Monday, 30 November 2015
Age rating and classification for our short film
My groups short film will be a reality genre and will be I think classified as a 15 as it includes a message that I think teenagers will need to understand and learn from. This is because in our short film we include a brief reference to sexuality so would be classed as sexual reference. We are using the idea of being a cross dresser/ transgender so it refers to sexuality and would again we would be trying to get the message across that being different is ok. Although our short film could be classed under 12A aswell as we do not use any mild form of bad language, we do not include violence in any way, we do not involve any weapons or drug references either. I am struggling with it as we are including a lesson in our short film with a hint at sexuality and with the 12 A it has to be displayed in a joke way but we aren't aiming for our sexual reference to be a joke, we want to teach adolescents a lesson that its okay to be different.
Faye Jackson, 30/11/15. Copyright and BBFC
Copy right using other peoples footage.
You can use a short clip from someone else's content like part of a film or tv show but the clip cant be too long and it would depend on how you present their clip with the content you're making.
You can't take a massive amount of a film or key clips which I guess are parts of the content that could be spoilers for others watching.
You can overdub somebody else's content if you change what ever has been said and make sure its completely different.
You can not use any unedited clips or scenes from movies
You can use the footage if it has been online for 70 years.
Sound
You can use it as long as its under 30 seconds.
Its not copy right if the sound is just in the background and cannot be removed.
If caught you get 3 strikes. 1. you would get a warning. 2. you would get your wifi took of you for a while so would have to use mobile data. 3. Would get banned.
Music
If you wanted to use an instrumental for a music video or for backing music you would have to purchase it before hand.
If performing someone else's song you have to pay a certain fee for performing it.
You can remix a track but have to give credits down below.
Still images
if you use content with models included you will need to ask
If content has been up for 70 years you can use it
We got together into groups and researched one topic between us all and then after information had been researched we had to do a presentation on what we had found out. My group researched about using other owners footage and what would be classed as copyright and what wouldn't be classed as copy right. The top paragraph is what we researched and the rest is what we got off the other groups whilst they was presenting.
This was our group with our shee
t full of information we had discussed together and then the sheet more close up, Its hard to see but this is what we managed to produce.
For the second half of the lesson we learnt about the BBFC and what it does and what there role is. We learnt what is included in every age rated film and why they are classified under those certain ratings.
Case Study's
This film genre is a drama and has been rated a 15. It has been rated a 15 because it is showing bad behavior within in the film but has also shown why that the behavior is bad and it then shows the consequences of the bad behavior. In this film it shows the bad behavior by showing how making a big mistake in your adolescence stage that at the time of being a teenager might feel acceptable but when you hit adulthood it could come and bite you and effect how you live. They show Noel Clarke acting as Sam coming out of prison after making a mistake he made when he was a teenager and although after this he thinks that every thing is back to normal and will be forgot about but it shows that everything has not changed and that even though he has, things will never be the same just because of a mistake. So it will be teaching the teenager audience that for every mistake is a consequence it could be long term or short term. It also teaches that violence isn't the answer to things. The film shows the use of drugs, weapons and violence. It includes sexual references and some sexual scenes and innuendo's. It however does not include nudity but does show it to some extent. Bad language is used within this film. This is why the BBFC have rated it a 15.
" As before, the action reflects the brutal reality of life in an urban setting where drugs, guns and knives leave none of the young characters untouched, but Sam’s change of attitude offers some hope for the future. It is no surprise, then, that the issues for classification include violence and drugs, as well as use of strong language and strong sex references."
This film genre is a comedy/musical and is rated a 12A.
It is rated a 12A as it is a film because swearing is included but is very brief and is used in a appropriate manor for example, if a character was to make a mistake then that would be appropriate with using bad language rather than just swearing randomly and has no reason behind the use of the swear word. The film includes innuendo's within the film but uses them to make the film funny and uses the innuendo's in a joke way. The sexual references are used in songs and in scenes if a reference is made it is brief and can be understood by the age of 12. There is no sexual scenes shown so it isnt going to be a 15. There is remarks about sexuality in general in the film but again displayed in a joke way. The film also displays a drug reference but it is not a strong reference and no drugs are shown but it again would be able to be understood by the age of 12. This is what was said about the film on the BBFC "The moderate sex references in Pitch Perfect are mostly verbal, and occur in the context of young people thrown together in a college setting, where comments about sex are used to impress, insult or emphasise the rivalry between the male and female singing groups."
