Digetic sound - sound that the character can hear. (music etc)
Non-digetic sound - sound that the character can't hear. (Theme music) or something.
Thursday 30 January 2014
Visual story telling.
Depending on which way a character comes into the screen can change a judgement of a character. If the character walks into the shot from the left he is most likely the protagonist, whereas if he walks from the right to the left he is most likely a antagonist. This is because of our culture. We read from the left to right and downwards. So when something appears from the right side of the screen something in our brain doesn't like it. Sometimes you won't even notice it because you are focused on something else but your brain will still pick up on it.
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Balance - when a shot isn't balanced with two characters you realise something is wrong.
Orientation - using a puddle / reflection to show a character upside-down makes the audience judge a character.
Size - if a person was going to walk onto a nail, placing the camera next to the nail with the person in the distance makes the nail look huge & a lot more intimidating. SIZE DOES MATTER.
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Thursday 23 January 2014
A Star, a location & a genre.
I was given Simon Pegg, in a house & the genre - Horrody (Horror - Comedy).
I came up with a film called "Horrody House". This consisted of a main character called Will, 28, played by Simon Pegg. Will is an extremely awkward person to be with who lives in his dead grandmothers house. This is because it isn't in the main town so he doesn't have lots of human activity with people. He grew up in this house his whole life and doesn't leave the house unless he has to. This causes a lot of awkwardness throughout the film. Will discovers that vampires are actually real, he is met in a face to face awkward situation with a vampire and is even more shocked once he spots several vampires with his face. Will has to protect that house using everything that he has, yes, everything.
My tag-line is: "One man, a few Vampires & a hell a lot of awkwardness.
I didn't finish my poster:
I came up with a film called "Horrody House". This consisted of a main character called Will, 28, played by Simon Pegg. Will is an extremely awkward person to be with who lives in his dead grandmothers house. This is because it isn't in the main town so he doesn't have lots of human activity with people. He grew up in this house his whole life and doesn't leave the house unless he has to. This causes a lot of awkwardness throughout the film. Will discovers that vampires are actually real, he is met in a face to face awkward situation with a vampire and is even more shocked once he spots several vampires with his face. Will has to protect that house using everything that he has, yes, everything.
My tag-line is: "One man, a few Vampires & a hell a lot of awkwardness.
I didn't finish my poster:
"On the verge of (insert bad thing here), a (flawed hero) has (big thing happens) and (story set-up). But when (story middle happens) he/she must learn (theme of your movie) before (the awful thing that will happen if they fail)" -Blake Snyder
Tagline: On the verge of having a panic attack, an extremely awkward man has to man up and face the daylight. But when hungry vampires begin to attack the house he must learn to defeat them before he faces the daylight.
"horrody house"
"On the verge of (insert bad thing here), a (flawed hero) has (big thing happens) and (story set-up). But when (story middle happens) he/she must learn (theme of your movie) before (the awful thing that will happen if they fail)" -Blake Snyder
"On the verge of a panic attack,
VT research
- Primary research
- Secondary research
- Audience research
- Market research
- Production research
- Interpreting results
Primary research - Interviewing the public to broadcast their views about the wage of footballers.
Secondary research - statistics & facts of player wages over time. Maybe questionnaires.
Audience research - Our news shows audience is aimed towards 30-40 year olds, therefore the audience for our VT's are 30-40 year olds. I plan on making an questionnaire asking what time people watch TV, what they mostly watch, the age range their in (optional). This will give me a larger understanding of the audience. I have my own knowledge of the audience but it isn't very detailed.
Market research - ITV News, BBC News. We wanted to approach our news show by being very formal and factual and serious.
Production research -
Research - Sam 23/1/14
How can you research?
What information might a researcher going to need?
What is the situation and what is happening? What is the highest wage etc?
When did it begin to happen? Comparing to 1960's when it was low wage
Where is it taking place? countries etc.
Who is effected by it? Who is causing it? Who can stop it? FA cap, un-fair compared to doctors etc.
Why is this happening?
Why might they conduct research?(How to research it)
Speaking to the public, this could include interviews, surveys and even social media. This shows other peoples opinions and it is less biased. If people watch people on the news giving their views it is more likely to come across a lot more factual. This is because if people actually state their views then it becomes more of an reality for the audience.
What would a research need to consider?
An unbiased view, this could be shown through both views of the public (interviews).
Market research - what other programmes are aimed at your audience. You can use things from the other shows.
Production research - what do other programmes use? Set design, camera shot, etc.
