Hi Everyone!
Thought this could be of interest and something you could insert quotes of OR give you ideas for your DEVELOPMENT write up.
http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/08/19/scifi_babes/index.html
http://www.helium.com/items/671471-assessing-the-role-of-women-in-science-fiction-cinema
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/01/women-steer-bat/
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10646997 (end paragraph sci fi May 2010)
Remember you know the questions - no suprises and you are allowed 1/2 page per standard.
"May the force be with you!"
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
PAPERWORK REQUIREMENTS!
PER GROUP:
**You song name (and performer/band/vocalist) will be the 'name' of your music video**
Concept/Treatment - your idea for your music video and then a break down of what it will look like. You will detail what type of music video it is. You will also include conventions (shots, angles, effects, colours, etc) you will use to create the 'look'
of you music video.
Target Audience - who is your music video for? Consider 'lifestyle indicators for specifics. How will it appeal to them? So link conventions to your target audience.
Storyboard - is a visual depiction of your music video. It shows every shot, accurately drawn.
Script - is the aural depiction of your music video. So it is a break down of the lyrics, sound FX, voice overs, dialogue per shot.
Critical Path (or Timeline) - is a grid. This is a break down of periods, intervals, lunchtimes, before or afterschool slots over the course of weeks this and next term - and what needs to be done WHEN and DEADLINES.
***EDL (Edit Decision List) AFTER you have finished filming it is a log of ALL the shots and takes and the timecodes. You will put this into another grid and have a column that you will tick or X to say what shot/take you will be using in your video from your footage.
**You song name (and performer/band/vocalist) will be the 'name' of your music video**
Concept/Treatment - your idea for your music video and then a break down of what it will look like. You will detail what type of music video it is. You will also include conventions (shots, angles, effects, colours, etc) you will use to create the 'look'
of you music video.
Target Audience - who is your music video for? Consider 'lifestyle indicators for specifics. How will it appeal to them? So link conventions to your target audience.
Storyboard - is a visual depiction of your music video. It shows every shot, accurately drawn.
Script - is the aural depiction of your music video. So it is a break down of the lyrics, sound FX, voice overs, dialogue per shot.
Critical Path (or Timeline) - is a grid. This is a break down of periods, intervals, lunchtimes, before or afterschool slots over the course of weeks this and next term - and what needs to be done WHEN and DEADLINES.
***EDL (Edit Decision List) AFTER you have finished filming it is a log of ALL the shots and takes and the timecodes. You will put this into another grid and have a column that you will tick or X to say what shot/take you will be using in your video from your footage.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
1. Music Video Clips and TASK
Music clips follow these 'styles':
1. Performance Clip - concentrate on the stage performance of the band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF5NxfdFVs4&feature=related
2. Conceptual Clips - are based around a theme or story
(a) Narrative - 'mini film' idea
i - either simple fantasy situation with other images in between e.g. the artist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBhH1x543tM
ii - complex genre story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EGASIClvkU
(b)Non-narrative - often dream like with random thoughts around a loose theme e.g. lost love, use of symbolism...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeLepdqMPMk&feature=related
TASK: Find some of your own examples of each type of Performance and Conceptual clip! Post the links so we can see and share them for ideas!
1. Performance Clip - concentrate on the stage performance of the band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF5NxfdFVs4&feature=related
2. Conceptual Clips - are based around a theme or story
(a) Narrative - 'mini film' idea
i - either simple fantasy situation with other images in between e.g. the artist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBhH1x543tM
ii - complex genre story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EGASIClvkU
(b)Non-narrative - often dream like with random thoughts around a loose theme e.g. lost love, use of symbolism...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeLepdqMPMk&feature=related
TASK: Find some of your own examples of each type of Performance and Conceptual clip! Post the links so we can see and share them for ideas!
Friday, June 5, 2009
2. Music Video Production (Alpha Ideas)
How to create a storyboard clip (in 5mins) http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-create-storyboards-14234371
Looking at samples of music video storyboards http://http//aaronsowd.com/gallery/musicvideostoryboards/BowWow5
Storyboard template: http://s3assets.nextnewnetworks.com/7503.jpg
TASK:
'Print screen' of a storyboard template into PAINT (Start/Accessories/Paint), Go Control C (to copy screen' stretch out and enlarge template if require and draw up some initial ideas. COME BACK and repeat this task when you have nailed a draft. Then you can copy it into a Word doc and print it out :o)
* Shot composition (in 5mins) WARNING cheesy http://www.5min.com/Video/Weekend-Extra-Shot-Composition-19141536
Looking at samples of music video storyboards http://http//aaronsowd.com/gallery/musicvideostoryboards/BowWow5
Storyboard template: http://s3assets.nextnewnetworks.com/7503.jpg
TASK:
'Print screen' of a storyboard template into PAINT (Start/Accessories/Paint), Go Control C (to copy screen' stretch out and enlarge template if require and draw up some initial ideas. COME BACK and repeat this task when you have nailed a draft. Then you can copy it into a Word doc and print it out :o)
* Shot composition (in 5mins) WARNING cheesy http://www.5min.com/Video/Weekend-Extra-Shot-Composition-19141536
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Boy Racers a HOT topic... Links to recent news articles
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Comparison boyracers to 1950s youth subculture 'Greaser' in USA
Clip from Rebel Without a Cause. Scene is called the chicken run.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw4K_Hsy8dg
*** I cannot find the Grease car race sorry... maybe Kate can bring her dvd of Grease for an example for us??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw4K_Hsy8dg
*** I cannot find the Grease car race sorry... maybe Kate can bring her dvd of Grease for an example for us??
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Media Texts on Boy racers LINKS for U! Check these out.
