Okay, so for our coursework we have to make a 2 minute clip, being the beginning of a film.
My group decided quite quickly about the genre of our film, it is not horror, but suspense, we realised that horror would be quite difficult to film. So it is suspense instead :)
Firstly, we decided to do our film in the middle of the local woods, and use a sibling or parent to drive a car out there, so we could shoot us with the car. There were problems with this plot, however, as we cannot actually drive, and we would have to film very quickly, as it would get very dark and using our own lighting would look so artificial on video. Filming quickly, we would not have enough time to re-shoot certain bits and get it exactly how we wanted it, so we brainstormed again...
Leah, who is in our group, suggested we watch a clip on youtube of "When A Stranger Calls" The whole group thought this would be a good area to target, and use this clip to help us along the way...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=f5DaPc5Yi6s
We decided to use a similar storyline, using one of our houses and brothers for props!
So once we had decided the genre of the film and the plot, we were asked to do a synopsis of our 2 minute clip. This is not finished yet, but it will be up here when it is :)
Sunday, 7 December 2008
Wednesday, 26 November 2008
Internet - Good For The Brain?
Having my internet homepage set to BBC News is sometimes quite useful, because it gave me an idea for this blog.
"Internet Access Is Good For The Brain" caught my eye. I was shocked, scientists and doctors are always saying that internet is bad for the brain, and too much of it can affect teenagers and children in certain ways. So why have they suddenly changed their minds?!
I agree that the internet can be useful, for the odd fact off Wikipedia, or typing up one of those long essays, but can you benefit from it in the long run?
I admit, I am on the computer a lot, and while im doing homework, I am constantly logged into Facebook and listening to music, but I don't think this is helping me with anything.
From reading the article on BBC News, it says that being on the internet helps to counteract the age-related physiological changes that cause the brain to slow down.
So from being on the internet, we're keeping our brains young, so keep at it!
Stay on Facebook for hours on end, cause at the end of the day, its keeping our brains young :)
This has been a satisfying finding, as I don't feel bad about myself for being on the internet all night long...
"Internet Access Is Good For The Brain" caught my eye. I was shocked, scientists and doctors are always saying that internet is bad for the brain, and too much of it can affect teenagers and children in certain ways. So why have they suddenly changed their minds?!
I agree that the internet can be useful, for the odd fact off Wikipedia, or typing up one of those long essays, but can you benefit from it in the long run?
I admit, I am on the computer a lot, and while im doing homework, I am constantly logged into Facebook and listening to music, but I don't think this is helping me with anything.
From reading the article on BBC News, it says that being on the internet helps to counteract the age-related physiological changes that cause the brain to slow down.
So from being on the internet, we're keeping our brains young, so keep at it!
Stay on Facebook for hours on end, cause at the end of the day, its keeping our brains young :)
This has been a satisfying finding, as I don't feel bad about myself for being on the internet all night long...
Doctor Who - Cinematography Task.
Okay, so the other day, Mrs Francis showed us an episode of Doctor Who. We were split into four groups, and in these groups we had to discuss one area of media production...
1. Mise en Scene
2. Cinematography
3. Editing
4. Sound
My group was set the challenge of Cinematography, and here is what we came up with:
How does cinematography create a representation of belonging or identity in Dr.Who?
The scene starts with an establishing shot, which is also a wide shot, enabling the viewer to create a sense of place. All the people are wearing the same army clothes, suggesting they are soldiers' belonging to this space and this regiment.
Later on in the scene, the Doctor, Donna, Martha and Jenny are locked away in a prison cell. There is a group shot of them all standing as if they are the four points of a square. The camera looks into the cell from outside of the bars, so the cell bars are in shot, this gives the sense of exclusion that has been set upon these four strangers. Being in the cell itself gives a sense of exclusion, from the hath, a completely different species. These humans do not belong here.
At the climax of the scene, the humans and hath go to war, and fight. The camera pans around with the hath marching towards the humans, which also gives an establishing shot, giving a sense of belonging and identity, as it shows the viewer where these creatures are from and what they have been living in.
A new character appears in this episode, Jenny, she is the Doctor's biological daughter. The Doctor has two hearts, there is a poignant moment, when The Doctor realises that Jenny does belong with him, Donna holds a stethoscope onto Jenny's hearts, the Doctor listens. There is a close up on one heart, then a close up on the Doctor's reaction to this finding, then back to the other heart, then again back to his expression, so the viewer can see how he shows his emotion to finding out that this girl who was made in a machine is his biological daughter and belongs with him. This is a key point in the scene to show belonging and identity.
