How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?
To answer this question I have made this video where I will talk about the media products while showing them on the screen.
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Friday, 10 March 2017
Thursday, 23 February 2017
Monday, 20 February 2017
Ancillary Task 2
Research into conventions of film posters today
Today a typical film poster includes a few key features; bold film title, famous person, famous persons name in large text, ratings and a scene from the film to give a hint. The colour scheme and mood also seems quite considered to match...
Ancillary Task 1
Using Adobe Indesign I have created this elegant magazine layout show casing our short film documentry. I think the over all style and appearance successfully reflects the tone of the documentry and compliments/promotes it without try too hard. My inspiration came from analysing articals from Little...
Sunday, 19 February 2017
Friday, 17 February 2017
Evaluation Question 1
In what
ways does our short film use, develop or challenge conventions of real media
products?
The genre
of our short film is called a docu-film. This is because we have made a
documentary-style film, but it is not based on real life. Due to this, we tried
to stick to all the clichés...
A2 Coursework Final Draft; Beyond Reality
This is the final cut of our A2 Coursework after making changes to our rout cut from information gained on our audience feedba...
Thursday, 16 February 2017
Changes we made after the rough cut
The changes we made were mostly explained in the audience feedback post but we have changed a few other things, see below;
adjusted narration timing - we have added some fades and some bigger gaps between clips as we found some clips ran into each other a bit too much.
reduced background noise - we reduced the background noise in clips such as when the presenter and main character are...
Shot List
We tried to use a variety of shots during filming, but at the same time we did not want anything to look overly staged, as we were creating a documentary. Some of the shots we used quite frequently were;
tracking shots - where we followed behind our presenter or walked with our presenter and subject as they talked.
pull focus - this is where we changed the focus from one thing to another in...
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
Audience Feedback On Roughcut
We got feedback from a fair few people, and we realised that some patterns emerged in what people were saying. See below all of our feedback comments:
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Thursday, 9 February 2017
Ancillary Task Research 1
My media teacher introduced us to the really interesting, independent film magazine, Little White Lies (designed and distributed by a London graphic designers 'human after all' who also release their own film magazine). Rather than using photos the magazine is mainly illustrated which I think is...
Monday, 6 February 2017
Thursday, 26 January 2017
Target Audeince Research Interviews
To find out more about who our audience is, how they consume media products, what they want/expect from our product and what they think of our idea for our short film. This task was extremely useful and enabled us to get a wider insight on the subject and how to tailor our product to our target audience and wider audiences.
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Monday, 23 January 2017
Poster Designs
Poster Design Outcome 1
The top image is the photographic outcome, I then went on to edit it in adobe illustrator using the image trace setting to create this effortless illustrative poster outcome. I can't decide which outcome is more successful as the first you can see the people and...
Wednesday, 11 January 2017
Stills from filming
Today we filmed the rest of our footage; interview with Tom, seeing what a day in his life is like from his perspective, he shows us his home and takes us to the spot where he waits. These are some stills from the footage...
Strengths
Filming went well. It took us a few...
Thursday, 5 January 2017
Trying out text styles
Experimenting with different styles of text over the footage from yesterdays shoot, I think text style 2 has the best look and is clearer /easier to read.
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Rough final script
So far, we have planned out some direction for the interviews e.g. some questions and topics to discuss.
Above details some of the questions we have come up with for the interview with Mrs Edmunds. The interviews need not be long and as Mrs Edmunds already has knowledge in the field of psychology,...
Wednesday, 4 January 2017
Science Behind Psychosis - Interview Teaser
Our first day of filming... An interview with Julie; a professional psychologist, we discussed the pschological background to why Tom may be the way he is. She had some really interesting points to make and it really helped us to gain a deeper understanding, she was really confident and natural in front of the camera so filming went really smoothly.
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