Music Vidz: JUNE-JULY 2012 POSTS YOU NEED

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!
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

What I'll try to do here is put in below all the posts with guidance on June-July lessons/work that you can use to help with blogging on this. That doesn't mean these are the only posts you could or should use - there are 400 posts on this blog, and the top links-list contains some themed collections of links (you can also try searching the blog on any given topic or artist).

You can access most of these, alongside indicative dates of when these should be completed, in the Word doc below:
June-july every blog post listed

SAMPLE VIDEO ANALYSES