My groups short film will be a reality genre and will be I think classified as a 15 as it includes a message that I think teenagers will need to understand and learn from. This is because in our short film we include a brief reference to sexuality so would be classed as sexual reference. We are using the idea of being a cross dresser/ transgender so it refers to sexuality and would again we would be trying to get the message across that being different is ok. Although our short film could be classed under 12A aswell as we do not use any mild form of bad language, we do not include violence in any way, we do not involve any weapons or drug references either. I am struggling with it as we are including a lesson in our short film with a hint at sexuality and with the 12 A it has to be displayed in a joke way but we aren't aiming for our sexual reference to be a joke, we want to teach adolescents a lesson that its okay to be different.
Wednesday, 25 November 2015
Story boards for short film for Marissa's Lesson. Faye Jackson, 23/11/15
In this lesson Me, Emma and Eden got together and thrown more ideas at each other about what we could do for our short film as we hadn't yet decided. We also found out that we will not be having Drew in our group so we had to also think around that. We all suggested ideas and we eventually got an idea in our heads to base our secret short film on transgender,to try give of a message that being different is ok. It took us around 20 minutes but when we decided what we was doing we all stuck to the idea and we got into it and even knew what our scenes where going to be like and what types of shots we could use.
We came up with the idea of Emma and myself walking out of college together and just for this scene we would be using 3 different angles of shot. The third angle would then include me leaving Emma and then it would then go up to a close up of Emma's facial expressions watching me walk off. The scene would then see Emma back into a wide shot and then would have Emma walking back into the college and then walking through a set of doors that would open into a toilet. In the toilet,Emma would come across a bag with boy ish clothing inside and then the shot would be capturing her looking into the mirror as a girl and then she would put her head down as in to wash her make up away and we would use a movement shot that would move downwards as she does to wash her face and then as the camera comes back up it would show Emma's reflection to be a male. Before this mirror scene it would cross edit into me walking back into college as I would have forgot my bag and then back to Emma where the mirror scene would start. After the mirror scene it would go back to me getting even closer to where Emma is. It would then cross back to Emma about to leave the toilets and would then cross back to me walking right near the door as we shoot Emma opening the door. The scenes would then clash and I would then find out Emma is a transgender and I would look shocked but then smile and the camera angle would then be shot from behind me and seeing Emma smile and we was then thinking of inputting a voice over saying 'Its ok to be different' to leave the short film ending in a positive way and leaving the short film closed and not opened so that the audience are wanting to know more information.
We had fully planned it out amongst us and we all feel very confident with our idea and we think it is going to work out amazing!
We decided on what props we would need and who Is responsible for it. We need a hoodie which is being brought in by me or Emma, A hat that is going to be borrowed of Ben.
Make up which is going to be brought in by either Emma or Eden maybe. Eden will be bringing in her SD Card. I think that's all we would need and ourself's in the group as it wouldn't work.
We filled out a production schedule and assigned each other jobs in the group. We are going to be doing a location REECE next week and I will need to take images of our locations during the week.
We planned out our scenes and made a story board of our scenes on the storyboard it website.
We came up with the idea of Emma and myself walking out of college together and just for this scene we would be using 3 different angles of shot. The third angle would then include me leaving Emma and then it would then go up to a close up of Emma's facial expressions watching me walk off. The scene would then see Emma back into a wide shot and then would have Emma walking back into the college and then walking through a set of doors that would open into a toilet. In the toilet,Emma would come across a bag with boy ish clothing inside and then the shot would be capturing her looking into the mirror as a girl and then she would put her head down as in to wash her make up away and we would use a movement shot that would move downwards as she does to wash her face and then as the camera comes back up it would show Emma's reflection to be a male. Before this mirror scene it would cross edit into me walking back into college as I would have forgot my bag and then back to Emma where the mirror scene would start. After the mirror scene it would go back to me getting even closer to where Emma is. It would then cross back to Emma about to leave the toilets and would then cross back to me walking right near the door as we shoot Emma opening the door. The scenes would then clash and I would then find out Emma is a transgender and I would look shocked but then smile and the camera angle would then be shot from behind me and seeing Emma smile and we was then thinking of inputting a voice over saying 'Its ok to be different' to leave the short film ending in a positive way and leaving the short film closed and not opened so that the audience are wanting to know more information.
We had fully planned it out amongst us and we all feel very confident with our idea and we think it is going to work out amazing!
We decided on what props we would need and who Is responsible for it. We need a hoodie which is being brought in by me or Emma, A hat that is going to be borrowed of Ben.
Make up which is going to be brought in by either Emma or Eden maybe. Eden will be bringing in her SD Card. I think that's all we would need and ourself's in the group as it wouldn't work.
We filled out a production schedule and assigned each other jobs in the group. We are going to be doing a location REECE next week and I will need to take images of our locations during the week.
We planned out our scenes and made a story board of our scenes on the storyboard it website.
17/11/15, Marrisa- Starting a proposal
In today's lesson we went over a few definitions what we needed to know about for example, linear/non linear, narrative, multi strand/single strand structures. We then brain stormed ideas about what our project could be about and discussed what we should use as an idea for our short film secrets. We was told who else would be in our groups and we got together and swapped ideas. Me and Emma sort of had a similar idea of a secret personality/ identity so we decided to make our short film on that.
I have been placed in a group with Emma and Eden, and I think that I will work better with the pair of them and will have more knowledge about what to do than what I did last time we made a short film and I will feel more organised about it. I think the issue last time is I didn't really communicate with in the group and neither did the others in my group because we had only just met and becoming familiar with everyone but this group will hopefully be a lot better as I can speak to the pair of them.
We had discussed what our strength's and weaknesses are within the group so it gives us a sight of what roles we could issue each other within the group to work together happily. We decided that Emma will defiantly be doing an acting role as she likes to me in front of the camera and doesn't mind. Eden will be happy to film the footage as she doesn't like to be involved on the camera and she would be much more comfortable recording. I said that I'm fairly good at editing and that its my strong point so we decided that most of my input would be with the editing side of things but I also said I would be involved with acting if needed as I'm not too bothered about that. So our roles just fitted perfectly as me nor Emma like doing the recording, Emma likes acting and I like the editing and neither of them are that keen on the subject of that. We decided that we are going to include 2 Actors, Me and Emma and our idea was defiantly going to be on a secret/ hidden personality as we thought that would work best.
We also went over a form of editing technique and im not too sure but I think it was named cross editing or something. I cant remember what it was called but I remember what it meant and what the purpose of it was. I will have to recap on this with Marrisa when we are back into her lesson's.
It was a form of editing that combined two different scenes that were happening at the same time so that it would build up suspense and get the audience on there feet. Ready for the clash of when the scenes come together and what would happen.
We watched a clip out of a film I think it was named inception including Leonardo Dicaprio and I felt really inspired to include this form of editing in the short film, me, Emma and Eden are going to create. As I think it was a brilliant idea and the fact that there are two actors so they're is going to be two different scenes going on.
I found this lesson useful and Im glad that the cross edit was mentioned as it was a very good idea and made me think about the way of how im going to edit scenes when it comes to me editing our short film. My group agreed they want to include this editing technique aswell.
I have been placed in a group with Emma and Eden, and I think that I will work better with the pair of them and will have more knowledge about what to do than what I did last time we made a short film and I will feel more organised about it. I think the issue last time is I didn't really communicate with in the group and neither did the others in my group because we had only just met and becoming familiar with everyone but this group will hopefully be a lot better as I can speak to the pair of them.
We had discussed what our strength's and weaknesses are within the group so it gives us a sight of what roles we could issue each other within the group to work together happily. We decided that Emma will defiantly be doing an acting role as she likes to me in front of the camera and doesn't mind. Eden will be happy to film the footage as she doesn't like to be involved on the camera and she would be much more comfortable recording. I said that I'm fairly good at editing and that its my strong point so we decided that most of my input would be with the editing side of things but I also said I would be involved with acting if needed as I'm not too bothered about that. So our roles just fitted perfectly as me nor Emma like doing the recording, Emma likes acting and I like the editing and neither of them are that keen on the subject of that. We decided that we are going to include 2 Actors, Me and Emma and our idea was defiantly going to be on a secret/ hidden personality as we thought that would work best.
