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Know Your Lights!
Every student should be thinking about how to use lighting in their work. there is no such thing as 'natural lighting' - even if shooting outdoors you can manipulate and control lighting settings that ambient light (the sun) provides you. Don't be lazy and not bother about your lighting. Lighting and sound editing are two areas which can really differentiate in the quality of student films. Three Point lighting Three-point lighting is a standard method used in visual media such as video, film, still photography and computer-generated imagery. By using three separate positions, the camera operator can illuminate the shot's subject (such as a person) however desired, while also controlling (or eliminating entirely) the shading and shadows produced by direct lighting. The key light, as the name suggests, shines directly upon the subject and serves as its …
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Relationships between a text, audiences, consumption and reception
Narrative is the first Outcome in Year 12 Media. It is Outcome 1, Unit 3. From the VCAA Study Design: The purpose of this unit is to enable students to develop an understanding of production and story elements and to recognise the role and significance of narrative organisation in fictional film, radio or television programs. In this context students also consider how production and story elements structure narratives to engage an audience. Key knowledge the relationships between a text, its audiences, its consumption and reception, including how audiences read and are engaged by fictional narratives the nature and function of and relationship between production elements in fictional media narrative, including: – camera techniques, technologies and qualities for film and television or …
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Welcome to mrsrobertsmedia.com
This site has been made for my students to use in my classroom. Here you will find access to all the things we discuss in class, handouts, links, clips and inspiration for your own work. 2011 was a brilliant year for our Media department. We had outstanding results, with another student achieving a perfect score of 50. It's very pleasing to say that many other students also achieved very highly, but more than that, the quality of the work was outstanding. I'm looking forward to putting up examples of the work so you can be just as inspired. We have also just recieved news that another student has had their Year 12 work selected for top Designs, which is a wonderful honour and recognition for excellent work. Looks like 2012 is going to have to be a big year! …
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Codes and Conventions – Year 10 Media
Codes are objects or symbols, which have a consensual meaning; in addition, less obvious things such as lighting and camera angles qualify as codes because they too have a dominant meaning. Images do not, however, merely use formal codes to communicate meaning, but use codes that a large audience will be familiar with. Conventions are the meanings derived from codes. They give us more information about how we are supposed to read the image to gain meaning. Codes and conventions therefore combine to create a recognisable system of analysis. It is similar to Genre in the sense that there are certain rules (or CODES) that must be followed in order for the audience to assign a common reading or meaning (thus creating CONVENTIONS). For example, the Genre of Horror. In a horror film the audience expects blood, dark settings, a girl running from a masked killer, point of view shots …
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‘Three Act Structure’
Introduction to Classical Hollywood Cinema and Structure So what is ‘the Cinema’? When we talk of the cinema, are we discussing the building in which you view the film or is it more than this? When we talk of the cinema, we are saying that – The cinema is a set of institutional practices, codes and conventions by which films are Produced, exhibited, consumed and understood by audiences. Cinema was borne out of the growing interest in the newest form of technology in the late nineteenth century – photography. The invention of photography in 1826 began a series of discoveries that gradually made possible the creation of an illusion of movement. The beginnings of what we now recognise as ‘motion pictures’ was developed in 1893 by Thomas Edison. He invented a camera that made short 35m films. However Edison believed these ‘moving images’ to be a fad and …
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How cinema reflects society
The following article was written by highly respected Australian media sociologist Patricia Edgar. This is a brilliant place to start discussing how the films and narratives that we see in the media are actually narratives coming straight from our daily lives and societies, constructed by the numerous discourses that exist within these societies. IT IS through storytelling that we come to understand the crises of our age. Time magazine may legitimise the protester as its person of the year, but for most of us, who do not read the financial pages and news magazines, it is the human dramas told through the visual media - television and movies - that have most impact and reach. When Time asked the Islamist Jlassi why revolution has occurred now rather than earlier, the answer was, ''especially Al Jazeera - everyone watches TV''. It's more than three years since the Lehman Brothers …
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VCE Media – Study Design and structure of the year
Welcome to VCE Media.
You can access the VCAA Media study design website online here, or you can download the file below. At the end of this document you will find the structure of the year, including SAC information.
Media Study Design
The following is taken from the VCAA Media study design, …
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Vertigo
Incendies
The Defiant Ones
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