This is an EXAUSTIVE list of everything you MUST include in your coursework. We need to be frank: you MUST include EVERYTHING on this list. The examiners have been particularly strict about this, and marks have been deducted for even minor infringements.
Your music video must...
- Be between 3 to 3 minutes and 30 seconds long
- Include representations of at least one social group
- Be appropriate to an independent record label
- Target a specialised audience of 18 - 35 year olds
- Feature a song that doesn't have an official music video
- Use two or more filming locations appropriate to your genre
- Use a wide range of shot types and camera angles and camera movements
- Include a range of different shots of your performer, that establishes a clear identity and image
- Include performance footage, eg lip syncing, dancing, playing an instrument, etc
- Include a clear structure with some element of narrative that visually interprets the song
- Include graphics that depict the name of your fictitious, made up artist and the name of the track
- Be all your own footage, shot by you, for the purpose of this music video
Your magazine must …
- Comprise of a front cover and a double page feature article
- Be a specialist music magazine, with clear genre conventions
- Promote you fictitious/made up artist to the target audience of the magazine
- Use media language to construct representations of at least one social group
- Include at least five original images in total
The front cover must include...
- An original title and masthead
- A strapline
- Appropriate cover price
- Bar code
- Main cover image of your artist, which establishes their clear identity (this image must be different from the images used in the double page spread)
- A main cover line relating to your featured artist
- At least two further cover lines, probably related to other generically appropriate artists
The double page spread must include...
- A headline
- A stand first
- Subheadings
- Copy in appropriate, justified columns
- details for the latest release of your featured artist
- An interview with your artist (this can either be a complete interview or the first part of a longer feature, approximately 300 words) which discusses the ideas intrinsic to their music and the making of the music video
- Interview must contain details of the latest single/release/availability of the music video
- One main image and other smaller images, each with a caption (these cannot be stills from your music video, but can be 'behind the scenes' images)
- A pull quote
- Links to the artist's social media. website and any other appropriate links