We also went over a form of editing technique and im not too sure but I think it was named cross editing or something. I cant remember what it was called but I remember what it meant and what the purpose of it was. I will have to recap on this with Marrisa when we are back into her lesson's.
It was a form of editing that combined two different scenes that were happening at the same time so that it would build up suspense and get the audience on there feet. Ready for the clash of when the scenes come together and what would happen.
We watched a clip out of a film I think it was named inception including Leonardo Dicaprio and I felt really inspired to include this form of editing in the short film, me, Emma and Eden are going to create. As I think it was a brilliant idea and the fact that there are two actors so they're is going to be two different scenes going on.
I found this lesson useful and Im glad that the cross edit was mentioned as it was a very good idea and made me think about the way of how im going to edit scenes when it comes to me editing our short film. My group agreed they want to include this editing technique aswell.
Tuesday, 17 November 2015
Short film proposal
Story-
My short film idea is to include 2 actors at the most and will be told from a multi strand point of view as my idea will include 2 story's with each of the actors but with the same story line, so the same message is being given off in both of the actors scenario's. My story line will follow in a linear way as my idea for a story line will not include any sort of flash back's and when I did a survey, the majority of the class said they preferred it in a linear way. This will not include any voice overs or narrative structures as I am aiming to tell the story by only actions and facial expressions. My idea will include a open ending so that it leaves the audience wondering what would happen if the clip was longer. My idea for the short story is to have two friends that both act normal and casual together when they are in each others company and act as if they know everything about each other but then the secret behind my story line is that they both have secret identity's when they aren't among-st each other. For the starting scene I was thinking of having some sort of angle of the shot where the two actors look happy with each other and then they leave each other and go somewhere else. I then was thinking of doing a shot where you can see a actor typing a message on a phone saying " what you doing tonight " from one of the actors and then moving the shot to the other actor of them receiving it and then replying with "nothing" and then the person replying in the same shot with "same". My idea then was too then take separate shots of both actors leaving and going to do some sort of passion that they are both hiding from each other almost like them both having a secret identity. Another shot of them both separate doing there passion and then as they finish there passion I was thinking of cutting that shot of with an effect of dimming out the shot some how and then the final shot of them back together the next day going back to how they was not having a clue about what they was doing last night. I like the idea that I have made my idea a realist structure so that people can maybe relate to it as it could happen.
Content-
I was thinking of including the effect of cross cutting to show the two actors doing different things but at the same time so that the story is told in a multi strand structure. I then thought I could include a split screen aswell if I wanted to show them both at the same time just so that both of the actors story's get across at the same time. I was also thinking of using a black and white theme when the actors are both together so that it conveys they aren't secretly happy as they are both hiding secrets from one and other and then when they split of the color kicks in to show them both being happy and to convey a positive sort of mood to the short film and then end the short clip with how it started with the black and white effect to show that this is a repetitive cycle.
Soundtrack-
I was thinking of using music in my short film. Using different types of music tones to convey the positive times of both actors and negative times of them. I will be using non diegetic sounds as the music being played cannot be physically seen and I haven't really thought about including any sound effects.
Who is the audience?-
The audience is aimed at 12A so will not be including any swearing, violence, weapons, drugs or anything that would not normally be included in a 12A.
My short film idea is to include 2 actors at the most and will be told from a multi strand point of view as my idea will include 2 story's with each of the actors but with the same story line, so the same message is being given off in both of the actors scenario's. My story line will follow in a linear way as my idea for a story line will not include any sort of flash back's and when I did a survey, the majority of the class said they preferred it in a linear way. This will not include any voice overs or narrative structures as I am aiming to tell the story by only actions and facial expressions. My idea will include a open ending so that it leaves the audience wondering what would happen if the clip was longer. My idea for the short story is to have two friends that both act normal and casual together when they are in each others company and act as if they know everything about each other but then the secret behind my story line is that they both have secret identity's when they aren't among-st each other. For the starting scene I was thinking of having some sort of angle of the shot where the two actors look happy with each other and then they leave each other and go somewhere else. I then was thinking of doing a shot where you can see a actor typing a message on a phone saying " what you doing tonight " from one of the actors and then moving the shot to the other actor of them receiving it and then replying with "nothing" and then the person replying in the same shot with "same". My idea then was too then take separate shots of both actors leaving and going to do some sort of passion that they are both hiding from each other almost like them both having a secret identity. Another shot of them both separate doing there passion and then as they finish there passion I was thinking of cutting that shot of with an effect of dimming out the shot some how and then the final shot of them back together the next day going back to how they was not having a clue about what they was doing last night. I like the idea that I have made my idea a realist structure so that people can maybe relate to it as it could happen.
