be the artists in “real life” situations eg warming up, talking, fooling around

Often includes lots of close ups of the artist and there can be particular visual style that goes with the artist (a motif) eg particular clothing, actions, props, type of images.

Often the artist can appear to perform in an unusual place - all lip-synched  eg a field, a rooftop 

nVisually stylish – ‘artistic’ mise-en-scene

n Cutting related to the rhythm of the music

n Intercutting between performance and images or story

n Experimental use of camera/editing (hand held camera, distortion of colours)

n Often break the rules of continuity editing.  Can use lots of jump cuts

nLots of use of digital effects

What is the theme or aim of my music video? representation of young women on a night out

Who will this appeal to? teenagers who listen to RNB and hiphop, (16-24)

How can I make it appeal to this group? the type of music in the background, take shots of things that happen at an all girls house party for teenagers, ie drinks, cars, dancing, socialising, 

What do the music/rhythms/genre suggest? the song is upbeat and so generates a fun party environment

How can I link music/lyrics/images? make the pace of the music correlate with the performance,  lip sync 

3) Project schedule: when will you film and edit this production?
During the holidays or maybe during the week before. Should have filmed by the end of the holidays.

4) Script - see the BBC Writers' Room for advice/script formatting. If you're making a music video, you'll want to write a treatment instead. This is an example treatment that I provided for GCSE Media students studying this topic.

treatment:

scene 1: Car scene, shot from out side car coming in, 

girls in the car applying make up, confidently dancing, laughing, 

Then they come out of the car, one by one in a very assertive and stylish way. and walk into house

(slow and then suddenly fast pace)

Scene 2: In the house, in the living room, messing about dancing and lip syncing the song, drinks in hand and laughing. zooming in the bodies, zooming in the props, clothing ect. low angle shots of individuals 

Scene 3: in the kitchen 

Scene 4: on stairs 

5) Storyboard - 

6) Shot list - use Microsoft Word or a template like this to help you.

7) Mise-en-scene: casting details, location scouting with photographs, props, costume and make-up, lighting.

Clothing: revealing/tight clothing , 
props: party make up done,
Lighting: high key lighting, or normal house lighting to set atmosphere and setting.
Location: in the house different areas of the house, in the car 
people: Ashmita, Sophia, Dhruvina, Sarease, Charlotte, Shad, Harsimrat, Rabia

Pliminary- shot list/s story board

Time of shot in the video	Seconds of shot	What happening in the shot	image
00:15 to 00:16	2	Medium shot of below knees, walking towards station (tracking shot)
00:17 to 00:18	2	Shot of board of taxi waiting area
00:19 to 00:20	2	Again shot below knees (tracking shot)
00:21 to 00:22	2	Shot of circular window with camera moving backwards
00:23 to 00:26 closer	3	Slowly moving in shot of knees (tracking shot)
00:26 to 00:27	1	Trains with lights going passed fast forwarded
00:27:28	2	Interrupted shot of departure board, train lights and legs
00:28 to 00:29	1	Boy rapping half face covered with hoodie
00:29 to 00:30	1	Tottenham hale station icon and departure board (low angle)
00:30 to 00:31	1	Him rapping moving head back and forth also the shot is a pan
00:31	1	Tracking shot, of him walking into the station, random shot of lights in for split sec thn a carry on of the shot of him walking
00:32 to 00:34	2	00:32Shot from back 00:34 leaning against pole left and right shots of him rapping, holding hoodie
00:35	1	Walking against a white wall, from the back
00:35 to 00:37	2	Walking into the underground panning shot from left and right
00:38	1	Chip rapping with hands to face and index finger and thumb out In the same shot backward panning of the oyster tapping area.
00:39	1	Backward panning shot of the buggy and disabled sign Establish the setting
00:40	1	Tracking shot of Man walking towards the oyster machine
00:41	1	Pan from right to left of the information board
00:42		Backing away (zooming out) shot of the disabled and buggy sign on the gate
00:43	1	Panning shot from right to left of the CCTV notice
00:44	1	Moving right hand towards the machine

MEST4 Preliminary exercise: evaluation

1) Why did you choose this particular recreation and how does it link to your main production?

2) What difficulties did you face in producing this recreation? 

It was difficult to try and figure out where the camera man/woman was stood when taking the shot

3) What are the strengths of the production?

I was able to predict quite accurately how the shot was taken and, the location was the exact same, so I could get the correct shots without having to improvise with the shots

4) What aspects would you look to improve?

not asking the train station people whether i could film because the first time i went to record they didn't stop me until i kindly asked for permission -.- joke. Next time i have to remember to actually save my work onto a document before passing the camera onto the next user, so I dont have to record it for a second time. 

5) What lessons will you take from this process that will help you with your main production?

try to film in a place where i would have to ask permission to film and back up my clips 

6) Now that you are ready to start your actual linked production, explain clearly what you will be creating and how confident you are in delivering this.

im quite confident with creating my own music video because i wont have to recreate anyone else work and am free to be creative. 

Because im making a music video on the representation of women I am wither going to subvert or reinforce dominant stereotypes of women in RnB music videos.

Once you have presented your work in class, you need to make sure the production is posted 

linked production brief and preliminary exercise

Writing your own Linked Production brief

Your Critical Investigation topic: representation of women


Your Linked Production brief: music video


Length/size of production: approximately 3 minutes


Give an example of an existing media text this is similar to what you plan to produce: 

• Lady Leshurr- Queens Speech 
• Saleena Gomez- Good for you
• Geko- Its alright

Give an example of an institution that would produce or distribute your planned production: sbtv/ Link up TV or Youtube 


How would your production reach its audience?

 through YouTube and Facebook 


Who do you plan to work with on this project? 

just me and a couple of external friends from the school



Preliminary exercise: Recreation task


Name of the text you plan to recreate:

Chip - Bookey [Music Video] | GRM Daily

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibqG64BVrIg

Scene/section you will recreate: 00:15 - 00:45


Location you will use for your recreation: 

tottenham station/north acton station/ southall and northolt station too


Actors you will require for your recreation:

one boy

Props/costumes you will require for your recreation:
hoodie/air max 90's/ balck jeans 
Equipment you plan to use:

camera 

tripod

lens

Any other relevant information: