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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...
