Media A2 Coursework Blog

So after doing my research I looked into Magazine Film review pages: these were the top searches on google images, for generic film reviews: However looking into social realisms:  This was - I, Daniel Blake in the 'EVENING STANDARD' Very bold colours, but black and while symbolizing how life is simply black and white. However no pictures? Also with film ratings of 3 stars. This is I, Daniel Blake in 'PASTE': Opposite colour scheme, still black and white. However with a covering photo displaying the main characters. Also the social media tabs and ratings of 8.0.  This is Fish Tank in 'SLANT' Magazine: Simplistic fonts and colouring with a deep emotional photograph. Also a ratings chart and social media tabs. Also cookies with advertisements. This is Fish Tank in 'THE GUARDIAN' Again with a covering photo more about the story than emotions, followed by simple text. Also with a rating of 5 stars.

For our A2 short film we have to compose two ancillary tasks along side. One of which being a film magazine review page and the other a movie poster. Starting with film magazine research, I need to look at my demographics and psychographics for my film audience to decide what magazine they would read. Looking at a range of magazines from Cosmopolitan to Teen Magazines searching for what those interested in social realism would look at. - Prior to this I researched the demographics for my audience to be: Areas of which high graffiti is a common artistic expression as it's in a place of low-income watching a creative film piece that they can relate too. Indigenous audience members overall are the main people to which can relate to the movie. However, there is also the other side to the argument which is that the audience are high brow audience such as Ken Loach audiences, who buy tickets to his cinema productions interested in the looking down on the lower class with a social

So throughout shooting on day one, it was discovered after I had made some errors. Here is a video to show you them:

I skyped a man named Terry to ask questions on how we are going to accomplish certian difficulties we faced within our movie. So I asked him my questions: - How to I set up my two sets of sequences identically? Well, I think unless you have monitors and are able to layer it perfectly, your very limited in idenitically matching but a better more effective look would be Match on Action. This is an idea I will encorperate into my dancing scene. Plus he said the match of sounds at the end is better not to happen, but to build up the drop and then have the clap as a seperate sound on the end to and a sense of realism to the scene. - How to make social realism look real and not stages? Film the mistakes, the rough cuts. Film what the natural is, as usually you find there is great stuff in there, making the movie seem less staged. Like for exmaple if shes practing her dancing, film her practices as this will then lead on to show how her past empowers her dance routine.

After a lot of editing in an unknown software to me, I managed finally to achieve this. It's not perfect however the edges of imperfection give my ident a parallel theme to social realism. It look me a while to achieve this, however the concept of real life pictures was because of social realism, and a the theme of the ident is an everyday occurance that is constantly changing... a departure board or a train stop board.

So I thought I would attempt to create my own ident as I did last year, However this year I wanted to create a slightly more complex one. So I followed a Youtube video: These where my screenshots of the process: Simple start creating a rectangle.  Changing it's control points and roundness Changing its colour and width. Adding and outer and Inner layer Working with properties, changing the positioning. Again using the 'replicater' tool to create a format, also dragging outer and inner together. Adding the text now... 'Reallife Pictures' being the Ident name.  Creating a mask, then using edit points to make mask smaller Adding a second mask and rotating it 180. This is my use of frames and key-framing text. Using lighting for the first time. Using a camera for the first time.

Recently I went to go see I, Daniel Blake, which was the BEST movie I have every had the pleasure of witnessing. It was so real, the social realism was highly developed by the use of very personal characters. Such as Daniel Blake is a stand-up comedian himself, therefore he's extremely naturally funny, plus he's naturally broke himself anyway. The actors are everyday people facing the everyday situations which add so much emphasis to the film. The inspiration I've taken from this is to use actors that face the struggles set up by my storyline to add emphasis to my characters. Also to use simplistic storylines.