Wednesday, 21 September 2011

Things that I have Learnt

Over the past week I have learnt a lot and done a lot of such as filming for our preliminary task and learning about the different shots and angles that you can film from. I also improved on my editing skills as my group and I had to edit the video for our preliminary task so that it would actually look like a short clip. also this week me and my group were sorting out our ideas for our opening sequence task which we would soon be filming, we had to come up of a final idea from all of the other ideas that we had in mind and the genre that we had chosen was Psychological Drama we chose this because of previous films that we had watched and what we got inspiration from.

Wednesday, 14 September 2011

Preliminary Task Draft 1



This presentation was to show our teacher our ideas that myself and my group put together to come up with a final idea for the preliminary task, which is to show that we can use different shots and angles and also to show 2 people having a conversation. 
The feedback that we got from my teacher was that to:
use more picture to make it more visual, instead of putting just text on the page use more diagrams, to put more shots on our overhead plan and in also include the story board but other than that it was a good presentation and that we should make the changes

Preliminary Video

Group Opening Sequence Draft 1 Assignment 12

Thursday, 8 September 2011

Overview So Far

So far I am enjoying doing media studies as I am learning a lot of new things, it is also helping me to build up my own confidence as before I came on to this course I wasn't a very confident person but doing all the things like presentations and things helped me become more confident. It has also built up some of my skills such as teamwork, organisational and also communication skills, which weren't as good before i started the course but now have developed.

Opening Sequences Analysis Assignment 8

For this Presentation I had to look at an Opening Sequence of a movie which was Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which is in the genre of horror. From doing this presentation I learnt new things on how to analyse something such as an opening sequence. The new things that I had learnt were things like learning what Diagetic and Non-Diagetic sound was, on the imaging- Denotation and Connotation etc. I enjoyed doing this presentation because I learnt new things and it would be helpful for me in the future when it comes to me making my own opening sequence.

Narrative Research Presentation

For this presentation I had to research 3 men who were film theorists and find general information about them including what kind of theorists they were. I then had to find out, understand and explain certain key words (e.g.- Equilibrium, Binary Opposition, Flashbacks etc.). This presentation helped me because I learnt new keywords which I had never heard of before, which also will help me with future projects as I would know new vocabulary, which all together gave me a wider understanding of media studies.