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A videographer is a person who works in the video medium. Videographers maintain and operate a variety of video equipment, edit footage, and stay up to date with technological advances. In order to become a videographer you need to have experience with cameras, so an A-level or a degree in photography. Computer technology, as putting things on the computer and experience in cropping things may be needed.

Songwriter:

A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics, as well as the musical composition or melody to songs. Al you need is passion for music and you ca write anything. You may also need a publisher, or if you are doing it yourself, you can find a way to be your own publisher. To become a songwriter you may need qualifications in certain subjects. A-levels and degrees may help, possibly in english and Creative and Media.

Task 3:

How you might normally apply for a job within the music industry:

Go to a media associated environment

Apply to many places that appeal to your job description

Task 4:

Recruitment practices for the two selected jobs:

As today in apart of the rapidly changing business environment, recruitment practices are needed. Songwriters and videographers...

Task 5:

Pay scales for my two selected jobs:

The pay scale for videographer depends on the years of experience. The picture above shows.

For a songwriters salary, doing research i have found that every song writer earns different amounts, it all depends on how many records are sold and how much the publisher gets once the money is split.

Task 6:

Different University's and Colleges that have courses/ study Music/ Music technology:

Royal College of Music (RCM):

Vocal Studies

Opera

Piano, Piano Accompaniment & Repetiteur

Composition & Contempory music

Jazz

Historical Performance

Musical Theatre

Woodwind

Brass

Timpani & Percussion

Conducting

Choral Conducting

Harp

Classical Guitar

Organ

Classical Accordion

Studio Courses

Christ The King: St. Mary's

Creative and Media

Brunel University:

Musical Performance BMus

Musical Composition BMus

Music: Sonic Arts BA

Music, Games Design and Music BA

Music BA:....

This course is for students that wish to focus on the academic study of music. This course is 3 years full time and 4.5- 6 years part - time.

Music and Film and Television Studies BA

Music and English BA

Music and Drama BA

Multimedia Technology and Design BSc

Kingston University:

Music MA- Postgraduate courses

Music Technology- BMus

Applied music

Croydon College:

Music Technology Level 3 BTEC National Diploma:........

Covers topics: audio engineering workshop skills, computer technology for music, improvising music, introduction to acoustics, listening skills, live sound, music performance techniques, music technology in performance and sound creation and manipulation. This a 2 year course

Task 7:

How to find where work opportunities exist:

WWW.GOOGLE.COM

WWW.ASK.COM

Type into either one what you want to search for, which would be:, the job you are looking for, and where it exists.

Task 8:

Career development plan:

	By when	Action required	By whom	Help and resources from
First career target:
Development needed:
Experiences needed:
Opportunities needed:

Task 9:

Ways to keep up to date with developments in the music industry:

Keep a journal

Put things on a calender

Keep others informed with plans and then they can also help with decisions

Tuesday, 12 January 2010

Campaigns

THIS RESEARCH WAS FOUND ON THE INTERENT

Political campaign:
On there sites they give you a few examples of the sites that they have created for political parties, political action groups, and candidates. They have even done a few special interest sites to highlight positions taken by the opponents of there candidates. Each site was drawn specifically for the customer. Yes, there are similarities within the sites, but each give a different point of view. Some of the features that there system adds to the campaign include:
Donor Tracking
Online Contributions
Volunteer Management
Bulk Email Services
Volunteer Blogging
Reporting
Better Transport campaign:
Examples:
Cutting car journeys to train stations
Traffic reduction in Hertfordshire
Cutting congestion from business travel
York leads the way on street-friendliness
Involving children in street design
Coordinated tourist transport in Kent
Smoking Campaign:
This could be to stop smoking, for example, there are a majority of adverts that have been released, talking about the damage it can cause.
The first advert would be, when children are singing a song to there loved ones asking them to stop smoking, as they would ‘do anything’ for them, so to return the favour they should quit this one thing.
The second advert would be when; the man is being chased by cigarettes all day. Everyday he is being followed, just as a tempt
ation, but to resist, he places a nicorette patch on his arm.

THIS RESEARCH WAS FOUND IN NEWSPAPERS

'We need human rights in schools' (The Guardian)

Another year, another reason to be terrified that so-called "human rights culture" is ruining good old-fashioned British values. This time it's the time-cherished tradition of forcing naughty children to stand in the corner. The practice, affectionately described as the Victorian "dunce's corner" in the Daily mail this week, is under threat because it amounts to putting children in a stress position that breaches their rights, the paper says.

