Well since my last blog I have been thinking more and more about my dissertation and after looking through my Media A-Level notes and looking at all of the books in the library I have come up with a lot more ideas and I have kind of confused myself.
Ideas:
1) Representation of women in Alfred Hitchcock films focusing on the lighting, sound, camera angles and mise en scene.
2) How does violence in films effect the audience
3) How classification has changed over the years and what guidelines film makers have to stick to to gain the certificate they want. Focusing on films containing sex and violence.
4) Comparing film remakes to the originals
I will keep thinking about these ideas and do a bit of research on them all and then on my Tuesday tutorial with Chris I can discuss my ideas with him and see what he thinks.
Monday, 28 January 2013
Sunday, 27 January 2013
Production Concept Ideas
Here area the ideas I've had for this unit:
1) A student guide to Europe - a group of 20 year olds visit different places in Europe and show students what they can experience at each place. As well as the show being about the places we visit it would also be able the groups relationships.
The format of this would be like Geordie Shore where you see footage of what the group get up to but there will also be cut aways to green screen where individuals from the group can say what they are thinking about were they are and what they really think of the group.
2) Student guide to the ultimate gap year - This is a similar idea but instead of a group it would be an individual presenter or pair who are on the ultimate gap year travelling around the world. The programme would show the viewers what places you should travel to and things you should experience on a gap year.
3) Life in halls - A structured reality show showing the life of a group of students living in the same university halls.
There would also be a warden character who would have to keep the group in line and if they broke any of the wardens rules they would have to face the consequences.
The format of this show would be again like Geordie Shore where you see what the group get up to when they are at halls and on nights out and there will also be cut aways to green screen segments where the group can say what they really think of the events happening and the people they live with.
4) Suspicious Girlfriends - this would be like the show Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents but instead of parents watching their children on their first holiday alone it would be girlfriends watching their boyfriends when they go on stag do's.
I like all of these ideas but I just need to figure out which one I want to pursue.
1) A student guide to Europe - a group of 20 year olds visit different places in Europe and show students what they can experience at each place. As well as the show being about the places we visit it would also be able the groups relationships.
The format of this would be like Geordie Shore where you see footage of what the group get up to but there will also be cut aways to green screen where individuals from the group can say what they are thinking about were they are and what they really think of the group.
2) Student guide to the ultimate gap year - This is a similar idea but instead of a group it would be an individual presenter or pair who are on the ultimate gap year travelling around the world. The programme would show the viewers what places you should travel to and things you should experience on a gap year.
3) Life in halls - A structured reality show showing the life of a group of students living in the same university halls.
There would also be a warden character who would have to keep the group in line and if they broke any of the wardens rules they would have to face the consequences.
The format of this show would be again like Geordie Shore where you see what the group get up to when they are at halls and on nights out and there will also be cut aways to green screen segments where the group can say what they really think of the events happening and the people they live with.
4) Suspicious Girlfriends - this would be like the show Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents but instead of parents watching their children on their first holiday alone it would be girlfriends watching their boyfriends when they go on stag do's.
I like all of these ideas but I just need to figure out which one I want to pursue.
Thursday, 3 January 2013
Dissertation: The Dissertation Starts Today
Today I have decided that as the festive period is about time I start thinking about my dissertation. I know that I want to do it on classification films focusing on sex and violence in films as this is a subject I studied at A level and I found it very interesting and I also have quite alot of notes on the subject.
I am still unclear on what I want my question to be but I think I would either like to focus on how violence in films effects the audience or how films with sex and violence in them get their certificates with focus on video nasties and banned films.
I know that with this subject the BBFC will be a huge help to me as they have their own student section on their website. I have decided on a question I will be able to start emailing the right people and hopefully arrange a meeting or go to one of their seminars to help me with my research.
I am still unclear on what I want my question to be but I think I would either like to focus on how violence in films effects the audience or how films with sex and violence in them get their certificates with focus on video nasties and banned films.
I know that with this subject the BBFC will be a huge help to me as they have their own student section on their website. I have decided on a question I will be able to start emailing the right people and hopefully arrange a meeting or go to one of their seminars to help me with my research.
Thursday, 6 December 2012
Friday, 16 November 2012
Major Project
Mine and Maddie's Twin project is well under way now we have filmed 2 episodes already and we are scheduled to film our final episode on Friday and then we will be filming our expert the following Monday.
We are going to need to write a script for our expert or give him topics to talk about so that we get the information from him which we need.
Everything seems to be coming together at the moment and all of the footage looks really good it is just a matter of editing it all together.
Monday, 5 November 2012
After Effects: Puppets
Today we had to use after effects to make a still image move. This was really good for me to learn how to do as it will be really usefully when it comes to adding animation to our documentary.
After Effects: Green Screen
Today we had the chance to work with green screen again but this time it was just to help us understand how to edit it better rather than actually standing in front of the camera ourselves. Instead of using Final Cut to extract all of the green we used After Effects and we had alot better results.
With this one we learnt how to extract the green from a clip where the subject was moving.
As the subject in this clip has a lot of hair it was difficult to extract all the green but we learnt a few skills to help us with this.
With this clip we had to extract green from a clip where you could see the edges of the green screen. we had to crop around them and then extract the green.
With this one we learnt how to extract the green from a clip where the subject was moving.
As the subject in this clip has a lot of hair it was difficult to extract all the green but we learnt a few skills to help us with this.
With this clip we had to extract green from a clip where you could see the edges of the green screen. we had to crop around them and then extract the green.
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