Content-
I was thinking of including the effect of cross cutting to show the two actors doing different things but at the same time so that the story is told in a multi strand structure. I then thought I could include a split screen aswell if I wanted to show them both at the same time just so that both of the actors story's get across at the same time. I was also thinking of using a black and white theme when the actors are both together so that it conveys they aren't secretly happy as they are both hiding secrets from one and other and then when they split of the color kicks in to show them both being happy and to convey a positive sort of mood to the short film and then end the short clip with how it started with the black and white effect to show that this is a repetitive cycle.
Soundtrack-
I was thinking of using music in my short film. Using different types of music tones to convey the positive times of both actors and negative times of them. I will be using non diegetic sounds as the music being played cannot be physically seen and I haven't really thought about including any sound effects.
Who is the audience?-
The audience is aimed at 12A so will not be including any swearing, violence, weapons, drugs or anything that would not normally be included in a 12A.
Monday, 16 November 2015
Research Terminology
The first task that was set was listening to Faye explain the definitions of research terminology and to then write the definitions down in our own words. I have learnt in the first task what the difference between quantitative results and qualitative results are. I already knew the other meanings already but it has made me confident going over them again.
1. What age are you?
2. What type of genre do you prefer to watch?
3. Do you prefer linear or non linear short films.
4. What duration of time would you prefer to spend watching the short film
5. What is it you enjoy about the genre you prefer
Link to survery:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/create/?sm=VnTq7BusDLoJ_2FgPpOfxcuIAMS0VciLe_2FeWN_2FE9qRkTg_3D
We then filled in each others survery's and then went onto analysis our feedback for our short films and filled in a word document about some questions. I then copied and pasted the questions and answers I filled in below.
Link for analyze: https://www.surveymonkey.com/analyze/VnTq7BusDLoJ_2FgPpOfxcuIAMS0VciLe_2FeWN_2FE9qRkTg_3D
What type of
research did you do?
I did a survey
and collected primary data as I found out the information for myself.
What type of
information did you gather?
I gathered
mostly quantitative results with one question giving me qualitative results that
could have got me asking them further questions about the answer.
Who was your
target audience?
The majority of
audience was aged between 16-19 with 93.33% and the rest of the audience
between 20-30 with 6.67%
How could this
information help improve your short film?
The information
could help me with who I stereotype my ideas for and what things id stereotype
on the most preferred genre of short film selected. I also collected why they
liked that genre so that could help me with what to include in the short film.
Below give a
summary of your results: (remember if you have ten responses that means each
answer is worth 10% of your overall feedback.)
A summary of my
results would be that the highest percentage of ages who took the survey was
ages between 16-19 by 93.33 and then a small percentage of people aged between
20-30 with 6.67%. I found out that nobody enjoys the sci-fi genre so that will
defiantly will not be used in my short film and that by the most popular
demands was the genre of comedy and horror so maybe I could do a hybrid genre
that includes them both. I gathered that the majority of people prefer the
story to be told in a linear way. I gathered that the highest vote of what
amount of time they prefer to watch on the short films was a close choice
between 1-4 minutes and 5- 9 minutes. By the highest vote it was 5-9 minutes
with 46.67& of votes. I gathered
that most people enjoy seeing blood and gore if the short film was to be based
on horror, there was more horror answers than any other.
Look at your
results, what do they say?
The highest
percentages:
Ages: 16-19,
93.33%. Genre: Comedy, 40%. Horror, 33%. Presentation of story: Linear, 73%.
