Thursday, 23 October 2014
Monday, 20 October 2014
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
Chosen Song lyrics (Infinity ink - Games)
You tell me that you love but you're fucking with my mind.
Why you playing me like that.
You tell me that you're happy but you're crying all the time.
Why you playing me like that.
X2
You playing those games with me, baby.
Games with me, baby
There’s no love in the world is what you say...
Your calculating ways are infinitely twisted,
I can see in the cold light of day,
It's just a masquerade.
Why you keep playing those games with me, baby.
You say that time is on your side
But time is an illusion when you open up your eyes
and you see, whats in the light
im watching your delusions
there aint no use in playing games with me, baby
Games with me, baby
Why you playing me like that.
You tell me that you're happy but you're crying all the time.
Why you playing me like that.
X2
You playing those games with me, baby.
Games with me, baby
There’s no love in the world is what you say...
Your calculating ways are infinitely twisted,
I can see in the cold light of day,
It's just a masquerade.
Why you keep playing those games with me, baby.
You say that time is on your side
But time is an illusion when you open up your eyes
and you see, whats in the light
im watching your delusions
there aint no use in playing games with me, baby
Games with me, baby
Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Production Diary
(Before the six weeks)
Weeks 1-4-
Weeks 1-4-
before the six weeks we was introduced and shown what A level media was going to be about, music videos. We looked at the simple conventions of music videos and what makes a good music video or what makes a bad music video. We had to do a mock assessment on an old A level question which was a short clip from a film and analyse the camera shots, mise en scene and techniques used within the clip. Whilst doing this we had to compare it to regional identity.
Introduction -
In week one we was introduced by Mr Anstee and Mrs Shuttle what music video's are in more detail and how a music video should be presented properly, how long it should be, is the video good or not and is the singer of the song well known. In this week we learnt a lot about what the course would include and what would be involved throughout the course. We were set an essay based on the statement ' Music videos have changed drastically over time and are now unrecognisable from their historical counterparts '. When writing this I looked at a few different videos ranging from when music videos first began to videos from early 21st century dates. When writing this I had the videos both open and was comparing the two, how they change in terms of acting and special effects and further on.
Britney Task Start -
In week 2 we were set a preliminary task which was to make a short remake of the Britney Spears video 'Hit me baby one more time', we got put into groups with a mixture of boys and girls which I thought was better as having people with a range of skills in the group made things more successful, by this I mean some of the members of the group were good with using cameras and some others were good at the lip singing and acting. We also had people in our group who are really good at editing so they were able to help the weaker members of the group with the editing stage. We had all been introduced in the first year of AS level to the programs used for editing but some came out with a better end product than others and putting the people that had the good end product and the not so good end product together meant that a better all round knowledge of using editing programs was taught to the weaker members. We looked and picked out the locations that the Britney Spears video was filmed and picked locations as similar to the video as we could, all the acting was kept as similar to the video as possible and the singing was all in time. An example of this is when in the Britney video the teacher dismisses a class so we asked one of the male teachers in our school to act within our music video to dismiss a class full of students. In the Britney task I played a part in singing and dancing, also in the editing stage. Timing of my singing was very important as it had to be in exact flow of the music or it would look out of tune and therefore the video would look poor so I feel I had an important role in the group within the acting stage.
Britney Task Finish -
In week 2 we were set a preliminary task which was to make a short remake of the Britney Spears video 'Hit me baby one more time', we got put into groups with a mixture of boys and girls which I thought was better as having people with a range of skills in the group made things more successful, by this I mean some of the members of the group were good with using cameras and some others were good at the lip singing and acting. We also had people in our group who are really good at editing so they were able to help the weaker members of the group with the editing stage. We had all been introduced in the first year of AS level to the programs used for editing but some came out with a better end product than others and putting the people that had the good end product and the not so good end product together meant that a better all round knowledge of using editing programs was taught to the weaker members. We looked and picked out the locations that the Britney Spears video was filmed and picked locations as similar to the video as we could, all the acting was kept as similar to the video as possible and the singing was all in time. An example of this is when in the Britney video the teacher dismisses a class so we asked one of the male teachers in our school to act within our music video to dismiss a class full of students. In the Britney task I played a part in singing and dancing, also in the editing stage. Timing of my singing was very important as it had to be in exact flow of the music or it would look out of tune and therefore the video would look poor so I feel I had an important role in the group within the acting stage.
