Practical learning activities

Nikki Blackborow The Latymer School

‘Preliminary’ tasks

Organise one or two practical tasks Treat this like the prelim from AS – everyone

must completePrepare some questions for a practice

evaluation to followThis works well in the summer term of AS –

fun and useful learningStudents are used to the prelim so not likely

to question the need to do it!

4 useful examples of narrative/ performance music videos

1. Britney Spears ‘Baby One More Time’2. Busted ‘What I go to School For’3. Wheatus ‘Teenage Dirtbag’4. She + Him ‘In the Sun’

Available on youtube Set in school Rich for analysis Past but popular/ familiar with students Relevant and accessible Students choose their own contemporary examples

for analysis/research

Practical tasks to aid learning

Students remake short section of a music video. Work as a class or in groups to shoot + edit the remake. Cut all sections together at the end to form a whole

In pairs, choose a song and learn the lyrics. Then lip sync to song, shoot + edit the sequence

Evaluate the process and the learning associated with the above – like a prelim task

Practical/creative tasks to aid learning

Copy a look – students recreate a still photo in pairs

Play an unfamiliar track in class, & provide the lyrics. Students annotate the lyrics individually, then class discuss initial responses, thoughts around genre etc. Then students prepare a group treatment. Show the actual video and discuss

Students produce a storyboard for an extract from a professional video

Students create the shooting schedule for a narrative/ performance video

Lip sync practice

2007 Britney Spears ‘Baby One More Time’

2008 Busted ‘What I go to school For’

2009 Wheatus ‘Teenage Dirtbag’

2010 She and Him ‘In The Sun’