'Nanny state targets middle-class drinkers in £10million anti-binge campaign' (Daily Mail)

Middle class drinkers are to be bombarded with TV, radio and newspaper adverts warning them of the dangers of alcohol.
Ministers are stepping up their campaign against unhealthy boozing with a multi-million pound blitz on people who have a glass of two of wine at home at the end of the day.

The campaign that I have chosen to illustrate is: The anti- smoking campaign
This campaign is about helping and preventing people from smoking. Smoking is a deadly substance and can cause bad illness for others around.

Monday, 4 January 2010

Evaluation of Module

The two main area covered in this module are Creative Writing and Vocal Drama. Other area include sound Effects and Music.
At the beginning of this module we began our research on radio plays, what is a radio play, when they began how do you make them, what o you need to produce one and so on. After knowing all of this information and being put into our groups, the class was told that we were going to be producing our own radio play. So in our groups we began discussing what we were going to do, we came up with a variety of ideas, then chose one, which was the '2012 Olympics'. We then discussed who was going to play which part and who was saying what and when. After writing our scenario and planning our script, we then wrote up our final after adding the sound effects.

The beginnings of the performance: scene

Blues Music: Originated from new crieans, was usually played by men and the music is usually sad.

Melodrama: Began in 1066 in 18th Century by Charies Easdown

Mortality Plays:

Classical ballet: 16th and 17th Century

Ragtime music: 1897-1910

Sattrita dance: 15th Century (indian dance). Sankardeva created the dance.

Lindy hop: Originated in the late 1920's. It evolved from Africa, and also involved in Ny.

Restoration comedy: 1660-1710

1980s Alternative comedy:

Punk rock: Originated between 1974 and 1976 in the united states.

Brit pop: Originated in the United Kingdom (1990's)

Aims of performance:

what is the theme of this piece?

A robbery, a vunerable woman gets killed and robbed in her own home.

Why did we choose the theme?

I chose this theme as part of it is different. There is a twist to it. It excited me. The fact that someone gets robbed and mudered secretly and codes are used in the process. It's different. The thing is, it happens in everyday life.

Who is it for?

I believe it is for family audiences. Everyone needs to be aware.

what do we want our piece to do?

I want this piece to shock and educate. It may firghten people, but at least it will open there eyes.

What style(s) of performance will we use? (e.g. naturalism, musical theatre)

What are the dramatic possiblitities of the piece? (e.g. for plot and charactr development, staging)

Final preparations

What is your role in the performance project?

My role in the performance project is to make sure everything is in place. I was the organizer.

List of my main responsibilities:

1)produce a script

2)have music and sound effects

3)make sure it fitted together

4)play music and effects during recording

List of the resources i will be using:

1)google, for the sound effects

2)studio and equipment to produce the performance

How will i make sure that i am working safely in the final stages?

I will not add anything to the role play or music. I will keep it as it is, as any slight changes may end up being a big mess up.

My role was to look for the sound effects and make sure that they fit together with the role play, and are played at the right time. Non of the music chosen was live, they were either pre recorded or copied from the internet. Looking for the sound effects I had a few problems, as I knew exactly what I wanted but the sounds I found didn't match what i wanted. I looked on a variety of sites. After a few tries I finally find the right site and successfully found the sounds I needed. If I could do things differently, I would take my time to listen to the sounds and then take different parts and compose it myself on logic pro.

I also play a character in the role play, which is, the owner of the house, Julie. She is a middle aged woman, with no children and a husband. She was born and raised in Croydon with her mum and 6 siblings. Julie is 5 ft 6 and brown skinned. She has medium length brown and red hair and brown eyes. she is very healthy and was educated in Brunel University.

In the role play Julie doesn't do much, she opens the door and shows the person at the door where to go, then after saying her piece, goes straight to her room. As a person she is very thoughtful and light hearted.

The recorded performance went quite well. Myself and Tanjiana went through a number of recordings as we couldn't be satisfied. The weaknesses we experienced were, that we were never in time with each other, we never had our recorded sound effects and there were times when we missed out a part of our script. After discovering our weaknesses, we made it our strengths, which then helped us complete our final recoding. If I could do anything differently, I would make sure I was properly organized and fully prepare when it came to our final piece.

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