Anti- boy racers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCZ4EqqlBbA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tATDvY7jHiM&feature=related (Hamiltron!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjVMgJ0T5c
OMG... does someone think this is actually kol?!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdhpFvnOZRQ&feature=related
Funny!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tExGhs4OWWE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCZ4EqqlBbA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tATDvY7jHiM&feature=related (Hamiltron!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjVMgJ0T5c
OMG... does someone think this is actually kol?!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdhpFvnOZRQ&feature=related
Funny!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tExGhs4OWWE
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Question 1: Visual Element - MCU Exemplar
Question 1: Visual Element – Medium Close Up
The medium close up of Evil Maria shows her from the chest up, and namely forces the viewer to focus on her face. Evil Maria is animated in her speech to the Workers of Metropolis, she talks rapidly and her eyes are intent, even crazed as she urges the Workers to revolt against Jon Fredersen’s machines. This animation, and her façade of the ‘Good Maria’ spurs the Workers on and they are drawn into her emotive comparisons (“Who feeds their flesh to the machines…”). This is the Workers perspective of Evil Maria and the viewer is drawn to the focal point of her eyes and mouth as their fixed stare and words make the Workers act – effectively the viewer is placed into the point of view of the Workers.
To the viewer she is completely different to that of Good Maria and she is excessive and exaggerated in her movements.
Within this shot she exposes her flesh on her chest and appears almost ‘wild’. This ironic display shows she is undeniably only surface and image. Here a dichotomy is shown between these two characters. Good Maria is saint like, whereas Evil Maria is the opposite. She is urging the Workers on to their harm and that of the city. This exposure of flesh shows her also as a femme fatale figure that draws in the men – but only to their doom. She is alluring, provocative and yet ultimately dangerous.
Here this creation of the cyborg Evil Maria shows that technology could become so large and advanced that it could go outside of the control of man and destroy humanity. Despite her or rather its human appearance they transcend the foibles of the human body and are immortal. She is in fact mechanical and soulless.
Evil Maria harkens also to the social context of the time and expresses a period of unrest, confusion and despair. Directly after the WW1, economic woes of an inflation-ridden country haunted Germany. The medium close up of Evil Maria is reminiscent of propaganda and the terror of the nation. The Workers are dehumanised and a great sense of ‘wrongness’ in imbued, whereon they are being directed to their potential demise by a cyborg. Evil Maria’s maniacal contorted gestures are inhuman and heighten the sense of woe that can befall man; due to technology.
The medium close up of Evil Maria shows her from the chest up, and namely forces the viewer to focus on her face. Evil Maria is animated in her speech to the Workers of Metropolis, she talks rapidly and her eyes are intent, even crazed as she urges the Workers to revolt against Jon Fredersen’s machines. This animation, and her façade of the ‘Good Maria’ spurs the Workers on and they are drawn into her emotive comparisons (“Who feeds their flesh to the machines…”). This is the Workers perspective of Evil Maria and the viewer is drawn to the focal point of her eyes and mouth as their fixed stare and words make the Workers act – effectively the viewer is placed into the point of view of the Workers.
To the viewer she is completely different to that of Good Maria and she is excessive and exaggerated in her movements.
Within this shot she exposes her flesh on her chest and appears almost ‘wild’. This ironic display shows she is undeniably only surface and image. Here a dichotomy is shown between these two characters. Good Maria is saint like, whereas Evil Maria is the opposite. She is urging the Workers on to their harm and that of the city. This exposure of flesh shows her also as a femme fatale figure that draws in the men – but only to their doom. She is alluring, provocative and yet ultimately dangerous.
Here this creation of the cyborg Evil Maria shows that technology could become so large and advanced that it could go outside of the control of man and destroy humanity. Despite her or rather its human appearance they transcend the foibles of the human body and are immortal. She is in fact mechanical and soulless.
Evil Maria harkens also to the social context of the time and expresses a period of unrest, confusion and despair. Directly after the WW1, economic woes of an inflation-ridden country haunted Germany. The medium close up of Evil Maria is reminiscent of propaganda and the terror of the nation. The Workers are dehumanised and a great sense of ‘wrongness’ in imbued, whereon they are being directed to their potential demise by a cyborg. Evil Maria’s maniacal contorted gestures are inhuman and heighten the sense of woe that can befall man; due to technology.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Media Assignment 1 Genre Report
The Matrix (1999), is it your typical science fiction film?
You have to compare and contrast it to the other films we have viewed - Metropolis and Blade Runner.
In addition your could refer to other films as an extension within this genre :o)
This 'report' will include: * you will write it in these sections and can include pixs or drawings of shots. It can be typed up or hand written.
Introduction - outlining your overall opinion, what you will discuss, or your argument.
Themes - common themes present ie: control, slavery, freedom of choice, over-reliance on technology (A.I.) ... COMPARE AND CONTRAST
Symbols - common symbols present ie: religious icons, names, eyes, light... COMPARE AND CONTRAST
Futuristic Setting - common settings ie: notion of environmental degredation (could be a theme also), modern/future skylies or cities, visions of extremes... COMPARE AND CONTRAST
Characters - common characters ie: The male lead, the female, the bad guy... COMPARE AND CONTRAST
A.I. - Artifical Intelligence present ie: cyborgs, androids, robots.. COMPARE AND CONTRAST
Special Effects - how used, improved...COMPARE AND CONTRAST. *optional or could be included in your discussion of futuristic setting.
Conclusion - concluding overall statement. Draw together your findings, discoveries and opinions.
References - List the texts, sites etc where you got your information from.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Welcome!
Hi 2MES you guys are awesome finding this and of course using this!!!!!
:o) We will be using this to communicate during the year!
:o) We will be using this to communicate during the year!
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