- Internet - one of many.
- Books
- Primary data
- Secondary data
- Interviews
- Questionnaires
- Facts and statistics
- Surveys
- Newspapers
- Undercover/ convert observations
- Word of mouth
- social media
- Films/documentaries
- Focus groups
- qualitative & quantitative (facts and statistics) + ( opinions &interviews etc)
You can use the Internet to search your topic to find different websites containing different sources and views. This isn't very promising because websites are generally biased.
Interviews, questionnaires, facts and statistics are a lot more
What information might a researcher going to need?
What is the situation and what is happening? What is the highest wage etc?
When did it begin to happen? Comparing to 1960's when it was low wage
Where is it taking place? countries etc.
Who is effected by it? Who is causing it? Who can stop it? FA cap, un-fair compared to doctors etc.
Why is this happening?
Why might they conduct research?(How to research it)
Speaking to the public, this could include interviews, surveys and even social media. This shows other peoples opinions and it is less biased. If people watch people on the news giving their views it is more likely to come across a lot more factual. This is because if people actually state their views then it becomes more of an reality for the audience.
What would a research need to consider?
An unbiased view, this could be shown through both views of the public (interviews).
Market research - what other programmes are aimed at your audience. You can use things from the other shows.
Production research - what do other programmes use? Set design, camera shot, etc.
Wednesday 22 January 2014
Script
SCRIPT -
Hello, this is the Goy News.
Tonight! We discuss the reveal of a new futuristic airplane. Could this be the future of air travel?
*Graphics and music rolls*
Spanish designer Oscar Vinals has come up with a brand new sleek design never before seen. He named it the "Sky Whale" a plane so big, it carries 755 passengers along with its crew. Each passenger has their very own virtual reality window, and they can watch whatever they want to keep themselves entertained.
*VT insert* 1:30 animation of flight
It also has a special function in the event of a crash landing to separate the passenger compartment from the wings to avoid any loss of life.
There will be three separate classes, Tourist class, business class and first class.
The Sky Whale is full of technology, and perhaps theoretically the greenest airplane of the future.
Thanks for listing, this is, Goy News!
Shortlist-
Hello, this is the Goy News.
Tonight! We discuss the reveal of a new futuristic airplane. Could this be the future of air travel?
*Graphics and music rolls*
Spanish designer Oscar Vinals has come up with a brand new sleek design never before seen. He named it the "Sky Whale" a plane so big, it carries 755 passengers along with its crew. Each passenger has their very own virtual reality window, and they can watch whatever they want to keep themselves entertained.
*VT insert* 1:30 animation of flight
It also has a special function in the event of a crash landing to separate the passenger compartment from the wings to avoid any loss of life.
There will be three separate classes, Tourist class, business class and first class.
The Sky Whale is full of technology, and perhaps theoretically the greenest airplane of the future.
Thanks for listing, this is, Goy News!
Shortlist-
Thursday 16 January 2014
Making your screenplay awesome
Make your screenplay awesome. 25 bits of advice. Partially adapted from material in "500 Ways to beat the hollywood script reader" by Jennifer Lerch.
25 bits of advise to improving your screenplay:
1. A clear setting: when and where does this story take place? Lock that in on your very first slug line.
INT. CAFETEARIA SOUTH ESSEX COLLEGE - AFTERNOON
(in this order)
2. Describe that setting
When people read your script, they probably won't kn ow the environment you're talking about. Describe it in a couple of short, sharp sentences.
INT. CAFETERIA, SOUTH ESSEX COLLEGE - DAY Bustling, busy, full of fashionably dressed teenagers. Chrome and glass surfaces, gossip fills the air as students talk and eat.
3. Introducing characters
Throw in a couple of vivid details to make the reader picture the character in their head.
Kayla Frost, 19 - Stick-thin, looks like she might snap at any moment. Her Levi's might be faded, but her eyes burn fiercely from under a gothic mop of hair.
(If the character is mentioned for the first time it must be in capitals)
4. Naming your characters
Make sure each character's name is different, and looks different when written down.
Give each character a surname,too. If hey've only got a first name, this comes across as an incomplete identity.
5. Conflict, conflict, conflict
Not only should your screenplay be based on a wider conflict of some kind, but each character should also have internal conflicts that they are dealing with.
Doubts, insecurities, unfinished business. None of us glide through life without stuff boiling away inside, and your character shouldn't either.
6. She's filled with secrets.
Giving your characters secrets, whether big or small, enables you to pick away layers and keep your viewer interested along the way.
