Monday, 18 January 2010
Final Magazine Poster
This is our final magazine. We used Adobe Photoshop to create this, we used Photoshop because it allowed us to create the specific effect we wanted.Thursday, 7 January 2010
Editting
To create and edit our final media film we used a programme called Adobe Premier Pro CS4. The step to creating our film was in fact watching all of our filmed footage and deciding which parts were good and which parts were bad, the good parts were put into a sequence and the bad parts were either re-filmed if needed or deleted. We then used a tool called 'razor', this enabled us to cut down the length of each shot, as our trailer was only going to be roughly a minute long. We then decided where our final shots were going to go within the trailer, with the help of audience feedback, we decided to add music and taglines to broaden the effect of our trailer.
Thursday, 10 December 2009
Music
The two main pieces of music that were considered for the film trailer were; 'Music Lullaby' and 'Linkin Park - Numb'. The Music Lullaby would play at the start of the trailer when the mood is calm whereas Numb would play in the later stages of our trailer because it would add to the suspense and genre of our trailer.
To find music that wasn't copyrighted we used a website called ' Free Music Play', This gave us a huge range of music. http://freeplaymusic.com/
To find music that wasn't copyrighted we used a website called ' Free Music Play', This gave us a huge range of music. http://freeplaymusic.com/
Friday, 20 November 2009
Chiaroscuro
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Chiaroscuro is a word borrowed from Italian (light and dark) referring to the modelling of volume by depiating light and dark by contracting them in a boldy way.
Friday, 6 November 2009
Media Theory That Applies To My Film Trailer
The two main media theories that applies to my film trailer are Tzevtan Todorov's theory of Equilibrium and Vladmir Propps theory of 8 character roles and the 31 functions
The main function of the 31 of Propps Theory is Villainy and Lack:
VILLAINY and LACK: Villain causes harm/injury to family member (by abduction, theft of magical agent, spoiling crops, plunders in other forms, causes a disappearance, expels someone, casts spell on someone, substitutes child etc, comits murder, imprisons/detains someone, threatens forced marriage, provides nightly torments); Alternatively, a member of family lacks something or desires something (magical potion etc). There are two parts to this stage, either or both of which may appear in the story. In the first stage, the villain causes some kind of harm, for example carrying away a victim or the desired magical object (which must be then be retrieved). In the second stage, a sense of lack is identified, for example in the hero's family or within a community, whereby something is identified as lost or something becomes desirable for some reason, for example a magical object that will save people in some way. 'Lack' is a deep psychoanalytic principle which we first experience when we realize our individual separation from the world. Lack leads to desire and deep longing and we look to heroes to satisfy this aching emptiness.
Todorovs theory of equilibrium also applies to my film trailer because it applies to the 5 stages of equilibrium, The 5 stages of my film trailer are as follows:
1. A state of equilibrium at the outset - The film trailer starts off slow and seems like a calm atmosphere.
2. A disruption of equilibrium - The disruption part comes when the main villain of our film kidnaps the little girl and attacks her babysitter.
3. A recognition of the equilibrium - The police find out the little girl is missing and find the babysitter motionless on the floor. This alerts the police officer.
4. An attempt to repair the disruption - The police office attempts to repair the situation by trying to find the little girl, he interviews an eye witness trying to find information.
5. A reinstatement of the equilibrium - The viewers are left unknown about the ending of the film.
The main function of the 31 of Propps Theory is Villainy and Lack:
VILLAINY and LACK: Villain causes harm/injury to family member (by abduction, theft of magical agent, spoiling crops, plunders in other forms, causes a disappearance, expels someone, casts spell on someone, substitutes child etc, comits murder, imprisons/detains someone, threatens forced marriage, provides nightly torments); Alternatively, a member of family lacks something or desires something (magical potion etc). There are two parts to this stage, either or both of which may appear in the story. In the first stage, the villain causes some kind of harm, for example carrying away a victim or the desired magical object (which must be then be retrieved). In the second stage, a sense of lack is identified, for example in the hero's family or within a community, whereby something is identified as lost or something becomes desirable for some reason, for example a magical object that will save people in some way. 'Lack' is a deep psychoanalytic principle which we first experience when we realize our individual separation from the world. Lack leads to desire and deep longing and we look to heroes to satisfy this aching emptiness.
Todorovs theory of equilibrium also applies to my film trailer because it applies to the 5 stages of equilibrium, The 5 stages of my film trailer are as follows:
1. A state of equilibrium at the outset - The film trailer starts off slow and seems like a calm atmosphere.
2. A disruption of equilibrium - The disruption part comes when the main villain of our film kidnaps the little girl and attacks her babysitter.
3. A recognition of the equilibrium - The police find out the little girl is missing and find the babysitter motionless on the floor. This alerts the police officer.
4. An attempt to repair the disruption - The police office attempts to repair the situation by trying to find the little girl, he interviews an eye witness trying to find information.
5. A reinstatement of the equilibrium - The viewers are left unknown about the ending of the film.
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