- Music Video Production
- In my group (Me, Jasmine, Keiran and Liam), we planned, did pre-production, filmed and edited our music video. We chose to do the video to Vanilla Twilight by Owl City. We tried to do something different with our video; we wanted to create a story (narrative video) and add a ghost effect onto certain parts of our video. We filmed over three days, once at night, once during the day, and once a few days later to get a few shots that we were missing.
- Our music video is about a guy who lost his girlfriend some time ago, and whenever he thinks about her, he imagines he is with her (hence the ghost effect). She is dead, so at the end he places flowers on a grave for her.
- We had a problem on the first day of filming because we finished college late, so we didn't have much natural light to film in, so we couldn't get many shots that we wanted filmed.
- After we had filmed, that same week we started editing. We were met with a problem that meant we could not use the ghost effect how we wanted to. We had to try to figure out a way to change the opacity on one person in the shot but not the other. We had filmed 4 takes of the same shot, just incase we were met with this problem, so we would be prepared and had a back up. Unfortunately we could not only change the opacity on one person, so we had to change our meaning behind the song a little bit, to make it fit.
- After editing version one, I was advised to get more shots for the video and to shorten the time the current shots were on screen for. I did this, and added in more lip synching parts.
- I finished my final version right on time.
2. Animation
- I have now finished my 2D animation work. It took a long time to make, because there were quite a few scenes that I had to draw out, and we only had 2 hours a week to work on the project.
- I encountered a few problems, including the fact that my file's were too big, and it took a long time to save, so I had to start a brand new project for each scene.
- It also took me quite a while to figure out how to properly work flash. There were certain things that I couldn't do and needed help on as I could not fix the problem myself.
- All I have to do now is to join each part together, export and upload to youtube.
3. Critical Approaches
- In Critical Approaches, we have been set a task to create an insert in the style of Charlie Brooker's Newswipe.
- My group (Me, Jasmine, Carrie and Matt) have finished the pre-production, planning and are now ready to film.
- We are doing an insert on how reality TV is not a reality. We are basing our video on Wife Swap and The Hills.
- We will be discussing how mediation controls the meaning of these programmes, and how the editing does not show the whole story.
- When we get back to college, we will be filming.
4. Research/Legalities
- I have completed task one, which was to write an article on a company in the media. I did ITV, as this is what I am interested in. I researched, highlighted and made notes on the important facts and then I wrote up my article in 1400 words.
- I completed task two, which was to research job sites, find a CV relating to work in the media industry, research a figure in the industry and research and know about different job roles in the industry.
- In my group (Me, Jasmine, Callum and Liam), we have started to plan our "discussion", and we are currently writing a script. We will film this discussion when we are back at college.
- I am currently finishing Task 4, and have nearly completed the CV. I will film the intervew with a partner when we are back at college.
This is a link to my blog where everything is uploaded:http://amysmediablog00.blogspot.com/
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