Justines media studies blog

For this task we were given a short clip from The Gold Rush, in this section we were given we had to recreate the 1 minute 20 second. we had to find the actors and setting to recreate this. Before we started filming we had to create a story board focussing on each shot in the time frame given. each shot can change for each section so we recorded them all down in the form of a story board. we also noted the time each section was and the key moverments of the characters.    Each member of the group had a particular section to record and make notes on, we felt the use of the story board helkped us alot when it came to filming. In the story board we noted down the exact place each character was facing/looking/moving and also their interactions with other characters. After we had completed the story board we had to choose are characters and also the settting for this recording.We had Dan as our main male character, Alice as the main female character, Megan, Neve and Emily

This task we had to pick out the 4 parts of mise en scene, lighting, setting, makeup/costume and figure, movement and expression to produce a mindmap of the notes we ended up with. This is the photo we got given.

In todays lesson we created 3 still images based on the mise-en-scene topics, setting, costume/make up, lighting and figure and expresson and moveremnt.  in my group was Joe and Justine, we chose to create a sinster and dark affect for our photos. We used the drama studio for our setting and placed chairs in a random postion in the room. some turned upside down, others up right. this is where we had our three actors sitting.   For the first image above we created a blurred affect, which we feel made it the most sucessful out of the three we took. we feel the lighting in this photo is also very succesful. there is clear contrast of light and dark areas, the long shaddows of the chairs we feel also looks extremely creepy and adds to the over all horror theme we were going for.  In this third photo we used the shadow of Justines face to add a contrast to Dans, we felt her shadow showed the idea of innocent and looked deleacte. i feel

                                                     EVALUATION overall, we are pleased with the outcome from our video. we feel like the planning went quite well, we created a storyboard to help and give us some ideas, however we did change some shots around to improve our video and our structure. we tried to film various ages, which is why our storyboard was overlooked a bit. I feel like, how we showed our cast the video with earphones and some without earphones made it more interesting for the audience, as we dont know what part they are reacting too. All our locations ended up being in different areas, depending on what character our cast were playing. The filming went really well, we got some responses which were really impressive and thoughtful, but on the otherhand there were responses that were obvious. Some students and teachers were quite natural in front of the camera, while others were slightly embarassed which made our final video more humerous, funny and excitin

This is our final cut of our first project. We feel this piece was very successful even though this was our first attempt of using the equipment and resources.

Editing: We have edited the outcome using Imovie, although i have not had much experience with the software,  it was really easy to use and learnt as I went along.  I simply imported files from whatever we recorded the footage on (a video recorder and an iPhone) I then cut the image and created an order.  I later added titles and enhanced the image. Overall I found the software really easy to use but I would like to learn how to use more complex software in the future so there are more options and effects at my disposal.

Production Company logo We had a range of ideas for our production company n ame. We decided as a group we wanted it to be personal to us and include either the initials from our first or last names. Some of our ideas where -Every Production - Production -JJK Production -SJK Production We decided on sjk production as it sounded better than the others. We asked others in the class for their opinions and they agreed. We kept our design simple yet we feel it looks very successful. We used the text from dafont.com.  Production Company logo Production Company logo

Lilly:This pupil also played a yr9 student girl, who gave a good opinion on what she thought 'that' could symbolise. This was a good answer for a young student, who had never listened to the song in the past, since player it to her. Yr9 male student: This student played a year 9 pupil in our media project. He gave us a good opinion on the song  'I'll do anything for love' Meatloaf, as he had heard this song before.  He told us that  the 'that' in the song could symbolise "that he won't buy expensive" items for the person that the song is written for. Yr9 male student: This student was reluctant in participating in a manner we were expecting. He told us that he thought that the words had no hidden meaning and  meant exactly what was written, that he "would do anything for love". on the other hand this answer was one our weakest opinions. Yr9 male student: Lastly, this pupil, gave their view on this song, by

  This is our opening task planning video diary. This is our group for the project, Joe Lee, Keri Kennett and Justine Spencer. We created a video diary explaining the question we were given to uses as our stimulus, brief plot, the reasons behind the chosen stimulus and the roles we are taking up within the group. The video diary explains in detail our ideas and dictions for the short film.

Opening Task introduced                                                                                 What questions were you given (photo)? From our four options we chose our top two which where "what's 'that'? in the Meatloaf song?" and also the story of Humpty dumpty . For the Meatloaf song we wanted the question to be entertaining and humours when asking others ideas on the song lyrics meaning. For the Humpty Dumpty story we want it to be entertaining however also educational, we want to be able to add humour but also different interputations of the childhood story. W hen looking into both of the options we decided to create a film on meatloaf’s song lyrics,  the plot of the film would be us ask a range of people, different ages about their own interputation of the song and its hidden meaning . We would start the film by playing the song up into the chorus and then we would switch focus onto a teacher and then we would ask “so what do you thi