Completed on: 17th September
We finished our research today, it took us a week to do in total but obviously it’s expected that as we progress things will continue to inspire us and be useful for our production.
We started off researching in a broad sense, looking at many music videos and focusing more in general on the techniques used and whether they were concept, narrative or performance based. After that we narrowed our research and went into more detail on selected videos, ones that were more useful to us than others.
During this time our ideas for our video came about and started to develop and because of this we were able to focus our research on areas we needed to look at. This lead to us look closely at The Killers and then Anthony Mandler, the director of some of their best videos.
I think the research went well. I was in charge of it and did a lot of the in detail research whilst the others focused on researching in a broader sense, gathering images and information etc.
More importantly, our research is detailed enough for it to be useful to us. By taking select images and details of each video and by focusing more on one specific band and their techniques, we are now able to take the bits of information we need, when we need them and apply them to our production to improve it.
Group members (and candidate numbers)
Niall Lucas – 3125
Jordan Perrett – 3161
James Nash – 3148
Lewis Taylor - 3206
There was a great deal of excited discussion amongst the group, generated by their research. A wide range of music videos was accessed and discussed/deconstructed. This led to their choice of a mainstream approach (narrative/performance mix). All candidates worked equally on this aspect demonstrating excellent research skills.
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