Sunday, 20 December 2015
Media Audiences - Stereotypes
Today we looked at how people are stereotyped by completing a worksheet assigned to us via moodle. It involved us looking at people and they're interests and assigning types of genre's and describing why then recommending movies for them to watch.
Short Film Questions
1) What is your first name? (e.g. John Doe)
2) What age category do you fall under? (Multiple Choice)
15 | 16-17 | 18-19 | 20+
3) What is your gender?
3) Order the list to what you enjoy most in a film?
Comedy | Horror | Action | Adventure | War
4) How important is Comedy in a film (Matrix/Rating Scale)
[VERY IMPORTANT] [] [MODERATLY IMPORTANT] [] [NOT IMPORTANT]
5) How important is Horror in a film (Matrix/Rating Scale)
[VERY IMPORTANT] [] [MODERATLY IMPORTANT] [] [NOT IMPORTANT]
6) How important is Action in a film (Matrix/Rating Scale)
[VERY IMPORTANT] [] [MODERATLY IMPORTANT] [] [NOT IMPORTANT]
2) What age category do you fall under? (Multiple Choice)
15 | 16-17 | 18-19 | 20+
3) What is your gender?
3) Order the list to what you enjoy most in a film?
Comedy | Horror | Action | Adventure | War
4) How important is Comedy in a film (Matrix/Rating Scale)
[VERY IMPORTANT] [] [MODERATLY IMPORTANT] [] [NOT IMPORTANT]
5) How important is Horror in a film (Matrix/Rating Scale)
[VERY IMPORTANT] [] [MODERATLY IMPORTANT] [] [NOT IMPORTANT]
6) How important is Action in a film (Matrix/Rating Scale)
[VERY IMPORTANT] [] [MODERATLY IMPORTANT] [] [NOT IMPORTANT]
Key Research Termonology
Key
Research Terminology
In todays lesson we learnt about ways to improve our blogs in order to get us higher marks. The first thing we looked at is primary and secondary research/source's. A primary source is information gathered by you first hand via the use of questionnaire's, surveys and interviews. Secondly, we looked at secondary research. This is research that is taken from the internet such as past questionnaire's, past surveys.
After this we looked at Market Research. Market Research is the research into the attitudes and concerns relative to the customers behavior in relation to the product. An example of Market Research is an interview. Following this we looked at Quantative data which is the collecting of numerical results such as percentages,
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After taking notes on your tutors
explanation of key terminologies, complete the following handout:
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Shot List
In today's lesson we looked at creating a storyboard for our short film. Dominic and Sam created and inputted the storyboard based on the concept we are going for. While they did this, I created a shot list.
These are the shots we are going for:
These are the shots we are going for:
- Scene 1) Mid-Shot, Monologue
- Scene 2) Birds-Eye, Establishing shot
- Scene 3) Birds-Eye, Establishing shot
- Scene 4) Birds-Eye, Establishing shot
- Scene 5) Mid-Shot, Monologue
- Scene 6) Steady Cam,
- Scene 7) Midshot,
- Scene 8.1) Jib Shot/Panning Shot
Short Film Evaluation
The project set for Short Film is a short film that incorporates secrets. The process we went through was researching and watching a few short films, Such as Lemonade and others. We next went onto writing our own individual proposal which we details as to what we want to put into our short films.
Next we were put into groups where we went through in detail each of our individual proposals and followed up by selecting the one proposal we want to use. In my case, we agreed with using Dom's proposal.
The research we preformed was primary research and was related to short films as it was looking at Lemonade and another short film. This was shown in one of Faye's lessons. Outside of the lessons I also looked at short films online on the Short Film Festival website. I looked at a variety of films such as: A plastic toy dinosaur, also Bellybutton and Cream Tease. Finally, I looked at The Walk which is a animated movie so wasn't exactly relevant to what we were working towards.
The next stage was creating a brainstorm and ideas of what secret we can incorporate since the whole project is based on Secrets. The idea Dom suggested is from Fallout and consists of a man being locked in a vault however the door becomes unlocked after several days. We came to a group decision of the secret being that the door in the vault was already unlocked. Following on from the ideas and brainstorms we completed, We went through all the pre-production paperwork such as location reki, health and safety forum and shot list. These can be found on here.
