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Friday 29 October 2010
Wednesday 20 October 2010
Questionnaire about music videos
Circle the appropriate answer
Could you enjoy a well constructed music video even though you do not like the song?
Yes no
When looking at a music video what do you think is important?
The setting Story line The props The clothes
The band being in the video
If for some reason the band that did the song were not in the video would you really care? Yes or no and explain your answer in the lines below
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If the band could not be in the video what does the music video have to include to make it good?
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If a video had to include drugs reference or any other references that weren’t physically allowed in the video (for example, real drugs), how would you suggest they could overcome this obstacle?
Thursday 7 October 2010
Analysing a magazine advert for a album
Analysing a magazine advert for a album
Tom Jones: Praise & Blame
The advertisement is found at the back of the magazine mojo, first of all the advert taking up a whole page worth of space suggests that the album is big or important album, furthermore if it is at the back the news of this advert could be seen as nearly as important as the actual cover and be seen as important as any single thing or aspect inside the magazine. Also the advert being in mojo could suggest that this album is more sophisticated and for a elder generation as opposed to if it was in a magazine such as smash hits you would expect it to be a commercial album that is intended for the younger generation.
The name of the album and artwork work very well together as in the album picture is off a church built there is a very black depre4siing background this juxtaposition could bee seen as the white church as being hope and the black background being blame, and since the album is called praise & Blame I believe that this works very well together.
The add also tells us when the album will be released and who helped work on the album e.g. producer and who the producer as worked with before the album, that is a kind of promotion in the ay they are kind of suggestion if you like the artist the producer worked with before you will love this. There is a also a quote from newspaper saying about how good the album is, also promotion as if you value what this newspaper says you will already think the album si alright as a media text you have already consumed is telling you to consume this one.
Tom Jones: Praise & Blame
The advertisement is found at the back of the magazine mojo, first of all the advert taking up a whole page worth of space suggests that the album is big or important album, furthermore if it is at the back the news of this advert could be seen as nearly as important as the actual cover and be seen as important as any single thing or aspect inside the magazine. Also the advert being in mojo could suggest that this album is more sophisticated and for a elder generation as opposed to if it was in a magazine such as smash hits you would expect it to be a commercial album that is intended for the younger generation.
The name of the album and artwork work very well together as in the album picture is off a church built there is a very black depre4siing background this juxtaposition could bee seen as the white church as being hope and the black background being blame, and since the album is called praise & Blame I believe that this works very well together.
The add also tells us when the album will be released and who helped work on the album e.g. producer and who the producer as worked with before the album, that is a kind of promotion in the ay they are kind of suggestion if you like the artist the producer worked with before you will love this. There is a also a quote from newspaper saying about how good the album is, also promotion as if you value what this newspaper says you will already think the album si alright as a media text you have already consumed is telling you to consume this one.
Monday 4 October 2010
Skills I developed from my AS year in Media studies
Skills I developed from my AS year in Media studies
I earned a vast amount about digital technology last year. The first skills I really amassed last year was knowledge of different camera techniques and how to use the digital camera to the best effect. I did a fair bit of filming when it came to making our media product last year which was an opening to a thriller film, one interesting technique that I used last year was using night vision mode on the camera in the day time, this gave a somewhat weird effect which we used when showing our flashback, this is because it gave it a somewhat dream like effect. Last year we also learnt how top record sound on the apple make, we did this to make our own ‘real’ radio segment that we put in our media thriller, we had a sound booth to do this to allow the found to sound more legitimate and have no distractions. I also used a digital camera when looking for locations of our media thriller. The good things about software last year was that since we were using new apple mac computers all the programs we used were very up to date, however the bad point for me was that we were using apple macs as I much prefer pc’s as I find them less complicated and generally nicer to use.
Creativity was a important aspect of my AS last year as we had to create our won thriller opening. I believe that I personally dealt with creativity well and came up with valuable ideas for our media product last year. The most valuable ideas I came up with last year were mostly narrative, for some reason I seem to most enjoy coming up with new ideas for storylines because I find it really exciting to see your initial ideas actually turned into a product so the whole ideas part for me is a very exciting and interesting time in any media production.