Duration of short film: 5-9 minutes, 46%.
How will you
present this information?
I will present
this information in a graph or I will try and take this information I have collected and try and include things that is suitable for the highest percentage of votes.
Summarise the
process and evaluate what impact it will have upon your short film?
The impact it will have on my short film will be that I try and include some things that others liked and try and benefit there likes and dislikes and try to avoid what they dislike. I will be using a linear way of explaining the story as it was the most voted as its straight forward. I will be trying to use a hybrid genre as there was different votes on what genre people liked so I could try and include different genres so that it keeps the audience happy. I will also consider the genre's nobody liked and not include them at all.
Monday, 9 November 2015
Audience Profitity, 9/11/15, Faye Jackson
Psychographic - This means what type of lifestyle the person lives and what they like to do for a living (hobby's)
Demographic- This is basic key information about a person. Sex, Age, Location, Religion, sexuality, etc.
Socio-economic status- This is information about a persons lifestyle on what they do for a proffession such as what they work as or what class they are. Upper, Middle and Lower class.
I have learnt what demographic and psycho graphic means and can see what type of film genre information would fit in with the two. For example a horror genre would be that a demographic feature would be if the film involved anything to do with religion or anything against religion in the film. An example of a physchographic feature of a film would be looking at what role the character in the short film looks like they are.
After watching a clip of a CBeebies clip I saw that The psychographic information about the audience of CBeebies would
Demographic- This is basic key information about a person. Sex, Age, Location, Religion, sexuality, etc.
Socio-economic status- This is information about a persons lifestyle on what they do for a proffession such as what they work as or what class they are. Upper, Middle and Lower class.
I have learnt what demographic and psycho graphic means and can see what type of film genre information would fit in with the two. For example a horror genre would be that a demographic feature would be if the film involved anything to do with religion or anything against religion in the film. An example of a physchographic feature of a film would be looking at what role the character in the short film looks like they are.
After watching a clip of a CBeebies clip I saw that The psychographic information about the audience of CBeebies would
be that they are in early
childhood and do not yet go to any educational
Places yet and this channel
is trying to help them learn little things at
Same
time as giving them entertainment to watch.The
Hobbies
of an audience would be not yet known as the
Audience
it is aimed at is very young. The socio- economic
For
the audience would be that they are in lower class as
They
aren’t working yet and are just trying to learn a little of
The
content on the CBeebies channel. The
demographic
Information
would be that the content is aimed at both
Genders,
ages 1-10, any religion and any sexuality.
The link to the clip watched: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/cbeebies/episode/b01qsg5y/postman-pat-special-delivery-service-series-2-3-postman-pat-and-the-cheeky-sheep
After watching a clip of something of Grand design's I saw that the psychographic information about the audience the Grand design's is aimed at would be an audience in there middle adulthood - late adulthood as the programme is based on more mature and adult stuff so it'd be least likely for the audience to be aimed at adolescents or people in there childhood. I also guessed that another psycographic fact would be that the audience may like to travel alot and are more into architecture and different houses in different locations and also a person with financial interests and are intrigued in finding out what people can buy for a certain amount of money. I would say the socio- economic information would be people either in working class or working or even just not working. Its just purely based at an audience of adulthood. The demographic information I would say that this show is aimed at both genders but more aimed at males rather than females if I was to think about stereotyping an audience. I would say its aimed at ages 40+, any religion and both sexuality's really.
The link to the clip watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQsgIHazF6M
Media Audiences, Stereotypes, 09/11/15
Today we have been learning about stereotypes and how to sterotype people and trying to get a rough idea of that if we was to stereotype a person what type of genre of media would you sell to them. At the beginning of the lesson we filled out a sheet on moodle and tried to guess the persons stereotype and what films would they be into just by looking at a description of them. We were learning about stereotypes to try and help us with who were aiming our short films at and to help us get ideas of what we would try include to get the audience to be involved and to like the short film.
