Film Poster

This is a Poster that I created using adobe Photoshop. I took this photo using a Sony digital camera. The man with the gun is not Maurizio. I we used a boy in my year called Theo. We dressed him up in a white lab coat to gives an ominous effect relating to mental asylums. We focused in on the front of the gun so that we could have a mysterious and threat ringing blurred image of his face. I had to touch up on the Gun using the stamp tool to make it look less like a plastic gun and more metallic. I blurred the background slightly more than it was originally using the blur tool. I greyscale the picture to make it look more dark to add to the gloomy impression. After the image was complete I add the title using a bold font and I spaced out the letters to fill the page more and to the image behind slightly more visible. I used the names of the actors in the prelim. I added the black rating stars in and I came up with some good catch lines that the media would say.

Yesterday our class had a whole morning in the studio experimenting and practicing different pop video filming techniques. For our pop video practice we used the song “Get Lucky”, by Daft Punk. We had to practice lip reading so that we could be in sync with the music. The studio was split up into three different filming sets. The first set was the Green Screen. The Green Screen was a big wall in the studio painted green that you film in front of and the background can be altered to any scenery. I ask Matt for a bit more information on the Green Screen and he explained to me that it is the colour green because there is not a lot of green in human skin. Also the camera lens is made up of the three primary colours that includes 1 red, 1 yellow and 2 green. To set the background of the green screen you first have to set the background. Starting by no one being in the shot and then the actors or musicians can jump in.

 

The next set was the cave shot. There was artificial cave scenery in the background in which a light was shine onto to create shimmer in the rock to make it look more realistic. This shot was a tracking shot so we had all the equipment including tracking lines that are adjustable, a dolly (a platform that the cameraman sits on with a camera stand which is attached and then the dolly is pushed along the tracks by some pulling or pushing the handle. For the cave shot we used the dolly to move along the actors they were lip-reading to the song.

France, Skate My Previous Attempt

This is a music video of the song Little People by the Precussions. i made this about a year and a half ago as i was vry keen on roducing my own music videos.
i filmed the first half this whilst in paris and then the second in the south of france. i have added some culture to the video as well.
Enjoy,

The start of media studies A2

 This year we are looking at the musical side of media are looking deeper into the music industry. We will be studying different artist and theorists. We have had a look at some artist and theorist already, for example Negus.

I am really looking forward to this year’s work as I am very interested in music videos and watch them on YouTube very often. I have made previous music videos experimenting with final cut and motion effects.

The main two genres of music that I am into would be hiphop/Rap, artist such as 2pac and the Under-achievers, and Dubstep, artist such as Benga and friction.