- It CAN be copyrighted material - you are being assessed on your ability to create a video, not a song!
- The proviso for this is that you can evidence an attempt to contact the band and/or record label/publisher to ask permission for your use of the track
- It CAN'T be a track which was released as a single, and already has a music vid
- Check YouTube - if you find uploads of the song which have been blocked, then pick something else!!!
- There is no restriction on genre - that's entirely up to you, so long as you...
- ...Convince with your pitch presentation [not the July dry run!], like the A-Team's Hannibal Smith, that you have a plan that will come together; be able to echo Blackadder's line that "I have a plan so cunning, you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel."
- ...Have avoided any explicit language or explicit sexual content - we also have to think about the secondary audience for your texts: the school, younger students, etc
- For your own sakes, try to avoid any lengthy tunes!
Deadlines/Brief
Music videos are so 80s/90s, right? They belong with the era when MTV screened wall-to-wall vids instead of 'reality' TV? Try telling that to the millions who bought Gangnam Style; were they really simply loving the music? 1.6bn (and still climbing) have viewed the video on YT, not to mention the many re-makes (school eg, eg2), viral ads + celeb link-ups (even political protest in Seoul) - and it doesn't matter how legit it is, this nightmare for daydream Beliebers is making a lot of money, even from the parodies + dislikes. All this for a simple dance track that wouldn't have sounded out of place in 1990 ... but had a fun vid. This meme itself was soon displaced by the Harlem Shake. Music vids even cause diseases it seems!
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This blog explores every aspect of this most postmodern of media formats, including other print-based promo tools used by the industry, its fast-changing nature, + how fans/audiences create/interact. Posts are primarily written with Media students/educators in mind. Please acknowledge the blog author if using any resources from this blog - Mr Dave Burrowes
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Friday, 25 June 2010
Looking Ahead: Track Selection
Before we break up for the summer I'll issue you all with a detailed breakdown of what you can/can't do in terms of your track selection for the music video, and a list of guidelines for thinking about this. Before then, a quick summary of the key points:
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