We then went onto drawing yourself as a stereotype to help us get more insight of what you can stereotype a media company to sell to you as a person with the stereotype we had chosen. We had to highlight a main factor of our life and what we enjoy and draw us as a person and then think about what we would need to draw around the person to get the audience to know that they like the factor. I drew myself with a music type of genre as i enjoy listening to music in my spare time and i don't think I have been through a day without listening to it. I then drew some headphones on my head and music notes around me to show im listening to music. I then drew me holding a phone with a spotify app to show what music app I listen too. I drew a radio with music notes to show I listen to the latest music of the radio. I then just drew a TV with a music video playing so that It also shows again im interested in music. We then had to think about what media preferences someone would make if they stereotyped me that I liked music. I thought of an iPod, music albums, I tunes vouchers and musical films. All related to music.
We then went onto drawing yourself as a stereotype to help us get more insight of what you can stereotype a media company to sell to you as a person with the stereotype we had chosen. We had to highlight a main factor of our life and what we enjoy and draw us as a person and then think about what we would need to draw around the person to get the audience to know that they like the factor. I drew myself with a music type of genre as i enjoy listening to music in my spare time and i don't think I have been through a day without listening to it. I then drew some headphones on my head and music notes around me to show im listening to music. I then drew me holding a phone with a spotify app to show what music app I listen too. I drew a radio with music notes to show I listen to the latest music of the radio. I then just drew a TV with a music video playing so that It also shows again im interested in music. We then had to think about what media preferences someone would make if they stereotyped me that I liked music. I thought of an iPod, music albums, I tunes vouchers and musical films. All related to music.
Sunday, 8 November 2015
Brainstorm for short film idea, Faye Jackson, 2/11/15
We watched 2 short films and looked for some inspiration within the short films
We watched Ashes by Sophie Black and watched and tried to gather what the secret was among st the film. i thought the secret behind it was a forced relationship or one of the partners secretly being unhappy in the relationship. The way Sophie had put all the clips together was very powerful and got some sort of meaning across. We witnessed a woman sleeping whilst the man was masturbating on his own and then he climbed on top of her and it then shown the woman in a different way with how she felt and that she didn't want to open her eyes and when she did she then pretended to be ok with what was happening.
We then watched Lemonade by Erin Montgomery and I didn't really pick up the message with the story. I think it was about a girl secretly crushing on her friend or something like that. It shown a girl being very forceful with the girl and she didn't like it but then was happy. I didn't really understand the message.
I brainstormed a couple of ideas that i thought are most common in secrets:
Bullying
Domestic violence
Pretending to be ok
Pretending to be someone your not.
Secret talent
Secret room
My idea for pretending to be someone you're not could include a person having some sort of secret hobby, passion or lifestyle that they may find embarrassing or they may be ashamed of it. So this person could be hiding there passion and for the person to be acting like they dont know anything about it or just avoid any relation to the talent. As the clip would go along a friend would find out by witnessing the talent and instead of being judge mental is happy and supportive so that in the end the outcome of the secret is positive and the person with the passion is now not afraid of people knowing and is no longer a secret anymore.
We watched Ashes by Sophie Black and watched and tried to gather what the secret was among st the film. i thought the secret behind it was a forced relationship or one of the partners secretly being unhappy in the relationship. The way Sophie had put all the clips together was very powerful and got some sort of meaning across. We witnessed a woman sleeping whilst the man was masturbating on his own and then he climbed on top of her and it then shown the woman in a different way with how she felt and that she didn't want to open her eyes and when she did she then pretended to be ok with what was happening.
We then watched Lemonade by Erin Montgomery and I didn't really pick up the message with the story. I think it was about a girl secretly crushing on her friend or something like that. It shown a girl being very forceful with the girl and she didn't like it but then was happy. I didn't really understand the message.
I brainstormed a couple of ideas that i thought are most common in secrets:
Bullying
Domestic violence
Pretending to be ok
Pretending to be someone your not.
Secret talent
Secret room
My idea for pretending to be someone you're not could include a person having some sort of secret hobby, passion or lifestyle that they may find embarrassing or they may be ashamed of it. So this person could be hiding there passion and for the person to be acting like they dont know anything about it or just avoid any relation to the talent. As the clip would go along a friend would find out by witnessing the talent and instead of being judge mental is happy and supportive so that in the end the outcome of the secret is positive and the person with the passion is now not afraid of people knowing and is no longer a secret anymore.
