Practical learning activities
Nikki Blackborow The Latymer School
‘Preliminary’ tasks
Organise 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!
4 useful examples of narrative/ performance music videos
1. Britney Spears ‘Baby One More Time’2. Busted ‘What I go to School For’3. Wheatus ‘Teenage Dirtbag’4. She + Him ‘In the Sun’
Available on youtube Set in school Rich for analysis Past but popular/ familiar with students Relevant and accessible Students choose their own contemporary examples
for analysis/research
Practical tasks to aid learning
Students 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
In pairs, choose a song and learn the lyrics. Then lip sync to song, shoot + edit the sequence
Evaluate the process and the learning associated with the above – like a prelim task
Practical/creative tasks to aid learning
Copy a look – students recreate a still photo in pairs
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
Students produce a storyboard for an extract from a professional video
Students create the shooting schedule for a narrative/ performance video
Lip sync practice
2007 Britney Spears ‘Baby One More Time’
2008 Busted ‘What I go to school For’
2009 Wheatus ‘Teenage Dirtbag’
2010 She and Him ‘In The Sun’
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