Analysis of previous student work

A2 Media Studies – Advanced Portfolio

Blogging task

Select one of the previous student videos that you’ve analysed in class – try and pick one from the same genre that you would like to work within.  Analyse it in relation to Andrew Goodwin, Carol Vernallis and Laura Mulvey’s theories, and identify what you feel are the video’s main strengths and weaknesses.

Emmanuel, Ariadna, Yuksel, Titilope, Joshua

One of the multiple baselines

The video is about how the singers are mourning the loss of his brother. The video is an illustration as it shows how the singers are dealing with the loss of their brother. The video has multiple jump cuts throughout the whole video, as well as having multiple baselines for the editor to jump back to. The singers are also used as the character of the video which is normally seen in the genre. The video lasts around 3 minutes which is the standard for music videos.