Watching Short Films, 3/11/15
We started by Marissa telling us about what our advert will need to require in a brainstorm on paper and discussed basic things we need to involve in our groups short films when we come to recording and planning.
We discussed that our clips should be no longer than 2 minutes long and at least 1 minute long. We discussed that only 1-2 actors should be involved. That there shouldn't be any conversations going off between actors but we are aloud to include a monologue or a voice over. There is not to be any guns, knifes, drugs or swearing involved.
We then discussed what a hybrid genre was which is where it can be multiple of genres instead of just one. We discussed what a linear and non linear short films are which is how a story is being told. For example a linear short film would be a where the film starts from the beginning and goes to the middle and then ends and non linear meaning there is no order within the film. We discussed what realist meant which is straight forward meaning if what we saw in the footage was realistic and could happen in a real life situation and anti realistic meaning that its not ever going to happen in reality. We then looked into what single stand and multi - strand meant which is from the actors point of view. If it is single strand its from one persons point of view and multi meaning from several actors point of views.
We then looked at a few short films independently on the BBC network website and just to find inspiration from the films and get an insight of how a short film will look and we will need to get the idea of what style we will be needing to film. I watched Albert's speech and domestics which were two very different short films. Alberts speech was more of a comedy put into a single strand narrative structure and domestics was more of a multi strand and no where near a comedy genre. They both shared the fact they was realist and both could happen in reality. One of them ended with an open ending and the other was a closed ending.
We then watched several different short films with the class and discussed as a group what narrative structures, technical elements and what genre they were. We did this for a few clips. We watched some clips of cinema 16. We watched sign's and joyride that I remember. We then went away for 20 minutes independently and watched another short film and filled in a sheet about what we thought the narrative structures where like. I watched Amelia and Micheal which was about a married couple that were both secretly cheating on each other in the relationship. It was a multi-strand short film as it shows us what happen's to them individually. Im not quite sure on the genre of the short film. It was most defiantly a realist film as it could happen in reality.
I have overall learnt the different types of narrative structures and can confidently say what they mean and can say what types of narrative structures I can see from watching a short film,
To improve next time maybe I could watch some more short films and list the narrative structures just to be even more certain I know what they are and mean.
We discussed that our clips should be no longer than 2 minutes long and at least 1 minute long. We discussed that only 1-2 actors should be involved. That there shouldn't be any conversations going off between actors but we are aloud to include a monologue or a voice over. There is not to be any guns, knifes, drugs or swearing involved.
We then discussed what a hybrid genre was which is where it can be multiple of genres instead of just one. We discussed what a linear and non linear short films are which is how a story is being told. For example a linear short film would be a where the film starts from the beginning and goes to the middle and then ends and non linear meaning there is no order within the film. We discussed what realist meant which is straight forward meaning if what we saw in the footage was realistic and could happen in a real life situation and anti realistic meaning that its not ever going to happen in reality. We then looked into what single stand and multi - strand meant which is from the actors point of view. If it is single strand its from one persons point of view and multi meaning from several actors point of views.
We then looked at a few short films independently on the BBC network website and just to find inspiration from the films and get an insight of how a short film will look and we will need to get the idea of what style we will be needing to film. I watched Albert's speech and domestics which were two very different short films. Alberts speech was more of a comedy put into a single strand narrative structure and domestics was more of a multi strand and no where near a comedy genre. They both shared the fact they was realist and both could happen in reality. One of them ended with an open ending and the other was a closed ending.
We then watched several different short films with the class and discussed as a group what narrative structures, technical elements and what genre they were. We did this for a few clips. We watched some clips of cinema 16. We watched sign's and joyride that I remember. We then went away for 20 minutes independently and watched another short film and filled in a sheet about what we thought the narrative structures where like. I watched Amelia and Micheal which was about a married couple that were both secretly cheating on each other in the relationship. It was a multi-strand short film as it shows us what happen's to them individually. Im not quite sure on the genre of the short film. It was most defiantly a realist film as it could happen in reality.
I have overall learnt the different types of narrative structures and can confidently say what they mean and can say what types of narrative structures I can see from watching a short film,
To improve next time maybe I could watch some more short films and list the narrative structures just to be even more certain I know what they are and mean.
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