1. Read the instructions
2. Look how many marks each question is and divide the time.
3. Section A- Write about all the productions you have made
4. Section B - Write about ONE production you have made. (try not to overlap)
5. 1a is entirely concerned about skills development. digital technology use post-production, use of real media conventions, creativity.
6. Use real media conventions
7. 1b - Audience, Narrative, Genre, Representation, Media Language.
8. Apply Theories
9. Half an hour
10. Use paragraphs.
Friday 20 May 2011
Wednesday 18 May 2011
How our post-production skills have developed.
Through out the course of Media Studies we have developed many skills of post production. We have dynamically used a used a wide range of media resources such as photoshop, final cut, istop motion and garage band. We have also used the internet and websites such as Youtube which is been a fundamental part of the post production process and this has enabled us to publisize our media products to the online world.
What post-production decisions did we make?
These are the decisions we made after filming our music video.
-Editing
-Digipack
-Magazine advert
-Evaluation/Commentary
-Put it on Youtube
Editing
The whole idea of animation is that it blends simultaneously, so to do this we cut scenes and blended them by using the same lighting settings for all. We also created a constant speed through most scenes enabling smoother transitions between frames. We also incorperated a split screen to keep the viewer interested and alert. Lastly we increased the saturation to create more vibrant and asthetically pleasing scenes.
Digipack
Creating a digipack helped us to visalise the product. We used characters directly from our movie. The use of using characters from the music video onto our digipack creates a strong correlation between visuals. This will enable viewers to create links between our characters in the music video and on the digipack
Magazine advert
The magazine advert is simplistic like our digipack and similarally has the same characters on the cover. We made this decision because we wanted a strong link between the music video and the magazine cover so that our viewers could see the correlation.
What is the function of post-production?
The function of post production is to develop the movie further and create a final product. To do this we used a range of media programmes such as final cut and photoshop.
-Editing
-Digipack
-Magazine advert
-Evaluation/Commentary
-Put it on Youtube
Editing
The whole idea of animation is that it blends simultaneously, so to do this we cut scenes and blended them by using the same lighting settings for all. We also created a constant speed through most scenes enabling smoother transitions between frames. We also incorperated a split screen to keep the viewer interested and alert. Lastly we increased the saturation to create more vibrant and asthetically pleasing scenes.
Digipack
Creating a digipack helped us to visalise the product. We used characters directly from our movie. The use of using characters from the music video onto our digipack creates a strong correlation between visuals. This will enable viewers to create links between our characters in the music video and on the digipack
Magazine advert
The magazine advert is simplistic like our digipack and similarally has the same characters on the cover. We made this decision because we wanted a strong link between the music video and the magazine cover so that our viewers could see the correlation.
What is the function of post-production?
The function of post production is to develop the movie further and create a final product. To do this we used a range of media programmes such as final cut and photoshop.
Tuesday 17 May 2011
Using conventions from real texts in our media products
Children's Film.
In my childrens film opening we used conventions from real texts as we looked up several cdvbhildrens programmes such as casper the friendly ghost. We used some of the conventions in this programme for example the friendly location such as a school. This is an enviroment that children would reckonise as safe and friendly. We used a ghost just like casper in our childrens film opening that wanted to become friends with the school children.
Thriller opening
In our thriller opening we also used conventions from real texts amd we looked at films such as the faculty. The faculty was based in a school, with school children being attacked. We used some of the conventions from this film such as we based our thriller in a school and with a female student being attacked.
In my childrens film opening we used conventions from real texts as we looked up several cdvbhildrens programmes such as casper the friendly ghost. We used some of the conventions in this programme for example the friendly location such as a school. This is an enviroment that children would reckonise as safe and friendly. We used a ghost just like casper in our childrens film opening that wanted to become friends with the school children.
Thriller opening
In our thriller opening we also used conventions from real texts amd we looked at films such as the faculty. The faculty was based in a school, with school children being attacked. We used some of the conventions from this film such as we based our thriller in a school and with a female student being attacked.
Wednesday 9 March 2011
How is the identity of women mediated via the internet and why is this problematic? - ej
Catfish is a reality thriller/documentary film that follows the journey of the main character Nev a photographer based in New York, and his relationship with a family he becomes friends with on Facebook. The relationship begins when an 8 year old girl Abby contacts Nev on Facebook asking if she can paint one of his pictures. He then becomes friends with the family including the mum Andrea, the older half sister Megan, the step dad Vince as well as the brother. Nev regularly receives packages of paintings of his pictures and eventually after forming a good relationship with the entire family which includes having phone call conversations with the mum and older sister he begins to find out what he has been told might not be entirely the truth.
In the film catfish, the main (only!) female character mediates herself via the internet through her multiple profiles on the website facebook. She creates different identities on the site using multiple fake names and pictures and uses them to represent different parts of her personalities. She creates an entire family on Facebook and uses them to convey the lies and events that she has been telling the main character Nev. She mediates herself as her 8 year old daughter Abby who is a rising star artist who paints nevs photos and owns a gallery. She also mediates herself as the sister Megan who is supposedly a singer and creates a long distance relationship with Nev. She also mediates herself as the mum using a back dated image of herself and creates the story that she has cancer. When Nev finally meets her he realises that none of these things she has mediated her self as are not true.
