Hello, this is my blog for my AS Media coursework, detailing the research + planning, production and evaluation process of creating a two-minute film opening
I've downloaded the free version of the Blogger mobile app onto my Samsung S3 from Google Play. This is a form ofconvergence, the technologies ofcomputersandsmartphonescoming together so that I can work. However, the smartphone has several limitations due to the smaller screen, I can only edit drafts on this free version, I can't publish posts.
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Issue with copyrighted images. I am going to use the image of coffee and a camera.
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At the moment keeping it ag the same size as Evie because we might work together and share posts, so that makes copying and pasting easier.
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For normal text I use normal size, for Main Titles Largest and Minor Titles Large.
Use Italic for fictional titles (This Is England)
I don't like the default font, I much prefer Arial.
Terminology I will mark in pink and bold.
Trebuchet I will use for quotes and make them purple.
EMBEDDING:
embedding image and using caption tool, embedding video
(including where you get the embed code from), embedding links and anything
else so far) Needed to change the settings from "Show HTML literally" to "Interpret typed HTML"
In 2012 I was the boom operator in a short film, filming over a weekend in and around a housing estate. NOTE: It is in German, the narrative involves the protagonist trying to hide his mother's alcoholism (with the father having died recently) from his girlfriend who is at the door, who begins to think he is becoming an alcoholic.
In 2015/2016 in Art we had the choice to either do photography or a short film. I was in a group making a short film. However we didn't ac. As this wasn't Film or Media Studies, we weren't marked on our techniques, only on the film at face value. The editing was done mainly by the one person in the group who had a MacBook and thereby access to iMovieMaker, while the rest of us planned it logistically and wrote the script, as well being the main actors. This has given me experience of forming a narrative and also learning you might have to adapt to certain sudden circumstances like rain.
During the summer holidays I took an Acting For Screen course at the National Youth Theatre. While this was mainly focused on acting and not on the production level of filming, I still got a good insight into how the industry works when we looked at the scripts for Wolf Hall and This Is England, a series by Warp, one of our two case studies companies. This was also when I was introduced to the different shot types.
I have not had a directing role in filming, but have had experience in assistant directing both actors and logistics on stage in amateur theatre groups, also managing the whole rehearsal once
I have never written a script for screen, but indulge a lot in writing short stories, poems, song texts and I am also developing a play script at the moment. I have always wanted to write scripts for screen.
I have never worked with a recording camera in photography, only done amateur recording privately with small cameras, iPhone and Samsung in my social life like all adolescents.
As summarised in this Media Studies blog post, and linking to the two screenshots before, these are the main themes of my AS coursework next to actual media product.
AUDIENCE RESEARCH
INDUSTRY RESEARCH
TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH
CONVENTIONS RESEARCH
PRE-PRODUCTION/PLANNING
REFLECTION OF THE PRODUCTION PROCESS - PRESENTED CREATIVELY USING TECHNOLOGY