Martha, who used to travel with the Doctor, is stuck on the other side of the block in this place. This could show that she does not belong with the Doctor anymore, that she is supposed to be in a different place to the Doctor, Donna and Jenny. Martha and the Doctor then have a phone conversation, the camera flicks quickly from the two places with the two characters, with very different settings, showing two different people, and two different identities.
Susie, Hannah, Bobbi and Vickie.
1. Mise en Scene
2. Cinematography
3. Editing
4. Sound
My group was set the challenge of Cinematography, and here is what we came up with:
How does cinematography create a representation of belonging or identity in Dr.Who?
The scene starts with an establishing shot, which is also a wide shot, enabling the viewer to create a sense of place. All the people are wearing the same army clothes, suggesting they are soldiers' belonging to this space and this regiment.
Later on in the scene, the Doctor, Donna, Martha and Jenny are locked away in a prison cell. There is a group shot of them all standing as if they are the four points of a square. The camera looks into the cell from outside of the bars, so the cell bars are in shot, this gives the sense of exclusion that has been set upon these four strangers. Being in the cell itself gives a sense of exclusion, from the hath, a completely different species. These humans do not belong here.
At the climax of the scene, the humans and hath go to war, and fight. The camera pans around with the hath marching towards the humans, which also gives an establishing shot, giving a sense of belonging and identity, as it shows the viewer where these creatures are from and what they have been living in.
A new character appears in this episode, Jenny, she is the Doctor's biological daughter. The Doctor has two hearts, there is a poignant moment, when The Doctor realises that Jenny does belong with him, Donna holds a stethoscope onto Jenny's hearts, the Doctor listens. There is a close up on one heart, then a close up on the Doctor's reaction to this finding, then back to the other heart, then again back to his expression, so the viewer can see how he shows his emotion to finding out that this girl who was made in a machine is his biological daughter and belongs with him. This is a key point in the scene to show belonging and identity.
Martha, who used to travel with the Doctor, is stuck on the other side of the block in this place. This could show that she does not belong with the Doctor anymore, that she is supposed to be in a different place to the Doctor, Donna and Jenny. Martha and the Doctor then have a phone conversation, the camera flicks quickly from the two places with the two characters, with very different settings, showing two different people, and two different identities.
Susie, Hannah, Bobbi and Vickie.
Friday, 17 October 2008
Magazines <3
Me + Magazines = Heaven!
I love magazines, I can read them all day and all night! I'm one of those people who just has them stacked under my bed in a little wheeley drawer! :)
Sounds kind of sad... but I love to know whats happening in the celebrity world! Bad habit...
Yesterday morning, as always, I was listening to the Chris Moyles Show, and I started thinking about my next blog. Magazines are so much fun to read... but they are so misleading! I admit, I have been fooled many times by reading the front cover and the headline, buying it, reading the pages of that story and finding out its a completely different situation.
FOR EXAMPLE:
On the way to somewhere, can't remember now last year sometime, and I saw a picture of Jennifer Aniston on the front cover of OK! and she was pregnant... I got really excited, and bought the magazine. I then flicked straight to those pages that explained about her "pregnancy", and i soon found out that that picture was from her new film. Not good!
Plus, some of the stories that are printed in magazines aren't even true. I don't know why I still bother to buy all these magazines, but I do anyway, because I love the gossip! That's the thing that annoys me about magazines, the rest is GREAT!
They aren't just about gossip, they have fashion too! I love looking at the "What's Hot and What's Not!" pages.
However, every other page in a magazine is an advert, which is so frustrating, this is furthermore advertising more, sometimes the adverts are about phones, or T.V's, or T.V programmes, which is about the media aswell.
Basically:
OK!
OR
heat
Hope you liked :)
I love magazines, I can read them all day and all night! I'm one of those people who just has them stacked under my bed in a little wheeley drawer! :)
Sounds kind of sad... but I love to know whats happening in the celebrity world! Bad habit...
Yesterday morning, as always, I was listening to the Chris Moyles Show, and I started thinking about my next blog. Magazines are so much fun to read... but they are so misleading! I admit, I have been fooled many times by reading the front cover and the headline, buying it, reading the pages of that story and finding out its a completely different situation.
FOR EXAMPLE:
On the way to somewhere, can't remember now last year sometime, and I saw a picture of Jennifer Aniston on the front cover of OK! and she was pregnant... I got really excited, and bought the magazine. I then flicked straight to those pages that explained about her "pregnancy", and i soon found out that that picture was from her new film. Not good!
Plus, some of the stories that are printed in magazines aren't even true. I don't know why I still bother to buy all these magazines, but I do anyway, because I love the gossip! That's the thing that annoys me about magazines, the rest is GREAT!
