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Wk 10 : Task 9: Screening: Unit 6 (3.1)

thomas_mascall99 — 2017-11-03 11:19:21 UTC

Know: The activity that helped my knowledge this week was having a one to one editing session with Dave to complete my music video as I had no experience in editing at all. I now know some editing techniques that I didn't know before and how to put them in practice, such as putting a time lapse into a video, speeding footage up and slowing it down.

Do: The new skills I applied this week was learning some editing skills and putting them into practice. This included taking a car time lapse movement. I completed this by taking the footage and speeding everything around it up. The barriers I faced were not knowing how to edit anything and having to be shown step by step with the teacher sitting next to me. I now more confident and feel I could edit footage on my own next time.

Show: Below is a screenshot of our edited footage.

Improve: I feel that next time my production group needs to improve their communication as some of us didn't know what scenes needed to be filmed next or our plan for them. I also feel that I need to personally continue to improve my editing skills as that is the one area of media I feel I lack knowledge in. To improve our video for next time we need to use more editing technique's such as cutting to the beat and more fasted paced to our video.

Wk 9: Task 9: Post-Production : Unit 6 (3.1)

thomas_mascall99 — 2017-11-03 11:19:21 UTC

Know: The activity I feel helped my knowledge and developed my skills further was being shown how to take footage from a camera or memory stick and put it on to the computer or an editing program. I now know how I would do this in the future and feel I would have the confident to do it myself.

Do: The new skills I applied this week was learning how pre production works and the amount of paperwork you must complete before you can even start filming. We had to complete a reci form for each location that we wanted to film in taking into account any risks problems and concerns we had about the locations. We also had to talk about the good points of the location and why we thought it would be a good place to film our music video.

Show: This week completed more filming of footage that we are going to use in our final music video once it is edited. Below is some of that footage.

Improve: In the future I feel I need to continue to improve my editing skills as I feel this is a part of media that I am lacking knowledge and skills in. I need to improve so that I can be more well-rounded in my media skill.

Wk 8: Task 7: Pre-Production & Pitch: Unit 4 (2.2) & Unit 6 (1.2, 2.1 & 3.1)Task 8: Production: Unit 6 (3.1)Task 9: Post-Production & Screening: Unit 6 (3.1)

thomas_mascall99 — 2017-11-03 11:19:21 UTC

Know: The activity I feel helped the most this week to improve my knowledge further was getting the chance to film in the studio and experiment with different shot types, lighting and camera angles to see how it would affect the quality and appearance of our music video.

Do: The new skills I applied this week was continuing to learn about how pre production is used on a film set and how much paperwork is required before you can even think about what you can film or edit a video. I also learnt about how different lighting and angles can affect a shot and make it better or worse.

Show: Below is a screen shot of the video that I directed for our music video and one we will hopefully use in final project. We used LED lights and a DLSR camera to create the shot and we took it three times from three different angles.

Improve: To improve for next I feel I need to improve my knowledge of different shot types and how they are used in films and music videos so that I can bring more ideas and opininons to my group to contribute to final music video.

Wk. 7: Task 7: Pre-Production & Pitch: Unit 4 (2.2) & Unit 6 (1.2, 2.1 & 3.1)

thomas_mascall99 — 2017-11-03 11:19:21 UTC

Know: The activity I feel helped me The activity I feel helped me the most this week to improve my knowledge was conducting meetings with my group and talking about our ideas to try and put our story broads together. I feel this helped us to understand what we are going to shoot for our music video.

Do: The new skill I applied were studying different but similar locations to see which one would work best for our music video so we can make it look the best we can. We had to complete the recci forms for health and safety risks , weather conditions and any other problems.

Show: Here is a recci form that we had to complete to be able to film our music video on a road side.

Improve: I feel like I need to add more detail intio my storybroads and shots type diagrammes.

Wk. 6: Task 6: Production Meetings: Unit 6 (1.2) & Unit 4 (2.2)

thomas_mascall99 — 2017-11-03 11:19:21 UTC

Know: learning about storyboards and how they help creative people to plan their work. I feel this help myself and my group to plan our music video as we know what we are doing shot by shot and can plan our production schedule around it.

Do: The new skills that I applied this week were learning how to create storyboards and continuing to improve my team working skills. I feel that learning about storyboards helped to get my creative ideas out in a structured and controlled way and helped me to contribute to the groups ideas. The barriers I faced were struggling to come up with ideas that everyone in the group liked and could agree on. I also feel that a barrier I faced was getting my group to focus on our task in hand. I feel that continuing to improve my team working skills helped me because I am still learning to communicate with some members of my group.

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Improve: I need to continue to improve on my team working skills. I also need to add more detail to my storyboards.

Wk. 5: Task 5: Crew Profile: Unit 4 (1.1)

thomas_mascall99 — 2017-11-03 11:19:21 UTC

Know: The activity I feel helped me the most this week was creating a group profile to help us establish our job roles in making our music videos. I have learnt that a lot more goes into making music videos than I orginally thought such as the amount of research that is done before they are made.

