Planning My Text

Planningmytext final draft

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Door Project

Pratice for our coursework, including continuity techniques.

Research Of Target Audience (our film trailer)

Research of target audience

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Update Of Intertext Powerpoint

With added information on ratings, reviews,box office takings and audience theories.

Intertext research

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Audience Surveys For Trailer Coursework

Intertext research

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Radio Times Magazine Cover

 Using Photoshop I created a magazine cover for a new programme (Image from 'Google images') shown on channel 4.

Continuity Techniques

Continuity  Editing (also called time-scheme) is consistency of the characteristics of persons, plot,objects, places and events seen by the reader or viewer over some period of time.
There are different continuity techniques:

1. Match-on-action:  A shot that emphasises continuity of space and time by matching the action of the preceding shot with the continuation of the action. (For example a shot of a door opening after a shot of a close up of a character’s hand turning a door handle). This is important in helping the audience to follow exactly what's going on.
2. Shot-reverse-shot: Where one character is shown to look at another character and other way round. Since the characters are shown facing opposite directions the audience assume they are looking at each other.
3. 180 degree rule (crossing the line): The idea that a camera should be placed somewhere inside 180 degrees on a particular side of the invisible line of a shot that contains two people filmed in sequence. If the camera crosses the line, confusion results for the film viewers, because it makes it look like the people are switching places (two character should always have that left and right relationship with each other).

 Match on action

   
Shot reverse shot

180 degree rule

Intertext Ideas For Trailer

I think the diegetic sound is something will will use, especially as the pure silence creates enigma and suspense for the audience. Using only voices/screams or the fuzzy sound which a tape makes when you rewind it too far. These are conventional for this genre, but we think if we try to make it really different it won't work and so we will follow conventions.

The camera angle is the same throughout the whole scene, it links to the fact it's just a handheld camera and so the angles used aren't going to be technical. It also brings a sense that something might be watching them; creating the feeling of suspense and insecurity.

As we don't have lots of technical equipment we should use this type of shot, as well as others because it's easy but looks really real.

The colours used are really dark, almost in black and white which connotes fear and is iconography of a security camera at night (sense someone is watching you). The light involved shines off the back of the bed board as if from the moon; which is again iconography of the horror/thriller genre. It creates the shadow on the door; the fact that the audience can't actually see what is pulling the woman out of her bed makes it more real because they are unsure of what it looks like. As most people don't believe in ghosts and demons (they're not common anyway!), the producers didn't showed the creature as it would look almost silly; the audience don't have an image in their heads and is therefore a risk it would look so unreal.



My Film Trailer

For my coursework, my friend Ellie and i are going to make a trailer for a psychological thriller. We decided this would be more interesting than a horror as it gives us more of a chance to make an interesting narrative.A horror tends to involve a lot of blood and violence so it's harder to make it look more realistic.
Using handheld cameras, which is conventional for this genre and easy but effective for us to include,  means that the audience can relate to it because people are more likely to use handheld cameras to film in everyday life. Also the settings we've thought about are at home, in school (when deserted) or in the woods; this means the audience is familiar with the environment and therefore makes the trailer look more terrifying!

A Day In The Life Of...Wally!!

Video starring Anna Self, Ellie Hamilton, Helen Morris and Laurel Nyberg.

Location around Wellsway school, Bath and Bristol!

Am I Enjoying Media?

YES!! I really enjoyed making the 'Day in the life of...' video (in the life of wally!) which you will see shortly! So can't wait to do more practical work.

Welcome!

Hello!! Welcome to my media blog where i will be posting my weekly media findings!!