UAL MEDIA L3 James C

Propps Character Theory Storm, Blade, Nick Fury, Luke Cage etc.  Representation is t he way in which the  media  portrays particular groups, communities, people, ideas, races or topics from a certain ideological or value perspective. For example women could be re presented as being the weak character or the prize that the white male protagonist wins over in the end.  David Brent in The Office is represented as being a average sort of 9-5 working white man but being a bit dumb and funny whereas Tim Canterbury is represented as being a silly white funny man that just tries to get on with his job and have a joke with David as well. In The Walking Dead there are 8 character types, The hero is Rick Grimes, the Villain, Negan, The dispatcher, Morgan, The Princess/Prize, Carl, The Princess father, Micheone, The Prize/Princess keeper, Shane etc. I think this way of approaching characters actually works because there is a good balance betwee...

Our tv production would be similar to This morning but be more based on students and discounts and all things to do with students etc. The show would have a lot of segments and be in a casual not too formal format. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywMhy1yc6dY

This Morning-ITV Pick a specific TV show similar in genre and format to one you would like to produce.  Add a link to a clip from the show to your blog, then watch making notes on the following topics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUJY_ov83Z4 Visual Codes (describe the following elements of mise-en-scene) Eyeliner  camera shots, medium closeups, closeups, wide shots, panning shots, zoom shots. Set/location of the production The studio location is at The London Television Centre, 72 Upper Ground, Lambeth, London SE1 9LT Colour pallette and tone used within the show Warmish neutral tone throughout the whole program  Hair and make-up Makeup and hair on but not excessive Clothes Smart formal dress/ shirt/ trousers Presenters performance Good most of the time but can get informal and out of hand if they burst into laughter and cannot contain themselves. I think the purpose of them laughing and not keeping themselves serious all the time is...

Audiences in Media James Cross An Audience is the  spectators or listeners at a public event like a play, film, concert, or meeting etc. An audience is important because  producers in media may spend a lot of time and money finding out who the audience for a programme or product in media might be. Without an audience there would be no media and also media organisations produce media texts to make profit. No audience no profit. The technology of dvr  has revolutionized digital TV experience for audiences around the world because dvr allows viewers to control of the show for example being able to rewind and catch a dialogue or skip commercials that interrupt  with the flow of the show or film. Viewers don't feel as chained to their TV or compelled by TV schedules to be available when the content is aired.  With the technology, they can record long hours of their favorite shows and events and watch it when they want.   The two...

White Balance in Video We used blue and orange gels to create a warm and cold effect. If we placed the blue gel in front of the Sony cameras then the camera would automatically adjust to the colour and turn up the temperature kelvin, this when we took the gel away would create a warm effect.  It was the same for the orange gel which when taken away would give a cold effect. A cold effect in movies tends to be associated with a sad, unhappy, dark emotion and can really help to emphasise what the character is feeling or portray a certain emotion before the character is on screen.  A warm effect in movies tends to be associated with a happy good emotion.  Although a colourist can change the temperature of the footage in post production, some producers like to change the temperature before in camera to achieve a certain look. 

Creating an Interview Make them fell comfortable, listen for a bit longer than you would actually listen normally so the audio is clean when asking the questions. Pick a good location with a good background  Make the interviewee look at the interviewer  Keep the eye contact  Nod at the interviewee to show interest  Keep the 180 degree rule to not confuse the audience The  180 °  rule  is a film guideline that says that two characters in a scene should keep the same left/right relationship to one another. If the camera passes over the line connecting the two subjects, its called crossing the line and it confuses the audience. Frame the subject in the rule of thirds  Leave a small gap at the top of the frame between the head and the edge of frame Use manual focus and a shallow depth of field Have something related to the subject the interviewee is talking about in the background if possible Keep the camera at the same...