7. Keep it consistent.
Make sure that you keep your characters consistent in both background and behaviour.
If Dave is an ex-con with a violent past, make sure he acts that way when confronted by trouble.
8. Dialogue Stuff: Sentences.
People don't speak in complete sentences, nor do people all speak alike.
You need to let your characters dictate where the punctuation goes. Gaps, pauses, unfinished sentences.
Try recording people speaking and listening to it back.
9. Stay away from The Nose!
The phrase 'on the nose' refers to dialogue that states too clearly what a character is thinking without filtering it through their personality and agenda.
If Dave tells his closet friend "I want to be a policeman", chances are this won't play as well as having the application forms fall out of his gym bag might.
10. Keep it unpredictable
When Princess Leia tells Han Solo 'i love you' in The EMpire Strikes Back, the scene is most memorable for his response;
'I know'
You want dialogue to flow, but you need to rethink predictable exchanges. Throw away the first response you think of. Throw away the second one too. Maybe use the third.
11. Keep it varied
Does a character even need to respond verbally to statement?
If someone says 'Goodbye' to them, do they need to speak in return? Couldn't they wink instead?
Once again, predictability is your enemy.
12. First line
The first line your character speaks should sum up an aspect of their personality.
If you're introducing a party animal like Stifler from the American Pie series, his first line wouldn't be something mundane about being late for an appointment.
Your characters only get one chance to make a first impression, so make sure it packs a punch.
13. Language = life
make sure your characters' dialogue reflects their life experiences.
A 70 year old English professor won't speak the same way as a 25 year old football player.
A character born in 1960 will speak differently to one born in 1990.
Make their dialogue reflect this!
14. Double Hyphen
Has one character stepped on another's line? Cutting off before they finish speaking?
The traditional way to show this in a script is with a double hyphen.
25 bits of advise to improving your screenplay:
1. A clear setting: when and where does this story take place? Lock that in on your very first slug line.
INT. CAFETEARIA SOUTH ESSEX COLLEGE - AFTERNOON
(in this order)
2. Describe that setting
When people read your script, they probably won't kn ow the environment you're talking about. Describe it in a couple of short, sharp sentences.
INT. CAFETERIA, SOUTH ESSEX COLLEGE - DAY Bustling, busy, full of fashionably dressed teenagers. Chrome and glass surfaces, gossip fills the air as students talk and eat.
3. Introducing characters
Throw in a couple of vivid details to make the reader picture the character in their head.
Kayla Frost, 19 - Stick-thin, looks like she might snap at any moment. Her Levi's might be faded, but her eyes burn fiercely from under a gothic mop of hair.
(If the character is mentioned for the first time it must be in capitals)
4. Naming your characters
Make sure each character's name is different, and looks different when written down.
Give each character a surname,too. If hey've only got a first name, this comes across as an incomplete identity.
5. Conflict, conflict, conflict
Not only should your screenplay be based on a wider conflict of some kind, but each character should also have internal conflicts that they are dealing with.
Doubts, insecurities, unfinished business. None of us glide through life without stuff boiling away inside, and your character shouldn't either.
6. She's filled with secrets.
Giving your characters secrets, whether big or small, enables you to pick away layers and keep your viewer interested along the way.
7. Keep it consistent.
Make sure that you keep your characters consistent in both background and behaviour.
If Dave is an ex-con with a violent past, make sure he acts that way when confronted by trouble.
8. Dialogue Stuff: Sentences.
People don't speak in complete sentences, nor do people all speak alike.
You need to let your characters dictate where the punctuation goes. Gaps, pauses, unfinished sentences.
Try recording people speaking and listening to it back.
9. Stay away from The Nose!
The phrase 'on the nose' refers to dialogue that states too clearly what a character is thinking without filtering it through their personality and agenda.
If Dave tells his closet friend "I want to be a policeman", chances are this won't play as well as having the application forms fall out of his gym bag might.
10. Keep it unpredictable
When Princess Leia tells Han Solo 'i love you' in The EMpire Strikes Back, the scene is most memorable for his response;
'I know'
You want dialogue to flow, but you need to rethink predictable exchanges. Throw away the first response you think of. Throw away the second one too. Maybe use the third.
11. Keep it varied
Does a character even need to respond verbally to statement?
If someone says 'Goodbye' to them, do they need to speak in return? Couldn't they wink instead?
Once again, predictability is your enemy.
12. First line
The first line your character speaks should sum up an aspect of their personality.
