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Media As course - Daniel Knights

Daniel knights

Updated May 6, 2010

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Conventions and Forms

Sound

Amplify the actions or tell the audience how to react.

The conventions in sound are:

Diagetic and non-diagetic

Synchronous and Asynchronous

Opening title sequence

These are mainly a short

5 minute film that introduce's

the film and some main characters.

They can include titles of the

leading companies and the main

charaters.

Evidence for this would be the

James Bond film, Casino Royale.

http://www.youtube.com/v/3moawlvAaLI&hl=en_GB&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6

Film Noire

Chiaroscuro

Shadows

Strong lighting

Flash backs

Smoke effects

The protagonists of noir are

described as being "alienated"

The principal opponent of the protagonist is a character known as the antagonist, who represents or creates obstacles that the protagonist(s) must overcome. As with protagonists, there may be more than one antagonist in a story. Also the antagonist can sometimes actually be the hero, such as The Shield's Internal Affairs officers, and FBI agents and police officers from The Sopranos.

The protagonist is

the main character.

Antagonist

a character, group of characters, or an institution,

who represents the opposition against which the

protagonist(s) must contend.

Goon

Hardboiled detectives

Protagonist

The hero is far from the norm, they are flawed in some way.

Narration

Can be a Thriller, Crime story and Romance.

The Big Combo - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047878/

The Big Sleep - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038355/

Gun Crazy

The Big Heat - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045555/

Night In The City - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042788/

D.O.A - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042369/

The Set-Up - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041859/

Progress made and Planning

Organisation

We started off with a basic timetable

of when we need the film done by then fitted

everything into the weekends that we were all

available for filming.

After finding the locations and descovering how

the camera angles worked with in the locations. We set for a date, 24th of january.

We also made sure that we all had each others contact

details so we could arrange time details all at once.

Production process

First planning part.

Next we planned for location scouting around

the city.

Next we went up the city to work with camera angles in

the locations that we liked.

Next was the filming night, we had done some planning in the lessons before to be fully

targeted on what we needed to achieve on the night.

First cut

Our presentations of our ideas

http://vimeo.com/9317832

http://vimeo.com/9151490

continuity task

http://dknightsmedia.blogspot.com/2009/11/continuity-task.html

We were asked to include the following, Person A walks to the door, opens it, passes through it, crosses room, sits down and talks to someone. It had to be shot with these in mind, Match on action, 180' rule and a reverse shot.We also were asked in an extension to include some of the following, person walks along, footsteps, door bangs, a scream, ambiant lighting, extreme angles, mettering, reverse tracking, a tilt, more than 3 locations, engima, more than 2 people and implied fear.

Some of the problems that we encountered were that we had children from there P.E lessons wanting to walk past, we were also under trees and were dripped on, at some point we had a rain drop of the lens and didn't notice till the editing.

Organisational tips

Make a diary
Have all the contact details such as emails and moblie numbers
Have a group discussion a day or two before a event
Delegate strenghts out as a team
Be perpared to cancel events and change dates
Make a check list of the tools you need
sutiable clothing for in and out of shots depending on the weather

Improvements shown and strengths

I have also made improvements in the terminology of media with sound and editing techniques.

Costs:

As we are a small 6th form group we knew that we have to

spend as little as possible. So we got family members to be

the actors and we borrowed equiptment from the school.

Some of the idea's we had wasn't going to work with the no money spending budget,

This was with one of my idea's with a smoke machine. This would've been useful to

create atmosphere. As my dad is a part DJ he did have a smoke machine but we had no way

of powering it so this would've ment a generator.

Picture of a smoke

effect used in

Casino Royale

Institution and Distribution

Our choice was cinema city in Norwich.

This is a small Cinema near the center of

Norwich, It only has 3 screens but it has

a bar. We thought this would be a great

place as it tends to show small production

and indepentant films.

Learning to upload would be a very useful.

This would envolve saving the file to the correct

file then uploading to the website and adding a description.

As we went though the course, James Wigger

Was uploading any filming we did to his Vimeo

account. We chose this over Youtube or any other video website as this wouldn't gaine so much views but would gain a better reponse from the audience.

http://vimeo.com/jameswigger

Repersention of social groups

Our Femme Fatale was played by Toms sister,

We tried to recreate the image

of a Femme Fatale but as our's isn't a

conventional Femme Fatale we changed a few things.

Our Femme Fatale was the leader, she had all the power.

So she looks smart. We wanted to lose the

personal of smoking as this would show a

negitive result to the audience.

