2. is, on some level and in some way, ironic
Lady Gaga's video to Paparazzi shows elements of irony throughout as it starts off with her leading the stereotypical 'Hollywood' celebrity lifestyle, in the video i think she is a new artist who people are just finding out about. She a nice house, a good looking man and is drinking champagne,she ends up kissing her boyfriendon her balcony and is pushed off by him and breaks her neck. I think the irony about this is that she is a new artist, and is finished before she's even began in the music industry.
12. distrusts binary oppositions
Limp Bizkit- Take a look around
This song distrusts binary oppositions through the use of different instruments, the song has both soft and hard elements to it and is a complete contrast. Parts of the song are hard rock whereas other parts are very soft and donot comply with the stereotypical rock genre.
Friday, 16 March 2012
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Post Production
When i first started the course in yar 12, i'd had no previous experience with filming or editing, or even photoshop etc. At the beginning of AS, we were asked to create 2 prelim tasks, one being a magazine cover, and the other we were asked to film a scene and then edit it. From both of these prelim tasks i was able to gain basic skills and then use what i learnt in order to help create my practical product, which was a music magazine front cover, contents and double page spread, that i created on photoshop. The basic skills that we learnt for the prelim i was able to put to use throughout the course, including the tasks i had to do in A2.
The tools that i most used in AS were the lasso and blur tool, using these together enabled me to cut my artist out of the background image and place them wherever i needed to, the blur tool i used to create a focus on the artist, and majority of them time when used correctly the images always looked a lot better. At the beginning of the course when we were asked to film a two minute scene, and then edit it after, i'd had no experience in using any of the equipment needed, such as how to use the tripod and even how to hold a camera properly. The post production stage of AS was quite difficult, because we could choose or own genre, and style etc. of the magazine, there were no boundaries, so we had the chance to choose our own colour scheme, fonts, style of image, our own artist etc. the fact that we made it from scratch shows that a certain level of creativity and imagination went into the designing of the pages. Luckily we had to hand in a draft of what we wanted our magazine to look like, and were then given feedback and a grade, this gave us the chance to edit our magazine and to try and make it look the best that it possibly could.
Post production at A2 was alot harder than at AS, as we had to make a music video, with a song of our choice and organise everything a normal crew would have to in order to create a music video. This included everything from photoshoots, set/prop lists, to location shots, when we were meeting with our artist, schedules and storyboards etc. this was quite stressful as we had never had to do any of this before and was alot of work for the short amount of time that we had to do it in, the editing process was quite hard, for the draft, we used Adobe Premier, which has quite a complicated program, and we had some issues regarding the resolution of the camera- because the resolution was so high, it took up alot of memory and we had issues transferring the images and footage over to my desktop at school. For the final draft, we used iMovie as Emma was bought a MacBook Pro for her birthday, this was alot easier and simpler to use than Premier.
The progression i made from the preliminary task at AS to the final product at A2 was huge. I had picked up only basic skills from the prelim task and because it was just a prelim task, i didn't think it was necessary to make much of an effort, but when it came to editing the final product at A2, it took me quite a while to get used to and to apply the tools that we had written down to use from the story board into the music video. We had nearly 200 more shots at A2 than we did at AS so the progression just from the number of shots shows how difficult it was to edit a video and get the artist to say things in the right timing, and to get it all to sync together.
My photoshop progression from AS to A2 wasn't that different, though it was from the prelim task at the start of the course to the final ancilliary products i had to make at A2. I think once you learn the basic skills of photoshop, unless you play around with the other tools to see what they can do, it is a hard program to use if you don't know how, but considering how much i used it at AS my skills were pretty standard for what i needed to create, at A2 we had to create two ancilliary products, a digipack and a poster advertising the artist, though they were different products to create, i still found myself using the same tools as i have done throughout the whole of the course.
I think my knowledge of digital technology has grown over the course and i am alot more comfortable with using the programs, the knowledge i have of the programs has allowed me to be as creative as possible when it comes to creating my final products and i feel that i have been able to apply as much creativity and knowledge as possible.
The tools that i most used in AS were the lasso and blur tool, using these together enabled me to cut my artist out of the background image and place them wherever i needed to, the blur tool i used to create a focus on the artist, and majority of them time when used correctly the images always looked a lot better. At the beginning of the course when we were asked to film a two minute scene, and then edit it after, i'd had no experience in using any of the equipment needed, such as how to use the tripod and even how to hold a camera properly. The post production stage of AS was quite difficult, because we could choose or own genre, and style etc. of the magazine, there were no boundaries, so we had the chance to choose our own colour scheme, fonts, style of image, our own artist etc. the fact that we made it from scratch shows that a certain level of creativity and imagination went into the designing of the pages. Luckily we had to hand in a draft of what we wanted our magazine to look like, and were then given feedback and a grade, this gave us the chance to edit our magazine and to try and make it look the best that it possibly could.