Britney Task Finish -
In weeks 3 and 4 towards the end of the six weeks we were finishing our Britney Spears task and had it loaded onto our blogs, which I feel that it looked quite good! The hard work that we put in had really paid off and all of the singing on the music video all looked in time, although when I was singing there was a girl (Britney) singing as the voice over which made me look a bit like a girl, it was good that I managed to stay in role as with a girl's voice over singing the song it would of looked a bit of a joke if I was laughing about it. When the task had finished I had learned a few different things from working in a group and working with stronger team members, Kayleigh and Ryan showed me how to use Adobe Premiere Pro better and how to edit better and I also picked up some dancing tips from the girls in our group!
(After The Six Weeks)
Week 1 -
The first week back after the six weeks we were refreshed of what the course was about and what it is going to include, as after a long break some people had forgotten little important parts of what the course was going to include. We were set an essay to write from Mr Anstee selecting a music video and analysing it in terms of:
for this essay I chose to analyse Robbie Williams music video 'Candy', the reason I chose to do this music video is because it is very entertaining and the song sounds really well to go with it. It is the prime example of what makes a music video good because throughout the whole video all of the lyrics seem to go with it. The genre of the Robbie Williams song is Pop which everyone knows about which made it quite a popular song. It is good for me personally that this song is in the Pop genre because I listen to pop songs quite a lot and this meant that I was able to pick the song apart easily and compare it to other pop music videos that are of a high quality. I learnt a lot from doing this media essay, mainly about how which genres fitted different songs, other people in the class had written about different genres and this meant I could learn what made a good music video in those other genres. I also learnt a bit more about what the conventions of music videos are and what makes a good music video or a bad one, do the lyrics fit in with the music video? was a good question to think of when writing an essay about that video.
On the fourth of September we learned about Andrew Goodwin's theory, who is famous for his quote 'Music video is not primarily a commodity form, but a promotional one'. From looking at this quote I learned more that music videos are made for an advertising purpose, to get the song across to fans and to catch more viewers eyes depending on if the video is good or not. From this quote I looked at whether music videos use big name companies for production and development of their videos and they do so I agree with what he is trying to say that the music video industry is more of a business than just trying to keep fans satisfied. Many products have been used in music videos for advertising such as drinks like beer and coca cola, these brands would pay sums of money to the artist for putting their brand in their music video and people would also recognize the song in return for having the product in the video.
(After The Six Weeks)
Week 1 -
The first week back after the six weeks we were refreshed of what the course was about and what it is going to include, as after a long break some people had forgotten little important parts of what the course was going to include. We were set an essay to write from Mr Anstee selecting a music video and analysing it in terms of:
- comparing to theory
- the genre
- how did it fit with conventions
- stereotypes
- narrative, performance or concept
- did the lyrics fit
- iconography
- mise en scene
- camera work
- editing
- relating to the artist
- purpose
for this essay I chose to analyse Robbie Williams music video 'Candy', the reason I chose to do this music video is because it is very entertaining and the song sounds really well to go with it. It is the prime example of what makes a music video good because throughout the whole video all of the lyrics seem to go with it. The genre of the Robbie Williams song is Pop which everyone knows about which made it quite a popular song. It is good for me personally that this song is in the Pop genre because I listen to pop songs quite a lot and this meant that I was able to pick the song apart easily and compare it to other pop music videos that are of a high quality. I learnt a lot from doing this media essay, mainly about how which genres fitted different songs, other people in the class had written about different genres and this meant I could learn what made a good music video in those other genres. I also learnt a bit more about what the conventions of music videos are and what makes a good music video or a bad one, do the lyrics fit in with the music video? was a good question to think of when writing an essay about that video.
On the fourth of September we learned about Andrew Goodwin's theory, who is famous for his quote 'Music video is not primarily a commodity form, but a promotional one'. From looking at this quote I learned more that music videos are made for an advertising purpose, to get the song across to fans and to catch more viewers eyes depending on if the video is good or not. From this quote I looked at whether music videos use big name companies for production and development of their videos and they do so I agree with what he is trying to say that the music video industry is more of a business than just trying to keep fans satisfied. Many products have been used in music videos for advertising such as drinks like beer and coca cola, these brands would pay sums of money to the artist for putting their brand in their music video and people would also recognize the song in return for having the product in the video.