They aren't just about gossip, they have fashion too! I love looking at the "What's Hot and What's Not!" pages.
However, every other page in a magazine is an advert, which is so frustrating, this is furthermore advertising more, sometimes the adverts are about phones, or T.V's, or T.V programmes, which is about the media aswell.
Basically:
THE MEDIA ADVERTISES THE MEDIA.
I still love magazines... and I will still buy them :D
MY FAVES ARE PROBABLY:
OK!
OR
heat
Hope you liked :)
Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Youtube. Good or bad?
Well. I love Desperate Housewives, and I missed the season 4 finale on sunday, E4. I don't like surprises, so I just went onto Youtube to watch the season 4 finale that I had missed. The "related videos" at the side caught my eye, and suddenly... I was on the beginning of season 5. I don't know how it happened... because then after that, I started clicking on the links from that video, onto the interviews with all the actresses and behind the scenes. Even the "bloopers".
So even though we can catch up on the programmes we like on Youtube, it is very distracting, as I have just spent an hour watching clips and sneak peaks from season 5 instead of doing my homework. HOWEVER! This distraction has then led me to write this post and bring up an interesting topic! This is losing Channel 4 and E4 viewers and money. I'm certain I am not the only one who does this... at least I hope I'm not! By watching all of these clips I am then not watching the programmes that come on T.V. I mean sure...its giving Youtube some money, but thats not too good..
I am sure many of you have 4OD (Channel 4 On Demand), this enables Channel 4 viewers to catch up on the latest programmes shown on this channel. Yet this is still using the media! Somehow my laptop does not allow me to have 4OD so I just clicked onto Youtube, sounds awful, but its quicker..and less time consuming. Plus, you don't get all the sneak peaks of season 5! But is this what the public want? To be shown what happens before it actually comes on the T.V? I just do it because its there, and I can't stand surprises.
Youtube also loses music artists money, some people listen to new songs just released on Youtube because they don't want to spend 79p on a song off iTunes. If everyone did this artistrs would not make as much money, so there would not be much point in them making music at all...
Just something to think about :)
SEE YA LATERRRR
Saturday, 4 October 2008
Have we been brainwashed by the Media?
I thought that this topic was very relevant, I am learning about the Media, however does this mean that I am being brainwashed?
Last week, for Sociology, myself and a friend gave questionnaires to thirty sixth formers on "What is most important in your life?" A few questions were about what they did in the evening and what they do at the weekend. It was surprising to see how many of the thirty people we asked admitted to spending most of their time on the internet and social networking on Facebook, Myspace and MSN. I myself spend a lot of time on these websites and I have recently realised how much I spend on them having done the Media Diary. As well as the internet, many teenagers read magazines and newspapers, listen to many different types of music and watch their favourite TV programmes and find out what happens on Eastenders this week! A lot of the sixth formers we questionned also said that they spend a lot of their time and money listening to and buying music, and watching TV a lot of the time.
Although I have just written about teenagers spending a lot of their time with the media, a lot of older people use the media. Elderly people use the internet to order their food or clothes. A lot of people believe it is much more straightforward to use and it is much less hassle.
Along with shopping online, millions of people use Google, to just check something that has just popped into their head that they are not sure about. Youths in school use Google Images for their homework or projects, there are so many pictures and it is so simple to find a picture of what you want, when you want.
Advertising is a major part in the media and practically dominates the media. Every other page in a magazine is an advert for a different shop. There are billboards along the motorways and in towns advertising TV programmes and certain products. On the TV itself, inbetween shows there are approx. 4 minutes of adverts, which is annoying, but gets people interested in the programmes. These people are already watching the TV, and by advertising more TV programmes, the public will be interested in them and will remember to turn the TV on, once again and watch "that programme that was advertised the other day on TV."
Even on the radio there is advertising, just by sound, by little advertisement, maybe listeners will be encouraged to go onto the website of the product that was being advertised on the radio, making the Media being used once again.
The media is used a lot, throughout the country every minute of the day. It is an open question of "Have we been brainwashed by the Media?" One way or another, the media is used by basically every person, every day! I think that we are slowly being brainwashed by the Media in the way that we can't stop using it every day!
Last week, for Sociology, myself and a friend gave questionnaires to thirty sixth formers on "What is most important in your life?" A few questions were about what they did in the evening and what they do at the weekend. It was surprising to see how many of the thirty people we asked admitted to spending most of their time on the internet and social networking on Facebook, Myspace and MSN. I myself spend a lot of time on these websites and I have recently realised how much I spend on them having done the Media Diary. As well as the internet, many teenagers read magazines and newspapers, listen to many different types of music and watch their favourite TV programmes and find out what happens on Eastenders this week! A lot of the sixth formers we questionned also said that they spend a lot of their time and money listening to and buying music, and watching TV a lot of the time.
