Blog Check for November

Blog check: 1st November
These should all be on all your blogs, not just on the blog of one group member. You might have other posts too – don’t take things off your blog just because they aren’t on this list.
Please title your posts very clearly. To rearrange your blog: go to view blog, click the pencil icon to edit post, click the post options button, change the date of publication.
At this stage, you get marks for: research and planning. Please make sure all your blog title posts so far include the word research, the word planning, or both.
1. Introductory post – briefly describe this year’s coursework – you could now add who you’re working with and which song you’re using.

2. Busted planning – storyboard, shot list, casting, health and safety etc.

3. Lip synch and Busted video – embedded and working.

4. Analysis of your own skills and weaknesses during the Busted and lip synch video – discuss what you have learned and what you need to improve on in terms of planning, organising, filming and editing.

5. NEW: quick intro to the ideas of Andrew Goodwin – you could paste some relevant bits from this presentation and introduce it briefly in your own words.
http://www.slideshare.net/katewolstenholme/andrew-goodwin-on-music-video


6. Video research
• analyse at least two music videos
• embed the videos
• make sure everything is arranged properly and clearly titled.
• refer to Andrew Goodwin by name
• apply Goodwin’s ideas to your examples
• refer to aspects of cinematography, editing and mise en scene
• do at least one of the research extension tasks

7. Creativity
• what is creativity?
• how do you rate your own creativity?
• examples of creative things you’ve done in the past.
• creative task(s) you’ve done in preparation for the music video
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8. Copy of your pitch
9. Summary of feedback from your pitch and your responses to it. You should explain what positive feedback you had, and what criticisms you received. What will you do to address the criticisms? Can you solve the problems that the feedback raised?