Evaluation. video.

1. Who did you work with and how did you manage the task between you? In the filmed element of the task I worked with Olivia Kimberly, Vicky Packwood, Emily Jones and Hannah Scoular. I believe we worked very well together and made a great minute video. We all contributed to get the end result which in my opinion was great. :)
2. How did you plan your magazine cover? What element did you use for your inspiration? For the short film we first made a story board with the shots we were going to use in sequence. We also discussed what angles would complement the shots, how long to hold the shots and what each shot could add to the short film. For inspiration we looked at past attempts at this task and evealuated them to see where they could inprove and hopefully pick out points that we could improve on our own video and how to make it sucessful.
3. What technology did you use to complete the task, and how did you use it? We used a camera to film and imovie to edit the scenes. Both of these where easy to get hold of as our school offers the technologies out. we had to upload the footage we had taken onto the apple computures then edited on imovie, this enabled us to cut the footage to make each scene as if we had not edited itand shot it clip by clip.
4. What factors did you have to take into account when planning, shooting and editing? When figuring out the filmed piece we had to ensure that we didn’t include too many shots and those we stuck to the 180 degree rule. We also had to get all the shots in one lesson there for we had to have good time keeping luckily we did all this in the time limit asked. we had to take into account the time it would take to set up each shout and how many times we might need to try these shots e.g the shot where jack and olivia are talking we shot that about 4 times, we could only do this because we gave time frames for each shot.
5. How successful was your short film? Identify what worked well, and with hindsight, what would you improve/do differently? The final cut was good and the acting was well thought out. I think if doing the film again I may have edited it a little more; this would have created a much more refined look. I would have also gave more time toword making each shot the best it could be by organizing it to every little detail there for i would have known if i missed anything out. The thing that work well in this task is the group, we all had the same ideas but also indervidual ideas that we each contributed to make our film individual to us.
6. What have you learnt from completing this task? Looking ahead, how will this learning be significant when completing the rest of your foundation coursework? I have learnt how to edit a piece of film using imovie, which I had never used before now. I will use the skills I have learnt when using the camera will be very useful in the foundation course work.

Evaluation. magazine cover.

For the cover as i stated above we were advised correctly to use a limited colour pallet, this creates an eye catching covert that wont confuse the reader at first glance. It gives the cover a simple look but still looks stylish.



Myself and jack both thought the picture of Miles fit perfectly for the purpose of our magazine, being a relevant student body.
The Cover stories we decided to use we joint decisions, we thought they were slightly humorous but still had relevance.
We were both extremely happy with our magazine cover.


Contents --- For the contents page we again chose a limited colour palette for the reasons above. This time we thought to give out contents a more realistic effect we would use a different shot of somebody else. This shows we have backups and have thought further into the design process before hand. We also thought Dani (who we were originally using) has the right look for editorial pieces as she is extremely photogenic.

MYself and jack were extremely pleased with the outcome of our contents page and believe we followed the brief well.


1. Who did you work with and how did you manage the task between you? In the magazine cover. Jack and myself worked extremely well together as we both had the same idea as what we wanted to do.

2. How did you plan your magazine cover? What element did you use for your inspiration? We planned our magazine cover my deciding what kind of person would represent the school well and I think that miles portrays that well and how we were going to set the cover out e.g. where the title would go, how many pieces of text we would use. Then we moved on to what message we would give off with the cover. We decided that is best to work individually, as in I did the lay out and jack did the titles and writing. The first thing we had to do is get the image then we spent three lessons in the computer making the cover.

3. What technology did you use to complete the task, and how did you use it? We used photo shop on the computers to complete are task. When taking the photo we used a digital camera. To get this image of miles I stood on a chair to the right side of the image because that was where the light was coming in from. I did this because it gives off the look that professionals use.

4. What factors did you have to take into account when planning, shooting and editing? We had to take in the time factors when doing this task because we only had a certain time to do this.

5. How successful was your magazine cover? Identify what worked well, and with hindsight, what would you improve/do differently? I think our magazine cover worked very well it fit the brief and conveyed everything that we wanted it to. The only thing I would do differently is maybe doing more of the work at home but due to email it was hard to send work back and forth, also maybe we should have planned out what we were going to write on the cover before we started.

