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Monday, 17 January 2011

Film Posters and Magazine Cover| Raw Photographs

Weekly Update

Monday 17th January 2011

Today, I took some more shots for the poster and magazine cover, so as to have variety of shots to choose from and 2 alternative posters. This was captured in the corridor outside my media classroom, leading to the automatic doors. The photo shoot was a success and in the end we chose two of the many photographs taken to be used as our final poster and magazine cover design. Stacey our actress was used in the shoot; she is shown clutching the voodoo in her hand, communicating with the audience through her eyes and body language, she is emotional and afraid. In both the poster and magazine photographs I captured today that I want to use, the corridor has been captured in the background; this has been done to create a feeling of loneliness and helplessness.

Wednesday, 12 January 2011

Weekly Update

Wednesday 12th January 2011

Today, we have completed all our filming; which includes the new shots we have added. Today was our study day at school, but as a group we saw it as an opportunity to finally finish all the filming that needed to be done and focus on written work on blogger and the magazine cover and poster designs. We all arrived at school for 11am to start filming and left at 3pm, which was more than enough time to do our filming. In that time slot, we filmed Stacey with the voodoo doll, her running down the corridor and the closing shot of a tap on the shoulder at the end. The most complex shot of them all was the corridor shot. We had to decide how the lights will follow Stacey and what facilities can we use to create a feeling of panic and urgency. We decided in the end that because it would be too difficult to run with the lights as they are large and narrow, we should use the main light supply in the corridor as it shouldn't make too much of a difference to the shot and to use a steadi-cam to create the jerky images to create a feeling of panic.

Wednesday, 5 January 2011

Skills Assessment| Planning

Discuss the different technologies we have used the skills we have gained and developed e.g. lighting - getting rid of shadows and dark areas camera canon 7D youtube for research, distribution of film survey monkeys final cut pro software tripods blogger

We have used a vast amount of technology in our media group and have developed a number of skills behind them. Working as a proper professional media group production team we started to have a close eye for many important key aspects in our trailer, and print media. These includes thinking about

Focuses of shots

Lighting

Moving around handing equipment carefully

Use Of The Apple MAC

One of the first technologies we used once we had started our working in groups was The Apple Mac. This was something all of us had to grow familiar with as we were going to be using for the rest of the project to edit, access our blog and manipulate our print media. Skills which we have gained from this are using quick keyboard shortcuts to work faster and more professional as a team. Also we all had to get used to how different Apple Macs were to PCs and the difference between sized screens and layouts of the desktop.

Canon 7D Camera

The Canon 7D camera was use for filming and taking still photographs. Joshua was the only member of the group who was familiar with the camera. With the rest of us we all got used to the properties around the camera and it functions. The Canon 7D was a camera that was different to other cameras whereby the quality was so much clearer whereby everything that may not show up as much on a normal camera would differently show up on the 7D. Skills we al developed as a group whether we were watching it or playing it back was the fact that each an everyone of us had an eye for camera focus, lighting, correct angles and ideal scenery. In our first stages of filming, we hardly paid close attention to that great us a result of bad shots and lighting. Gradually as we filmed more shots we gave each team a role to check lighting, camera focus, ideal scenery and camera shots were done correctly before we filmed. This improved our quality of filming and compressed time avoiding us to continue filming constantly. Another thing we did was do a few test shots before deciding to film properly. This helped use a lot as we were able to see where we went wrong and improve from there.

YouTube

All of us were very familiar with using YouTube to watch and upload videos. One of our project tasks was to actually upload our teaser trailer up in order to get views and comments from a number of people. As YouTube is a worldwide usage, we are likely to get comments from a number of people from all over the world as well as in our area code. This also went under one of our marketing strategies whereby it was one way of using advertising and disturbuting our teaser to the public. As well as uploading our trailer we also made short videos showing our different test shots and meetings we had as a group discussing any changes we made and queries we had to get across to each other as a group. This was very reliable as we could refer back to it as well as taking down notes as those were sometimes misplaced and lost.

Survey Monkeys

Survey monkey is a useful marketing strategy which we used in order find out bit more information about our target market. This was a new way of processing surveys and questionnaires as this it was done and distributed out online. After we had received enough results it was very easy for us to process the results on survey monkey as it was done automatically. Skills which were learnt ....

Blogger

The purpose of blogger was to allow us to post our work onto a blog so that we could keep our work together and provide a simple location for it to be viewed by ourselves, our teacher, and the examiner when the time comes.

Final Cut PRO Software

Tripods

Lights and Lighting

NEEDS TO BE REDONE AS A SPIDER DIAGRAM

EACH TEAM MEMBER MUST CREATE THEIR OWN POST

GIVING IT A TITLE OF SKILLS ASSESSMENT FOLLOWED BY THE AREA THEY ARE ANALYSING

Weekly Update

Wednesday 5th January 2011

Because Monday was bank holiday, we used today to discuss plans for filming next week and finalising the shots we want to re-film and new shots. We also used this lesson to work on our poster and magazine designs, finding the suitable text and coming up with new poster text templates as we want to have 4 posters to advertise the teaser trailer. The lesson was also spent focusing on the technologies we have used and the skills we have gained, during planning, research, production and post-production in regards to the coursework, which is extremely beneficial seeing as in the exam they will ask this question.