Post production at A2 was alot harder than at AS, as we had to make a music video, with a song of our choice and organise everything a normal crew would have to in order to create a music video. This included everything from photoshoots, set/prop lists, to location shots, when we were meeting with our artist, schedules and storyboards etc. this was quite stressful as we had never had to do any of this before and was alot of work for the short amount of time that we had to do it in, the editing process was quite hard, for the draft, we used Adobe Premier, which has quite a complicated program, and we had some issues regarding the resolution of the camera- because the resolution was so high, it took up alot of memory and we had issues transferring the images and footage over to my desktop at school. For the final draft, we used iMovie as Emma was bought a MacBook Pro for her birthday, this was alot easier and simpler to use than Premier.
The progression i made from the preliminary task at AS to the final product at A2 was huge. I had picked up only basic skills from the prelim task and because it was just a prelim task, i didn't think it was necessary to make much of an effort, but when it came to editing the final product at A2, it took me quite a while to get used to and to apply the tools that we had written down to use from the story board into the music video. We had nearly 200 more shots at A2 than we did at AS so the progression just from the number of shots shows how difficult it was to edit a video and get the artist to say things in the right timing, and to get it all to sync together.
My photoshop progression from AS to A2 wasn't that different, though it was from the prelim task at the start of the course to the final ancilliary products i had to make at A2. I think once you learn the basic skills of photoshop, unless you play around with the other tools to see what they can do, it is a hard program to use if you don't know how, but considering how much i used it at AS my skills were pretty standard for what i needed to create, at A2 we had to create two ancilliary products, a digipack and a poster advertising the artist, though they were different products to create, i still found myself using the same tools as i have done throughout the whole of the course.
I think my knowledge of digital technology has grown over the course and i am alot more comfortable with using the programs, the knowledge i have of the programs has allowed me to be as creative as possible when it comes to creating my final products and i feel that i have been able to apply as much creativity and knowledge as possible.
Monday, 5 March 2012
Friday, 2 March 2012
Post Production Tasks
Task 1
Everything i did for my main product at AS at the stage of post-production
Everything i did for my main product at AS at the stage of post-production
- Edit and move around everything on the front cover
- I chose to change the colour scheme as told from my feedback
- Make my interview longer to keep ,my readers interested and to make it look more realistic
- Change the title colour from pink to red- looks alot better
- Make my logo look more professional
- Improve on my contents page to make it look more professional
- Change my image on the front cover- no direct eye contact
- Use less Glastonbury mentions throughout
- Make a clear connection with my artists image and name on the front cover
- I created a blog os posts to show my progress and to show every idea that i had
- Editing and enhancing images on photoshop to get the best quality picture
- For the first draft me and Emma used Adobe Premier on her laptop to edit, we planned to use Adobe After Effects on the final video but were advised not to because of the complexity of the program. Not longer after the draft was handed in Emma got a MacBook Pro, so to edit the final video on iMovie which was much easier to use and much less complex than Adobe.
- We used the programs to get the different effects on lighting, quality, visuals etc and length and pace of the shots.
- When creating my ancillary products it was similar in a way to creating my ones at AS, as we were using the same tools and programs but just for different products. Photoshop was perfect for getting the right level of quality of image needed for my digipack and poster.
- My weaknesses were trying to grasp the way the editing software worked, and difficulty trying to apply my skills into the programs we used.
My progression of graphics and DTP skills at stage of post production between AS and my A2 ancillary tasks
In terms of progression from my AS to A2 products, i think my knowledge has grown in terms of the programs used and which tools to use on what. At AS, i think i was still getting used to the programs when it came to creating the AS products, and in terms of the images i used i feel i should have been more prepared and taken more images of my artist so i had a wider range to chose from. Though i got an A overall for my practical elements i think i could have helped myself out by doing more research and planning and being more organised. My photoshop skills definately improved from AS to A2 and i knew more about the program and the specific tools that i knew i could use to get the best quality product. The process of the ancillary tasks in both AS and A2 were different, but i found making my ancillary tasks at A2 very similar to making my products at AS.
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