Wednesday, 8 October 2014
Thursday, 2 October 2014
Teacher Assessment: General Feedback
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A Level Media Progress Check - Ben
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2/10/2014
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Assessed by
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NSE - Teacher
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Focus of assessment
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General feedback
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Relevant assessment criteria
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Planning and research evidence will be complete and detailed.
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Evidence of progress/ evidence of meeting criteria
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You have some very basic work on your blog. Your blog is set up.
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Areas to work on next/ ideas to consider
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You must ensure every single piece of work is uploaded to the blog –
including classwork and homework. Every piece must be reflected on. You
should have started your production diary.
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Additional comments
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At the moment, your blog is lacking in lots of areas. You must get all
missing work on and complete by Friday 17th October.
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Essay Reviewing Coursework
Research and Planning
Research and planning was a critical part of my coursework last year. It took a lot of looking into things to actually plan where we were going to make our film opening, how it was going to be filmed and what it was going to be about. An example of how important our research and planning was when we were looking for a location, which was very tricky. We planned to make our film genre to be horror so picking the location was a very hard challenge, it had to have a freaky presence otherwise the film would look a bit pointless being a horror. We chose Tommy's house in Doddinghurst, this was because the road he lives down is very dark and lighting was key to make our film scary. He had an adjustable brightness light in his front room which also helped a lot as the scarier the film got the more we could play around with the lights seeing if our film was scary or not.
Personally I think their were many positives of research and planning for our group but there were also quite a few flaws. We spent too much time worrying about the location when we could of had one set in five minutes, a lot of lessons were spent looking at different places to film and quite a few of these weren't really relevant. One of the strengths of our research and planning was that we had everything planned out well, the outfits, masks and how it was going to be filmed was planned out well.
In A2 I think I will plan everything a lot better and look more into detail what makes a good music video. I realised when doing AS level that research and planning makes the whole end product completely different depending on how much effort you make at the beginning when looking into the music video.
Following Conventions Of Real Media Text
We followed real media text in many different ways, we looked at several different film openings from horror films and also looked at horror stories online to gain a good storyline for our end product. Because we knew we were going to be making our opening in Tommy's house we thought it would be useful to look at openings to horror films that were set in a house, Paranormal Activity and Friday the 13th were good openings to use. We looked at the way these films used lighting and how the acting was done and followed these conventions throughout our film. We looked at how other films used Mise en scene for our film because there are many conventions involved that we had to consider in our film. Lighting was the main convention that we needed to follow because we met a person who came into our class that was talking to us about horror film making and he explained that horror films will only be well made if the lighting is good, depending on how it is used for certain parts, initially we thought using strobe lights to add a weirdness to the film would be good but then we realised it would be a struggle to gain a strobe light. The decision to film at Tommy's house was a good one because as I said earlier he has adjustable lights and he lives down a dark road which made it easier to add darkness when we needed to. The camera shots that other products use was also helpful to us when making our film, we used a simple Panasonic video camera so the quality wasn't amazing but we did the best we could with it.
Positives of following real media text was that it helped us to show the audience some tension within our film but there were parts where we could of followed them a bit more. Our film wasn't scary at all in some parts that were meant to be scary and this made everything seem a bit silly.
In A2 I am going to watch many music videos before I start filming my end product and whilst it is being filmed I will compare it to big music videos and other students work also to see where about's I can make improvements or if I have done well which will give me confidence. Also I think I need to be more confident in my work as last year I think as a group we spent too much time saying our own work wasn't good enough when it might have been good.
Creativity/Originality
Our final product was very creative but it was also quite original. Over previous years many AS level students have chose to film their horror movies in forests and dark areas because they found that filming them in houses was too hard to make scary so we decided to go against the typical idea of filming in somewhere different. The originality of our film opening was that we tried to keep it similar to how many famous films in houses were filmed, so it was a bit similar and typical of a film made in a house. The idea with the lighting that was spoken about earlier on was creative as we could judge how bright or how dim to have them for certain parts of the opening but it definitely lacked creativity. In AS media I also used very stereotypical programs to present my work such as Microsoft Powerpoint and Microsoft word, I need to be more creative and use programmes that previous students haven't used before and this will give me an edge.
In A2 I think we will try to keep our music video original in parts as sometimes you can't really beat tradition but if we put our own edge on our music video I think it will help to gain a better grade. Also I will use different programmes other than prezzi and Microsoft programmes, I will use programmes online that previous students haven't used so that my blog has its own unique twist.