My Dad played the goon, He needed to look strong and have

the feeling that you wouldn't want to bump into him. This was

made by a leather jacket and always be in the shadows. He

doesn't have a speaking part as this would divert the persona

of the charater.

This is the Protagonist played by Toms Uncle.

This look is chosen to show a smart casual

apperance that will link to the audience.

This also shows that he has been caught

off guard when he was kidnaped.

The location that we chose around Norwich

was Elm Hill. This is a small part of Norwich

which still holds its history and has little change

over the years.

The old style of this street adds

to the dark and mysterious nature

of the film.

Norwich council building was also

chosen as a location, this was to

show the movement and running

in the chase sceen.

Audience

The audience is a big part of media as it

can make the success or flop of a film.

The British board film classifacation,

U- Universal, this means that it is sutiable for children aged four and over.‘U’ films should be set within a positive moral framework and should offer reassuring counterbalances to any violence, threat or horror.

PG- Parental Guidance, General viewing. Unaccompanied children of any age may watch. A ‘PG’ film should not disturb a child aged around eight or older. However, parents are advised to consider whether the content may upset younger or more sensitive children.

12- Unaccompanied children of any age may watch. A ‘PG’ film should not disturb a child aged around eight or older. However, parents are advised to consider whether the content may upset younger or more sensitive children.

12A- The ‘12A’ category exists only for cinema films. No one younger than 12 may see a ‘12A’ film in a cinema unless accompanied by an adult, and films classified ‘12A’ are not recommended for a child below 12. An adult may take a younger child if, in their judgement, the film is suitable for that particular child. In such circumstances, responsibility for allowing a child under 12 to view lies with the accompanying adult.

15- Suitable only for 15 years

and over. No one younger than 15 may see a ‘15’ film in a cinema. No one younger than 15 may rent or buy a ‘15’ rated video work.

18- Suitable only for adults. No-one younger than 18 may see an ‘18’ film in a cinema. No-one younger than 18 may rent or buy an ‘18’ rated video.

R18 - To be shown only in specially licensed cinemas, or supplied only in licensed sex shops, and to adults of not less than 18 years.

We targeted the age of 15 and up as this would be the age that they would understand the film, We didnt choose 18 because this would've limited the audience down. Althought its targeted to 15 the age can be anything over as to target the original time of when these films were popular.

ACORN System

This system is used to portray the public in a system that can define classes.

More information at http://www.caci.co.uk/acorn/acornmap.asp

A band are the upper middle class they usally take on jobs like higher

managerial, administrative or professional.

B band would be middle class and have jobs like intermediate

managerial, administrative or professional

C1 band are the lower middle class they are normally

supervisory or clerical, junior managerial, administrative or professional

C2 band is skilled working class usally skilled manual workers

D band are working class they work as semi and unskilled manual workers

E band these are those at lowest level of subsistence they are state pensioners

or widows (no other earner), casual or lowest grade workers.

We will be targeting the bands C as these would be more likely to see this film,

This is because they will relate to the character of the film as band A and B are

less likely to get into that situation.

Post-modernist is someone that likes to break conventions, like Quentin tarentino films.

A traditinalist is someone that wont take risks, they know what they like and they will only watch that, they

tend to be dads watching action films, like James Bond. Another film could be Fantastic Mr Fox, as it is a

book enterpridated into film.

Active and passive are terms given to how you watch it, if you have been asked to see a film then it will

be passive but if you made the desision to see a film then it is active.

Hedonist's take riskes they will see a film how ever gorry or bad it is like "saw". They will go to see a film

just for their pleasure.

We shall be targeting the traditionalist as they might have liked film noir when it was popular and want to

enjoy it again. Also we are targeting the post-modernist as they never have seen a film noir but would

want to see it.

Critical thinking

Semiotics, also called semiotic studies or semiology, is the study of sign processes (semiosis), or signification and communication, signs and symbols.

Semioticians classify signs or sign systems in relation to the way they are transmitted. This process of carrying meaning depends on the use of codes that may be the individual sounds or letters that humans use to form words, the body movements they make to show attitude or emotion, or even something as general as the clothes they wear. To coin a word to refer to a thing (see lexical words), the community must agree on a simple meaning (a denotative meaning) within their language. But that word can transmit that meaning only within the language's grammatical structures and codes (see syntax and semantics). Codes also represent the values of the culture, and are able to add new shades of connotation to every aspect of life.

