Copyright and Music videos - must read!!

This is the board's guidance on copyright issues and music videos:

'For music video, permission should be sought from the artist for use of the audio track.'

This does not mean that you have to receive their permission but it does mean that you should evidence the fact that you have tried. Previous year groups have emailed the record company or band and asked for copyright permission and then posted the email on their blog sites. It is unusual to get a response but you do not want the artist/label demanding you take your video down or threatening you with legal action after all the work is done. It is not usually an issue (apart from with YouTube) but it is good practice.

Please add this to your research and planning task list. Below is some text you may wish to use in your email.


'I am writing to you to request permission to film a music video version of your song ______________. This forms part of my OCR A-level Media Studies course where my task is to record a music video to a song of my choice. It is only for assessment purposes and will not be used for any commercial or profit seeking purposes. I acknowledge your copyright of the material and will not use it for any other purpose than that stated above.

If you require any further information or clarification regarding the use of this material for educational purposes please contact my teacher Mr Welch (welchch@tuptonhall.derbyshire.sch.uk)'

A2 Best blogs so far (Oct)

Alex Hunter
Dan Haywood
Rebecca Wood
Tammy Baldwin
Elsie Williamson
Hyleana Anthony
Laura Knowles
Josie Quigley-Jay
Sophie Smart
Annabel Lowe made me put her name up on here but I agree her blog is excellent and one of the best

Bandcamp Case Study

'We Media' and Democracy Assessment- Shannon Nunn

Assessment 1

 

 

 

'We Media' and Democracy Assessment

 Where did I get my news from?

 On a day to day basis, I'm not very proactive when it comes to finding out about the news. (As many young people are similar). I'll come across it on Facebook, Snapchat, the T.V, radio and the Metro newspaper, but I do not go out of my way to find out more. Mostly I hear about things from friends and family and if I am particularly interested in a subject I may go out of my way to find out more. For example, when the story about Harambe the gorilla was released, I heard what happened from friends, saw a link on Facebook and I wanted to find out exactly what had happened. This was mainly because I love animals and I was shocked to hear that the gorilla was shot due to human error. I was introduced to the BBC news app which I found useful for when I wanted to filter what news I saw and when finding out more about a particular subject. But I wasn't checking the app constantly because I'd forget or I had no particular interest in the news.

Do I trust my news sources?

 When it comes to social media, I am careful about what I read and believe as many sources are not reliable at all. But because some are, I still read certain news articles off Facebook once I have checked the source.

 Some people are more naïve when it comes to believing things they see. Media theorist Andrew Goodwin spoke about this and mentioned how we are all becoming 'monkeys' in the world of media and news and what we believe is true. What he meant by this was we are like puppets, we are fed the information and we believe it without checking the source, and an effect of this is that as a whole we are becoming less intellectual. I agree with this to an extent as there are some individuals out there that do not check the reliability of a source and are believing total nonsense, and then passing false information on.

 I trust newspapers and the BBC to a certain extent as I don't believe all information can be trusted as it is only a journalist's idea of events. News is very subjective as to how it is perceived and big companies such as the BBC and ITV have the power to change how a story is interpreted and that effects the people's opinions on different matters. In other words, I think the news has control over our opinions of events and many people will just follow suit and not many will actually question the facts presented.

 What is trustworthy about big companies is that they have a bigger budget and are able to send their journalists to where the event is taking place, and collect primary information that has not been twisted or altered through the passage of people.

Other people

When I asked around, I found out what types of news other people were interested in and found out that people of the same age as me (17/18) were into similar categories as I was, such as: food, UK, entertainment, music and older people (24/41) were into the more relevant categories like politics, and education.

We Media Lesson 4

Creative use of technology in your blogging

Ok - these change all the time but here is the latest list of methods of presentation that I know of and what you can do with them.
Any others you come across please tell me. I haven't used them all so can't vouch for how good they are - please let me know if they're rubbish or not rubbish or slightly rubbish.


Ways of presenting mind maps/thematic links/mood boards etc:
wordle.net
bubbl.us
pixton.com  online comic creator
mixbook.com online scrapbook tool
mashuparts.com   photo mashup tool
mindmeister.com mindmap tool
smartdraw.com create 3d graphs or spider diagrams
serifdraw
spicynodes.org online organisation tool for websites
easel.ly way of presenting
visual.ly professional methods of presenting information
https://issuu.com/ digital publishing site
http://www.videoscribe.co/  Create your own whiteboard videos
pixlr - photo editing software
Adobe Draw - Free illustration app
Serif Draw


Editing software
picmonkey.com
IMovie : The New iMovie app is really good for £3.99 - lots of templates
pixton.com online comic strip creator
worditout.com  online word cloud generator




Uploading powerpoints to your blog
slideshare.net
google slides


Apps / Photo and video editing
piccollage
http://videostarapp.com/
canva - really good site with a wide range of templates and interesting fonts for presenting infographics, completing posters etc.
VideoFXlive
YouCam Make Up
Superpower FX
Repix
Snapseed (photo editing for Android and Apple)
goanimate.com  create animations for free
Clipper video app for iPhone
Filmora app
animato.com create 30 second short videos out of photos, images or videos

