New video Project

I am still slightly undecided as what to choose but I'm pretty confident that i will go with the video production task, i chose this task over the magazine one because you have to be interested in music, (Which i am not) and there's allot of written work involved which I'm not that good at. I feel more confident when I'm drawing our doing something practical, so film sounds like the ideal choice as you have to do storyboards and set designs as well as filming. I also love films.

Evaluation

We used the typical media conventions in which you see within television programs and films within our own film pieces e.g the use of the 180 degree rule and match on action. Without the use of these camera movements and editing our films will look armature and will only confuse and disorientate them. It could be said that our media piece represents a teenage social group as we talk about the different subjects which are most important within our lives(football). It's for this reason that i believe our piece would be targeted at a young teenage audience like skins, so to attract my audience i would continue to talk about the sort of issues which arise within the lives of the youth today. I feel as though i have learnt a lot on the technical side when it comes to editing as it was a whole new experience so it was good to learn how to to shorten and lengthen clips as well as being able to find out how to change the volume controls. I also learnt how to for the first time import a video file from YOUTUBE on to a blog. Overall i feel i didn't realise how much paper work and permission you needed before you even begin doing any filming. Overall i feel that our film piece was successful in completing the objectives of the media conventions and were very pleased with the final product.

Evaluation

Preliminary project

Script for film

1- Establishing shot of corridor, person walking down the corridor towards a door.
2- Person 2 looks down at the door handle; the shot then cuts to a close up of the door handle.
3- Person then opens the door half way, the camera is filming a fairly long shot from the corridor. 4- Cut to the person as they continue opening the door from inside the room.
5- Person opens the door fully, camera shoots from inside the room in a close up.
6- They look at the other person win the room, the camera then cuts to a mid shot of person 1.
7- They walk into the room and sit down opposite someone else where they begin to have a conversation about football.
Person 1 – “Did you see the match last night?”
(Close up on person 1 face.)
Person 2 – “Yeh, it was a good game”
(The camera is at a mid shot of them sitting down.)
Person 1 – “I thought that the goal was pretty good”.
(Camera then cuts from a mid shot of person1 to a nodding shot of Person 2.)
Person 2 – “It was probably one of the best goals of the season”.
(There is a match on action shot of someone scoring a goal.)
Person 1 – “I had best be off, I’m meeting someone in the library”
(Long shot of person 1 as they stand up.)
Person 2 – “Alright see ya later”
(High angle shot looking down upon person 2.)
(Camera tracks person 1 as the go out the room and close the door.)

Storyboard for film

Editting

With the use of a computer program we were able to manipulate our footage which we had filmed in order to extend or crop a clip. We first of all had to capture the images from the camcorder which was connected to the computer in order to edit them. Then we set the clips in to the correct order as the script.

Filming

Before we could even start filming our story we had to find our location and ask for permission to use the area to film, it's then after that we had to do a concept plan of our location which would give us an in site into where the cameras would be, and where the 180 degree and match on action rules would be taking place. We then decided between the three of us who would be doing the acting and who would be working the camera. When actualy doing the filming we realised that some of our original layout plans wouldn't actualy work within the scene, so we had to make some alterations. We also had to add in the scene where we cut to someone scoring a goal but due to time restrictions we actualy had to just film kicking a football.

Concept layout of scene

Evaluation

Evaluation

I feel that through our detailed research and analysis of various existing student magazines we were able to get an accomplished understanding of layout and contents for the cover and contents page; with this research we incorporated these ideas into our magazine. This is evidential through our stylized yet simple mast head and our strap lines which were suitable and relatable to our audience.
Our cover consisted of a mid close up of a student at the college, in which we touched up the image on a computer where we removed a lamppost within the background as well as removing one of her ears and in its place we air brushed in some more hair.
With the use of the computer program “Adobe Photoshop” we were able to make vast alterations to all parts of the image, but you have to find a point at which you are unable to make any more changes as it begins to look too artificial rather than natural. It was because of this reason that we made as few alterations as possible, and in the end I feel we came out with a well worked image.
Overall i feel we achieved the task sucessfully as we created a cover and contents page for a target audience which worked well and would definately appeal towards them.

180 degre rule and match on action.

180 degre rule.

• It's the rule in which there is an imaginary line crossing over the characters within a scene in which the camera isn't allowed to cross, but it can pan around in that 180 degre area, because otherwise the audience becomes disorientated as characters begin to switch between sides of the screen.Match on action

• This is when someone films a person opening a door from one angle and then changes the angle through a cut, but in doing so they need to carry on filming from the exact angle in which the door was opened at in the previous shot, otherwise you get a jump cut and the scene doesn't run as smoothly.

Evaluation

I feel that both the cover and contents page for our magazine are similar to those in which we have studied. The reasons for why i believe this is because it consists of a mid close up image of a student at the college.

Once we transfered the photo onto the computer we began touching up the image. This is when we covered up one of her ears with hair and removed a lampost in the background.

1. I will firstly Conduct some research and planning into the production of our own magazine
2. Then i will do some photography production
3. We will then do some post-production to the photographs we took for our cover
4. Finally i will Evaluate all of our work

What my Magazine will Consist of.

I will firstly try to give the magazine cover a catchy and luring masthead in which it will explain what the magazines contents are whilst at the same time being short and snappy. I will also have both a screamer and a direct mode of address luring the reader in order to relate to the magazine, whilst at the same time telling them the sort of things in which the magazine contains. These sort of things will also be included into the strap line and the coverlines. As for the image on the cover, I will be looking for an photo of a student and if possible have them stand in front of the college in order to show a relation between the two.

- The psychographics of our reader would be that they are Achievers, because they're the sort of people who aim to do well and earn lots of money when there older.

- Our readers social values would either be a Hedonist, or a Post-modernist as they would like to enjoy life as much as possible right now.

- On the Jicnars scale we would rate our reader as being semi and unskilled manual workers as they are probably only working part time.

- The age range of our reader is going to be between 13 - 18 year old and aimed at both a male and female audience.

Magazine Analysis

I looked at various magazines aimed at students and what they all had on offer for there audience. A lot of magazines offer there readers various ways in which they can stay safe whilst at the same time enjoying there time at college. They also like to keep there audiences up to date with the latest technology and film/ album charts. They more than often give there readers valuable information on available causes in which they might take in the near future, and what they're going to provide them for careers later on. I also noticed that the covers of student magazines would either have an image of the college where the magazines from, or of people who actually attend the school.

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My name is Joe Elson and this is my blog for media studies, in which i will be creating my own magazine cover aimed at students.