Do: The new skill that I applied this week was working with people in the class that I don't really know and don't really get on with. I feel this was a barrier at first as I was worried how much each member contribute and if their lack of work would effect my own grade. Another new skill I applied this week was creating a PowerPoint explaining why I should be the director of my groups music video and the quailities I would bring to that role.

Show: Below is the PowerPoint I created to express my desire to be director of my groups music video.

Improve: To improve my work in the future I need to work on my patience with other members of my group who I don't normally work with. Another way to improve my work is to add more detail into written work.

Wk 4: Task 4: Mind Map & Pitch: Unit 4 (2.1) Unit 6 (1.1 & 2.1)

thomas_mascall99 — 2017-11-03 11:19:21 UTC

Know: The activity I feel helped me the most this week was creating mind maps to showcase my ideas. I feel this helped me because I was able to put my ideas down on paper rather than remembering all of them in my head and maybe forgetting critical information. I now know how to create mind maps and add detail to them. I feel this will help me in future in planning both work I do at college and at home.

Do: The new skills that I applied this week were creating mind maps on Padlet. The barriers I felt I faced this week were learning how to create a mind map on Padlet as that is something I had never done before and didn't know how to do it. I now feel like I am able to complete mind maps to a higher standard and I can add more detail to them. I will be using to plan my work in the future.

Show: Please see the screen shot below to see my work from this week.

Improve: To improve my work for next week I need to learn to create the mind maps on Padlet by myself as I had alot of help and assistant to create them. I also need to learn to screen shot videos for myself as I had a lot of assistant for that as well.

Wk. 3:Task 3: Techniques of Music Videos: Unit 4 (1.1; 2.1) & Unit 6 (1.1)

thomas_mascall99 — 2017-11-03 11:19:21 UTC

Know: The activity I feel helped me the most this week was continuing to research music videos and find out some different techniques that are used to make them, such as Cutting to the beat and miming and lip syncing. we learnt about some other techniques such as Muti images, camera movements and camera angles.

Do: To complete this week work we had to research 5 different eras of music and find songs from those eras that contained the six different techniques in their music videos. We then had to create a Padlet post for each era and write about why it contained that technique. The music video feel inspired me the most and has the most techingues I would like to use in my own video is Michael Buble Haven't Met You Yet because I feel its has a good mixture of both urban and nature images. I also feel it contained some techniques I plan to use such as close up camera images unique camera movements and a good narrative story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AJmKkU5POA

Show: Below is an example of my Padlet post from this week which shows the work I have completed.

Improve: To improve my work for next time I need to have a better understanding of Muti images in music videos and understand more how I would find them. I also need to improve on my knowledge of 70s music as I struggled to find songs from that era.

Wk. 1/2: Task 2: Styles of Music Videos: Unit 4 (1.1; 2.1) & Unit 6 (1.1)

thomas_mascall99 — 2017-11-03 11:19:21 UTC

Know: The activity I feel helped me to increase my knowledge and develop my skills further was learning different techniques that are used in music videos such as cutting to the beat, lip syncing and miming and animations. I now know how some of these techniques are used in videos and how they enhance them and make them better.

Do: This week I created 5 Padlet posts researching songs from different eras, these were the 1970s, 1980s, 1990, 2000s and 2010. I found four different music videos from each era one showing narrative which is where the video tells a story, one with live concert footage which is where the music video has some elements of live footage, a parody which is where the song that fun of another song or recent event and finally a commerical which is where the song is used to advertise something.

Show: I presented my work in Padlet post see below.

Improve: I struggled to find any sort of parody video and I feel it would have been helpful to shown more examples before I completed my own research. I felt like some of the feed back from work is too wordy for me and I need to find my confident to ask the subject tutor to break it down for me.

Wk. 1. Task 1: Explore Urban & Nature: Unit 4 (1.1) & Unit 6 (1.1)

thomas_mascall99 — 2017-11-03 11:19:21 UTC

Know: The activity I feel helped me to increase my knowledge and delevlope my skills further was getting the chance to experiment with Photoshop to edit my six urban and nature images. Some of the tools I used included saturation, blur and changing pictures to black and white. I also learnt four different types of music videos, these include in concert footage, parody, narrative and commercial.

Do: The new skills I used this week were being to improve my work in photo shop by using new techigues such as changing the saturation, blurring a photo and changing a photo to black and white. I also researched four different types of music videos, these were live concert footage, parody, narrative and in commercial. To do this a created a padlet wall and researched the types of videos and wrote a description about them.

Show: I presented my Photo Shop working using contact sheet and annotating them giving a brief dscription as to what I did to change to the photos and whether it improved them or changed the context of the photo.
Improve: To improve my work in the future I need to learn to add more detail into my written aned thoery work. I also need to continue to improve my photoshop skills so that I can make my work better.