Scene Soundtrack Analysis Forrest Gump Ping Pong Scene James Cross Forrest is introduced into Ping Pong by another soldier and tells him to keep his eye on the ball, Forest starts to play and gets better and better the longer he plays. He plays himself mostly whilst more and more people watch every time the scene changes. Whilst this is happening Forrest is narrating over the footage and describing what is happening and why. Music  The music in the background of one of the scenes was Break on through, it has a fast tempo and the instrumentation consists of guitars, bass and a rock drum kit. The rhythm of it is kind a standard 4/4 rock beat which I think adds a sense of pace to the scene and really emphasizes how fast Forrest is playing Ping Pong. The pitch is kind of medium to high. I think the producer included it because it is a song of that time genre so it will make the audience hopefully realise what year it was but also really emphasize the impact of how fast and h...

Lighting Setup Week 5 Carousel In the first setup we used the 3 Arri 300W to combine a total output of 900W. The lights have a medium brightness with a very wide or narrow coverage and easy to use but need gloves and sandbags as they get warm. For the second setup we used the Arri 300W lights again but setup them up differently with a rim light in the left corner, a fill light on the left and the key light which created a very flat 3d profile to the face and body and very minimal shadows.   In the 3rd setup we used 3 Redhead 800W to combine a total output of 2400W which are useful for big set productions. The lights are very bright and have a wide to medium coverage and I would say they are not the easiest to use with a difficulty of hard. The lights get incredibly hot, much hotter than the other lights so they need gloves and sandbags to prevent burn to the skin and falling over.  For the 4th setup we used 3 Dedo 150W to combine a total output of 450W. ...

Psycho Shower Scene Review For the activity we had to take the famous Psycho shower scene, download it, remove the audio in Premiere Pro then recreate the sounds to sound as similar as possible to the real film using what was given to us like a cabbage, knife water etc. From looking  back at the feedback given, the positives of our edit were that a lot of people said the screams were really realistic and good and the door closing was really well timed. What we need to work on is the timing and change the sounds of some of the things like the shower sound effect as it sounded unrealistic and just like slushing water. The screams were apparently used too much and needed to be spaced out a bit. We need to work on the editing of the sounds to make the timing more accurate. I think we gave the task a good effort though but we needed to definitely work on the editing side and recording the Foley sounds side as well. Some of the students said we needed some atmospheric mus...

Week 4 Fashion Carousel This week we did the process of embroidery, dress making and hot press use as part of the fashion section of the carousel.  The tools we used were a hot press, sewing thread, needle, plastic bags and paint.  We did the process of using a hot press to paint a design like mine below onto a cardboard sheet and then used the hot press which pressed the paint into a piece of cloth.  We used plastic bags and a bodice and model to cut and shape the plastic and pin it onto the bodice and create a short skirt and straps and accessory Nike man bag as seen in the photos below.

Carousel Week 3 Aperture and Shutter Photos Aperture is the hole in the kens that lets in light and the size can be changed. The lower the F stop number the more light the lens lets in and the higher the less light let in. The lower the F stop number the shallower the depth of field so something at like F2.8 will have a creamy blurry background whereas something like F10 will have a sharp background as well as foreground. Shutter speed is the time the sensor is exposed to light by the shutter. The faster the shutter speed the less light will be let onto the sensor and vice versa. A slow shutter speed like 1/5th will let in loads of light and would likely make the subject and background less sharp because the sensor is being shown the image for a long time compared to a shutter speed of like 1/2000th. A camera lens with a very wide aperture below F3.5 will be more expensive than a kit lens because there are more parts to the lens. The photo below was shot at a faster ...

Psycho Shower Scene Audio Activity We had to make sound effects to fit the shower scene in psycho and recreate it ourselves.  The function of the cue-sheets was that we could note down the time of the different sounds and note down what we could use to recreate that sound like stabbing a cabbage with a knife to sound like a person being stabbed. The cue-sheets weren't that important in our edit as we didn't have many sounds to create but in a large scale film being produced they would be essential and need to be written very detailed because there are so many sounds and different point in the timeline to insert the sounds etc. What is Foley Foley is creating sounds that sound exactly or incredibly similar to the real sound of something like a person walking through snow could be a sound effect artist using cardboard to sound like it.  We did a Foley workshop and we had to create the sound of a door being shut and a scream etc by using a door and a girl screaming....

