FILM DIRECTORS!

Last week in AS Media we studied for careers of  6 different directors, we looked at the breif background of these directors, the style of filning they used, what audience they usually appeal too and what famous films or music videos they have directed in the past.

Wes Anderson

• He has directed films such as The Royal Tennenbaums and the American Express Advert.
• He ususally uses classic folk music or british rock for the soundtrack of his film.
• He often directs 'up market' films, so usualy they would be watched by a wealthier audience.
• He was born in Texas and he is 41 years old.
• Anderson takes things such as props very seriously, and they must always be in what he believes to be 'perfect' position

Shynola

Shynola is not one person but a group of four men, they all met at Kent Institute of Art and Design.

Gideon Baws, Chris Harding, Richard Kenworthy and Jason Groves were the men involved.

They produced the film 'Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'

Did advertisments for Playstation

Also music videos for Coldplay and BLUR.

Spike Jonze

• Was born in Rockville, 41 years old.
• Has recieved an Oscar for his work on the film Adaption.
• He also recieved Golden Globes for this project.
• He has created advertisments for companies such as Ikea and gap.
• He also created American programma jackass.
• An effect of his work is that he tries to make his work look cheap and easy to make with no special effects when it is complete opposite, expensive with a high amount of effort put into it. 

Sorry this is not completed! I had to finish off my English Coursework, I will complete as soon as I get another chance.

Todays Media Lesson 13.10.10

Today in Media we studied the 'Britishness' in films. We looked at how directors give films bristish stereotypes to show countries like America what it is appartantly like to live in Britain. We looked at Hot Fuzz at saw how things like the police ringing bells going from a siren to a bell to a ringing showed how the police force has changed over years. We also looked at regular features of British films, and what is associated with Britain. Such as often we see a film based around an urban run down estate, to show working class.

A personal favourite style of British film is films based on the British cultural movement. Films like trainspotting that I believed peaked during the Britpop era which dealed with th concept of drugs. Plus films like Quadrophenia starring Phil Daniels which looks at the Mod scene and plays classic and iconic music such as The Jam and The Who

Magazine Post-Production

After reviewing the outcome of my magazine, I am slighly disappointed with the outcome, as I feel that it looked bland and bleak. Although as the focus of this was to get used to working with photoshop, I suppose in some ways it was quite good that I gained experience and realised and that if one thing goes wrong then the whole of your project can go wrong. So I have learnt how important it is to have a different layer for everything single thing you do. If there's one thing that i was happy about with my magazine though, it was the images. I thought they had been cut to a decent standard and there wasn't too many jaged lines in the cut- outs.

Overall I believe I have learn from this first part of the cousrse and will look forward and try to relish it when we get another chance to do it.

Magazine Production

I was very inexperienced with photoshop and had only used it briefly on my induction days. I started off to my complete suprise slighly comfortable, because with some help I managed to import my cover picture and chop down to size and put it on the blank page. I then started to write the sub-headings on my page and had managed okay to set them out around the page. The reason for this was because I remembered to keep layering my work. That's when I made a real blunder, which to an extent did ruin some of my work. I had coloured the background, but it didn't look particularly good, and I had also just put my title on as well. The issue was that now I had locked the title and background so I change or remove. The problem was that the sky blue was a terrible contrast and ruined the rest of the cover and made it look very generic and plain. I also spent too much time trying to fix this problem, until I was told it was unchangable so because of this I had to rush through my contents page.

As for contents page, I at least learnt from my previous mistakes and concentrated more throughout and carefully layered everything. I quickly (with some help though) managed to cut out and import some images onto the contents page. I then added a new layer and put on a dark blue background. With the final outcome of the cover in the back of my mind, I kept remembering to add new layers everytime I did something, I was rapidly running out of time, so I had a quick look at my plan and listed all the page numbers with a brief description of the whats on the page.

My magazine was now completed and though after a good start i finished off disappointed with it, I had learnt a lot from it, I then just had to upload the magazine onto my blog.

Magazine Cover and Contents Pre-Production

Recently the main focus of our AS Media lessons has been to create a magazine cover and a contents to go with it. First of all we had to a draft of covers on some A3 paper, and there were a few features that needed to be included on the article. First off the articles needed to be based on the school (Lutterworth College) so because of this we had to create articles and these articles had to be true, and actually be the talk of the school at the present time, as long as it wasn't offensive.

At first I stuggled to come up with a title and basis for my front cover, but I knew what other sub features I was going to use, as much there much interesting talk about, so the choices were narrow. We had to annotate everything to do with the cover, so I decided to call my magazine 'CULT' this was purely on the basis that I take an interest in british culteral films, and the british movement in culture, such as the Mods. I also decided to interview one of my classmates as put him on the front cover, and I advertised this as being an interview with a cult figure, so it kind of bode in with my title.

I then decided to use a sky blue colour as my background for my cover, and use 'ariel' as my font, and use the dark blue as the colour. Whilst the colour would be red for the title which would positioned at the top of the cover, so that if it was actually being sold in a shop then people would be able to see the title and what they are buying straight away. I then in a quicker period of time planned the contents, but we had to involve extra features to stretch the length of the magazine. So I included thing such as the weekly announcements. I also decided to do my contents darker shade to the magazine cover.

I now believed that I was ready to start photoshopping my magazine and bring it to life.