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Friday, 17 December 2010
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Monday, 15 November 2010
Shameless Series 6 Episode 3
An extract that could be used to consider the representation of social class: the extract begins at 1:12 with the title screen and ends when Frank leaves the court at 3:53. (Click here)
Wednesday, 10 November 2010
What permission would I need to use a photgraph of a celebrity?
Here are some places to find the answer to this question.
British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies - Model Release contracts
Make a Badge.co.uk - scroll down to find out if they will make a badge from a picture you have found on the internet...
This is an American blog post on using images from the internet.
British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies - Model Release contracts
Make a Badge.co.uk - scroll down to find out if they will make a badge from a picture you have found on the internet...
This is an American blog post on using images from the internet.
Friday, 5 November 2010
Links to helpful advice on analysing film posters
Analysing Movie Posters for GCSE - from the Mediaknowall site
A Film Studies Teacher blog - some of this is lifted from the site above
A Film Studies Teacher blog - some of this is lifted from the site above
Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Monday, 1 November 2010
Frank Miller's Graphic novels
Click here to see how a graphic novel works. This is '300' by Frank Miller.
Friday, 22 October 2010
Monday, 18 October 2010
Sunday, 17 October 2010
How music makes meaning
Compare this treatment, which has been edited both visually and for sound with the original sequence that can currently be found here.
Sunday, 10 October 2010
Wednesday, 6 October 2010
Sunday, 3 October 2010
Friday, 1 October 2010
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
The Rule of Thirds and photographic composition
Here you will find a web site to explain the Rule of Thirds, which is an easily identifiable technique used in TV Drama film making. We see this early in the course in the extract from Bleak House.
Digital Photography School
The article here considers another more ancient compositional rule, 'The Fibbonaci Spiral' or 'Golden Mean,' and links it to the theory of Phi (for those who have read The Da Vinci code).
Kinoeye TV Drama Glossary of Camera Terms and more
This link goes to a media teacher's blog that has a useful list of cinematography terms with explanations. If you follow the links under the sub-title 'Textual Analysis Hub Links' you will find useful pages on camera shots, movement and framing. There is also a discussion of mise-en-scene which takes the subject to a more academic level and examines how different media theorists have argued about how to define the term 'mise-en-scene.'
Monday, 20 September 2010
Thursday, 9 September 2010
Saturday, 14 August 2010
Postmodern fighter pilots...
The RAF pilots from the Armstrong and Miller Show can be said to show the postmodern blending of one cultural form with another from the recent past, using the colllision for an ironic and comedic effect. This is perhaps an example of what Jencks calls the 'eclectic mixture of any tradition with that of its immediate past.' In the sketch that appears below, is the modern youth culture of the voices represented more positively or more negatively than the 1940s war film culture? Is this sketch homage or parody?
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
Friday, 25 June 2010
Monday, 21 June 2010
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Example Grid-of-9 for a film trailer
When you analyse film trailers on your blog for your research and planning section, the grid of 9 is a helpful format. It links to a technique used on the Art of the Title website. Discipline yourself to keep your writing within the space available (do not allow the grid to expand enough to go on to 2 pages) and you are only allowed 9 screen shots from the trailer. You need to begin referring to theory and theorists at this stage. This is an example grid, analysing the trailer for Silent Hill.
Grid of 9 for the Silent Hill Theatrical Trailer
Grid of 9 for the Silent Hill Theatrical Trailer
Sunday, 13 June 2010
Comparing a Teaser trailer with a Theatrical Trailer
The trailers for the original Silent Hill (dir. Gans, 2006) show an interesting comparison between the 2 minute, 30 second Theatrical Trailer
and the 30 second Teaser Trailer. It is interesting to see what has been kept and what has been left out and how the features that remain mark the USP of the actual film.
and the 30 second Teaser Trailer. It is interesting to see what has been kept and what has been left out and how the features that remain mark the USP of the actual film.
iTunes Movie Trailers
The iTunes Movie Trailer site is a great place to look at trailers by genre. You can see trailers for the latest releases but also you can sort the trailers by genre and see at a glance some of the more obvious genre features.
Video Production and the Law
The best site to answer questions about film, video and television law is the online site for the BBC Editorial Guidelines. This gives an index where you can search for all aspect of the law mentioned in the BTEC specification. A good summarey of what editors have to follow is here.
Here is a link on copyright and royalties in Music Video.
This is a link about guidelines on Music played by broadcasters during war.
Here is a link on copyright and royalties in Music Video.
This is a link about guidelines on Music played by broadcasters during war.
A BTEC Level 3 Student's Blog TV Production
Here is a good example of a Distinction grade blog at BTEC Level 3 showing how to illustrate the process of taking a TV production from the brief, through planning, filming and post production.
A Useful Guide to making a video proposal
Thursday, 10 June 2010
The Original trailer for The Shining
Here is a link to the original trailer for The Shining. Does its structure follow Freytag's triangle?
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Re-touching magazine covers with photoshop
This website shows some of the changes made to a magazine cover model using Photoshop. Be patient - it takes a long time to load.
If a female reader were to aspire to have this appearance, she would wish to achieve something that never existed in the first place. How does this fit with Baudrillard's theories of simulacra and hyperreality?
If a female reader were to aspire to have this appearance, she would wish to achieve something that never existed in the first place. How does this fit with Baudrillard's theories of simulacra and hyperreality?
Media NQT Conference - Creative and Media Diploma
Sunday, 6 June 2010
Friday, 28 May 2010
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
Postmodernism theories-and-texts
Check out this SlideShare Presentation:
Postmodernism theories-and-texts
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Tuesday, 25 May 2010
BTEC TV Listings magazines
This website will tell you which TV listings magazines are at which price band in the market. There is also some really useful information about the plus and minus points of each title.
Thursday, 20 May 2010
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
Postmodernism Links
Friday, 23 April 2010
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
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