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Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you think you have learnt in the progression from it to your main product? Preliminary T...

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you think you have learnt in the progression from it to your main product? Preliminary Task 2 minute AS Opening - 'Deluded'  Considering I was acting in my Preliminary task, I did not have the role of filming and editing the video. Therefore, it is difficult to compare my Preliminary task to my 2 Minute Opening to some extent as the task does not show my level of skill in actually creating it. However, I do think that I have learnt a lot since my group's Preliminary Task. One of...

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Tuesday, May 17, 2016

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? Of course, technology was a very significant facto...

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What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? Of course, technology was a very significant factor in the construction of this product. However, I learnt a lot about the Adobe software Premiere Pro when putting the shots together. Before AS Media Studies I had no prior experience with this software, so I had to learn everything about it from scratch. Before the creation of my film opening I only knew how to insert and cut shots. Therefore, my rough cut only consisted of simple editing. However, I wanted my two minute opening to...

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Thursday, May 12, 2016

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Sunday, April 24, 2016

How does your media product represent particular social groups? As a whole, my media products represents male and female teenagers who are...

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How does your media product represent particular social groups? As a whole, my media products represents male and female teenagers who are part of the technological generation. This is because that the storyline behind my opening/film begins with Millie and Liam talking through a dating app called Tinder. However, this is a very broad social group, so my three characters behold different personas - some personality traits being more relatable to the teens of the real world than others. It is difficult to analyse how the characters clearly represent particular social groups within the space of two minutes, yet...

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Sunday, April 24, 2016

Question 4: Who would be the audience of your media product? Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

Question 4: Who would be the audience of your media product? Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience? ...

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Sunday, April 24, 2016

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Clueless (1995) The Opening sequence of Clueless begins with various shots & scenes of a girl (Cher)'s everyday life, one of ...

Clueless (1995) The Opening sequence of Clueless begins with various shots & scenes of a girl (Cher)'s everyday life, one of which including walking out of a store with a large Tiffany & Co. bag - suggesting that she is a typical teenage girl who enjoys shopping, but is also upper class. The first minute also focuses on the people who surround Cher and who she hangs around with. The song 'Kids in America' also plays, which forecasts an overall perception of where these teenagers are from and what typical American kids do. Narration/dialogue is highly featured in...

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Thursday, March 10, 2016

My rough cut was shown to my media class. Overall, people responded well to my rough cut and mentioned how they were pleased with the outcom...

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My rough cut was shown to my media class. Overall, people responded well to my rough cut and mentioned how they were pleased with the outcome. They all agreed that I could make the shots focusing on the phone screens darker so the text would be easier to read. It also worried me whether the audience could understand the storyline of my plot but I gathered from their responses that they did. In order to receive feedback on how to improve me rough cut further for my final cut, I showed my rough cut to individual people. Some...

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Thursday, March 03, 2016

This is the rough cut for my film opening, 'Hoodwinked'. I have managed to cut each shots down efficiently so they all fit in the r...

This is the rough cut for my film opening, 'Hoodwinked'. I have managed to cut each shots down efficiently so they all fit in the required time duration (2 minutes). Overall, my footage is just over 2 minutes long but my teacher said that this was not too much of a problem as it was under 2 minutes 5 seconds. However, for my final cut I need to add my film studio's indent, credits and film title, as well as alter the sound and add background music. This is something I may have to go over with my...

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Saturday, February 20, 2016

Name: Emma Grenier  Age: Sixteen Nationality: It is unknown where Clara really is from, but her adopted parents raised her in...

Name: Emma Grenier  Age: Sixteen Nationality: It is unknown where Clara really is from, but her adopted parents raised her in Québec, Canada Profession: Student Marital Status: Single Emma is an introverted person. She rarely socialises with anyone outside of school as she prefers her own company. She lives in a forest so she often spends time sitting on a tree branch and drawing her surroundings/reading. Emma is fascinated about nature and is always keen to explore the rural environment in which she has access to. This makes her environmentally conscious as she believes she is connected to the forest and its species....

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Saturday, February 20, 2016

Our class's task was to recreate the opening sequence of the film Submarine. We had to do this by casting an actor, find locations, reco...

Our class's task was to recreate the opening sequence of the film Submarine. We had to do this by casting an actor, find locations, record footage and edit it using Adobe Premier Pro. I worked with one of my classmates on this project, called Abbey Hunter.  Cast Finding someone to play Oliver Tate appeared to be a challenge for me and Abbey, but we were lucky to find someone to fit the role at such short notice. To begin with, Abbey wondered whether she should ask her friend Dan to play the role. However, after some consideration we both...

