Guides

• Understanding The Music Industry & Music Industry Websites

Case Studies

• Fan Site Sample Deconstruction

• Product Site Sample Deconstruction

• Social Networking Site Sample Deconstruction

• Star Site Sample Deconstruction

Activities & Skills

• Music Video Codes

• Music Magazine Codes

• Music Industry Websites

• Music Industry Mock

• Music Industry Mark Scheme

Associated Resources

• Katy Perry Start Site

This page should provide you with an index to the information we have on MediaEdu which relates directly to the 2012 WJEC GCSE Media Studies External Assessment on Music: Industry Websites & Magazines.

This page also contains external links to support materials on the WJEC site.

Scheme

• WJEC GCSE Media Studies Unit 1 Scheme of Work: Music | Industry Websites | Magazines

Guide

• Understanding The Music Industry & Music Industry Websites

Case...

Scheme

• WJEC GCSE Media Studies 2012 Unit 1 SoW - Music.doc

Associated Resources

• WJEC GCSE Media Studies Music: Industry Websites & Magazines Overview

Concepts

• Visual/Aural language - Semiotics
• Music Genre Codes and Conventions and Narrative
• History of Popular Music
• Representation in Music Websites and Music Videos
• The Music Industry
• Music Magazines
• Revision

Skills

• Analysis, skills of Deconstruction, Note taking, Group work
• Identifying...

Half-Day Revision Course for WJEC GCSE Media Studies Exam on Music Videos & Fan Websites - 2011

This is a half-day revision course on Music Videos & Fan Websites for this summer’s WJEC GCSE Media Studies Exam. See ‘Programme Details’ below for more info.

Programme Details

• We come to you.

• We would suggest a Saturday if you would like the course delivered in term time.

• Each revision course is 3 hours in length and is delivered in both...

Click on the link below to download a mock exam and mark scheme for WJEC GCSE Media Studies Pop Videos & Fan Websites.

• WJEC GCSE Media Studies Music Videos & Fan Websites Mock Exam.doc
• WJEC GCSE Media Studies Music Videos and Fan Websites Mock Exam Mark Scheme.doc

Editing within music videos can be explored which emphasises and draws attention that the shots have been joined together, in particular by using the jump-cut so that the effect is abrupt usually followed by something that the audience is not expecting.

Look at MediaEdu’s Music Video Pre-Production and Music Video Production

The pace of the editing being dictated by the visuals is another area to explore. How many cuts are visible in an...

Click on the link below to download a PDF booklet you can print out.

Popular_Music_Video.pdf

2011 Exam

Section A - Music Video
Section B - Music Fan Websites

2012 Exam

Section A - Music Industry Websites
Section B - Music Magazines

The exam (40% of the final mark)  2 hours 15 minutes. The topic is music. Candidates will be expected to study the topic in a way which reflects the convergent nature of contemporary media.

The paper is divided into two sections.

Section A: Thinking about the Media – Investigating

This will assess...

Click on the link below to download a revision guide you can print out.

A2_OCR_Critical_Perspectives_-_Revision_Guide_to_Question_1a_and_1b.pdf

WHO INVENTED THE MUSIC VIDEO?

with thanks to the BBC website h2g2

The music video is generally considered to have been born on the BBC’s Top of the Pops in November 1975. Glamorous rock band Queen found they were unable to appear on Top of the Pops as they were on tour.

They worked over two days and spent the considerable sum at that time of £4,000 on recording their latest single, Bohemian Rhapsody, on the relatively new medium of video...

Music videos offer great opportunities to be creative on video using low cost equipment. You can work in just about any genre or style you like, as long as it has some relationship to the song.

Most of the hard work is usually done in postproduction, but that certainly does not mean you should skate over the shooting; it is essential you have enough shot material to work on in editing.

What is a music video trying to do?

A successful music...

Selected Song

You will have selected a song track which excites you. You will have some ideas about how you want to visualise this song.

You will have decided on whether you want to tell a story, create an atmospheric video, or present the song in some new innovative way, or use another form of visualisation such as a parody or pastiche.

It’s a good idea to write down the lyrics, so that you know what the song is about.

Your next job is to...

You have shot your video. You have a lot of pictures on DV tape, or hard disc, and you now have to edit these pictures to your chosen music track.

In other words you have completed production, and are ready to go into post-production.

Postproduction

Post-production is everything you do after the production of the video. The production is getting all the shots in the can. Post-production means editing the shots to the music, and it also means...

The music video is a classic example of a media industry that flourished on the back of technological advance.

The proliferation of home VCR and satellite technology created a fertile environment in which the new medium flourished, eating up the spare capacity in the schedules. Indeed, when MTV was launched in 1981 it only had access to...

Pop Music Analysing Music Video Questions.doc

Pop Music Analysing Pop Music Videos.doc

Pop Music | GCSE Music Video Moodboards.doc

Pop Music | GCSE Music Video Project Ideas.doc

Pop Music | Intro.doc

Pop Music | Key Conventions.doc

Pop Music on TV | Checklist.doc

Pop Music on TV | Intro.doc

Pop Music on TV | Scheduling and Audience.doc

Pop Music | Scheme of Work HND.doc

Pop Music | Teachers Approach.ppt

Pop Music | Top Camera...

In Term 3 of Year 9, we introduce the students to Pop Bands & The Music Industry. The students are required to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding by researching and analysing existing pop bands, CD covers, promo videos and tour posters. They are helped to develop their understanding of musical genres and how this affects a band’s actual and perceived/projected identity. The students then use this newly acquired knowledge to plan,...

In Term 3, we introduce the students to Pop Bands and the students are required to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding by creating their own band.

This unit includes profiling; the analysis and design of CD cases and covers; tour posters; creating a mix using Garage Band (a Mac application).

Every sixth lesson the students sit a formal assessment and are awarded a National Curriculum level using our tailor-made assessment...

EMI Group EMI is the world’s largest independent music company.

itunes

musicovery.com Free access to a range of music on the Internet

If your Media Studies production is an audio visual piece then it will most likely involve the use of some music.  This might be in the background of an advert, to make a film trailer more exciting, or as the focus of a music video.

What you need to remember is that even though it’s incredibly easy to download music and sound effects from the Internet, it’s not always a good idea to use those files in your media production.

In this article,...

Half-Day Revision Course for WJEC GCSE Media Studies Exam on Music Videos & Fan Websites - 2011

This is a half-day revision course on Music Videos & Fan Websites for this summer’s WJEC GCSE Media Studies Exam. See ‘Programme Details’ below for more info.

Programme Details

• We come to you.

• We would suggest a Saturday if you would like the course delivered in term time.

• Each revision course is 3 hours in...