6. What have you learnt from completing this task? Looking ahead, how will this learning be significant when completing the rest of your foundation coursework? I have learnt in this task many skills to do with photo shop as at first I found it hard to use but now I know what I am doing and can use it in other subjects as well as media. This will help later on in my foundation coursework if I chose to do the print project.

Trevor Millum (1990s)

Trevor Millum (1990s)

Seductive
- Similar to cool/ level
- Eyes less wide
- Expression is less reserved but still self
-confident.
- Milder

Carefree
- Nymph like
- Active
- Healthy
- Vibrant
- Outdoor girl
- Often smiling/ grinnig

Practiacal
- Concentrating
- Engaged in a business in hand
- Mouth closed
- Eyes object directed
- Sometimes a slight frown
- Hair often tight back or shot style

Comic
- Delirately ridiculous
- Exaggerated
- Acting the fool
- Pulling faces

Catalogue
- A neutral look as of a dummy, atrificial, wax like.
- Eyes open and Wide smile most of the time but the features can also be in any position.
- Looks remain vacant and empty with personality removed.

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Marjorie Ferguson (1980s)

Marjorie Ferguson (1980s)

Freguson identified 4 types of facial expression on the front of british women magazines.

Chocolate box
- half/full smile
- Lips together/ slightly parted
- Teeth barley visible
- Full/three
- quatures of the face to the camera
Effects- blandly pleasing, uniformity of beauty and devoid of uniqueness.

Invitational
- Emphasis on the eyes
- Mouth shut with hint of smile
- Head to one side or looking back to the camera
Effects- suggestive of mischief or mystery, hint of contact rather than sexual promise.

Super-smiler
- Full face
- Wide open, toothy smile
- Head thrusted forward or chin thrown back
- Hair often wind blown
Effects- aggressive, look at me attitude.

Romantic or Sexual
- includes male/ female 'two-somes'
- Dreamy
- Heavy lidded
- Overtly senual/ Sexual.
Effects- possible or definitely available.

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The male gaze. Lara Mulvey.

The male gaze. Lara Mulvey. "visual pleasure and narrative cinema."

What is the gaze?
This can be thought of in 3 ways.
-How men look at women
-How women look at themselves
-How women look at other women.

Gaze and feminist theory.
- Laura mulvey coined the term 'male gaze' in 1975. She believes that film audiences have to 'view' characters from the perspective of heterosexual male.

Features of the male gaze
- The camera liingers on the curves of the female body, and events which occur to women are presented largely in the context of a mans's reaction to these events.
- Relates women to the status of objects. the female viewer must experience the narrative secondarily, by identificaion with the male.

Criticism of the Mulvey and gaze theory.
Some women enjoy being 'looked' at e.g beauty pagents.The gaze can also be directed towards members of the same gender for several reasons, not all of which are sexual, such as in comparison of body image or in clothing.there are flaws in the arqument.

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Editing.

Editing.
Continuity (hollywood editing)- the viewer should not notice the cuts, and shots should flow together naturally. Hence, the sequence of shots should appear to be continuous.

Montage- This style of editing has twon functios. The highly political soviet style of the 1920's which sought to create a new mwaning out of seemingly unconnected shots.The audience are very aware of the cuts. (invented by Sergi Eisenstein)

Holly wood montage- in classical Hollywood cinema, a "montage sequence" is a shot segment in a film in which narrative information is presented in a condence fashion.

Transitions- is the fterm for how an editor moves from one shot to another. the use of an inappropriate transitions can be destroyed the mood or pace of a scene.

Crosscutting/parrelle- editing that altemates shots of two or more lines of action occuring in different places, usally simutaneously.

Dissolve- A transition between two shots during which the first image gradually dissapears while the secon image gradually appears.

Wipe- A transition between shots in which a line passes across the screen, eliminating the first shot as it goes and replacing it with the next one. Dramatic and noticeable transition.

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Camera Shots.

Camera Shots

Long shot- Opening thats you know the important info.

Medium Shot- To show characters interaction. Simialr symitry.

Close up- Something or some one important to show the audiance.

Shot reverse shot- used to show dialoque. Focus oncharacter talking. Position camera over their shoulder, this makes you you feel part of the conversation.

High angle shot- A high angle shot cannote power objectyou are viewing. women have traditionally been 'shot' in this way to make men look more powerful.

Low angle shot- A low angle shot is designed to make a character or object appear stronger.

