During the lessons of this we focussed on theory behind collective identity and the founders of the World Wide Web, including how much of an impact the internet has on us as users which I would of never have thought about before. The theory behind this is important, and gave me a clearer understanding into the way the internet works and how people's identity can be manipulated to create false identities, using websites like chat rooms, Facebook, MySpace and other web forums.
We watched the documentary called Virtual Revolution which studied the internets control over the population of the world. This was an interesting documentary and represented the way the internet is adaptable to different peoples needs and therefore attracts a large group of our population today.
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PRODUCTION WORK:
As part of our production work, this week we continued to film for our music video and focussed on this thoroughly. At home, I decided to print off a clean copy of the lyrics and annotate them thoroughly so it helped our group knowing what to film and what was outstanding, and this helped when we got to our editing stages. This was our equivilent to our storyboarding, and we now had a clearer understanding of what was going to be filmed and shown throughout our music video. This week was extremely useful in gaining a clearer picture of how we were starting to produce an effective piece of work, and yet again we still had a lack of help from a specific member of our group.
Thursday, 25 February 2010
Saturday, 20 February 2010
Copyright
As part of our production, we have to look carefully at copyright and how we would be in breach of it when using an artists song without permission.
As we are doing 'Beautiful' which was originally recorded by Christina Aguilera, as a way of ensuring we do not become in breach of copyright, we have managed to leave a comment on her official myspace page so the producers of her records are aware of our use. Therefore, they have a chance to contact us if we are unable to use this track although this would make our A2 Production a challenge.
This is the screen shot with evidence of sending the message.
As we are doing 'Beautiful' which was originally recorded by Christina Aguilera, as a way of ensuring we do not become in breach of copyright, we have managed to leave a comment on her official myspace page so the producers of her records are aware of our use. Therefore, they have a chance to contact us if we are unable to use this track although this would make our A2 Production a challenge.
This is the screen shot with evidence of sending the message.
Friday, 19 February 2010
Half Term: 15th-19th February
Throughout half term, Emma Smyth and I started to prepare for filming so when we we're back at school we could start to upload for the editing process. One member of our group kept letting us down when we arranged to film, but me and Emma decided to continue anyway. This was a problem and made the work harder for us as there was a lot more to do with the two of us, and she didn't show a clear understanding of what was being filmed with our new chosen song.
Beautiful by Christina Aguilera showed to have a lot more meaning behind the song, so there were many connotations we could apply to these lyrics and song.
We started to film different shots, during this week although there were some initial problems with our camera. This became a difficultly as we were unsure whether the filming we had completed would be saved on the tape, so on the first day back at school we were able to change the tape. I feel that Emma and I are working effectively on this task, and if everyone does there fair amount of help within the group, our production will be proficient.
Beautiful by Christina Aguilera showed to have a lot more meaning behind the song, so there were many connotations we could apply to these lyrics and song.
We started to film different shots, during this week although there were some initial problems with our camera. This became a difficultly as we were unsure whether the filming we had completed would be saved on the tape, so on the first day back at school we were able to change the tape. I feel that Emma and I are working effectively on this task, and if everyone does there fair amount of help within the group, our production will be proficient.
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
15-02-2010
Half Term Week:
During february half term week, Emma Smyth and I decided to pay alot of attention to the production of our film. Due to certain circumstances we were slightly behind on the schedule we had planned earlier in the year when we started the planning of our final production. As we were discussing the music video, we decided that the initial song of Christina Aguilera's Candyman would be too fast and hard to lip sync correctly. There were many problems like the speed of the song, people making rehearsals and the choreography that impacted on the lack of work that we were able to do. We both felt how this would jepordise our final production, and decided to change the song. Knowing it was becoming closer towards our deadline, we finally decided upon the song again from Christina Aguilera named Beautiful. This is a slower song, still in the pop genre and we rapidly planned what we would do for each part of the lyrics.
Here is our final chosen song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZjr0heZNIw
As before our research was to look into the pop genre, and this new chosen song is still in this genre of music and this therefore doesn't affect what we have already researched. We feel more comfortable knowing we are able to film using this song, which is slower and will enable us to do the best we can.
During february half term week, Emma Smyth and I decided to pay alot of attention to the production of our film. Due to certain circumstances we were slightly behind on the schedule we had planned earlier in the year when we started the planning of our final production. As we were discussing the music video, we decided that the initial song of Christina Aguilera's Candyman would be too fast and hard to lip sync correctly. There were many problems like the speed of the song, people making rehearsals and the choreography that impacted on the lack of work that we were able to do. We both felt how this would jepordise our final production, and decided to change the song. Knowing it was becoming closer towards our deadline, we finally decided upon the song again from Christina Aguilera named Beautiful. This is a slower song, still in the pop genre and we rapidly planned what we would do for each part of the lyrics.
Here is our final chosen song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZjr0heZNIw
As before our research was to look into the pop genre, and this new chosen song is still in this genre of music and this therefore doesn't affect what we have already researched. We feel more comfortable knowing we are able to film using this song, which is slower and will enable us to do the best we can.
Thursday, 11 February 2010
11-02-10
11-02-10- Thursday double lesson.
In this lesson, we managed to plan our costumes and props that we will need to use in our film. Our group worked on the routine to our song both this week and last, and managed to prepare a section which we can then work on over the half term holidays.
Our props consist of; Sailor hats, big coloured paper as a background, candy and candy canes.
Costumes will be sailor themed, with representation of the music video itself. This lesson has involved planning and preparation so we are able to continue working over the half term holidays.
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