Assignment 3: Music promotion

Preliminary exercise

In your assigned groups, create a 30-second music video by the end of Thursday's lesson.

Note: you will be put in a group for this exercise but can choose your group for the actual coursework.

In your groups, you need a choose a track from a selection and then film a variety of specified shots (as well as your own ideas).

You will then edit them together into a 30-second video, learning how to use Premiere Pro and apply certain edits and visual effects.

The songs available are:

• College – A Real Hero
• Clean Bandit – Rather Be ft. Jess Glynne
• Woodkid – Run Boy Run
• M.I.A. – Paper Planes
• Sam Smith – Stay With Me (Rainer + Grimm Remix)
• Bastille – Of The Night
• American Authors – Best Day Of My Life
• The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
• Coldplay – A Sky Full Of Stars
• Frank Ocean – Thinking About You
• The Script – Hall Of Fame

These songs are available on the school's VLE: Departments > Media > Shared documents > GCSE Music video

You MUST include the following:

• A close-up
• A high/low angle shot
• A long shot
• A handheld camera shot
• A slow dissolve transition
• A super-speed OR super slow-motion shot
• A minimum of 10 shots
• Use of colour AND black and white

Timing

Tuesday - choose song, concept and filming
Thursday - editing and exporting video with Mr Qureshi