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Our homework taks for this week is:
in a 7 mintue presentation include:
-semiotics
Meta-anaylsis
Analysis of directors
Evidence of critiscisng / denoting - Sounds - diagetic, ambient, contrapunctual, sychronous, Asychronous
Lighting
camera
Editing
Script
Storyboard
Location

We-media

To reach our target audience we media is the direction were taking. mainly popular amongst our genereation (being our target audience) we're ight on track. Charlie has looked into this more to get the low down.

Story board

I now know exactly what i want to film, what angle i want it and how i want one frame to transcend to another.
I have now completly finished my storyboard, i have written out a filming schedual for the holidays and i have emailed people on facebook to ensure they are aware of when and where it is. I have invited a lot more people than i need because i am aware that some people would not be able to make it.

Storyboard

The fourth kind

I saw this film on 11/11/2009 it struck me as quite a post-modern film once again not because of its content but because of the way it was layed out. The film was about alien abduction and this has been portrayed for years through film and programmes such as in the 60's the twilight episode the 3rd planet from the sun shows people seen as aliens coming to earth. But this filmw as very differen, the film credits it as being accompanied by real footage and real audio mingled within the film and it does credit it when it appears, but there are extremly post modern points when there will be the film running alongside the actual footage captured on tape, also there are points when she listened on audio and as she presses play the actual audio plays. Also running throughout the film in the director interviewing the woman who the film is about. I find this film a great entertainment although there is speculation as to whether the film is real or not, i though it was a great film to watch as a media student and diffenitly like the ideas of two screens running alongside each other and would like to look further into this for my music video.

How we will use semiotics

We al researched semotics as individuals but Laura furthered the research and identified how it is used in other videos

The age of stupid

Our media group visited cinema city to watch the premier of 'the age of stupid,' and then had a question time with the director, a member of another high school, another member involved in the film and a memeber of the city council. Cinema city has a reputation of being a 'indie' cinema shownig artistic films and covering new directors. The film we watched was displayed to us in a post-modern way, starring Pete Postelwait as obnne of the few surviving humans in the world in 2055. He has stored every ounce of film and television, animal, paitning, book and music onto one huge database storage system. The fiml itself did contain post-modern qualities in the way it was layed out. The film i found was more interesting than other films based apon global warming because of the modrrn twists it contains, also because it included actual news and life story footage i felt i was able to relate to it more.
The postmodern qualities in the film was mainly the way it was set out, because everything was meant to be on a giant dadbase then he used 'touchscreen' computer element but it was like we were seeing it fromt the other side of the screen. Also his ability to fast forward and rewind allowed us to take in information that we had missed but also to reinforce the point. The post-modern element was really effective because it gave a whole new insight to the film. Had it just been global warming then media students may not have taken too much of an interest but because of it's post-modern elemtents we were also greatly intesrested in the film.
The question time after the film was more focused on the enviromental side of tings such as the people they'd interviewed and the progress on the people they'd filmed so i didn't take very much from that. Our group leader did ask as the whether they were holding a competition to allow young people to make their own films in comparision to the film and the director later got in contact with her asking her if she'd like to take part.
The film did give me an inside to post-modern techniques in film and has been an eye opener and looking at the difference between standard and post-modern films