Treatment...

Today we are planning a video presentation to analyse our research to date. It needs to be 2-3 minutes long and explain our research and planning progress. Next lesson, which which will be on Monday 15th November, we will be filming it and hopefully uploading to our blogs, if not we can do this at a later date.

Video for Barthes Narrative codes...

This is the video we chose to represent Barthes narrative codes, I will upload the powerpoint later when completed.

Media Theory...

Today i did my individual project on a media theorist - David Buckingham. I did a powerpoint presentation and presented this, it included a background and some projects that he had been involved in....

Half term filming...

Today I did my part of the filming. We decided we would share the camera time equally in the half term for three days each. I decided to film a friend along with her boyfriend to focus on more of the positive shots. As well as this I decided to do some close ups of some stereotypical things from a relationship e.g. photos and gifts. I decided to use these as a metaphor, for example I tore up the photos and filmed some dried flowers to represent the ending of a relationship. When I was filming the positive times I decided to use a local park as my setting, it was a sunny day which coincided with the theme and I used the park and maze to film separate shots.

Practice Task...

As Emily wasn't here, instead of doing a major group work task, me and Katie decided we could get on with the practice task. We decided to do our take on the task set and instead of four faces in one screen, we decided to use the four boxes to make up a face. As the introduction we filmed a sequence of shots, with each one being closer to the face of the actor. We edited this in free periods/lunch.

Monday....

We only have two lessons this week but today we are consolidating ideas and getting a general view of what is happening and what will happen. We have been taking meeting notes every week which will be uploaded soon. We were shown the A2 media studies 'get ahead' blog today and, have decided to think about doing a couple of video blogs, this should be relatively easy on the macs camera and then just uploaded. We have to do a practice sequence this week to remind us of camera techniques and software use. This will be uploaded once we have edited and finished.

We have decided to split the camera time we have in half term equally between us, we are going to film our individual ideas and any inspiration. I am filming in the first 3 days of half term, then Katie and then Emily. Once we have emptied our SD Cards onto the Mac we can go through and decide what we can keep, work on, or lose.

John Legend...

John Legends viseo for 'Ordinary people', was really good inspiration for ideas. The video is a shot on a white background throughout but still keeps the video interesting by having different couples acting out different scenarios. We liked the simplicity and the cinematography, its use of close ups and panning shots etc.

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