Homework

During a media lesson I wrote an email to Miss Gooch, asking when the trailer and posters need to be completed by and what is required to go on them. I have also made evaluation sheets for people to comment on after viewing the original trailer it asked how good the font, length, music and the style was, the evaluation sheets can be found in my media folder. I also was filmed for the trailer, recommending to the audience to watch dunravens west side story, the clip of can be found in a final cut express folder save on the apple laptops. After hearing the possibility of adding endorsements I tried to encourage the group to try it we did one with a teacher saying good it’s going to be good production and the other a student which was me, the group decided not to add any endorsements because they thought It would make the trailer look silly.

My group and I created a trailer using clips of west story rehearsals( that we filmed after school in the drama hall) and editing the clips; we split up doing separate things for it such as titles, clip editing and sound. Lola created all the titles for certain bits in the trailer, Fatmata and I helped out by experimenting with the clips( such ass using effects like fade out or fade in from black etc) and Ellie was working out which song to use (Lola also helped) we ended up using Tonight as we felt it made the trailer look more dramatic .I mainly helped out by finding out deadlines and small jobs like making evaluation sheets. My role for the actual production were to make sure people producing the trailer and posters new their deadline, and on the day of the production I had to collect tickets, hand leaflets on the chairs and make sure no students snuck in. I decided to come an hour early to make sure I arrive on time and do every job necessary under 10 minutes. I and others had take picture of scenes during the west side story performance.

Over the past several weeks I blogged (which had to be updated regularly) my role in everything I had done in my media lessons the name of my blog is supreme master Jordan of the universe, the evidence for this would be my blog on the website blogger. The blog is laid out chronological order with pictures and designs for a certain lessons done in media like the picture below is a blogger post for a lesson where learned about where you can obtain information to with media; which can be movies, theatre, galleries etc. We also used art books to monitor our progress in art; we had to use the books creatively by adding illustrations and fancy designs. We have pictures in the books of us painting the west side story sets, we painted a building wall for the backdrop jukebox and a pinball machine.

My strengths were blogging what I done in a media lesson and adding pictures to illustrate a certain skill I learned such as using final cut express to edit video clips for west side story trailer, I also felt that blogging is my strength because it’s like a diary informing readers of my media lessons, my weakness is working in a group as I find it difficult to communicate and get my point across to the group, which why often I do separate but crucial work. I also have difficulty using final cut express because I’m very new to using the application and it’s on the apple laptops that I also find hard to use due to its new applications and odd mouse pad.

9/2/10

All day,today me and the rest of the production team helped out in rehersals and watched them perform it. During rehearsals there was problems with the microphones and sound. The ochestra were very good at playing the classic WSS songs.At the first night of the production my job was to be the dude who collects tickets, sort of like a bouncer. I also helped by putting the leaflets on peoples chairs.

On the second night of the perfomence me and others, took pictures of the actors performence and even pictures back stage.

2/1/10

In media we learned and discussed how we hear things to do with creative and media such as art exhibitions, film premiers,newspapers etc. People said they hear it from magazines, T.v,word of mouth and advertisements.Then miss gave us images of cm websites;Empire,timeout etc. Me and Akilesh said the empire was a that websites tells you about new movies coming out and detail about the actors, date of release,plot and which cinemas it can be seen in. Time out was more about theatres and gives you the opportunities to buy tickets.After that we got A5 paper to design a website.