POPCORN PREP

Q - What is cross - cutting and when is it used?

  In media, cross cutting is used when the film is switching between scenes, people or places. It can be      used when things have been unfolding and want the audience to be aware of what's happening. Its used a    as a powerful point of view narrative. 

OBSERVER TWITTER

 PREP Look through The Observer's Twitter feed. Aim to understand its perspective and its audience, based on what how we analysed the three Observer Tweets in the exam paper today

MOJO - MEDIA LANGUAGE

Main splash / image: who is it and does it celebrate the person? How is it lit? Is the singer made to look important? How many other images are there? 

The cover of mojo magazine is Neil Young. The cover is very bright and lively it has lots of colours and make Neil look popular and fun. Neil is right in the middle and is its focused on his face and and upper body showing he is respect and proud. Its also adverting Cd music and Neil is showing to have has Cd at bottom showing more people about his music and why he is so respected.

How 'busy' is the cover as a whole?

Are there cover lines (additional articles)? How organised are they? Do most music magazines have a similar number of cover lines (additional articles)?

The cover is quite busy and may be overwhelming, this is because there lots of writing on the sides. The writing is talking about all the articles inside the magazine. The cover lines are  organised and easy to see and read, most magazines normally have a similar number of cover lines.

What are the main colours and is there an accent colour?

The main background colour is blue and a calming orange.  The font is in white as its contracting the blue nicely.

Is there a cover mount and is this typical of MOJO?

This is a typical MOJO front cover as it has a big picture in the middle and other articles/adverts on the side.

LEGO INDUSTRY TERMS

 

• franchise - a collection of films and products produced by one start. for example Marvel and Star Wars page 33
• synergy - when the combined effect or impact of a number of media activities is greater than the sum of their individual effects on consume page 47
• stent-pole production - In broadcast programming and motion pictures, a tent-pole or tentpole is a program or film that supports the financial performance of a film studio or television network. page 46
• ensemble cast - an ensemble cast is one which is composed of multiple principal actors and performers who are typically assigned roughly equal amounts of screen time.
• conglomerate -  a company that owns numerous companies involved in mass media enterprises, is something that not many people even know of, but it is crucial in understanding where your news is coming from page 45
• vertical integration -  Vertical Integration is when a Media Company owns different businesses in the same chain of production and distribution. For example, a 20th Century Fox owns the studios in Hollywood, they also own the cinemas, the TV channels and the DVD rental shops.  page 49

LEGO MOVIE

 Task 1: how does Emmet come across? How effective would this trailer be in promoting the film?

Emmet is not seen as a heroic person. He doesn't uplift the stereotypical charastrics as a hero for example : strong, brave, deceive. At the start of the trailer you can see Emmet doing jumping jacks, he got out of breathe after 3 and couldn't do anymore. this shows he is not very strong and a heroic type. Emmet shows that he is undeceive and needs help to come the best of him. When he feel down and Wyldstyle said "come with me if you don't want to die" Emmet follows her, which shows he thinks he cant survive on himself. he doesn't have enough self confidence. 

The trailer is very effective to promoting the film because in the trailer many memorable things occur, from mystery to comedy. One main thing that everyone will remember is "Everything is awesome" this is very popular and everyone knows it comes from the Lego movie. Emmet is not the stereotypical hero which makes the watchers want to know how and what he can achieve. Little kids would love to watch this as they know Emmet is just a regular guy in a city and then saves everything and becomes a hero, which makes kids think they can achieve things like Emment does.

Task 3: Go to the BBFC site and research age ratings. Why was The Lego Movie (2014) given a U rating? You need to click on the Ratings info

Age Restrictions are there to protect kids in what they watch. Ratings provides short description what the film, video, or DVD. U film rating is suitable for all, all ages and everyone. The Lego movie is potentially dangerous but no realistic or accessible weapons, there is also no discrimination language is U rating.  There is no drugs usually no nudity, sex and bad language that will offend younger childern. Lego movie falls under those categories which makes it a U rating 

FILM MAKING

In the film making we are doing at the moment in media, we have made stop motion films and a overall film. Last week we made the stop motion film. My group was Hannah W and Jasmine M. My group in the movie was Honor M, Flo M, Hannah W and Jasmine M. We filmed that around 4 weeks ago.

The stop motion was so fun and enjoyable. Jasmine, Hannah and I called it " tiger tales production" we decided to called this  as we had a jigsaw puzzle of a tiger, and pulled it apart. We used the school iMacs and a portable camera that an be bended to look over at a birds eye view. We had a white A3 piece of paper than wrote out 'tiger tales production" in the middle at the bottom of the paper. We used the tiger to cover the words and we look picture every time we spread out the jigsaw. We made sure we moved it very little amounts to make sure it looked smooth and not stop and start.

We used the app 'Hue' to edit, we took around 30 pictures of the jigsaw moving and then transferred it to iMovie. From there we added a roar sound and added our movie onto the back. Overall it was so much fun and I loved working on it and watching it all together was so enjoyable. 

CHRISTMAS ADVERTS

 CHRISTMAS ADVERTS - HW

In this picture you can see Mickey and Minnie mouse being animated to advise Disney. The lights are attracted to Mickey and Minnie mouse showing the are the main focus here. You can see the shadow behind the boy to see that the lights are dimmed but because all the light is focused it bright up to see there faces and show there reaction. 

In the picture there are loads of snow which suggest its Christmas time. They are all doing a family activity, this shows that the step dad is fitting in. The Christmas lighters in the background are very pretty and all the snow gives off a very relaxed scene. The dog is playing and the are all helping with the snow man which is very affectionate.

In this picture it shows the step dad and daughter having some bonding time, the light is very bright and high-key to show the peaceful and happy time. The Christmas decorations in the background set a happy and merry emotion.