Use the three image links above to access GEEVIDEO.com’s excellent archive of Pop Music on TV Clips. When you click on one of the movie clips, you will see a ‘Download Spamblocker’ advert - ignore this and click on the ‘skip’ option on top right hand corner of the screen. The video should then be ready to watch.

Anyone teaching pop music needs to ge their libary to order the fabulous comprehensive history of pop by Alan Parker called All You...

Talent, Technology And Teenagers

The Story of British Pop Music

British popular music is a great success story both as a business and as a cultural enterprise.

In the last half of the twentieth century British talent became the soundtrack to the lives of young people throughout the world.

It’s extraordinary that rock n’roll, blues, rhythm and blues, dance music and even the concept of the 3 minute popular song emerged from largely black...

Music magazines of the Noughties - The Wire, Smash Hits, Terrorizer, NME, Q and Muzik –Smash Hits and Muzik have since closed

Music Magazines in the Noughties

KEY THEMES: PROLIFERATION OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY, INCREASED NICHE MARKETING AND SUBCULTURAL BRAND VALUES ARE MORE MARKETABLE.

Useful Terminology

Plugs: Information about the contents of a magazine given on the front cover.
Issue Number: The number of the issue
Masthead: Title of the...

Most exam boards have an option to design a CD cover as part of course work for both GCSE and A level. Some boards now require pieces of work in at least two mediums, and a CD cover is a good supplementary piece of work to support a music video or other course work.

Designing the cover of a CD is a great way to be creative in the visual arts.

Context

The album cover became an art form in the 1960s like so much else to do with popular music....

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The music industry is the name for the way the music we want to hear is delivered to us. It is part of the Creative Arts Business which includes cinema and theatre, where music is an integral part of their activities.

The aim of the music industry is to make money from a product which in this case is music, in the same way that a washing machine manufacturer makes money by designing and selling a product – a machine to do your washing.

Half or Full Day Revision Courses in Your School

Programme Details

Our practical workshops usually include:

• Investigating genre conventions (cards and games)
• Starter activities, ‘odd one out’ / ‘top n tail’ / connective thinking
• Loop cards with key facts
• Loop cards with relevant theories
• Carousel activities ‘add facts’ and move on….
• Carousel activities…making a storyboard…and move on…

We ensure that students get to know the exam structure,...

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

Associated Resources (by Rob Miller)

• Katy Perry Star Site.doc
• Music Industry Fan Site Sample Deconstruction: http://www.katyfan.com.doc

• Music Industry Product Site Sample Deconstruction: http://www.kerrang.com.doc

• Music Industry Social Networking Site Sample Deconstruction: Jay Z.doc

• Music Industry Star Site Sample Deconstruction: http://www.rollingstones.com.doc

...

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...

Find out more about the grid-based approach to design by clicking on the link below:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/04/14/designing-with-grid-based-approach/

Shared with MediaEdu by Elayne Senn.

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...

Record companies sign artists and record their music often in their own studios such as EMI at Abbey Road, but they do not actually sell the albums. This is done by a distributor.

Distribution is how music gets to the consumer in the form of CDs in shops, or music downloads via the web.

Distribution companies sign deals with record companies, such as Sony BMG or EMI, that give them the right to sell the record company’s labels and other...

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...

http://media.edusites.co.uk/index.php/category/c/music-press/

Unit 2 Creating Media

This is the course work unit and here we are looking at just one of the three briefs. It is the new brief for students to complete by May 2011. All teacher-assessed marks to be returned to AQA by 10 January 2011 or 15 May 2011

MediaEdu pages that will help with this module:

• Popular Music Promotion
• Understanding Advertising
• CD Cover Design & Analysis
• Production Zone – Video
• Music Video Pre-Production
• Digital Cameras and...

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

Click here to download as a PDF

Joe McElderry and Rage Against the Machine: a most unlikely chart battle!

In this scheme of work Stephen Hill compares the campaign for Joe McElderry’s ‘The Climb’ (UK number two, Christmas 2009) and Rage Against the Machine’s ‘Killing in the Name’ (UK number one, Christmas 2009). He considers the ways in which the marketing of the two songs reflects very different strategies for the promotion of...

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...

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Analysing Comics 1.doc

Analysing Comics 2.doc

Analysing Pop Music Videos.doc

Animated Film Mock Exam.doc

Animated Film Scheme of Work.doc

Animated Film Teachers Approach.ppt

Animation Films Essay Frame.doc

Comics Teachers Approach.ppt

Conventions Pop Music on TV.doc

From Russia With Love Annotated Poster.doc

Narrative Structure Comics.pdf

Pop Music on TV Checklist.doc

Pop Music on TV Intro.ppt

Pop Music Top Camera Shots.doc

Popular...

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...

Music Press | Advertising.ppt

Music Press | Audience Match Exercise.pdf

Music Press | Audience Theory.ppt

Music Press | History.ppt

Music Press | Kerrang Notes.doc

Music Press | Magazine Analysis Frame.doc

Music Press | Magazine Checklist One.doc

Music Press | Magazine Checklist Two.doc

Music Press | Magazine Cover Exercise One.pdf

Music Press | Magazine Cover Exercise Two.pdf

Music Press | Magazine Design.pub

Music Press | NME...

Paul McCartney was on the first issue of Q and came back to celebrate its 50th issue: he’s typical of the magazine’s emphasis on older ‘classic’ artists.

