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Coursework: Preliminary exercise 2025

  Coursework: Preliminary exercise 2025 1) State the  song  you have chosen for your preliminary exercise.  For my song I will be using Did it Again by Lil Tecca 2) Choose at least  three  music videos similar to your concept and watch a clip or more from each. Make  bullet-point notes  on everything you watch, commenting on camerawork, editing and mise-en-scene. Dave – “Streatham” (2019) Camera Work Frequent use of tracking shots following Dave around his neighborhood. Handheld feel gives it a documentary/raw realism vibe. Low angle shots emphasize power but also ground him in his environment. Mise-en-Scène Filmed directly in Streatham, South London :barber shops, chicken spots, council estates. Everyday people and friends appear, creating authenticity. Grey skies and tones match the track’s gritty vibe. Editing Cuts between different neighbourhood spots to show a panoramic portrait of his area. Fairly slow pacing lets shots breathe rather ...

Coursework: Ignite presentation learner response

  Coursework: Ignite presentation learner response There have been some   excellent  Ignite presentations with some brilliantly creative responses to the coursework brief.  Hopefully, the presentations and Q&A sessions that followed have highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of your coursework proposal and may indeed have prompted re-drafts of your statement of intent.  Your learner response is as follows and will take some time to do properly: Create a new blogpost called 'Ignite presentation learner response' 1) Type up your feedback  in full  including the ratings out of five for each of the categories.  WWW: Good slides, research concepts and close use of media language Well structured research , references to representation. Audience theory used+ audience pleasures. Ebi: Look at audience. need more content, better rehearsal for timing. Images need to be more relevant e.g mise en scene. 4 3 3 3 2 =18/30 2) Use this feedback, comments fr...

Summer project tasks

  Summer project tasks https://docs.google.com/document/d/14GARtFSveTnStO7ff4Xj-TZjFLQI_6I8vNReeX4efUg/edit?usp=drivesdk  tiktok links  Complete the following tasks on a blogpost on your  coursework  blog called ' Summer Project: coursework planning ':  1) Research: TikTok videos You need to write a  150-word close-textual analysis  of  SIX  TikTok videos that will inform your production work. The TikTok videos you analyse are up to you but focus on a different aspect of media language for each one (see guidance below).   TikTok videos TikTok Video 1: Narrative  https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdqn5RNY/ This TikTok uses a clear narrative structure to parody epic storytelling within a gaming context. It begins with a classic equilibrium (two brothers loyal to the King), before introducing disruption (disequilibrium)   through their doubts and eventual mistakes, reflecting Todorov’s narrative theory. The moment of the st...