Monday 28 October 2013

What is audience ?

What is audience?

All media is made with an audience in mind, ie a group of people who will receive it and make some sort of sense out of it. And generally, the producers make some money out of that audience. Therefore it is important to understand what happens when an audience "meets" a piece of media.
The audience is very important in media. If there is no audience then it is pointless to make the piece because no one will watch/read/play/buy the text.

Media producers basically want to know the

·         income bracket/status
·         age
·         gender
·         race

·         location

Monday 21 October 2013

Intertextuality

The relationship between texts: the relationship that exists between different texts , especially literary texts or the reference in one text to others.

 example:


from the Simpsons with a smart combination on Spider man and Simpsons


This shows intertexuality very well since the show Simpsons take an idea of Spiderman and bring into their convention.

Family Guy and The Simpsons


This shows that the two shows Family Guy and the Simpsons are combined making their form of convention making way more entertaining.


Family Guy and Star Wars


This shows that Family Guy can take something old and interpret it in a strong way with modern media making the intertexuality powerful.

Friday 18 October 2013

Evaluation of the Preliminary Task



Our main task was to include these shots in our piece: Match on action, the 180 degree rule, continuity editing and shot/reverse shot.
Match-on-action is an example of continuity editing, and this is clearly seen in our Preliminary Task,  when the camera films Natalia, walking towards the door, then her entering the room on the other side this is a perfect example of match on action.

We included the 180 degree rule which was to make sure that the two people should have the same left/right relationship no matter what. The shot/reverse shot rule is that everything must be the exact same as you shoot the conversation. In our task both of these where met as the people where always in the right position in the shot and there seemed to be no mistakes and any changes in between shots this is shown as when Natalia ( girl ) and Andre ( boyfriend ) have a little conversation the two shots are at different angles but do not break either of the rules.

Continuity editing was shown in the preliminary task  mainly when the others were singing Happy Birthday. Shanae edited the two shots we took of the students and put the audio together from two separate shots and there was no problem.

We came across a few problems one of which was down to the camera work I had by accident included the other camera in the shot so Shanae as our editor had to crop the video so that the camera wasn’t in it. I learned a valuable lesson that I will learn from, next time I will be more careful in the filming and pay attention to detail. I also learned about the editing and how to crop a video.


Also, I was talking to my group and if we had added a script we would avoid certain mistakes such as the students not knowing the name of the girl whose birthday it is. I believe it would have been a lot better if we had organised everything a lot earlier with the rest of the cast and had all the wording more scripted so there would be no mistakes like that. Also, I see we could of include something in props to highlight the birthday more perhaps a cake with candles or something to highlight that it is her birthday. The main thing that I have learned from this is pre preparing is very important to ensure you have a strong and concise filming which would make the editing easier and more enjoyable because there a less mistakes to edit out and more fun to be had with the effects and transitions.

Monday 7 October 2013

The Knowing Analyses

Camera
Lighting
SHOTS:
          Long shot
          Over the shoulder
         Shot/reverse shot
         Establishing shot
         Close ups
EDITING
         Short duration shots
         Slow transitions at beginning

           Starts in darkness
           Always has natural light hardly any light
           Dark effect added to show drained and horrible dark setting and emotions in the film.
           The ball of light being the only bright thing being a pure symbol of hope.
Sound
Mise en scene
DIALOGUE
          Short and fast dialogue which shows there is a rush for time
BACKGROUND
           There is suspense music to build a climax also ambient sounds to make it realistic
PROPS
         Technology showing todays advancement
          Normal clothes for all characters showing that they wanted audience to know it is based on today’s modern world.
           The setting vary from cities to valleys and a poor house to an amazing new and modern house.




















I conducted an Analyses on The Knowing since we had been doing other movies in class and tried to do it on my own to see what i could find i was surprised to see that i could find quite a bit. It highlighted  to me some conventions of a thriller that i will be looking to put into my thriller  film.