KEY BRAND VALUES: MAINSTREAM ADULT ORIENTATED ROCK
OWNER: EMAP (1986 TO 2007) BAUER (2007 to present)
MASTHEAD: Q
PUFF: THE GUIDE TO MODERN MUSIC AND MORE / THE ULTIMATE MUSIC GUIDE
PRICE: £3.90
HOUSE STYLE: RED AND WHITE, BLACK TEXT, CANDID COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY
ADVERTISING PORTFOLIO:...

Moritz von Oswald and Will Oldham are typical of the more avant-garde orientation of The Wire.

KEY BRAND VALUES: AVANT-GARDE, ELITIST, MUSICIANSHIP, INTELLECTUALISM
OWNER: NARAMA GROUP (1982 to 2001) INDEPENDENTLY OWNED 2001 ONWARDS.
MASTHEAD: THE WIRE
PUFF: NONE.
PRICE: £3.90
HOUSE STYLE: REALIST COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY + BLACK TEXT ON WHITE BACKGROUND
ADVERTISING PORTFOLIO: ALTERNATIVE AND AVANT-GARDE RELEASES, ETHICAL CONSUMERISM, OFFBEAT...

Reflecting the retrospective sensibility of contemporary dance music issues of Muzik typically mix new music with older stars.

KEY BRAND VALUES: CUTTING EDGE, INFORMED, FUTURE CONSCIOUS CLUB CULTURE.
OWNER: IPC 1995 TO 2003
MASTHEAD: MUZIK
PUFF: NONE
PRICE: £3.90
HOUSE STYLE: POP ART COLOURS – YELLOWS, PINKS AND ORANGE
ADVERTISING PORTFOLIO: DANCE 12” SINGLES, COMPILATIONS, CLUB NIGHTS, HARDWARE, CLOTHING

Muzik was a dance music...

NAPALM DEATH AND THE GOSSIP ARE TYPICAL OF THE LEFT OF CENTRE ACTS COVERED BY THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS.

The NME and Terrorizer both cover music at the edge of the mainstream.

The NME was launched in 1952 by EIPC as a ‘pop paper’ and right up until the mid-1960s its emphasis was on the records that were riding high in the ‘hit parade’.  However as music became more serious in the late 1960s its style shifted towards a more sophisticated...

Duran Duran and Take That - The Ultimate Smash Hits Bands!

KEY BRAND VALUES: MAINSTREAM TEEN POP AND FEMININE FASHION
OWNER: EMAP (1978 TO 2007) BAUER (2007 to present)
MASTHEAD: SMASH HITS
PUFF: THE WORLD’S GREATEST POP MAG.
PRICE: £1.90
HOUSE STYLE: POP ART COLOURS – YELLOWS, PINKS AND ORANGE
ADVERTISING PORTFOLIO: POP SINGLES, TEEN-ORIENTATED FASHION AND MAKE-UP.

Smash Hits was a bi-weekly pop music title owned by EMAP. It ran from...

The Sex Pistols John Lydon and Blondie’s Deborah Harry have defied ageism and carried on their careers into middle age, but does this detract from their legacy? It all rather depends says Bijon Fenner.  However, both bands are on tour in 2009…

In this article I intend to explore the relationship between past and present forms of youth culture with reference to Seventies punk rock. This will take the form of an analysis of the late...

TERM 1 - WJEC MS3 and MS4

A Suggested Scheme of Work

This scheme of work is not in any way prescriptive, it is simply offered as a possible way in. It should be adapted and moulded to fit particular teachers, students and resources.

MS3: MEDIA INVESTIGATION AND PRODUCTION

This unit develops the knowledge and skills acquired at AS and contributes to synoptic assessment. It is designed to demonstrate the importance of research in informing...

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...

WJEC GCSE Media Studies Section A Mock Exam

After viewing the video tape which consists of extracts from the music programmes use the notes you have made to answer the following questions.

1. Choose one of the music programmes shown and explain how two of the following are used to interest audiences. [10]

• Camera Shots
• Editing
• Special effects
• Characters
• Stories

2. Create a new music programme which targets young people.

Task 1

Suggest a...

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

itunes

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

Observations from AQA course on

The Music Press

Production Skills & Controlled Test Written Responses

1. Annotate designs

2. Use colour

3. Remember it’s a sketch for a professional to then complete

4. Ensure conventions are features including things like barcode, date, price, etc. or web conventions if you have the option to design a web page.

5. Make it clear and user friendly

6. Be aware of writing styles and register / mode of address...[ read full article ] »

Muso Mags Ltd

Memo
To: Creative and Design Staff
From: Managing Director
CC: Marketing Manager
Date: 30.11.06
Re: What next?

Colleagues,

I need your most creative and informed suggestions.

As a music publications company we have always tried to keep up with the preferences of our youthful and knowledgeable audience.

The last few months have seen some very significant developments in the world of Pop Music publicity. Some of our best loved...

Half or Full Day Revision Courses in Your School

Programme Details

Our practical workshops usually include:

• Investigating genre conventions (cards and games)
• Starter activities, ‘odd one out’ / ‘top n tail’ / connective thinking
• Loop cards with key facts
• Loop cards with relevant theories
• Carousel activities ‘add facts’ and move on….
• Carousel activities…making a storyboard…and move on…

We ensure that...

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...