Blogging health check 2

Dan's comment:

Hi guys You have some excellent documentation of your pitch. Well done. I particularly liked the post on learning to use technology (17/11) – this is exactly what I want you to be doing, thinking critically about what you are learning. Your posts on audience research and audience profiling are also really good. I would like you to put your blogs in order (I’ll show you how to do this this afternoon) and edit then so that each post is clearly marked numbered and marked RESEARCH (pre-pitch stuff), PLANNING (Pitch), PRODUCTION. You can then put these in the right order, compare this to the blogging checklist and so you can then see what you are missing. The PRODUCTION blogs are blogs about your filming, documenting what you are doing currently. Only one production blog up so far by Shakur – it’s good, you consider problems well, but could have some images as well. Grab some photos as you film, write about what you achieved and how any plans have changed post shoot. Post photos of costumes, props etc. Write individual blogs about what you’ve learned from the process of filming. You can produce these blogs as videos as well. Blogging is an essential part of the course so I’d like to see ALL members of the group making a contribution here (this means you, Yusuf and Alan). Cheers Dan 

Blogging health check 1

Comment by Dan:

HI Alan You have some good posts on your blog but are still at only 16 when we should be touching 20 or more by now. Your last post on the evaluation of practical remake activity is very good but some earlier posts i.e. your analysis of your favourite film could do with more work – the writing could be extended. There is still some work that I can’t see: Camtasia on Sound(16) as well as the Audience research work from class on Tuesday (12) and your posts on genre you’d like to work on. Please get all this posted as soon as possible. Please note that a blog is a multi media production so should include video, images, gifs etc. Try to use a wide range of these in your posts. Also, could you edit all of the blogs so they have the task numbers in the title. You need to add RESEARCH as well. In addition, you’ve not yet posted your initial brainstorming of creative ideas that we did on the last Friday of term. This should be marked PLANNING as this is what we are doing from now on. When this is done, you should go through a checklist and mark off all the blogs that you’ve done. You should get *everything* on the list completed for a top grade. So – you’ve done some good work but need to push yourself a bit to get completely up to date. Remember, you can and should be using workshop to get fully on top. Dan 

genre conventions in crime drama film openings

- Dark atmosphere
- 1 or more narratives
- Intense music
- Dim lighting to create suspense
- Close up camera shots
- Realistic sounds and props
- Dark scene + over the shoulder shot = character being secretive
- Often city settings (dark empty street)

analysis of sound design

This clip highlights the key aspects of sound in films. It reflects what I found interesting the point  that sound can create a first person point of view and automatically encapsulate the audience to make them feel like there in a specific place.

Why is sound so important in film?

Many may see sound as the most important factor in a film. It has been said that sound creates emotion and connects the audience. A real sense of joy or upset can be felt.

Patrick Drummond a sound editor has said:

Can you imagine Jaws without that score? Apocalypse Now without its bombastic, visceral sound effects? Psycho without those grating strings as Janet Leigh is mercilessly knifed in the shower? Sound is undoubtedly a vital element of film production, but does anyone actually acknowledge this? From Jack Foley’s first tentative steps on The Phantom of the Opera and Dracula in the mid-1920s and early 1930s, to the highly developed sound editing of masterworks like No Country for Old Men and the scores of the Star Wars films, sound is integral to the film-going experience, but is not always treated as such.

This sums up the fact that people undermine the power of sound and how it plays a vital factor in creating suspense and emotion and this doesn't only apply for music it applies for all types of sounds from sound effects to soundtracks.

other logo designs

I decided that there should be a variation of logos to choose from for our group these are two:

plan for evaluation (Q1)

codes and conventions:

Codes are systems of signs, which create meaning. Codes can be divided into two categories – technical and symbolic. Technical codesare all the ways in which equipment is used to tell the story in a media text, for example the camera work in a film.

These are things i will describe and how our media product will challenge these. Examples of this are the sound we used and the different shot types.