Up: Carl & Ellie Married Life Montage (for in-depth analysis)
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Up: Carl & Ellie Married Life Montage (for in-depth analysis)Warning: Mrs Bell will cry in the baby scene and when Ellie dies (it's just because the production and story elements are so effective)
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Active audience. A way of conceptualising audience that sees people as active consumers of media texts
Alternative values. Values that provide an alternative to the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority without challenging or opposing them directly. Audience. The groups or individuals who consume a media text. People creating media products often think about the experience and knowledge of their intended audience. Construction. A communication studies term used to describe the process of making a text. All media texts are constructed using a complex series of codes and conventions. Convention. A well-established way of constructing a media text. The conventions of a newspaper front page, for example, include a masthead, headline, byline and article arranged in columns. Dominant values. Those values held by the majority of people in a society. Emerging values. Beliefs or attitudes held by a growing number of people in a society. When studying historical texts, these values may eventually become dominant. Can you believe this is a stop motion film? “You don’t get anything for free in stop-motion,” co-director Annable says in the making of the Boxtrolls featurette. “We’ve really got to plan out every single element.” Stop-motion animation is quite simple; you move an object and take a picture. It is, however, extremely difficult to do well. Shooting your film frame-by-frame (there are 24 frames per second in a motion picture) means that the animators must manipulate all the necessary objects in a given scene — characters, sets, props, etc. — with every frame photographed (twice, in The Boxtrolls, as the film was shot with a 3D camera). Then the thousands upon thousands of photographed frames are edited and projected together sequentially, bringing the world to life. (Bryan Abrams, 2014) Read here for more: http://www.thecredits.org/2014/09/the-many-influences-of-the-boxtrolls/ Below is a VCE student's first stop motion which was selected for Top Screen 2013 (Cartoon Cookies, Alexandra Maranon). She took over 3000 photos to create this whiteboard stop motion animation. Example storyboard Student Worksheet for analysing and brainstorming at Top Designs "Don't stress about your gear and equipment. If you've got a good story that's what matters. Spend more time developing your story than trying to source gear." Sam Bennett was one of the people's choice winners for the 2014 Top Screens. Here he talks through the making of his film Albert. This is really insightful as to the stage of planning you are about to go through.
Having trouble with getting your head around codes and conventions?
Have a flick through this great resource: Codes and Conventions in Media Simple guide for Harvard Referencing: https://www.citethisforme.com/harvard-referencing
You can also use a bibliography generator such as EasyBib or the program built in to Microsoft Word. Just don't forget to cite your sources. All the best, Mrs Bell Dominant values. Those values held by the majority of people in a society.
Aspect ratio refers to the width of an image relative to its height. Two common aspect ratios that you’ll come across when you’re making films are 16:9 and 4:3. How do I know this? Because I used this amazing glossary of media terms. Bookmark this link or save it to your computer as your go-to resource for getting a handle on media metalanguage. Please fill this out then email it to me or hand in a paper copy.
This is so that I can cater our in-class revision to your needs. 1. What has been your favourite part of VCE Media so far? 2. What is the most memorable thing you have learnt? 3. What aspect of Media confuses you most? 4. Where do you feel you could improve? 5. What are you most nervous about? 6. What are your strengths in Media so far? 7. How do you feel I could improve as your Teacher? Thanks guys! Not long until holidays!!! Mrs Bell
How to deal with procrastination.
Don't worry, we all do it. Heck, I do it. But how do you stop it? Here's the thing, you don't stop it, you manage it. Getting to know yourself and your habits is going to be super important this year. When I was at uni, I would often wake up early in the morning with it in my mind that I would spend the whole day on an assignment. ...an hour later I'd be on my phone "just quickly checking" Instagram, Facebook and my emails... then instagram again, then onto facebook etc. over and over again while I sat in front of my computer with a blank Word Doc in front of me. I would then realise I was procrastinating and put my phone in another room only to end up in the kitchen searching the fridge for food and thinking "I should use those overripe bananas for banana bread" ... I'd then realise what I was doing, go back to my study, open up my computer... and do my banking. Next thing, the day is gone and I have an hour to quickly rush through getting some real work done. Then one day I picked up this brochure on Procrastination at uni. It suggested not to try to avoid it, but just to do it. So INSTEAD of repeating the manic process above, I would wake up in the morning, have breakfast, make myself a cup of tea, do something enjoyable like reading a chapter of a book, and then sit down to my assignment. If I found myself still unable to focus and jumping into the cycle of procrastinating, I would get up and purposefully do one of those things to completion eg. Bake some banana bread or do the grocery shopping or the banking. Once that one thing was done, I found I could sit down and get the assignment done. It was amazingly simple and successful and I still do this. Another great resource is The Desk. Venn Diagram: Comparing and Contrasting Film, TV & Radio |
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