Tracking shot- Camera is parrelle to the action and follows the object 'subject or action' Pan shot
Tilt

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The Narrative Theory

The Narrative Theory - Vladimir Propp.
Valdimir studied over 100 Russain fairytales on th 1920's and he proposed that it was possile to classify the chracters and their actioins into clearly defined roles and functions. Propps character roles.




The Hero (seeks something)- In this short film the hero is the sheep because he seeks happiness when his wool which is his vanity is taken away.
The vilain (opposes the hero)- The Villian in this is the shearer due to him taking the sheeps fure away.
The donor (helps the hero by providing a magic object)The donor is the jackalope because he helps the sheep through the power of boucing.
The dispatcher (sends the hero on his way)- Again this is the jackalope because he tells the shepp to start dance and stop worrying about the loss of his fur.
The false hero (falsely assuming the role of hero)
The helper (gives support to the hero)
The princess (the reward for the hero)- The Price the sheep wins is inner contentment.
The father

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The Narrative structure.

-3 part narrative
Begin (Equalibrium)A state 'of normality' in the narrative.
V

Mid (Disequalibrium)Something disrupts the normality and protagornist/hero must go on a quest to restore normality.
V

End( new equalibrium)A new Normality is created.

In this short film there is the structure that is written apove e.g the equalibrium is when the sheep is dance joyfully at the beging with all his fur. When the sheep is getting shaved that is the disequalibrium because that is the turning point in the film. Last but not least the new equalibrium is when the sheep find new joy in bouncing hair less rather than dancing with vanity.

Narrative Theory Roland Barthes.

There are two types of narrative, open and closed. Open narrative is when the story unravelles in different ways like a soap e.g eastenders, hollyoaks. Closed narrative is a movie. The only execption to this rule is serial/series which are closed narrative with an open narrative arche. which is like skins.

The 5 code.

Action code - Applies to any action that implies a further narrative action. For example, a gunslinger draws his gun on an adversary and we wonder what the resolution of this action will e.

Enigma Code - Refers to any element in a story that is not explained and therefore, exists as an enigma for the audience, raising questions that demand explanation.

The Semantic code - Any element in a text that suggests a partticular often additional meaning y a way of connation (denotation - one meaning)

The cultural code - Any element in a narrative that refers " to a science or a ody of knowledge" in other words the cultural codes tent to point to our shared knowledge aout the way the world works.

The Symloic code - To understand the symolic code you need to first understand Binary opposites. Levi Straus elieved that the world was split into a series of ' binary opposites? essentially one thing can only e defined in relation to something that isnt. For Example, A hero is only a hero if there is a coward. Therefore the symbolic code is the middle of the hero and coward.

Ideology code - An ideology is an organized collection of ideas. An ideology can be thought of as a comprehensive vision, as a way of looking at things as a belief which helps explain the world around us. My way of looking at things is... when i die i will be reancarnated.. people who kill should be killed... child abusers should be torcherd.

School Magazine Cover.

Also another part of our inroduction to the course and introduction to all Photoshop we were asked to create a School magaxine cover in pairs of our choice. I decided to go with Jack Reid. For out cover we thought that it would be a good idea to use the image of Miles Splevings because he has a strinking look that will entise the 'Reader' of the magazine. At first we find it a great difficulty to cut out our chosen image so we were then asked to take another which would have an easier outline to cut out.

The text we chose to put on our cover and into out content's page we thought was very relevant and can reach out to all students at our school. We strongly believed in a limited colour pallet as we thought that it stands out to the reader much more, and is also much easier to produce in a short amount of time.

Here is the image we started with.

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Moving Image Prelim.

As part of our opening taks to the course, we were asked to create a moving image of no more than 15 frames in a group of our choice. We were told it was necessary to have somebody walking into a room sharing a bit of dialogue and then sitting down, the short film having to contain numerous camera angles. We thought that it would be visually interesting to create this scene in the Library as there is a lot of background happenings. unfortunately when talking to the Lirbrarian she said that it would cause mild difficulty as we would have to ask for everybody's permission to star in our moving image. Instead of re-creating our story board we shot the first half as normal and then took the later half up stairs and filmed it in the E-Learning centre. Overall I found our end product very good, as a group we were very pleased at our first attempt in making a short movie.

when our group has fully completed the editing process of our short movie I will post it onto my Blog page.

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HEYA.