Music Video
Skills Audit
Demo Work
Demo Work
Demo Work
Contents
Demo Work
Contents
> Theoretical exploration of the purpose
and application of research
> Secondary research into
music video genres, codes, conventions,
techniques, and theories
> Primary research with the
client to inform ideas development
> Focus group presentation of ideas for
feedback and review via questionnaire
survey
Moving Demo
Wednesday 8th December
I then moved onto my other projects. First, I did some more planning of my project 4 in preparation of starting to write it tomorrow. I started to think about things that I can actually talk about when writing the proper thing. I'm still not very confident with project 4, but I'm hoping that properly starting it tomorrow will help calm my worries.
Thursday 9th December
In the second half of today, we moved onto project 4. I knew I needed to start writing it, so that's what I did. Normally, I would've liked to write the essay in chronological order, however I know that when I write part 1 that I want to be able to have the films to hand. So instead, I started on the first half of part 2, which is looking back on my previous work. I decided to look at my Self Portrait project as I feel that is the project I have put most effort and though into so far, especially considering I'm still only in production for my music video. So, for the first half of part 2 I looked at analysing my Self Portrait project, specifically looking at Editing conventions and techniques, Form conventions and techniques and Representation. I actually finished this first half in lesson, which I was quite surprised about. So, when I returned home, I proofread it, fixing any mistakes, and adding on anything more that I felt was relevant. My goal is to ask Lainey to read it through in tomorrow's lesson and get some feedback. Hopefully, if I know that what I wrote in this section is good, then I will feel more confident about writing the rest going forward.
Friday 10th December
I also sent the first part of my project 4 essay to one of my lecturers and once they've read it, I will receive some feedback from them.
Monday 13th December
After this test, I looked at doing some of my project 4 work. Today, I focused on the second part of part 2, which is looking at what I will do in my future work. I wrote that whole segment up in lesson, and I'm planning to ask Nigel to read through it when I next see him. It’s good to get these segments out of the way now so that I can get the rest done in great detail over the holidays.
Thursday 16th December
In the rest of the lesson, I moved onto project 4, looking at part 1. I started by planning my analysis of the 1903 film, The Great Train Robbery. I did research into the seven subheadings, using my past work as well as websites to plan out what I will write about when it comes to properly writing part 1. My plan is to create these detailed plans for each of the 3 films. Using these plans, I will then write out each film's subheadings separately. Then, once I've got all sections written, I will compile them together as well as adding additional links between all the segments at this point.
When I got home, I continued with my project 4 plan as I plan to start writing it in the lesson tomorrow.
Tuesday 28th December
I’ve done several pieces of work over the last couple of days. I’ve now written all my sections for part 1 of project 4. This is my analysis of the three different films. All I need to do now is part 3 and 4 which I plan to do by the end of this week.
Wednesday 29th December
I finished my first draft of my project 4 essay today. I wrote up my part 3 and part 4 for it and then compiled them into the first draft I had already. To then finish it off I added my bibliography.
So far it’s sitting at just under 9000 words and about 20 pages. I feel this is quite a lot, so I hope when my lecturers read it, they’ll feel as though all the information is important.
All I’ve got to add to it is pictures, but I don’t think my first draft will have pictures as when it gets reviewed, I may need to add more information to it.
Wednesday 5th January
I handed in my first draft of project 4 today, but before that one of my lecturers read over it. Overall, he said it was very good. The only things I need to improve, is go back and use a bit more technical language on my film form and sound paragraphs in part 1, as well as updating my bibliography to follow the Harvard style. He has recommended me a book for the technical language so I will look at booking that out tomorrow.
When I got home, the first thing I did was read through my project 4. While reading it, I jotted down what pictures I would need for which parts. Now, I know all the photos I need so that once I’ve written up the final draft, I can add all my images.
Thursday 6th January
In the second half of today, I started and completed my Harvard referencing for project 4. This is good to get out of the way now and will allow me to continue with getting and adding the images to the essay.
When I got home, I started collecting the images for project 4. I got a decent amount of them. However, I won't start putting them into the essay until I get all of them.
Friday 7th January
Once I got home, I started with gathering the rest of my pictures for project 4. This wasn't too hard, but it did take a little while. Now that I have all my photos, when I get my project 4 feedback back, I can start on adding all the images in.
