Today in class we watched each others films that we had made. Once we watched them, we evaluated them and gave them two targets to work on. Unfortunately I was not able to go on the trip so I did not have a film to evaluate. So instead I am going to evaluate Gina and Cheyenne's.
In class we talked about the different things that we would be looking for when we evaluated the performances. These were:
Eye contact
Steady camera
Camera angles: over-the-shoulder, Medium close up, Establishing shot, cut aways.
Editing that flows
Well-organised camera work
Clear sound with no interference.
In Gina and Cheyenne's interview I thought that the following things went well: - Use of cutaways to help the interview flow better - Steady camera work
Targets: - Consider sound interference when filming - Add a music track over the establishing shot
I think that their interview went very well however, considering all the problems that they had and the fact that they weren't able to finish.
On the 3rd December, our Diploma class went on a trip to Sadler's Wells. Once we got there we went into a small meeting room and met three people who worked at Sadler's Wells and they told us about their jobs. After that we met three different people. A Web manager, Project manager and a Financial worker. They all told us about the different jobs they do and what types of skills you would need to do that particular job. I think the hardest job to do was the Financial worker because you have to control all the money that goes out and what money comes in. You also have to control how much you spend on different things and have to give all the different departments a budget that they have to stick to.
What I learnt on that day was the theatre can have all sorts of different jobs. There is so much that goes on behind the scenes and a lot of work is put into running it. You have to think about a lot of different details and there are lots of different aspects that need controlling. Some of these jobs are:
Stage lighting
Box Office
Concessionary
Actors
Dancers
Directors
Cleaners
Manager
Musicians
Sound Technician
I think that the day was very productive and I learnt quite a lot about the different jobs. It could've been a bit more active, but overall it was quite a good day.
On the 18th November 2008, our art class went to the Tate Britain. Once we got there, we put our coats and bags down and went over to the Turner Prize Exhibition. in the exhibition, we looked at the art of four different artists and had to sketch some of their work. My favourite artist was Cathy Wilkes because I liked the way she took found objects and made it into art.
After we finished in the Turner Prize exhibition, we went over to the Francis Bacon exhibition. The Francis Bacon exhibition had 10 different rooms and we had to go to each of them and sketch one of his paintings. I found this part particularly hard to do because Francis Bacon's paintings are very complicated and hard to understand. Fortunately though, I managed to do a few.
What I learnt on that day was that art can come in all different forms and that it doesn't have to be a simple structured drawing. Overall, I enjoyed the day, and even though I found Francis Bacon's paintings quite strange and contorted, they were quite interesting to look. The only thing that could've been better was the fact that I don't think that I took much away from it as I don't tend to think too much about the painting that I'm looking at.
On the 21st October, Rob, a representative from M&C Saatchi came in to talk to use about his job and what he does. he showed us a few advertisements and got us to talk about why they were effective. Then he told us that we would be making an advertisement for TFL. We had to make it about how dangerous crossing the road is for teenagers, and that they should be more careful. We could make it however we wanted but we had to make sure that we used the phrase "Don't die before you've lived."
Once we had finished discussing what we had to do we got into groups and started to plan our advert.
After break, we came back and watched some more adverts. This time when we watched them we had to look out for what different techniques were used in order to make it interesting. Then we went back to making our presentations and at the end of the lesson, presented it to the class.
The thing that went successfully was our presentation. We were able to get our ideas across very clearly and it was also really interesting and fun to make.
I learnt that creating an advertisement is a lot harder than I thought it would be. First you have to come with the idea and then you have to decide whether the idea is going to get your point across. Then you need to think where the ad could be displayed. there are a lot of different techniques needed and the process can take very long.
The thing I found the hardest was coming up with an idea.
Overall i think the day was really fun and enjoyable and the experience really helped me.
In today's lesson we investigated what techniques would make a good interview. We came up with several points like:
Eye contact
Open ended questions
Prepare your questions before hand
Chat with the interviewee before hand to make him feel at ease
Respond to the answers given
Be friendly and encouraging but at the same time get your point across
Projection and confidence
After we discussed what would make a good interview, we got some students to choose roles( such as sound technician, camera man and director) and we created our own interview. I had the role of the sound technician which was quite fun to do. We then used the points we had discussed and played around with the set to get the effect we wanted. Then we did the interview. When we had finished we discussed what went well and what could have gone better. Then we used the new ideas that we had come up with and did the interview over again. Personally I feel that the first interview was better because it was more spontaneous and more interesting because it wasn't so rehearsed.
Today i learnt more about how to use the camera and what shots would look the best such as over the shoulder.
Today in art we took our posters that we had created in Art and uploaded them onto Photoshop. We then changed the images around and created a different poster in the style of Jamie Reid. The poster had to be about what different art galleries there are in Hackney or London. my poster was centered around Hackney.
At first it was hard to use Photoshop but I soon learnt how to manipulate my pictures to suit my poster.
In media today we learnt different skills that were essential in the media industry. We also talked about different skills that were transferable (this means skills that can be used in lots of different jobs) these were:
People skills
presentation skills
Precise deadlines and time keeping
Management ability
the job that i thought was most suited to me was T.V producer because o thought that I had the certain skills that were needed to become one. Such as:
