Media A2 Coursework Blog

Here was day two, and rememberinghow easy it is to make rookie errors!

After filming quite a bit of my film I've started edited! However, I need to find uncopyrighted music. Looking on websites such as: -   freeplaymusic.com   I couldn't find anything fitted to my social realist theme. - AudioNetwork.com  I found some background music that could potentially be fitted to my film named Intrepie Hi by Kevin Macloud and Bitter Sweet by Kevin Macloud. - EpidemicSound.com  I looked at songs with lyrics that could be fitting to my storyline, they were called 'Youth is Wasted On The Young', 'Won't You Save Me' and some without lyrics like 'Sad Drama 4' and 'Chasing Peace 03'. Also However I looked at recording my own sounds as some are easier to get hold off, like a clock for my waiting room. I recorded my own clock and imported to sound into the movie. All to be seen below:

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.