Please click play as you scroll through by Blog- Theme Music

The sound clip is the type of music we want to use on are finished film opening, it has a dark atmosphere and will suit a stalker with a hiden identity.

Friday, 27 November 2009

Ability & Disability stereotypes

Monday, 16 November 2009

The Male Gaze

Sunday, 1 November 2009

Magazine Evaluation

For the photoshop development i worked on my own as i had already used photoshop and knew that is very hard to share as everyone has different ideas.

I planned my magazine on paper and gave it a very structured layout which i based on previous playstation magazines which i used to read and always found them easy to read and understand.

i used the camera to capture images and then firewire to upload the pictures on to pc and finally edited on adobe photoshop, to create the magazine.

My magazine kept to the rule of three to keep it looking professional and consitant. i think the three colours are also clear and fresh.

My magazine appeals to most regular reads of the school magazine as it covers the topics that most students are interested in. it also has quite bold layout and not overpowering like more sophisiticated magazines.

Friday, 30 October 2009

Film Evaluation

I worked with Jamie Webster, Emma Dimelow and Becky Baker to create my preliminary task of a short film production. We split the four of up into two small sectors, myself and jamie on acting with a few camera shot ideas, then Emma & Becky controling the cameras movement.

Are main planning was from are storyboard which we created first before we started to film, this took us half a lesson of planning and we kept to the basic guildlines. The short film we created has quite a mysterious feel and i think we were inspired from the jason bourne series of films.

The technology we used was the camera and tripod then the editing from the apple macs, imovie, to crop all clips together and smoothen the transistion.

The factors we looked at were the camera angles such as when i step over the camera. We also looked at lighting in the room we used, we thought it was to bright and decided to shut the blinds and change were the location of the tables were.

We looked at alot of camera effects, such as the 180 degree rule, we had a very good few angles on the finishing handshake which gave our film a good look of professional quality.

The mise en scene on are film was well thought through, we used the camera bag to act that it held some information that was of high importance. We also gave the room a very dark setting as this gives a more secretive feel to the audience, which fits with are formal functions of are genre.

We gave our film a sense of story with two main characters consiting of a henchmen, and a important figure with high hierarchy. This links into the barthez theory of structalism as one event leads to another.

I feel that are film went very well, it was very smoothly put together with good editing. I was very pleased with who i worked with as we all had a serious frame of mind and knew what we had to create. The one thing i would want to improve was the music, as we feel it didnt really need a cheesy track as we feel it would ruin the overall film.

I think this has helped me be inspired for my coursework piece, it gives me a idea of what i can create and in what time frame.

Tuesday, 27 October 2009

My School Front Page & Contents


This is my Contents for my Magazine

My School Front Page & Contents


This is the front cover for my Magazine project

Sunday, 25 October 2009

Photoshop development

We have been set a task to produce a front cover of a magazine for the school. It had to be relevant to students and could be aimed at just sport, just studies or wider and for all.

I decided to keep mine wide as then i could find it easier to fill with ideas. We had to keep to guildlines such as the rule of three colours to keep it looking professional and tidy. I choose to keep to blue,green, black and dark grey. i think this worked well and im happy with my overall front cover and my contents page.

I shall upload the two pictures onto my blog so you to see.