Friday 20 May 2011

Top 10 Tips for the exam

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.

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.

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.