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Coursework: Pre-production planning

  1) TikTok video treatments You may already have THREE detailed TikTok video treatments from your summer project and/or preliminary exercise - definitely use or develop those if it works with your project.  However, you may need to update your treatment or even change it completely now you have finished your preliminary exercise.  Remember the brief lists the following possibilities: personal information from the artist replication of a social media trend (eg ‘bees in a trap’ video, ice-bucket challenge)  extracts from podcasts, press conferences, red carpet appearances and/or promotional interviews clips from a music video any other content you feel is appropriate. You might also want to consider: interviews/AMAs with the artist content created by the artist performances, live shows or personal appearances  the artist interacting with fans  fan-made content  merchandise or promotion of the band’s music  The focus of your videos should be to at...

Coursework: Preliminary exercise feedback and LR

1) Type up your teacher's feedback in full plus a summary of the comments you received from other students in the class. WWW: Excellent opening, Excellent editing e.g jumpcuts, montage, Post production e.g. on screen text, visual effects, Props e.g. merc car, Cinematography e.g. close up, low angle(car boot), tracking shot, white background, performance, Industry info, excellent transitions, low-key lighting, mise en scene e.g outfit, colour scheme matches concept, collage, good location, end credits, trolley scene EBI: Change typography title to be more readable, lip syncing, more lyrics on screen 2) Using a combination of your own reflection on the preliminary exercise and the feedback you were given, write three WWW bullet points and three EBI bullet points for your work. WWW: Props e.g. car, handbag, different types of shots e.g. POV shot from car boot, collage scene EBI - Changing font, more transitions and have it smoother on some bits such as the phone scene, fix lip syncing...

Coursework: Preliminary exercise 2026

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1) State the song you have chosen for your preliminary exercise. SEOUL CITY - JENNIE 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. Overall, these music videos have the same visuals of city life at night time and car scene. I want to do this in my music video in order to match with my artist's identity , paired with capturing the feeling of freedom these videos create for the fans/ audience also match up with my target audience as they are  succeeders and aspires as argued by Young and Rubicam .    SEOUL CITY - JENNIE - The introduction starts of with a high key lighting view of the city from a plane window, paired with the star posing in a homey style environment holding a toy plane, suggesting the binary opposition between reality and fantasy with is established with the closeup and mid shots - Scene transit...

Coursework: Ignite presentation learner response

  1) Type up your feedback in full including the ratings out of five for each of the categories.  WWW - Good Intro,  Good concept, Buzzfeed questions, Good website planning EBI - Too much text on the screen + reliant on reading, clearer conclusion Research - 5/5  Concept - 4/5 Language - 4/5  Representation - 4/5 Mulvey, Hall, Gilroy, Young Rubicam e.g Audience - 5/5 BandK, Reception theory, Bandaura social learning theory Delivery - 4/5               = 26/30 2) Use this feedback, comments from peers and your own reflection on your presentation to self-assess and write your own detailed WWW and EBI for your coursework concept and presentation as a whole. For WWW, My research was detailed and included everything in order to be signifcant for my research, such as highlighting, paragraphs for statement of intent, Moreover for concept I believed my concept should of been 5/5 for the use of intextuallity and syenagry within each o...

Coursework: Summer Project 2026

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 How is narrative used in the TikTok video and what impact does this have on the audience? Can you apply any narrative theories to the story in the TikTok video? Get ready with me video - @jennierubyjane The use of narrative is successfully used in order to attract fans of Blackpink/Jennie's music, due to the use of the soundtrack which can be argued to be used as a convention of adverting to promote her new song. Moreover, the impact this leaves the audience is a  glimpse into her personal life, creating intimacy and making her seem more relatable despite her celebrity status. Additionally,  Todorov’s narrative theory can be partially applied, as the video...