1. Analysis of Previous Students Work Zoe Ramsdale-Clark

2. Chosen Blog I have decided to look at Katies work from last year as her music video had a major narrative base which is what I was thinking about doing when it came to filming my music video. I will be looking at how her work has been successful through the research and planning in order to create a good music video. 3. Research Process When looking at the research tasks, I can see that the first couple of tasks that she carried out were the History of Music Videos and the research into existing music videos that she had for her music video. I had decided at the beginning that I would also concentrate on the research task rather than the planning in order to help me contemplate various ideas that could work for my video. There are a number of tasks that are set in which we have to carry out which will help us reach the highest number of marks for our blogs. It is quite helpful being able to look at previous students work to see the standard in which I must reach to get a good grade. 4. Planning Process When looking at the planning tasks, I can see that one of the first tasks that was complete was the initial planning ideas and inspirations from current music videos which are readily available on the music market. I believe that when I start the planning process, this would be a good point to start with as I will be able to gather various ideas and pointers to help me create my music video. When looking at Katies blog, there are 38 planning posts compared to 15 research which suggests to me that even though there is research needed in order to create something like this, the planning posts are extremely important in order to create something remotely successful. 5. The Music Video The song used for the music video is Medicine by Daughter and is 4 minutes and 12 seconds long. Overall I believe that the narrative style of this video is quite simple, however I believe that this is very effective and draws in the attention of the audience. With certain elements of the video being in black and white, but also an almost sepia effect signifies sadness and helps tell the story of the song and the video which I believe is key when producing a narrative based video. The costumes and props used are quite basic with just normal outfits used on the characters and with a basic setting of a house will allow the audience to relate to the video quite easily which is normally quite hard with music videos due to the extravagant costumes and large, high end locations. 6. Overview Overall, I believe that looking at this blog and music video has helped me gather a good idea as to the standard and quality of what my work needs to be like. In comparison to other students videos such as Bad Blood and Spectrum, this video is not as extravagant in my opinion, however, I believe that is very effective in telling a story and having that ability to easily relate to the video with their being a story in which can be seen in society quite frequently . 7. Overview Overall, I believe that looking at this blog and music video has helped me gather a good idea as to the standard and quality of what my work needs to be like. In comparison to other students videos such as Bad Blood and Spectrum, this video is not as extravagant in my opinion, however, I believe that is very effective in telling a story and having that ability to easily relate to the video with their being a story in which can be seen in society quite frequently .