Evaluation Of Practice Piece

Website for Walking On Sunshine

This band website for my 1 minute music video 'Walking On Sunshine'. http://mediashaunhardwick.weebly.com/







This band website has been created by using Weebly, as a guide to help me with developing the website to promote the artist for my 1 minute music video. Furthermore from designing the band website for the 'Walking On Sunshine' artist has shown me how to design the band website for the proper band website for my main coursework music video. Also shows me how to link the different pages of the band website together and put in images and YouTube clips in the band website.
Also from learning how a band website is used and put together to promote the artist has give me skills that I can use for my main coursework music video next year.

Ten Steps to Success

Principal Examiner, Pete Fraser suggested 50 ways in which A-Level students could improve their practical work in this case making a brilliant music video.
Here is 10 ways in which an A-Level student can do to make a brilliant music video:

1. Research - What is a music video and how the lyrics of the song matches the visuals of the music video.
2. Getting in a group - Choose who you work with the best to make sure you and them get the bests possible grade for your work.
3. Choosing a track - Pick a song in which you can work which you can gain the most ideas from to put in your music video.
4. The Pitch - Gain a lot of ideas for the song to put in your finished practical work.
5. Look at previous student work - Look at how previous students did their music videos and learn from it by looking at what they did well and what to improve or avoid in your work.
6. Planning and shooting - Timescale is critical here as you have to storyboard your ideas down and plan when to shot each scene in time before the deadline.
7. Editing - Load your work into an editing software and look at what footage is the best to be put into your music video.
8. Screening and Feedback - Make sure you can get feedback from others in which they can tell you what is good and what to improve at before you meet the deadline.
9. Writing - Make sure you are meeting the A-Level specification according by your teachers that this needs to be do at the planning, shooting and editing stages and shouldn't be done at the last minute.
10. Marking - Leave this to your teachers and look towards at receiving a good grade for your music video.

Walking On Sunshine

This is the final version of the One minute music video for Walking On Sunshine. After two weeks of filming and editing, the music video was a success as the footage with the main female character (singer) lynch-synchs with the lyrics of the song and the footage matches the pace of the beat of Walking On Sunshine.

CD Single- Walking On Sunshine

Front Cover of the CD Single to Walking On Sunshine.

Back Cover of the CD single for Walking On Sunshine.