Tuesday 27 November 2012

Ideas and Stuff

Righto - well done on completing the research part of the project. Now, we need to move into planning the concept and shoot. We need to get the footage shot by Wednesday 19th December, so that's 4 weeks. Here are the next steps:

1. Come up with a concept which allows you to include elements of both narrative and performance in your video.
2. Plan how the narrative will fit with the changing sections of the song - you might find a diagram (like Freytag's theory) useful for this.
3. Storyboard your narrative - and you performance, if you're not planning on filming it the way we did when we filmed the Year 10 band.
4. Plan the shoot - and carry it out!

Remember - although the deadline is the 19th, you probably want to leave yourself a little bit of contingency time in case your shoot goes awry. Failing to prepare is preparing to fail...

 - JL

Monday 12 November 2012

Video Games

Hi all.

Most of you are already aware that we'll be looking at video games as part of our study into Postmodernism in the media. ALthough it's still a way off yet, I think the forthcoming GTA V game is likely to be extremely useful for you to know about. There's a great article here about what it's going to be like - and it even namechecks one of the media theorists we'll be studying later this year! Ten bonus points if you can tell me the name of the critic...

 - JL