The document provides tips and guidance for students completing a media production project involving creating a music video, website, and album packaging. It outlines the key tasks, recommends maintaining a detailed blog to document the entire process, and suggests ways to gather evidence such as researching other artists, taking photos and video clips during the process, and getting feedback from peers. Students are also given a random exercise to design an imaginary album cover by combining random words and images from Wikipedia, quotes, and Flickr photos.

1. Top Tips

2. The Task
• Package: album (digipack), website or advert,
music video
• 100 marks: research and planning 20, video 40,
digipack 10, website 10, evaluation 20

3. The Blog
• Evidence of whole journey
• Research, Planning, Construction of all 3
products
• Evaluation
• Finished products

4. Good blogs
• http://oliviadarceyhawthorne.blogspot.co.uk
• http://hurtwoodmedia12beesupavarasuwat.blogspot.co.u
• http://gregfellows72.blogspot.co.uk/
• http://mollyeve73.blogspot.co.uk/

5. Good Housekeeping
• tidy desktop
• storage of footage
• labelling files
• tidy blog

6. Evidence 1
• real music videos
• real music videos of your genre
• any visuals that have influenced you (films, TV,
adverts, music videos, photos)
• ‘steal-o-matic’
• costume photos, location photos, test shots

7. Evidence 2
• real album covers
• real band websites
• early exercises designing album covers
• changes to your designs- screengrabs
• show how it is a ‘package’

8. Random ALBUM COVER exercise
Step 1: Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The title of the first random Wikipedia article you get is the NAME of your band.
Step 2: Go to: http://quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the TITLE of your
album.
Step 3: Go to: http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, is the COVER of your album.
Step 4: Use Photoshop to put it altogether and design the front and back cover of
the album.
[Photoshop canvas size: H 12 cm x W 24 cm / 300 dpi]
Step 5: Upload your finished album artwork to Flickr

10. Re-makes

13. Evidence 3
• student music videos, digipacks and websites with
comments
• Jake’s videos and tips from today
• photos and clips from today
• edits from today
• storyboard and animatic of your video plan

14. Evidence 4
• feedback from your peers
• rough cuts of your video
• screengrabs of your edit in progress
• ‘behind the scenes’
• regular commentary on what you are doing

15. when to do website/digipack
• in parallel, NOT at the end!
• taking photos for later use
• having lots of extra ideas
• can do more than one design within the group