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This is a start elliott, but there is still a lot more needed- clips should be embedded wherever possible and you have not completed everything yet by any ,means- see task 5 from last week.

if you are to achieve your best, the blog must be up to date with the work you are set!

Juno Opening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Luk2jezCA
My opening scene for 'Juno'.
We were put into groups of four, and we all watched the opening scene many times, in order to get an idea of what we would be creating.
Together in groups, we began making notes, this was a shot list and storyboard for the day, and a list of props we would need to make it look more like the actual opening scene.
On the day, I went out before my group to look for places to record, to help speed up the process when it came to getting all the equipment and recording, and found several areas around coleridge that would work out. Later on, we found it easy as a group to get started, working together with the storyboard to quickly get the shots we needed. We improvised most the way, picking places that we could get away with quickly when we realised that it would take far more time to shoot than we thought. After about 2 hours of walking around, recording, climbing trees and skateboarding, we were ready to return to class. I captured all the video into clips with what little time we had left in the day, and that was the end of the day.

On Friday, I got the footage I had uploaded a few days before, and edited with Christina.

I would like to say that we had the most amazing teamwork we had going on, it would have blown you away if you saw the skills we had.

For the editing, we tried our best to keep the time of all the clips the same as they were in 'Juno', but quickly learned this wasn't going to work out, and with time not on our side, we quickly began editing to try and make it look as much like the opening scene. We tried some ideas such as cropping frames and overlapping them to try and recreate the same look 'Juno' has. We also tried to use the same sliding transitions, to try and make it work better.

I feel we put in a good effort, and it looks somewhat like the opening scene, which, for the first project of the year is pretty good I think.

Student Film Opening Analysis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5YrrR7fuJ8
Student opening scene called 'Beyond Reflections'

I liked the idea, but the video felt very random, like it had no direction and everything was just jumbled up. The music felt very out of place and I think that even though the idea is good, and the entire video had potential to be something genuinely scary, it gave the opposite effect.

The visuals are strong, but the way the clips are put together makes the video seem to have no point or direction.

However, it is clear that a lot of work went into gathering all the footage, and the effort pays off in showing something that, however cliche, is scary.

Film Opening Analysis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtxq41Y0kzM
Opening Scene for Death Race. Pretty damn kickass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0mx0dBXkw4
Opening Scene for Blade. Badass all the way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XzNIUt1dBQ
Opening Scene for Memento.

Memento is the opening I had not seen before, and I was very intrested by what I saw.
It seemed to be quite low budget, from the slow unintresting titles, to the very basic shot of just the polaroid, as steadily the audience gains an idea that it is being reversed. Everything was very basic yet what was seen was all there to intrest further, which leads to suggest that the main force of the the film was it's story.

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For the post on Shifty, you need to say more about how the moodboard task worked and how it was based on a particular scene and trying to give a sense of atmosphere from that. Later you will be creating moodboards for your own project ideas.

You could do with a bit more detail in your post on how you used the technology (especially final Cut) Which tools did you use?

This blog will be the evidence of your research and planning for the AS coursework, so there needs to be lots on it and lots of detail to it.

All the tasks set will help build up this evidence, so if you don't complete them you will not be able to access the higher marks/grades.

Please update the posts from the lessons and do the homework, which is now late, for me to be able to give you feedback tomorrow.

Pete

Photoshop Exercise

We were given the task to create a postcard to promote the Creative and Media course, and this was also used as an exercise for using Photoshop. 

Using two or more images relating to Media we found on 'Flickr', we were to combine them and add text.

I used two images, which I have uploaded below, and removed the background to one of them, and added text. 

I'm happy with this, as this is by far the best thing I have ever created on Photoshop, as I knew next to nothing when I began this lesson.

Final Cut Practice

I made this video with Hannah, using stock footage and half an hour using Final Cut at Coleridge.
We used transitions an other effects to create a random video which got us used to Final Cut.

mood board

a mood board created for the film 'Shifty'

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