If you're introducing a party animal like Stifler from the American Pie series, his first line wouldn't be something mundane about being late for an appointment.
Your characters only get one chance to make a first impression, so make sure it packs a punch.
13. Language = life
make sure your characters' dialogue reflects their life experiences.
A 70 year old English professor won't speak the same way as a 25 year old football player.
A character born in 1960 will speak differently to one born in 1990.
Make their dialogue reflect this!
14. Double Hyphen
Has one character stepped on another's line? Cutting off before they finish speaking?
The traditional way to show this in a script is with a double hyphen.
WIFE
You know, i never told you--
HUSBAND
I don't want to hear it!
15. Fresh slang
Why not make up your own slang? Using the latest words, phrases and cultural references will date your script extremely quickly.
Writers like Joss Whedon make up their own phrases and drop those into the script ("What's the sitch?" meaning "What's going on?" originated in Buffy the Vampire Slayer).
AN audience won't know the difference between a slang phrase you've made up and one they've never heard before, but they'll certainly notice a dated turn of phrase. You dig, man?
16. Mix dialogue and action
In life stuff happens all at once. People don't stop talking because a bus is about to explode; the bus explodes whilst they're in mid-sentence.
Don't be afraid to have action and dialogue crash into each other, because things in real life don't happen in a neat order.
17. Don't tell me what I've what I've seen!
If Debbie's head just exploded, the viewer doesn't need Jamds to tell them; "My God, Debbies head just exploded!"
They gad already noticed. Eliminate dialogue that narrates the action.
18.No place for closed questions
If you've got a question which leads to a 'yes' or 'no' response in your dialogue, get rid of it.
They stop the dialogue dead, and the audience can anticipate the response.
Replace them with open questions, to let your characters personalities shine through.
19. Misunderstandings.
Characters should be misunderstood and misinterpret each other just as people do in real life.
It gives you great opportunities for conflict and comedy, plus it makes the dialogue read as more authentic.
20- Style stuff: present tense.
Always keep your action descriptions in the present tense.
Gaby chases Fred into the ice-cream shop not Gaby has chased Fred into the ice-cream shop.
You need to have the action unfold in the present as it unfolds on the page.
21. What not to include.
The action descriptions in your screenplay should not include: Thoughts, hopes, backstory, anything that can't be shown visually.
If you want to include these things, you need to show them through events or dialogue.
22. Keep it clear
"The Father of the bride, who ruins the pizza restaurant" os ambiguous.
Who sells the pizza?
The Father of the bride?
Compare it to "The Bride, who's father runs a pizza restaurant"
Keep it clear. The less ambiguity, the better.
23. OH MY GOD
Using ALL CAPITALS in your action descriptions signifies something important. It's a way of making the important elements pop when someone reads the script.
The whole building EXPLODES
Don't get carried away and end up with half of your action description in caps. Use it sparingly.
24. Keep it punchy
Break long sentences and keep the descriptions as vidid as you can.
Jennie is trying to keep her breathing under control as she walks across a tightrope? Sometimes fewer words work better.
Inhale. Exale. Jennie steps out.
25. Write it first, then edit it.
This script won't be as punchy, exciting and engaging as possible on the first draft.
Your mission on the first draft is just to get the thing written.
Second, third, fourth and fifth draft are the opportunity to make your screenplay everything it can be.
scrapbook
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2421832/Cristiano-Ronaldo-salary-record--wages-steadily-increasing.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2421832/Cristiano-Ronaldo-salary-record--wages-steadily-increasing.html
http://soccerlens.com/finance-in-english-football-wage-disparities-between-the-divisions/92692/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/9300823/Most-doctors-are-not-paid-six-figure-sums-figures-show.html
http://uk.ask.com/question/how-much-do-soldiers-get-paid
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2421832/Cristiano-Ronaldo-salary-record--wages-steadily-increasing.html
http://soccerlens.com/finance-in-english-football-wage-disparities-between-the-divisions/92692/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/9300823/Most-doctors-are-not-paid-six-figure-sums-figures-show.html
http://uk.ask.com/question/how-much-do-soldiers-get-paid
My news article. -research
Average doctors wage - £49,845 (yearly)
Tweets from the public against footballers wages.
Live debate on the show
This will consist of a footballers point of view and an non-footballers point of view.
We will try our best to show both sides of the argument and try not to be biased.