Carousel Interview Week 3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8dqzpMM7NfEYWQxRXBxdGRaZGc/view?usp=sharing

Making a Gif in Photoshop To make a Gif in Photoshop we opened lots of photos as a stack into a timeline then made each layer a different frame and changed the delay of each frame to short enough so that it looked like a video and not lots of glitchy photos. I created this GIF of Owen spinning a skateboard 360 degrees using a video file and creating layers from frames in the timeline animation workspace of Photoshop. 

Critically Comparing my Skills, Processes and Methods 1st. Formulate your question: Look below at what you  are you being asked to evaluate. Unit 1 U1.2.1 Critically compare a range of communication methods used to convey meaning in creative media production. Note Critically is similar to compare but concentrate on the things that are different with two or more methods used or what sets them apart. Point out any differences which are particularly significant. In your own words say what U1.2.1 is asking you to do. Answer: Compare thoroughly a range of different types of media like magazine, film, photography etc to portray a meaning in creative media production. 2nd. Gather your information: What have you been doing that you can evaluate On your blog you now have two weeks detailing classes in The Carousel and professional ways to use tools, skills, processes.  If you have details of these you have done this point just add the links below. Blog li...

 1 Min Live Pen Advert Document what you did in the session on Tuesday List under the following  Research that you carry out in these sessions Skills that you have tried,  Any  processes  and   methods   you used. Any  tools  that you used. Today I helped create a one minute live video advertisement and my role as part of the tv production was to man one of the cameras by needing to focus it and zoom in to the right composition. The skills I developed were camera zoom and focusing skills and learning and understanding more about how a Tv program and Tv production works.  I think I could develop these skills further by using different camera movements and using a high quality camera like my own. This could also enhance the story and emotion in the scenes.  If there was anything I would do differently about today's activity would be that I would maybe change how the scenes were shot so instead of having al...

Item Equipment Research We had the talk about Photography and Cameras yesterday and I know lots about Photography but I don't know much about Macro Lenses so thought I would do my research on that. A Macro Lens is a lens that should be able to reproduce a life sized image onto the sensor. Good  macro lenses give a magnification factor of 1.0x or 1:1 at its closest focus setting.  The minimum focus distance of macro lenses with the same magnification factor of 1.0x gets bigger with larger lenses. Here is an example of a Macro lens and example of a Macro shot of a Snail and also a chart of the different  magnifications of different Macro lenses.

2. Write up your experience of the following... 2a Discuss any research that you carried out in these sessions: Primary: Something taken first hand like an eyewitness. Secondary: Something taken second hand like a news reporter. 2b Discuss any skills that you have tried: I have tried to involve people with disabilities more with the task and help them by being slow and patient. 2c Discuss any processes and methods you used (Photography wet process, We edited a photo in Photoshop and used the Double Exposure process and also used the method of Photoshop layering by copying CMD C and Pasting CMD V the photo of the face into the other page.   Illustrator  We used a photo of a close up person and zoomed in on their eye CMD +- and used the pen tool to draw around parts of the eye and then used the layering tool to colour in that part and repeated these steps with other parts of the eye to create a cartoon/animated type eye. ...

Investigating Design Tool Kits  Photoshop means to me as a Media Student is that its a great way of photo processing and creating textures. Using Photoshop-Double Exposure F key equals Fullscreen Tab key hides the toolbars Non Destructive Editing Command A means Select All Manipulating a image but 

Investigating Design Tool Kits- Maya 3D Animation Autodesk Maya is a 3D modelling software for film. Setup Maya to use w9th a one button mouse.