Levi Strauss Levi Strauss was a media theorist who was less interested than most in a films order of events but more in its underlying themes and messages. From this he created the argument that a narrative depended on binary opposites and the conflicts between then two. For example: Good vs Evil Hero vs Villian Man vs Woman Sociecty vs The individual Harry Potter...

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Roland Barthes Narrative Codes Roland Barthes was a media theorist who came up with the concept of Narrative Codes. This consisted of five different forms of code that could be used in a  media product to send the audience different messages. The codes consisted of: Action code Hermeneutic/Enigma Code Semic Code Cultural Code Binary Oppositions Action Code An action code are often used to...

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  Heres our little pair for our final piece of the thriller. Im working With Ben cause we work well together, proved by our preliminary task, and we have lots of ideas. ...

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 Along the lines of lighting I also decided to experiment with two glow-sticks on string, a camera on a slow shutter speed and a helpful friend (in this case, Ben).  We managed to create lots of different effects and although we can't really use them in a video they were really fun to create.  If we did it again I'd probably try to use...

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Here's the long awaited Title sequence for our Preliminary task. It's my own interpretation of the Gone Girl title sequence hence the use of its music as the score. ...

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Today we spent most of our time shut in a cupboard with no light, except our phones, playing around with different angles and camera settings to create different effects.  Our Models consisted of Ben, Eve and Becca. ...

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To begin with if you've never seen Gone Girl you may want to see the title sequence say you have at least some idea of what I'm talking about. Click here to watch it! Its very chilling. Just to begin with here's a little bit of random information that's relevant but didn't fit under my titles. The Title design was created by Neil Kellerhouse and...

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1. What have you learnt during the making of your Preliminary Task? I've learnt the basics of how to edit videos using premier pro however I still need quite a bit of practice as, it is VERY basic knowledge. I still cannot add in special effects but match on action? I'm not too shabby even if I do say so myself. Although we...

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Alas! The long awaited task is complete and uploaded and it is not too shabby if I do say so myself. ...

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So here is a rough plan of our storyboard using Gemma's beautiful drawing skills. Dialogue however is not featured on it as its still uncertain. I am currently drawing each image up on the computer using my graphics pad but I'm quite slow and not very good at it so they'll be interesting to say the least. We have already started filming and...

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Front-Back: Gemma, Ben and Josie (Me) Well we've sorted out our group for the preliminary task so above is our lovely group selfie. For our preliminary task we have to film a short piece which involves a character opening a door, walking across a room, sitting down in a chair opposite another character with whom they then exchange a short segment of dialogue. The tension...

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Here are some practice camera shots starring a rather eccentric Ben.  Establishing Shot Extreme Close up Close up Long Shot Medium Shot Low Angle Shot Tilt Shot ...

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Hi, I'm Josie and I prefer to see the world through a camera lens. I'm massively interested in photography and have a habit of taking photos all the time, however the best photo opportunity's always seem to arise a soon as I put my camera away. I would like to turn photography into a career and looking for lots of chances to do so which includes signing...

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