Now, top players in the football league were earning, in one year, what today’s stars earn in a week! A Premier League footballer earns on average £780,000 while a nurse takes home £23,500 and a teacher £30,000. Among the highest earners areManchester United striker Wayne Rooney, who receives £250,000 a week, andManchester City’s Carols Tevez, who gets £220,000.
- In the bottom division, League Two, their weekly pay of £747 is not much more than the national average.
2013 highest wages. (yearly)
10. Didier Drogba (Galatasary / Ivory Coast) £11.6m
9. Kaka (Real Madrid / Brasil) £12.5m
8. Neymar (Santos / Brasil) £12.6m
7. Fernando Torres (Chelsea / Spain) £13.1m
6. Yaya Toure (Manchester City / Ivory Coast) £13.1m
5. Wayne Rooney (Manchester United / England) £13.2m
4. Sergio Aguero (Manchester City / Argentina) £13.5m
3. Leo Messi (Barcelona / Argentina) £26.2m
2. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid / Portugal) £28.3m
1. David Beckham (Paris Saint-Germain) £32.9m
Tweets from the public against footballers wages.
Live debate on the show
This will consist of a footballers point of view and an non-footballers point of view.
We will try our best to show both sides of the argument and try not to be biased.
Hard and soft news
Hard news: news thats in your face. (war, crime, politics etc)
Soft news: entertainment
My inverted pyramid
The inverted pyramid
biased - news
Factual programme - news, documentary
Fiction- A made up story. It could be based on a real life story.
Biased - unfairly prejudiced for or against someone or something.
- subjective opinion
Balance
Fairness
Fact
Truth
Opinion
Subjective
Docusoap - TOWIE, Made in Chelsea etc (constructive reality)
News conventions (TV):
Fiction- A made up story. It could be based on a real life story.
Biased - unfairly prejudiced for or against someone or something.
- subjective opinion
Balance
Fairness
Fact
Truth
Opinion
Subjective
Docusoap - TOWIE, Made in Chelsea etc (constructive reality)
News conventions (TV):
- VT
- Desk
- Studio
- Camera shot - central
- Intervention
- Formal or in-formal
- Presenter(s)
- Debates
- Graphics
- Props
Identifying the five W's.
Five W's Chart
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2540092/Tragic-moment-tourist-killed-lightning-runs-sea-Brazilian-beach-warn-son-water.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2540092/Tragic-moment-tourist-killed-lightning-runs-sea-Brazilian-beach-warn-son-water.html
Name _______________________________________________ Date
______________________
Fill in each row with details that answer the question.
What happened?
A
mother was killed in front of her family when she was struck by lightning
Who was there?
her
11-year-old son to get out of the sea
The
victim’s brother
According
to the Biavati, another sister who was standing near to Roseangela
A
total of 13 members, all from the same family, had gone to the beach for the
day.
Why did it happen?
Climatologist
Rodolfo Bonafim, from environmental organisation Friends of Water, said that
the lightning bolts are common around this time of year.
There
is a high incidence of lightning now because of an increase in heat and
humidity. It’s more concentrated at this time during the summer than at other
times in the year because the humidity is higher.
When did it happen?
They
arrived at midday but by 3pm the sunny weather had changed as storm clouds
gathered and the weather became overcast and the atmosphere heavy.
Where did it happen?
on a Brazilian beach.
Thursday 9 January 2014
Biased
Bias through use of names: News media often use labels and titles to describe people, places and events. A person can be called "ex-con"or be referred to as someone "who served time twenty years ago for a minor offence.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2536278/Spectacular-photographs-moment-Niagara-Falls-FROZE-polar-vortex-saw-record-breaking-temperatures-tourist-mecca.html
Bias through statistics and crowd counts:
Bias source control: "Record breaking". This doesn't identify the source or which record it is breaking. This is to make the audience assume this is the worst its ever been. This isn't justified
Bias through headline:
Bias through word choice and tone:
Bias through placement:
bias though selection and omission:
Wednesday 8 January 2014
Factual programming
Task one- pre production
Groups of 4-5.
3 news stories
20 minutes exactly
90 seconds advert break mid show
2 pre-recorded footages -1:30 long (roughly)
Stories must be real and recent.
Deadline- 14th March
Task 2: planning
Running order
List of job roles
Script
Mood board
Set designs
Costume designs
Floor plans indicating camera positions and lighting
Deadline- Feb 9th
Task 3: VT inserts
2 inserts
a proposal for your video tap
Relevant research
Pre-production
Legal issues
Deadline – 9th Feb
Produce a live show – 24th March
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