July Feedback

Your web-log has minimal evidence of research into existing texts and needs to be completed before the end of term.

Ensure that grammar and punctuation rules are observed

Research and planning must be evidenced and to gain marks it must be detailed.


Analyse the short films in detail and when you point something out explain it fully such as why the title'female director' is disliked.

Task 2 - Skills practice

Skills Practice

This was the skills Practice exercise that I did and this was to teach and refine my skills in filming and editing. This exercise was planned out and story boarded before we filmed so we knew exactly what we were doing. This is to got us used to writing scripts and story boarding stuff out to further refine our skills.

First we came up with ideas for the scenario that we was given and then we started to script it out so we knew what the actors were going to say. we then story boarded exactly what we was going to do with the camera and the different shots that we were going to need. After we knew exactly what we was going to do and how we was going to film it we got the camera that we used and then went to film it. Each shot we needed we only filmed once with is bad because if something went wrong with that video file then we would have had to go and film it again so for the real thing we are going to film each shot we need 3 times to get a good rang so we can pick the best in editing. The editing stage came next and this stage went well because we managed to get the editing done rather quickly and it looked good. there were some slight problems with the sound but we  tried to get them get them fixed.

The feed back which we got we very good as the people that watched it said it was good but there was some improvements to be made as some of the shot could have been tighter and some of the sound could have been made more seamless but overall it was good and we had a good range of shots.  

I have learned a lot of skills in the camera that I didn't know as i have used a totally different camera that is much better than any other camera I have used before this meant that I could a lot more in the filming part of it because the camera can do a lot more. This worked out good for me as it meant i could focus on sound and the filming because the camera has a microphone on it meaning that the sound quality that i got was much better than it would have been with another camera.

Task 2 - Research Into Existing Products - Video Game Trailer - fallout 4

Fallout 4 Trailer

This is the Fallout 4 trailer for the new game. This is an Online trailer because it is 3 minutes long and this is the first indication of this. This would normally be in front of a YouTube video or on a website. This means it it will go viral because lots of people will be able to watch it because it will always be there and in your face.

Task 2 - Research Into Existing Products - Music Video - Rihanna

Rihanna - Bitch Better Have My Money

This is a modern and up to date music video and it is very explicit as it has lots of violence, drugs, murder and torture in it. This has become acceptable with the modern generation and is more and more common in today's videos. This is a bad thing because it promotes this type of stuff and it is not acceptable unless it is on a video. my generation is more accepting and is used to that sort of content because it is everywhere, on the news, in music videos and in games that most people play. This means that young people are exposed to this sort of content and then they are more likely to want to try that sort of stuff.

Music videos now are done more as a publicity stunt as they want to make then full of things that people in the media will has to cause controversy and this means they get loads of press coverage on it and the video goes viral. This is the modern way of marketing because it will go viral online and it means that loads people will see it and listen to the song. Right-wing news are the ones that are targeted because they see all of this explicit content as bad and negative and they give it lots of news coverage to get out there that it is a bad video but this works in the favor for the artist as that is what they intended all along because the video then goes viral. The weapons in the video Americans don't mind but the video has a lot of nudity in it and Americans don't like that. this video is aimed at an American audience because it is an American artist and this means that the content in it is put in the to create controversy in America. To Create further controversy there is a female back woman kidnapping an upper class female white woman and then she tortures her. This has lots of problems in an American society. Daily Mail - Rihanna News Artical - This is a news article from a right-wing news company about the video and how bad it is and how it should be band.

The video is of a very high production value and this is become more common with music videos as it makes people want to watch it. It also means it can be more graphical that brings up the controversy factor again because if it is more graphical it means its more life like and not cartoony nd this means that it brings up a lot of problems again. The video has lots of violence, drugs and nudity in it and this is the driving force behind the video getting out there because it appeals to a male and female audience because there is the nudity for the male audience which is the male gaze but the female audience is because the video empowers women. It does this by making the female the stronger character in the video even though the victim is a woman the stronger character is as well. This also create conflict between the two characters and this creates even more controversy.