This document discusses using practical learning activities to aid students' understanding of music videos. It recommends organizing preliminary tasks like students remaking short sections of music videos in groups or pairs. Example narrative music videos that are rich for analysis and familiar to students include "Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears and "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus. Other suggested activities are having students annotate lyrics while listening to an unfamiliar song and preparing a treatment, or creating a storyboard or shooting schedule for an extract from a professional video.

1. Practical learning activitiesNikki Blackborow The Latymer School

2. ‘Preliminary’ tasksOrganise 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!

3. 4 useful examples of narrative/ performance music videosBritney Spears ‘Baby One More Time’Busted ‘What I go to School For’Wheatus ‘Teenage Dirtbag’She + Him ‘In the Sun’ Available on youtubeSet in schoolRich for analysis Past but popular/ familiar with studentsRelevant and accessibleStudents choose their own contemporary examples for analysis/research

4. Practical tasks to aid learningStudents 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

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

6. Evaluate the process and the learning associated with the above – like a prelim task Practical/creative tasks to aid learningCopy a look – students recreate a still photo in pairs

7. 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

8. Students produce a storyboard for an extract from a professional video

9. Students create the shooting schedule for a narrative/ performance videoLip sync practice

10. 2007 Britney Spears ‘Baby One More Time’