Although I have just written about teenagers spending a lot of their time with the media, a lot of older people use the media. Elderly people use the internet to order their food or clothes. A lot of people believe it is much more straightforward to use and it is much less hassle.
Along with shopping online, millions of people use Google, to just check something that has just popped into their head that they are not sure about. Youths in school use Google Images for their homework or projects, there are so many pictures and it is so simple to find a picture of what you want, when you want.
Advertising is a major part in the media and practically dominates the media. Every other page in a magazine is an advert for a different shop. There are billboards along the motorways and in towns advertising TV programmes and certain products. On the TV itself, inbetween shows there are approx. 4 minutes of adverts, which is annoying, but gets people interested in the programmes. These people are already watching the TV, and by advertising more TV programmes, the public will be interested in them and will remember to turn the TV on, once again and watch "that programme that was advertised the other day on TV."
Even on the radio there is advertising, just by sound, by little advertisement, maybe listeners will be encouraged to go onto the website of the product that was being advertised on the radio, making the Media being used once again.
The media is used a lot, throughout the country every minute of the day. It is an open question of "Have we been brainwashed by the Media?" One way or another, the media is used by basically every person, every day! I think that we are slowly being brainwashed by the Media in the way that we can't stop using it every day!
Sony - About the Company...
Approximately, Sony has about ninety-five companies. The major products that Sony sell are:
- Audio
Home audio, portable audio, etc. - Video
Video cameras, digital cameras, DVD-video players/recorders, and Digital- broadcasting recording systems. - Televisions
LCD televisions, projection televisions, CRT-based televisions etc. - Information and Communications
PC, printer system, broadcast professional use audio/video/monitors and other professional-use equipment. - Semiconductors
LCD, CCD and other semiconductors. - Electronic Components
Optical pickups, batteries, audio/video/data recording media, and data recording systems.
Other products that Sony sell are: Motion picture, Music, Online business, Sony Playstation. Sony Corporation is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo and Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates with revenue exceeding $88.7 billion. Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of all of the above in the market. Sony was founded on May 7, 1946.
In 1945, after World War II, Masaru Ibuka started a radio repair shop in a bombed-out building in Tokyo. The next year, he was joined by his colleague Akio Morita and they founded a company called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. The company built Japan's first tape recorder called the Type-G. In the early 1950s, Ibuka traveled in the United States and heard about Bell Labs' invention of the transistor. He convinced Bell to license the transistor technology to his Japanese company. While most American companies were researching the transistor for its military applications, Ibuka looked to apply it to communications. Although the American companies Regency and Texas Instruments built the first transistor radios, it was Ibuka's company that made them commercially successful for the first time.
Sony was one of the first companies to create a portable transistor radio, this produced worldwide commercial success. It was not the first, but it was most successful. This success with the transistor radio made sure that Sony was dominant in the electronic field of business. Sony has diversified by developing on the products they have already produced, and modernizing those products over the years to advertise something the public will want to have in their home. Over the years, Sony has spread into many countries through the products they have created.
Sony Music Entertainment is a major global record label controlled by the Sony Corporation, being one of the big record companies. According to Variety Sony BMG will be re-branded into Sony Music Entertainment. In 1988, the Sony Corporation of America acquired CBS Records for $2 billion. CBS Inc., now CBS Corporation, retained the rights to the CBS name, and Sony renamed the label Sony Music Entertainment in 1991. Sony re-introduced the Columbia label after it bought the international rights of the label from EMI. Epic Records is the other major branch of Sony Music. The only country where Sony does not have rights to the Columbia name is Japan, where the name is controlled by Columbia Music Entertainment.
Sony Pictures Television, is an American television production/distribution company. It is a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment. In turn, the latter is part of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. SPT was previously known as Screen Gems, Columbia Pictures Television, TriStar Television and Columbia TriStar Television. The name was changed to reflect the Sony brand in 2002. From 2005 until May 31, 2006, SPT also distributed MGM's TV shows and movie library (due in part to the Sony-led consortium's purchase of MGM). In 2006, SPT joined forces with Program Partners to handle ad-sales and distribution rights to foreign television series in the U.S., mostly shows produced in Canada. In Summer 2007, the company introduced The Minisode Network; a digital channel for MySpace airing shows from the 1960s to early 2000s from four to five minutes.
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