Monday, 23 June 2014
Thursday, 19 June 2014
Planning/ research and ideas for the preliminary task
In todays lesson we discussed what we had to do for the preliminary task and how it is beneficial to the course and for our development. It allows us to see faults and learn from our mistakes.
One of the main ideas that was suggested for the preliminary task was a chase sequence. For the first 2 hours of today I brainstormed some ideas on a mind-map and thought of what I could produce. Using the resources I have at the moment, I have decided I am going to do this small project within the school grounds. ( This idea is developed further in the research below). I could be more creative and go outside of school and do something at home or in the city centre however I don't want this task to be overly time consuming, and although I want it to be a quality video, I don't want all my time to be centralised on one thing.
This video will potentially help me correct any errors I have found in the recording so I can prevent it for occurring when I am doing my short film.
Outline of what might be included in the development of research and planning:
* Brief outline of a concept - Idea
* Storyboards
* Potential investigations into the music that could be used
* Plan: Costume, Time management, actors, props and location.
(Will benefit me when I come to plan the short film as I will have an understanding what will be included in each section and how each process works).
IDEA 1:
Chase sequence - Proposal idea
Main Idea:
- A woman is in her boyfriends apartment and his phone buzzes as it has received a text message
- She goes to investigate and the message is off a girl. the message is confusing - says something that could be assumed in a different way. She jumps to conclusions, probably assuming he is cheating and she fleas the apartment.
- He sees the bed on the phone and not in his pocket like it was last
- Runs out of the apartment and sees the bus leaving with her on it
- he looks everywhere for her, not knowing where she is and when she will return back to his
- Devastated and very confused, the boyfriend returns back to his apartment, where he is surprised by his girlfriend waiting there. ( This is hours later )
- She confronts him and he explains it's not what it looks like and he didn't want to do it here - the proposal - and wanted to do it somewhere so romantic but there was no way out of this situation unless he did it now.
- He got down on one knee and produced a ring box from his pocket
- Stunned girlfriend then says 'Yes' as she agrees to the unanswered question.
Potential Locations?
- A flat/house/apartment? Could use my sisters house.
- For the bus sequence I could use the bus stop down my street/ quite a nice street which opens onto a long road - would give enough time to see the bus ride away with the girlfriend. Straight road - clear shot.
- I could use the surrounding area of my house and maybe in town? probably somewhere local as it is easier for me and probably for the actors as I will be using people that I know and who live close by.
Actors?
- 2 actors are all that is needed to play and maybe someone (or myself ) can text the 'boyfriend' if the CALLER ID on the mobile is changed.
Age range? Who could play this role?
- The age range could be from anyone in my school who looks old enough. If I had to use anyone from school I would rather use my year group as I know the majority of them and they appear to me reliable enough.
- There is the possibility I could use one of my siblings for the role of the female. She is 22 years old.
- I can also ask my friends' siblings to act within the chase sequence if need be.
Costume?
- Average day to casual wear.
- It is just meant to look modern and simple, nothing over done, just what the actors would wear normally so it looks realistic, however I don't want sweat pants and lounge wear as it looks too casual.
One of the main ideas that was suggested for the preliminary task was a chase sequence. For the first 2 hours of today I brainstormed some ideas on a mind-map and thought of what I could produce. Using the resources I have at the moment, I have decided I am going to do this small project within the school grounds. ( This idea is developed further in the research below). I could be more creative and go outside of school and do something at home or in the city centre however I don't want this task to be overly time consuming, and although I want it to be a quality video, I don't want all my time to be centralised on one thing.
This video will potentially help me correct any errors I have found in the recording so I can prevent it for occurring when I am doing my short film.
Outline of what might be included in the development of research and planning:
* Brief outline of a concept - Idea
* Storyboards
* Potential investigations into the music that could be used
* Plan: Costume, Time management, actors, props and location.
(Will benefit me when I come to plan the short film as I will have an understanding what will be included in each section and how each process works).
IDEA 1:
Chase sequence - Proposal idea
Main Idea:
- A woman is in her boyfriends apartment and his phone buzzes as it has received a text message
- She goes to investigate and the message is off a girl. the message is confusing - says something that could be assumed in a different way. She jumps to conclusions, probably assuming he is cheating and she fleas the apartment.
- He sees the bed on the phone and not in his pocket like it was last
- Runs out of the apartment and sees the bus leaving with her on it
- he looks everywhere for her, not knowing where she is and when she will return back to his
- Devastated and very confused, the boyfriend returns back to his apartment, where he is surprised by his girlfriend waiting there. ( This is hours later )
- She confronts him and he explains it's not what it looks like and he didn't want to do it here - the proposal - and wanted to do it somewhere so romantic but there was no way out of this situation unless he did it now.
- He got down on one knee and produced a ring box from his pocket
- Stunned girlfriend then says 'Yes' as she agrees to the unanswered question.
Potential Locations?
- A flat/house/apartment? Could use my sisters house.
- For the bus sequence I could use the bus stop down my street/ quite a nice street which opens onto a long road - would give enough time to see the bus ride away with the girlfriend. Straight road - clear shot.
- I could use the surrounding area of my house and maybe in town? probably somewhere local as it is easier for me and probably for the actors as I will be using people that I know and who live close by.