After completing the following paperwork it was time to start filming. The kit we used had to be booked out in advance, including: a tripod, a video camera and a microphone. A secondary thing that was a precaution is that the room we were using to record was a sound booth so may be booked out or being used however the technician allowed us to use the room as long as we gave priority to anyone that needs to use it. We did the opening scene outside the sound booth at the table where I set up the camera and tripod at head level with Dom, We did a test run off camera to prevent using loads of recordings when we can just use a singular one when Dom knew exactly what he was saying. After this we did the secondary scene inside the sound booth which was a 5-6 minutes recording of Sam (The trapped man) banging around trying to escape the vault.
Once everything was recorded we used the 5-6 minute clip and increased the speed to 7.23x faster which reduced it to around 1 minute. I next added effects to the video, these were a "Grey & White" effect onto the clip making it black and white, I then added a timestamp to add a security camera effect onto the clip. I tried to add a black circle around the outside but it overlayed the video so you couldn't see anything apart from the circle so I had to remove it unfortunately.
[Insert extra editing here]
If I was to repeat the project I would change the room that it was recorded in as I felt it was too small, apart from this I was happy with everything we did as a group and who was in my group, I feel we worked well together.
[Insert Peer Feedback]
Next we were put into groups where we went through in detail each of our individual proposals and followed up by selecting the one proposal we want to use. In my case, we agreed with using Dom's proposal.
The research we preformed was primary research and was related to short films as it was looking at Lemonade and another short film. This was shown in one of Faye's lessons. Outside of the lessons I also looked at short films online on the Short Film Festival website. I looked at a variety of films such as: A plastic toy dinosaur, also Bellybutton and Cream Tease. Finally, I looked at The Walk which is a animated movie so wasn't exactly relevant to what we were working towards.
The next stage was creating a brainstorm and ideas of what secret we can incorporate since the whole project is based on Secrets. The idea Dom suggested is from Fallout and consists of a man being locked in a vault however the door becomes unlocked after several days. We came to a group decision of the secret being that the door in the vault was already unlocked. Following on from the ideas and brainstorms we completed, We went through all the pre-production paperwork such as location reki, health and safety forum and shot list. These can be found on here.
After completing the following paperwork it was time to start filming. The kit we used had to be booked out in advance, including: a tripod, a video camera and a microphone. A secondary thing that was a precaution is that the room we were using to record was a sound booth so may be booked out or being used however the technician allowed us to use the room as long as we gave priority to anyone that needs to use it. We did the opening scene outside the sound booth at the table where I set up the camera and tripod at head level with Dom, We did a test run off camera to prevent using loads of recordings when we can just use a singular one when Dom knew exactly what he was saying. After this we did the secondary scene inside the sound booth which was a 5-6 minutes recording of Sam (The trapped man) banging around trying to escape the vault.
Once everything was recorded we used the 5-6 minute clip and increased the speed to 7.23x faster which reduced it to around 1 minute. I next added effects to the video, these were a "Grey & White" effect onto the clip making it black and white, I then added a timestamp to add a security camera effect onto the clip. I tried to add a black circle around the outside but it overlayed the video so you couldn't see anything apart from the circle so I had to remove it unfortunately.
[Insert extra editing here]
If I was to repeat the project I would change the room that it was recorded in as I felt it was too small, apart from this I was happy with everything we did as a group and who was in my group, I feel we worked well together.
[Insert Peer Feedback]
Monday, 14 December 2015
Evaluation Guidance
1. Introduction
- Overview
- Individual Proposal
- Groups
- Chose best proposal
2. Research [Additional non-set research, Visual Images]
3. Planning & Pre-Production
- Brainstorms, Ideas, Plans.
- Specific Paperwork.
4. Product Production [Use Terminology]
- Technical Terms, Name the kit used.
- Things we had to book out in advance, camera settings,
things we put in the camera e.c.t.
- What we did and used to do it.
5. Post Production [Add final production plan]
- Editing, Finalising Work, Adding Adjustments.
6. Evaluation Finalisation
- If I was to repeat the project, What would I change/do
differently.
7. Peer Feedback
- Ask 2 or more people to comment on your work.
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