EDITING TOMORROW - FRIDAY 25TH FEBRUARY

As stated before, I will be in to open the room from about 10am through till 1pm for you to use for the edit. iMacs on a first come first served basis unless you contact me in advance to book a machine.

If there is no one there by 10.45 I will lock the room up again.

Homework: Due 1st March

Exam question 


Textual Analysis (Unseen Moving Image Extract)




TV Drama sequence: Coming Down The Mountain
Director: Julie Anne Robinson
Date: 2007
BBC 1


Answer the question below, with detailed reference to specific examples from the extract only.

Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs the representation of gender using the following:

• Camera shots, angles, movement and composition.
• Editing
• Sound
• Mise en scène

[50 marks]

G321 MARKS FOR PRODUCTION

G321 Marks for Production


Below are the marks I have given for each group:

Group 1 47 (potentially 52+)
Group 2 50 (potentially 54+)
Group 3 41 (potentially 48+)

There is clear room for improvement with all films and to aid this I would like you to consider the document below which identifies some of the things you should be trying to do.


Conventions of Opening Sequences Comicdoc

And information on Opening Credits.


Opening Credits –from Wikipedia

Finally, the preferred day during half term for me to come in and you to work on your films is Friday the 25th from 9am till 1pm. However, this need confirmation.

EXAM DETAILS

Your Media Studies exam on Media Concepts: TV Drama and Film (focussed on representations, Media Language, Audience and Institution) will take place on Tuesday the 17th of May in the afternoon. It is a 2 hours written paper.

This is early in the exam schedule and therefore it is extremely important that you stay up to date with your studies. It also means that there is very little time between submission of final coursework and the exam.

There will be revision sessions during the Easter break to ensure that you are up to speed and ready for the exam and I will let you know the date(s) of these as soon as I can.

HOMEWORK ON CLASS AND STATUS

Here is a clip to provide you with stimulus regarding the representations of class in the media. However, it is nearly 50 years old so perhaps some of the ideas are out of date.





Your task for homework is to find examples either in the form of video clips or still images from UK Television drama which you can analyse demonstrating to us that you have understood how class representations are created.

You need to have:

• upper class
• middle class
• working class

You can also as extension look at:

• underclass

Please remember that your focus is on HOW the representations are created through the Media Languages: visual, aural, verbal, non-verbal and written. Use the appropriate terminology for these media languages including Mise En Scene, shot types, sizes, angles and movement, diegetic/non-diegetic sound, denotation, connotations, choices of props, costumes, make-up, lighting etc.

Work should be completed by THURSDAY the 17th February.

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Homework

Develop your ‘character’ into a sequence or scene and comment on how the representation is created through the various media languages – visual, verbal, aural and non-verbal

Due Thursday 10th February  

Today's Lesson

Today again is devoted to YOU moving your edits from iMovie to garageband. Please ensure that you make this move today and begin the sound editing and track laying process.

Ms Ashton will be with you throughout and can help you to progress. Use the time and ensure that you post an evaluation of your process and what you achieved by the end of the lesson.

Today's Class

Our focus today is sound editing.

If you haven't already done so, you will need to complete move from picture edit to sound edit.

1. Complete picture edit including titles
2. tidy up sound, cutting out obvious errors by - detaching audio and then cutting it or splitting it and then putting the sound level to zero
3. you should aim to keep as much of the useable 'natural' sound as possible at this stage - you can fade it, boost it or get rid of it later. TIP: you can often replace sound with that from different clips - ones that you haven't used in picture - and that way get rid of intruding voices and other elements that you don't like. The better prepared this live track and the smoother you can make it the easier the dubbing process will be, the more creative you will be and the better marks you will get.
4. When you are happy with the overall sound for your picture edited BUT undubbed film your are ready to SHARE TO THE MEDIA BROWSER or EXPORT AS QUICKTIME (better quality but takes a little longer). Remember that the picture edit becomes a fixed thing which is hard to change, so don't do this until you are absolutely sure that you have the edit you want, with the titles in place and the basic live sound in good shape.
5. REMEMBER to SAVE into the movies folder on your iMac.
6. NOW OPEN GARAGEBAND and start a new movie project - then import YOUR movie from the right of the screen to the top line of the multitrack screen.
7. You are now ready to begin creating your soundtrack. Think about ALL the different layers of sound you will need and if necessary go and record them today using the video cameras - you will be able to import the sound into garageband - a bit of a fiddle, but possible.

Garageband tutorials

Good luck.

Ms. Ashton will be registering and supervising you this afternoon and I will see you on Thursday to review all the work from the last week.