As for stuff I learnt through the research and planning of our product was through watching movies and making case studys, the case study’s to show evidence of
this will be on my other blog which was for AS level ( this is my blog for A2 media). For improvements I would like to do more secondary research as I did mostly primary last year, I believe that secondary research would be important as I would be able to see how other people analyze movies which would give me another opinion which I believe would allow me to further improve my work.
For post-production we used a the apple macs and final cut express I believe, could be wrong though, this was useful program as it is a rather more professional program than ones I have used in that past I mean this in the way that you can crop any of you clips to any size overlap frames slow/down, and add so many different effects, all in all I learnt a lot in the ways of editing, we found out about rather useful editing techniques when it comes to making the opening of a film.
I believe however that is is very hard to create a completely original median text, as there will always be a aspect that has been thought up or done by someone else somewhere in time, like when we filmed in black and white and used a flashback sequence for example, the show flash-forward did something very similar but instead of a flashback it was a flash-forward, this shows that is it hard to make something completely original. We followed to thriller conventions of building suspense in out thriller and leaving mystery about what is really happening, as this engages the audience keeps them interested and keeps them guessing, which I believe in very important because if the audience are not interested there is little point for them to continue watching. We connected with the audience by making it about a normal person in a normal house supposedly leading a normal life, this is important as the audience can relater and think, well if this is happening to them this could happen to me as well, which would as I said earlier keep them on the edge of their seat and interested.
I earned a vast amount about digital technology last year. The first skills I really amassed last year was knowledge of different camera techniques and how to use the digital camera to the best effect. I did a fair bit of filming when it came to making our media product last year which was an opening to a thriller film, one interesting technique that I used last year was using night vision mode on the camera in the day time, this gave a somewhat weird effect which we used when showing our flashback, this is because it gave it a somewhat dream like effect. Last year we also learnt how top record sound on the apple make, we did this to make our own ‘real’ radio segment that we put in our media thriller, we had a sound booth to do this to allow the found to sound more legitimate and have no distractions. I also used a digital camera when looking for locations of our media thriller. The good things about software last year was that since we were using new apple mac computers all the programs we used were very up to date, however the bad point for me was that we were using apple macs as I much prefer pc’s as I find them less complicated and generally nicer to use.
Creativity was a important aspect of my AS last year as we had to create our won thriller opening. I believe that I personally dealt with creativity well and came up with valuable ideas for our media product last year. The most valuable ideas I came up with last year were mostly narrative, for some reason I seem to most enjoy coming up with new ideas for storylines because I find it really exciting to see your initial ideas actually turned into a product so the whole ideas part for me is a very exciting and interesting time in any media production.
As for stuff I learnt through the research and planning of our product was through watching movies and making case studys, the case study’s to show evidence of
this will be on my other blog which was for AS level ( this is my blog for A2 media). For improvements I would like to do more secondary research as I did mostly primary last year, I believe that secondary research would be important as I would be able to see how other people analyze movies which would give me another opinion which I believe would allow me to further improve my work.
For post-production we used a the apple macs and final cut express I believe, could be wrong though, this was useful program as it is a rather more professional program than ones I have used in that past I mean this in the way that you can crop any of you clips to any size overlap frames slow/down, and add so many different effects, all in all I learnt a lot in the ways of editing, we found out about rather useful editing techniques when it comes to making the opening of a film.
I believe however that is is very hard to create a completely original median text, as there will always be a aspect that has been thought up or done by someone else somewhere in time, like when we filmed in black and white and used a flashback sequence for example, the show flash-forward did something very similar but instead of a flashback it was a flash-forward, this shows that is it hard to make something completely original. We followed to thriller conventions of building suspense in out thriller and leaving mystery about what is really happening, as this engages the audience keeps them interested and keeps them guessing, which I believe in very important because if the audience are not interested there is little point for them to continue watching. We connected with the audience by making it about a normal person in a normal house supposedly leading a normal life, this is important as the audience can relater and think, well if this is happening to them this could happen to me as well, which would as I said earlier keep them on the edge of their seat and interested.
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