The way the character Angela mediates herself is problematic for multiple reasons. The first is that by using the internet and face book you can become anyone you want and angela has been stealing identities to mediate herself as the different parts of her personality that she has not been able to live herself. The second major problem for the way Angela mediates herself is that she is committing crimes by stealing peoples identities and this can be a major crime. The fact that people can become anyone they want on the internet through social sites like facebook, twitter ect means that relationships made on the internet can be fake. It can also lead to more dangerous things such as murder, rape and abduction especially when the ones been influenced by fake identities are young children and adolescents.
In the film catfish, the main (only!) female character mediates herself via the internet through her multiple profiles on the website facebook. She creates different identities on the site using multiple fake names and pictures and uses them to represent different parts of her personalities. She creates an entire family on Facebook and uses them to convey the lies and events that she has been telling the main character Nev. She mediates herself as her 8 year old daughter Abby who is a rising star artist who paints nevs photos and owns a gallery. She also mediates herself as the sister Megan who is supposedly a singer and creates a long distance relationship with Nev. She also mediates herself as the mum using a back dated image of herself and creates the story that she has cancer. When Nev finally meets her he realises that none of these things she has mediated her self as are not true.
The way the character Angela mediates herself is problematic for multiple reasons. The first is that by using the internet and face book you can become anyone you want and angela has been stealing identities to mediate herself as the different parts of her personality that she has not been able to live herself. The second major problem for the way Angela mediates herself is that she is committing crimes by stealing peoples identities and this can be a major crime. The fact that people can become anyone they want on the internet through social sites like facebook, twitter ect means that relationships made on the internet can be fake. It can also lead to more dangerous things such as murder, rape and abduction especially when the ones been influenced by fake identities are young children and adolescents.
Tuesday 8 March 2011
How is the identity of women mediated via the Internet and why is this problematic? - Kirsten Toye
Catfish is a documentary film made in 2010. Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling, Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman produced it and Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost directed it. The film is about a man called Nev who is a photographer that’s lives in New York with his brother Ariel
The identity of the women, Angela, is mediated over the internet using Facebook. She has mediated herself as many different people coming from the same family. She has mediated herself as a little 8-year-old girl called Abby, who was painting pictures of Nev’s photographs. She also mediated herself as a 19-year-old girl called Megan, who was Abby’s half sister, who was starting a long distant relationship with Nev, and she also mediated herself as Angela, the mother of Abby and Megan who had cancer. None of this was true.
The woman has shown different identities to Nev. She made any different identities to make it seen real, and they were living a real life, but there were some things that didn’t piece together that made Nev realise that this wasn’t right. She has created multiple profiles of different people and represented parts of her own identity in them. This is problematic because anyone can put a false identity on the internet, through social networking sites and miss lead people. Although this is a serious case, it could lead to things much worse such as rape, murder, abduction and many more, as people can create a person who looks very real and start a friendship or relationship, like Nev and Megan did. Angela is committing major crimes as well as miss leading people. The people she stole identity from were people she knew, but stealing an identity is a crime.
The identity of the women, Angela, is mediated over the internet using Facebook. She has mediated herself as many different people coming from the same family. She has mediated herself as a little 8-year-old girl called Abby, who was painting pictures of Nev’s photographs. She also mediated herself as a 19-year-old girl called Megan, who was Abby’s half sister, who was starting a long distant relationship with Nev, and she also mediated herself as Angela, the mother of Abby and Megan who had cancer. None of this was true.
The woman has shown different identities to Nev. She made any different identities to make it seen real, and they were living a real life, but there were some things that didn’t piece together that made Nev realise that this wasn’t right. She has created multiple profiles of different people and represented parts of her own identity in them. This is problematic because anyone can put a false identity on the internet, through social networking sites and miss lead people. Although this is a serious case, it could lead to things much worse such as rape, murder, abduction and many more, as people can create a person who looks very real and start a friendship or relationship, like Nev and Megan did. Angela is committing major crimes as well as miss leading people. The people she stole identity from were people she knew, but stealing an identity is a crime.
Tuesday 8 February 2011
Our Lesson- Friday 4th March.
1. Give students a piece of paper and ask them in their groups what they think collective identity is.
2. PowerPoint. - clips.
3. Put genres in hand and groups choose a piece of paper, and they have to think 2 Films and TV Programs, and write notes about their characters and how this fits into the genre.
4. Draw a table on the board of collective identity and then the film and TV program the groups have thought of. Then ask why they have chosen these films and TV progams and how it applies to the collective identity.
2. PowerPoint. - clips.
3. Put genres in hand and groups choose a piece of paper, and they have to think 2 Films and TV Programs, and write notes about their characters and how this fits into the genre.
4. Draw a table on the board of collective identity and then the film and TV program the groups have thought of. Then ask why they have chosen these films and TV progams and how it applies to the collective identity.
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