Research and planning was a critical part of my coursework last year. It took a lot of looking into things to actually plan where we were going to make our film opening, how it was going to be filmed and what it was going to be about. An example of how important our research and planning was when we were looking for a location, which was very tricky. We planned to make our film genre to be horror so picking the location was a very hard challenge, it had to have a freaky presence otherwise the film would look a bit pointless being a horror. We chose Tommy's house in Doddinghurst, this was because the road he lives down is very dark and lighting was key to make our film scary. He had an adjustable brightness light in his front room which also helped a lot as the scarier the film got the more we could play around with the lights seeing if our film was scary or not.
Personally I think their were many positives of research and planning for our group but there were also quite a few flaws. We spent too much time worrying about the location when we could of had one set in five minutes, a lot of lessons were spent looking at different places to film and quite a few of these weren't really relevant. One of the strengths of our research and planning was that we had everything planned out well, the outfits, masks and how it was going to be filmed was planned out well.
In A2 I think I will plan everything a lot better and look more into detail what makes a good music video. I realised when doing AS level that research and planning makes the whole end product completely different depending on how much effort you make at the beginning when looking into the music video.
Following Conventions Of Real Media Text
We followed real media text in many different ways, we looked at several different film openings from horror films and also looked at horror stories online to gain a good storyline for our end product. Because we knew we were going to be making our opening in Tommy's house we thought it would be useful to look at openings to horror films that were set in a house, Paranormal Activity and Friday the 13th were good openings to use. We looked at the way these films used lighting and how the acting was done and followed these conventions throughout our film. We looked at how other films used Mise en scene for our film because there are many conventions involved that we had to consider in our film. Lighting was the main convention that we needed to follow because we met a person who came into our class that was talking to us about horror film making and he explained that horror films will only be well made if the lighting is good, depending on how it is used for certain parts, initially we thought using strobe lights to add a weirdness to the film would be good but then we realised it would be a struggle to gain a strobe light. The decision to film at Tommy's house was a good one because as I said earlier he has adjustable lights and he lives down a dark road which made it easier to add darkness when we needed to. The camera shots that other products use was also helpful to us when making our film, we used a simple Panasonic video camera so the quality wasn't amazing but we did the best we could with it.
Positives of following real media text was that it helped us to show the audience some tension within our film but there were parts where we could of followed them a bit more. Our film wasn't scary at all in some parts that were meant to be scary and this made everything seem a bit silly.
In A2 I am going to watch many music videos before I start filming my end product and whilst it is being filmed I will compare it to big music videos and other students work also to see where about's I can make improvements or if I have done well which will give me confidence. Also I think I need to be more confident in my work as last year I think as a group we spent too much time saying our own work wasn't good enough when it might have been good.
Creativity/Originality
Our final product was very creative but it was also quite original. Over previous years many AS level students have chose to film their horror movies in forests and dark areas because they found that filming them in houses was too hard to make scary so we decided to go against the typical idea of filming in somewhere different. The originality of our film opening was that we tried to keep it similar to how many famous films in houses were filmed, so it was a bit similar and typical of a film made in a house. The idea with the lighting that was spoken about earlier on was creative as we could judge how bright or how dim to have them for certain parts of the opening but it definitely lacked creativity. In AS media I also used very stereotypical programs to present my work such as Microsoft Powerpoint and Microsoft word, I need to be more creative and use programmes that previous students haven't used before and this will give me an edge.
In A2 I think we will try to keep our music video original in parts as sometimes you can't really beat tradition but if we put our own edge on our music video I think it will help to gain a better grade. Also I will use different programmes other than prezzi and Microsoft programmes, I will use programmes online that previous students haven't used so that my blog has its own unique twist.
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
Teacher Assessment: Marketing
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A Level Media Progress Check - Ben
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Date
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2/10/2014
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Assessed by
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NSE - Teacher
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Focus of assessment
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Marketing techniques
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Relevant assessment criteria
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Planning and research evidence will be complete and detailed.
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Evidence of progress/ evidence of meeting criteria
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You have written some very basic information about Robbie Williams and
his use of Twitter.
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Areas to work on next/ ideas to consider
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You must include a much wider range of evidence on your blog and
ensure that you present it in an effective way. What other marketing? Images?
Examples?
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Additional comments
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Ensure you make your blog interactive by using Web 2.0 tools.
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