Mrs Banks 6/2

In todays lesson we discussed bloggers and vloggers.

We listed off multiple vloggers/bloggers and we discussed what their role is within the media industry. We discussed consumer produced media and that is what most vloggers/bloggers are.
They show their daily lives and products etc that they feel are worth showing to their audiences or that they are sponsored, and paid, to show their audience.

Casey Neistat is a vlogger who uses his vlog and his audience to promote his business and his future ideas. He has gained an audience and has always used them as feedback when pitching his ideas or his business ideas to them.

New idea

We have filmed almost all of our new idea and have edited up to 2 minutes out of the 3 minute and 16 second song 'Heathens" by twenty one pilots.

We will continue to film the final pieces of our music video this week as we aim to complete it by Friday 10th February.

We aim to complete it by then so that we can begin our evaluation questions and our ancillary texts.

Change of idea

We changed our idea from a short movie to a music video. We did this because we weren't confident in our idea and as we explored the music aspect we became more interested an thought of better ideas that we were more motivated to do.

We then decided on the song we wanted to do a music video about. We both enjoy listening to twenty one pilots so we listened to some of their songs and then decided on which one we wanted to make a video for.

We chose the song "Heathens" from the film Suicide Squad because we felt as if we had developed a good idea for the video that matches the theme of the song.

Filming and editing equipment

To film our project we will be using the Sony Handycam HDR-cx240E camcorder. This is a good camera as it is very light and versatile, it will allow us to get every shot we need and it will allow us to plan the shots we need and we can challenge ourselves because we will know what we are going to be able to do. This camera was my own and it broke during recording so we used the Canon Legria HF R606 as a replacement.

To edit our project we will use iMovie. iMovie is a software which is very convenient for me as it is already available on my Macbook Air. It is a very well developed software which is easy to use and provides good features that can assist me during the post production of our project.

TV essay

In today's lesson we began our TV essay. We first have to write about the history of TV and programmes such as Byker Grove and Grange Hill. I wrote about how these 2 programmes show similar issues amongst the youth of society, and they use similar storylines that involve things such as sex, drugs, violence, alcohol, gangs etc. Grange Hill in particular was very realistic and tried their best to present the issues as realistic as they were, but the BBC didn't want the show to head in that direction so director Phil Redmond had to tone the issues down and make them more unrealistic and more light hearted.

1/12/16

Today I watched multiple horror, jump scare, thriller kind of films. I did this because seeing other ideas from professionals will hopefully give me new ideas or ideas that I can alter to make it more natural. Films such as the Conjuring and the Shining were good examples of creative ideas that keep viewers waiting and then appear at the most unexpected time. They delay the person/monster being shown for a little while because it makes people panic for longer, then they make the audience feel as if nothing is coming and that's when the monster/person enters the frame with a scream or music that will allow the figure to appear even scarier.

Production idea

Stalker is presented as the boyfriend from the start

Washing hands of blood and washing a knife, audience may believe it is just ketchup or something

Over the shoulder of him looking out the kitchen window with a pitchfork or shovel stuck in the ground

Then follow his journey to the girls house

Put on the supposed dead boys clothes

Stand on watch and put it on

Text asking 'when are you coming'

Then the storyboard sequence minus the boy because he is dead

Text conversation, loved up turns blunt

Fling the doors open and don't close them

Freya opens the door and you walk straight up the stairs and she questions why you arent answering her, then over the shoulder shot, freyas reaction then black screen then scream.

This is a brief production idea where I have just expressed ideas for my final production.