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Saturday, February 20, 2016

Filming day 1: Monday 15th February 2015 I wrote about how filming on this day on my 'Filming Review' blog post. As...

Filming day 1: Monday 15th February 2015 I wrote about how filming on this day on my 'Filming Review' blog post. As you can see by the photos that were taken on the first day of filming (shown above), me and my cast shared some laughs together, and they enjoyed acting for me. They did not question my directing and easily understood what they wanted to do/say. My actors gave me positive feedback, saying my instructions were easy to follow. I did not get them to learn their lines before hand as I did not feel as though it was necessary for...

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Saturday, February 20, 2016

In my film opening, my characters will be wearing the following costumes for certain scenes: Scene 1: Phone call scene - Casual clothing ...

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In my film opening, my characters will be wearing the following costumes for certain scenes: Scene 1: Phone call scene - Casual clothing Polly: Green Turtleneck top, blue jeans, glasses I feel as though these choice of clothes & colours reflects Polly's persona and her interests and exposes her creative style. The plainness of her overall outfit resembles Polly's innocence and purity, as well as not following the latest fashion trends and being girly.  Millie: T-Shirt, skater skirt, tights Millie's fashion sense is a typical teenager style. This assists the realism of my film opening as I want...

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Saturday, February 20, 2016

Character casting As my film opening is a thriller/drama, it is based around a serious and realistic concept, that can happen in an area ...

Character casting As my film opening is a thriller/drama, it is based around a serious and realistic concept, that can happen in an area like mine. This means that  the cast members I have asked to audition (shown below) relate to the characters they may be playing - either through how I imagined my characters to look like, or through their comparable personalities. I feel as though this will help them act as their characters better. Therefore, I have based some areas of the characters' personas around their final actors.  Millie Prescott Zoé Desgland  Issy Evans  I feel as though Zoe and Issy would both...

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Thursday, February 18, 2016

Featured in the video, are the questions we asked 4 students (In order: Yasmin, Josie, Sophie and Ellamae) in our year group and their resp...

Featured in the video, are the questions we asked 4 students (In order: Yasmin, Josie, Sophie and Ellamae) in our year group and their responses. I told Yasmin and Ellamae my idea for my film opening, and Tommy and Abbey (the other people I was working with to create this video) told Josie and Sophie their film opening idea. To summarise, we gathered and learnt from our audience research that the most popular way of film studios targeting their audiences & attracting them to purchase their films is through the internet and social media. This is because film trailers are often viewed from...

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Thursday, February 18, 2016

Characters featuring in my 2 minute opening Polly Edwards Age: 18 Profession: Year 13 A Level Student Likes: Polly loves music...

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Characters featuring in my 2 minute opening Polly Edwards Age: 18 Profession: Year 13 A Level Student Likes: Polly loves music and often attends many concerts. Recently, she began having guitar lessons.  She also has an eye for creativity and has an interest for all styles of art. Polly is determined to achieve good grades in school and reach her future goals of becoming an album cover artist. Dislikes: Polly hates being lied to and disrespected, therefore she strives to treat people nicely in the first place. She hates social stereotypes and feels strongly about feminism and injustice....

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Thursday, February 18, 2016

Final Locations For my final locations, It is conducted that I will be using the inside and outside of my friend Charlotte's house (w...

Final Locations For my final locations, It is conducted that I will be using the inside and outside of my friend Charlotte's house (who plays Polly in my film opening) and at the Bird in Hand restaurant in Wreningham.  After I gathered my location research of different pubs/restaurants, I narrowed my options down  to 1 location which I would contact first - the others would be back ups. I thought about the pro's and con's of each location for my film opening. I like the atmosphere of the Robert Kett Pub, but I feel as though it is...

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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Story Board draft

Story Board draft ...

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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Changes of Script's first draft Added more kisses to Liam's message to Polly. This is so that Liam would perceive a more flirtat...

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Changes of Script's first draft Added more kisses to Liam's message to Polly. This is so that Liam would perceive a more flirtatious and compassionate character towards Polly. Added two more sentences to Millie's reaction towards Polly's date with Liam - "Aww I've heard of him through another friend, he's nice!". I did this so that it would be more clear to the audience how Millie knows Liam in the first place. Added dialogue of Liam and Polly asking each other how they are feeling, just after they greet each other at Polly's front door Scene 1: On the Phone Polly: Oh,...

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