Rich Mix

On the 9th November our media class went to Rich Mix which is an arts centre in Bethnal Green. We went to a work shop about music videos called "From MTV to Youtube" which lasted the whole day and really helped us with ideas and tips for our own music video coursework.

In the morning we had a session with the head examiner from the OCR media studies, Pete Fraser. He went over the history of music videos starting from the 1930's when there was the first experimental type of music video by Len Lye. He also gave us his 10 top tips for when we are making our own music video for our coursework which included keeping our concept simple and planning as well as we can. He also showed us some examples of past student music videos which I found useful because we could see the kind of standard of the videos from previous years and from different schools around the country. In the afternoon we had 2 more speakers who presented to us which I thought was the most interesting part of the day. First of all a music video producer, Liz Kessler, spoke to us about how to get into the media industry and about her own experiences. She also shared with us examples of her own work that she had produced which included artists such as Will Young and a new pop star called Lissie. The second part of the afternoon was run by a music video director called Corin Hardy who was very interesting and inspiring to listen to. He told us about how he got into his job and about the 30 minute feature film he made called "Butterfly" that took him 5 years to make. This film opened doors for him as the band "Keane"'s manager saw his film when it was entered into a film festival and asked Corin if he would make a music video for Keane. This led him to direct a number of music videos for bands such as The Horrors, Biffy Clyro and The Prodigy. We also had an exercise set during our lunch break which we had to complete. In our school groups we had to think of a concept for a music video for the song "God and Satan" by Biffy Clyro. We then nominated one person from our school to pitch our ideas to Corin Hardy and Liz Kessler infront of the other 6 schools there.

I really enjoyed the day and think it really helped us to get some important tips and ideas for our own music video.

We filmed some parts of the day with our flip camera which I will upload soon.