Chew Valley Media: 2012

Monday, 17 December 2012

Here's an A grade example A2 music video from Pete Fraser's excellent media blog:

Monday, 22 October 2012

YouTube Visitors

YouTube starts OMFGItsJackandDean will be visiting Chew Valley on Friday 16th November to talk to AS and A2 Media Students during periods 5 and 6 in D3. Check out their channel here or check out some of their videos below:

Monday, 10 September 2012

Interesting Music Videos #4: Slow Club

Slow Club are my current favourite band.

Trophy Room
A video-about-making-a-video. Nicely postmodern.

Beginners
Look! It's Daniel Radcliffe! Another single-take wonder here (like No Surprises). I have blogged at some length about this video for Year 12 students here.

Interesting Music Videos #3: General

Here are a few other music videos that are interesting.

Radiohead - No Surprises
An unfliching single shot - incredibly effective.

Coldplay - The Scientist
Classic bit of backwards narrative from Coldplay.

Metronomy - She Wants
Something a bit more up-to-date here. Lovely set-up and some great editing from Metronomy.

Interesting Music Videos #2: Jonathan Glazer

Jonathan Glazer made a famous commercial for Guinness but has also made some thought-provoking music videos.

Virtual Insanity
This is mind-boggling. This video here explains how they did it.

Rabbit in your Headlights
This is quite disturbing. You have to watch it all the way through and right to the very end.

Interesting Music Videos #1: Michel Gondry

Michel Gondry is the French director of the simply wonderful Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. However, he made his name and learned his trade in music videos, and here are a few of my favourites.

The Hardest Button to Button
A simple concept, brilliantly executed. Just imagine the editing job that went into this to get the cuts spot on to the drumbeats.

Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
This is an ingenious concept, with a great way of telling the story of previous events through the filter of the present. Gondry filmed the "past" storyline first, then projected it back onto the walls of the same location as he filmed Jack White in the "present" collecting up his belongings. It works. And it's really, really clever.

Fell in Love with a Girl
I love lego.

Come into My World
Kylie. Again, Gondry has the past playing out as the present continues around it. Plenty of CGI here - a bit beyond A-Level Media, but inventive, creative and interesting.