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Social Realism - What Is It?
Social Realism is a genre used in visual arts that has, over the years, become a very interesting source of entertainment for all sorts of audience and people; an expressive way of showing a 'slice of life'. Click here to find out more and see various examples of the genre 'social realism' in use...
Friday, 22 February 2013
Thursday, 14 February 2013
Evaluation Q4: How did you use media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages?
For this evaluation, I decided to use my graphic design and artistic skills to explore my response and present it. I decided on creating various mind maps/explanation diagrams to show my response.
I needed to create some plans on how I was going to set the mind maps out though, as walking into it blind would be a very messy and foolish method of approaching the question.
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Evaluation Q3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?
I created a Behance portfolio presentation to explore this question. You can view it on the link below:
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Evaluation Q2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
Here is a Prezi presentation, which was created by Matt, to explore and answer this evaluation question:
Overall, I think that we did a great job with creating the ancillary tasks to go alongside and work in synergy with our short film. If we were an industry, we would be using the film poster to advertise our films in various places such as cinemas and bus stops (as...
Evaluation Q1: In which ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
In order to get my point across on how my project used and challenged typical conventions and themes in the social realism film idea, I decided to create a video to explain some big examples of how we used them.
Another note I would like to add is how we used people and directors as influence. We didn't directly copy anyone from the industry, as we felt this really limited our creativity and didn't allow us to challenge the ideas enough for our film. We wanted to create a piece that was no where near as dramatically led as most other social...
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Final Piece: Anchored Renegade
Our video was then edited to the best quality it could be and a final cut was produced. The video below is our final short film product. It was uploaded to YouTube at full 1080p HD quality. Enjoy!
Using a website called Animoto, I created a 30 second long key frame compilation slideshow using the websites slideshow creation and hosting services. I would have...
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Final Film Poster
This is our final promotional film poster.
I also printed this poster of in real life to envision what it would look like on a wall in reality. I didn't have access to any A2 paper, which is what film posters would usually be printed on, so we had to make do with A3. But, we think it still looked really legitimate and authentic, as well as felt proud of our product...
Monday, 4 February 2013
Creating A Film Poster Advertisment
Using Behance, I created a small portfolio page to present the creation process of our groups film poster. You can see the progress shots of the posters' creation here, so click the link below to view:
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Sunday, 3 February 2013
Inital Font Ideas For Film Poster Advert
One of the main aspects of a film poster is to have the film’s title on the piece of paper, often taking up a third of the page. I decided to design and test some fonts and see which I thought suited the film’s genre and themes better. Factors such as capitalizations, weight and kerning need to be considered during this design process.
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Photography For Film Poster
As we didn't want an illustrated film poster, due to the fact it would be silly to have a social realism film advertised in an unrealistic manner, we needed some photo's to work with and create it with. Below are the shots that we took as possibilities for our film poster.
We also had one more shot, which we decided was the one we wanted to use. It can be...
Creating Logos For The Film Poster
One of the other features we noticed during our analysis of film posters was that there were a sufficient amount of associated companies and sponsors in the credits section at the bottom of the poster. These companies were all represented by logos. These seemed to be an essential for a film poster in order to look authentic and professional. It's...
Creating Content For The Film Poster
Once we had done all of our research for our posters' content, I set to creating the content. You can see the content that we created for the poster in this Google Document:
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Saturday, 2 February 2013
Initial Design Sketches For Film Poster
The first part to creating an advertisement for a film in poster format is to create and sketch ideas for the piece. By doing this, I can create a rough plan on how the short film will be advertised, following the themes and conventions that I had researched previously. We had already taken some photography from our shooting sessions, so I could work on designs from them.
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Film Poster Research
In order to gain an idea on how typical film posters look, we had to do some research. We didn't want to waste time researching random film posters and felt our time would be best spent researching posters for films in social realism genre. This was so that when it came to creating our own poster, we would know the norms of a social realism genre based film in particular ...
Friday, 1 February 2013
Film Poster Advert
The second ancillary task we had to complete was a film poster that would advertise our short film. Poster design is a very creative process, so I feel we can show a lot of our creativity during this process and will also enjoy doing it, thus putting us at a good chance of creating a great result product for this task.
Promotional (or teaser) posters are a very common...
Thursday, 31 January 2013
Final Film Review Magazine Page
This is the final piece for our first ancillary task, a magazine film review article.
I personally think Matt did an excellent job with creating an authentic magazine film review! It all looks very realistic and appropriate for a magazine article to be about. He followed all the of guidelines and research aspects that we had previously researched...
Monday, 28 January 2013
Creating A Film Review
We assigned Matt to be in charge of the designing and overall creation of the final article piece. He gathered all of the research that had been done and any resources we had for him to use on his poster and got to work. He used Adobe Photoshop CS5.5 for his piece.
Matt firstly focused on placing the main elements and layout on his digital canvas so that he knew exactly...
Sunday, 27 January 2013
Photography for Magazine Article
From the research we had done on film magazines and their review sections, we knew we had to include at least one photo in to our media piece in order for it to look authentic. So, on one of our shooting days, we wandered up the stations tracks a little bit and spent half an hour taking some really nice photo's that we could possibly use for this ancillary task in particular.
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Saturday, 26 January 2013
Creating Film Review Content
One of the main features that are required in a magazine review is textual content. Without that, unless it is a poster or images relating to a previous piece of text, the page you have is of no use what so ever and has no purpose to it. After my research into content of a film review magazine, I took on the role of a film reviewer and created, what I would imagine to...
Friday, 25 January 2013
Film Review Magazine (Content Analysis & Research)
I then decided to create an analysis and research the actual content that you would put within a film review magazine. Using Prezi, I created a presentation that shows the research information I came up with from researching various film review articles....
Film Review Magazine (Design Analysis & Research)
Design is a big part to creating a magazine page, as without it or a good design, readers will often grow bored of the content they are reading and either stop reading it or let their minds wander, not taking in the information they are being given. Also, if someone saw the blank page, it is likely no one will even attempt to read the content that lies within the page.
So, we had to come up with a design for our magazine review article. Matt decided to do a radial analysis on the design and layout of magazine review pages and upload it to SlideShare.
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Film Review Magazine
Another task that we are needed to complete is a magazine article reviewing our short film.
This task would require both literature and graphical design skills to present the piece of media. It is our choice whether we review our own film as having a positive or negative impact on its audience and we must make it see as professional and authentic as possible, trying our...
Sunday, 20 January 2013
Second Draft of Short Film
Here is the second draft cut of our short film, Anchored Renegade. It is available at full 1080p HD quality but will be improved on at a later date.
After this draft, we gained some feedback from our teacher and decided his ideas made quite a lot of sense.
So, we set to work on focussing on the areas that needed manipulating, such as the argument audio...
Thursday, 17 January 2013
Social Media
A massive part of today's society revolves around news and updates, particularly via social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. These websites are used for the majority of the time for getting news and knowledge of what is going on in the world, whether it be between friends, celebrities or world events. Media companies are particular fans...
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
First Draft of Short Film
The first draft of our short film was then uploaded on to YouTube.
As this was only a draft, there were mistakes and cuts that we will need to fix at a later date before releasing the final project.
Afterwards we were given some feedback from our media teacher. Katie created a video to respond to the feedback...
Friday, 4 January 2013
Post-Production: Credits and Titles
One of the more minor, yet still important, processes of creating a film is having sections that contain information such as the title of the film and credits. There is no definite or right way to present this content, allowing film makers to use their creative (or simplistic) skills to present the information. We had already created a very simple,...
