By Parishti Perumal

What we did…Both media classes from Year 13 attended this ‘Richmix’ trip to London. The day was titled as ‘From MTV to YouTube: Studying Music Video’. We had the chance to listen and take part in task and also we were talked through presentations by; • Pete Fraser- Chief executive for OCR A-Level Media Studies• Liz Kessler- A music video producer• Corin Hardy- A music video producer

Presentations

• The first part of the conference was based on the history behind music videos, conventions and top tips on how to create a good music video.

• The second was working within the music industry and producing videos.

• The third session, we were able to listen and view some of Corin Hardy’s music videos that he directed and produced himself. This part was extremely interested as we were able to question him and get his advice on certain things.

Tasks

Over lunch we were given a task to do whereby we were played a music track and we had to visualise what we saw when listening to it. The track was called ‘No Rest’ and we had to think about; - Intertextual references- Ideas- Locations and settings These ideas were then pitched to Corin who gave feedback and advice to us- this helped as we were able to think more out of the box and more abstract.

Heena, Paris, Corin Hardy, Me, Jodie and Jade