Guy Cook asks whether the iconic sign on the door of a public lavatory for men actually looks more like a man than like a woman. 'For a sign to be truly iconic, it would have to be transparent to someone who had never seen it before - and it seems unlikely that this is as much the case as is sometimes supposed. We see the resemblance when we already know the meaning' (Cook 1992, 70). Thus, even a 'realistic' picture is symbolic as well as iconic.

http://www.visit4info.com/advert/HSBC-Earn-8-HSBC-Bank/25900?autoplay=true

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem02.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics

Representation is aspects of ‘reality’ such as people, places, objects, events, cultural identities.

Such representations may be in speech or writing as well as still or moving pictures.

* Thematically: e.g. class, age, gender, ethnicity, or more broadly via

identity, stereotyping, ‘prejudice’ (typically racial) or ‘bias’ (typically

political); also topics such as royalty, motherhood, childhood,

nationhood etc.

* Generically: e.g. ‘bias’ in news, class in soap operas or sitcoms,

gender in ads.

* Media-specifically: e.g. in TV, film, comics, magazines

(mags useful for representations aimed at specific audiences)

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Modules/MC30820/represent.html

We as a group were very structured in how were worked together

and got through the group, this meant that tasts were split up. This enabled

us to excel in the fields with struggling with other tasts.

Attracting my audience

Deconstructing a film: James bond - Casino Royale

Distubution and exchange

We are to choose a small independant distributer,

Examples of these are: optimum releasing and

Axian films. These two specialise in the area for

small time film makers. We would also find a

way to get our film on a indepentant internet site.

Blog

http://dknightsmedia.blogspot.com/

Blogging is used as a over view of the progression in

media this year. This is the first time I have used a blog

so it was quite difficult at the start.

Technologys and constructing my film

James Wigger did most of the editing

as this was his strenght, but I did have

a small go.

I edited a part of the contiunity task.

Reviewing

http://playstuff.net/showthread.php/1918-Media-production-thing

http://railways.national-preservation.com/showthread.php/22949-A-level-media-short-film?p=335394

http://vimeo.com/10949072

http://vimeo.com/11363218

Tom and Blaine also took it to their english class.

http://tompalmerasmedia.blogspot.com/2010/02/showing-consumers.html

•What are your first impressions of the film? Did any specific moment stand out to you?

•How tense did the OTS make you feel on a scale of 1 - 10? 10 being the most tense.

•Did you find the ambiguity and mystery of the piece intriguing? Did you feel curious enough to continue watching the film?

•Which character did you feel had the most power?

•Based on what you have seen, who would you recommend the film to? What age-group?

•At what kind of venue would you expect the film to be shown, Art House or Mainstream cinemas?

•How did the film's visual style make you feel? How did this contribute to the overall atmosphere of the film?

•Aside from film-noir, what genre would you classify the film as, based on what you have seen?

http://vimeo.com/9799386

Our film plan:

This was made very quickly after finding the

locations as we needed to get some filming done

so we would have time to edit.

We did most of our filming in the same night,

This made it easier when finding out if anything

needs refilming.

Meeting the audience needs

Resources

We have used most of the equiptment before:

Like the camera and tripod but this time the imac's

Had been changed and these proved a problem

because they weren't all working and struggled

with progammes. But as James was doing the editing

for the OTS on his mac book we didnt need to use the

imac's as much.

As the camera and tripod were the schools equiptment these weren't the best of qualitys. We were very suprised with the out come of the lighting that the camera picked up as we didn't think it would pick up anything.

The sound that was also on the camera wasn't as good as we had hoped.

The tripod worked very well as we used it to do most of the shot as a form of balancing and steadying the camera.

Media AS Evaluation

http://dknightsmedia.blogspot.com/2009/12/planning-stage-sound-clip-not-finished.html

http://dknightsmedia.blogspot.com/2009/12/location-scouting.html

Corrupt policemen

Big Film Noir Films.

Intrepid claims adjusters

Femme fatales

Jealous husbands

http://dknightsmedia.blogspot.com/2010/01/test-film-night.html

Powerful

http://dknightsmedia.blogspot.com/2010/01/filming-day-feed-back.html

Strong

sex symbol

http://dknightsmedia.blogspot.com/2010/02/first-cut-of-production.html

Opponent, competitor, rival

My main strenghts are in the pratical side of the work, So when filming this would be with the angle of the shoots and the lighting.

I have also made improvements within the practical side and with the theory. These are the increasing knowledge of camera angles and editing techniques the the film production use. I have also watched a wider range of films .