This series of lessons looks at the planning of the major task: the music video. storyboard template is also included as well as other useful planing doc.

This collection of lessons covers all of the pre-planning work that is to be done BEFORE students film their coursework. The lessons cover ‘initial pitch’ criteria, and criteria for the ‘final pitch’, it guides students through lyric analysis, deciding on a target audience, and examples of mood boards and mind maps. Students will also cover branding and how to create a brand for their artist.

This series of lessons focuses in-depth on representations in music videos. Students are guided through creating their own blog post while they investigate and review representation of; Age / Class & Status / Gender / Sexuality / Race & Ethnicity. Student’s analyse various music videos by not just considering sound, editing, Mise en scene, Camera – shots, movement, angles but also the theories of David Gauntlett’s ‘pick and mix’ and Hall’s ‘representation Theory’.

What is a Music Video? Introductory A2 coursework lessons that overview the key generic conventions of a music video. These lesson focus on Goodwin’s theories specifically Goodwin’s, ‘Key Features of Music Video’ and guide students through creating their own research blog post.

In this series of lessons students will be introduced to the curriculum for A2 and guided through the history and key conventions of music videos - this will help them to research and complete their own research blog posts.

This 32 page booklet overviews the key media concepts and media language on Representation, Audience, Narrative, Genre, Ideology and Institution. Representation and Audience are covered in detailed ( i will cont. to update). There are also 5 pages that focus specifically on music video and music video theories.