Actors?
- 2 actors are all that is needed to play and maybe someone (or myself ) can text the 'boyfriend' if the CALLER ID on the mobile is changed.
Age range? Who could play this role?
- The age range could be from anyone in my school who looks old enough. If I had to use anyone from school I would rather use my year group as I know the majority of them and they appear to me reliable enough.
- There is the possibility I could use one of my siblings for the role of the female. She is 22 years old.
- I can also ask my friends' siblings to act within the chase sequence if need be.
Costume?
- Average day to casual wear.
- It is just meant to look modern and simple, nothing over done, just what the actors would wear normally so it looks realistic, however I don't want sweat pants and lounge wear as it looks too casual.
Monday, 16 June 2014
A2 MEDIA
This is the start of my second year in A level media. Today was my first lesson and we discussed what potential ideas we could do for our coursework and who we would work with. I was going to work with myself but then I was thinking about the benefits of having another person work with me. I had to ensure they were reliable and that they would be able to produce a piece of work that was acceptable and looked like it was to a high standard. Alex - my partner for this course, allowed me to brainstorm some ideas and helped me think of what we could do. Commonly, people tend to sway for the horror trailer idea but some have opted for the short film idea. I recently watched one of the year 13s work from this year and their short film was amazing. We didn't want to concentrate on the an exact idea today for the film but we had a skeleton to work from and some potential locations and people we could potentially use as actors.
Sunday, 4 May 2014
Thursday, 1 May 2014
Callum video response to my magazine
UPDATE:
This video is not uploading to my blog. I have used a lot of ways to try and upload it, such as:
- Blogger
- Youtube
- Vimeo
I will keep trying however it doesn't seem to be working.
There other two have uploaded without a problem.
[NEW UPDATE]
I uploaded that update about processing failure of my video response that Callum participated in.
With his help I was able to upload it to youtube even though it did take a considerable about of time.
[NEW UPDATE]
Magazine response: Charles Russell
I used a mac book to present my work. I showed Charlie my finished project and asked him a varied amount of questions.
Evaluation - quesiton 7
Question 7:
Looking back at your preliminary task what do you feel you
have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Looking back to the beginning of my project I can see a
massive difference in the way I work around media and how I think, – my
understanding of media and everything involved has changed. From this full
project I feel like I now know how to use many software’s on the computer more
accurately.
Within this project I have found an understanding for how
magazines are constructed and what is involved to create a professional looking
magazine. The content is also important when creating a good magazine so that
has to be taken into consideration.
From when I started this course I took pictures around the
school to put onto the mock exams and they were appalling. They were unclear,
wrong in more than way possible, they were atrocious. Now looking at when I
just started taking pictures for my front cover the angles, the
framing/positioning is 100% clear than when it was. Tees images are clear and
fit happily within in any magazine and that do seem the best.
Quesiton 6 continued
My blog: Using a blog has been new, exciting and different. To post information about your project via the internet is a new age idea and I believe that it is also a simple idea. It's better than all of this coursework with a trillion stacks of paper that the examiner has to mark.
I have found it easy to post - sometimes. There has been difficulties when trying to upload media like podcasts and other technical powerpoints because it could just take a while for it to load which is time consuming and sometimes; especially in my case, i'd upload something and it would not show up to any one else, which is very frustrating.
There is a schedule on the blog posts so if you have accidently missed something out, you can slip it in and it'll go along side the work you want.
I love working with Blogger. It's new and it presents your work so it looks like its efficient and when using all forms of media, it looks amazing.
Evaluation - Question 4
What would the audience be for your media product?
Audience profile:
Gender: Male/female
Age: 35-40+
class: middle class+
- this is due to the stereotype
of the high class enjoying more calm and relaxing classical music or the
stereotype that you must listen to classical music because its 'posh' and
that’s what rich people do.
Interests: sports, music, etc...
Disposable income for magazine: £5-£10
My ideal audience would be someone that could obviously
afford the magazine but appreciate everything within it, for example, in my
issues there is score paper that is given away free – score paper is not cheap
and is very resourceful to composers, it would be ideal for the reader to have
some connection with music. This could be in the form of a player or a
composer. Even if the reader didn’t have a clue about classical music but just
enjoyed it that still wouldn’t be a loss.
To find out this date I used open questionnaires mixed with a couple of closed questions.
Why did I do this?
- Open questionnaires measure the opinion of someone, this is good when you want a large number of varied results and this gives you insight into what the personal thinks about it as its their independent thought.
- Closed questionnaires are easier and faster...you normally just have to tick a box or something. This is to get a general understanding of what people think and it allows the process of grouping answers together quicker because there aren't answers that are personal ones - there is a set amount of questions and people have to choose from them.
To find out this date I used open questionnaires mixed with a couple of closed questions.
Why did I do this?
- Open questionnaires measure the opinion of someone, this is good when you want a large number of varied results and this gives you insight into what the personal thinks about it as its their independent thought.
- Closed questionnaires are easier and faster...you normally just have to tick a box or something. This is to get a general understanding of what people think and it allows the process of grouping answers together quicker because there aren't answers that are personal ones - there is a set amount of questions and people have to choose from them.
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