More detailed:
prezi.com
gliffy.com  flowchart creator
evernote.com
emaze.com
springnote.com  create group notebook online
glogster.com
tinyscanner
projeqt

'We media and Democracy'- Owen Robson

I get my news, mostly, from newspapers, such as the daily mirror and metro, and the BBC news app. The metro is an independent newspaper that is distributed Monday through Friday on public transportation; it leans towards the conservatives in terms of political stance and does not have many journalists and often relies on what others give them for their information. The daily mirror is owned by its parent company, trinity mirror, and is distributed Monday through Saturday with a sister paper, the Sunday mirror, on Sundays and is distributed in the conventional manner i.e. sold in post offices (or what few are left) and independent news agents and  is typically viewed as labour in its political stance. The BBC news app is clearly owned by the BBC and can be downloaded on virtually any device with internet access on a whim and, as it is the BBC, attempts to remain impartial in political matters, as well as the BBC TV news which is very mush the same as the BBC news app, with potential bias only coming from guests such as MPs being interviewed.

I believe that the BBC news app, launched in 2010, is a trusted source as they try to filter all forms of political bias from their articles to present the audience with the facts, staying as close to the undiluted truth as possible. The metro is actually relatively new, launched in 1999, and is owned by the same media group which owns the daily mail, DMG media. This media group is skewed towards the conservatives in terms of political stance and will almost certainly be skewed towards tory views, it is also free, however, and provides those who would not go out of their way to buy a paper with a source of, relatively, reliable information which, in the eyes of most, is enough to be considered a trustworthy news source.  The daily mirror is very old in comparison to the other news source I have talked about, it was launched in 1903, making it 113 years old at the time of this blog’s publication, and the fact it is still going should be an indication of how popular and trusted it is as a news source. It’s political stance, labour, guarantees that, at least some of the time, the facts and opinions stated will be those slightly biased towards labour, making it a favourite with the working class, and slightly less reliable than impartial news sources such as the BBC. The BBC TV news, however, is much older than its app counter-part and was launched in 1948 and, much like the daily mirror, has the benefit of trust that comes with age, its popularity with previous generations making the current generation trusting of its content.

In regard to the BBC News app, I have found that some of the most common news categories in Britain include Brexit and Education. I have found this from asking other members of my media studies group about which categories catch there interests the most.

The news stories included on the BBC News app, but are not limited to, consist of: US convoy attacked in Syria due to the abrupt end of the cease fire, preventing aid to Aleppo was a story that I read in depth, as well as other stories I glanced over or read the headline, such as seven arrests over a school brawl (which was shared via social media sites as well) and a solid gold public toilet in Germany, all of which were learned about reading a news website, also including Corbyn’s victory in the labour elections via big media i.e. BBC news.

 I also found out about various other news stories from those within the media group such as Theresa May’s controversial proposal to reopen grammar schools, Colombian referendum, Joey Barton out for several weeks, sport direct paying employees £200 million in bonuses, the PS4 Pro launch, brownlee brothers at the marathon, N.Korean rocket/firework test etc. Only several of which were read in any depth, Theresa May’s grammar school plan in particular, the problem being that grammar schools cherry pick students from other schools catchment radius’ worsening the comprehensive schools quality and quantity of students, skewing the Ofsted ratings for the worse for contemporary schools as well as giving some an unfair advantage over others as well as social class being a significant factor in the results of the tests required for admittance, however, most grammar schools have undeniably high a-level scores as well as some saying it “undermines” privilege as they aid the brightest children from poorer families. Ceasefire broken as UN convoy attacked, by CNN politics, the aid convey was hit when it was travelling east towards Aleppo from the west it is unclear who attacked the convoy but America is falling back on its blame the Russians strategy, yet again, what is clear is that around 20 were killed in the attack and they were killed via an airstrike. Russia denies involvement, which would likely be the case whether a country is guilty or not, and are blaming the Syrian rebels. The UN’s response is about as indecisive as you’d think: “Just when we think it cannot get any worse, the power of depravity sinks lower.” 18 out of the 31 trucks went down in the airstrike. Finally, N.Korea’s “successful” rocket engine/firework test was conducted in an underground nuclear test bunker with the US and China agreeing with the UN to address N.Korea’s fifth nuke test. North Korea repeatedly make claims about the “success and progress” of there nuclear and missile programmes with analysts saying that the claims are too numerous too independently verify and the UN declaring increased and toughened sanctions against Pyongyang. N.K claim the rocket is for a non-military related satellite, claiming that the test is of a purely scientific nature with the US, South Korea and China being inclined to disagree, there track record of non-violence related anything being quite bad. The test is almost universal considered as an indication that North Korea will soon launch another long range missile/rocket by the UN/ everyone who isn’t North Korean.