Revision presentation from Tuesday's revision class - 1a and 1b

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Revision of question 1a

Skills Development


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What are the five areas?

Digital Technology and CreativityJanuary 2011

Research into Real Media Texts

June 2010 Research and Planning and Creativity

January 2010

Post Production

Marked out of 25 marks allow 30 minutesto answer


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What are you being markedon?

Evaluation of your skills developmentin relation to the production practiceoutlined in the question;

To get an A: Clear sense of progression;

Appropriate selection of clear examples;

Articulate reflection on technical skill; Fluent evaluation of progress over time

Link decisions to creative outcomes


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How have your skills in postproduction developed?

Advice: Plan your answer first!

Identify which productions/activities you are going to refer

to make sure they include activities from AS and A2

Identify specific examples of the production practice

ideally the same activity across two different

productions so that you can show skills development


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Activity:

With the person sitting next to you , pick out two activitiesthat you did at AS that you repeated at A2. This could be:using transitions; laying your sequence on the timeline inFCP; manipulation of images in your digipaks (dont forgetthat you produced one at AS too!); Discuss.

Using Kolbs reflective cycle reflect on the skill the firsttime you did it, and then the second time.

How successful was the skill the first time you did it?

What did you learn?

What differences did you notice the second time around?

What impact did this skill have on your creativity?

How have your skills in post

production developed?


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Doing something

(demonstrating a skill)

Reflecting on whatyouve done

(reflecting on theeffectiveness and use

of the skill)

Learning from whatyouve done

(what would you dodifferently next time?)

Doing it differently

next time(trying out the skill in a

different way)

Kolbsreflective cycle


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Outline plan for answeringa question on Post

ProductionStep 1: Identify your skills level at the start of the AS year

Step 2: Briefly, introduce the specific skills and projectsthat you are going to discuss

Step 3: Briefly, introduce first project and give an overview

of your first experience of the skill


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Step 4: Evaluate how successful this skill was

Step 5: What happened next as a result of your evaluation

of this skill?

Step 6: How did this skill develop in the next project?


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Step 7: Examine your final experience of using this skilland reflect back on how well youve developed.

Step 8: Repeat steps 1-7 for another skill

Note: You must remember to include lots of

detailed examples of when youve used the skill so you must reference your projects in detail.


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Example route throughpost production

Introduction

Identify level of skill at start of the AS course:

My skills in post production at the start of the AS course were

pretty basic Id not had any experience of editing video before

and only had very limited experience of using packages such as

Photoshop for image manipulation


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Introduce the skills and projects that you are going to

discuss

I have produced several different projects over the last two years, from

the short preliminary at the start of the AS practical unit through to the

larger production work at A2. During these productions I havedeveloped a variety of skills in editing.

I am going to focus on how I developed my editing skills, more

specifically using the timeline in FCP, and also how my skills in print

work developed.


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Introduce first project and first experience of useof skill that youve identified in your plan

I first time Idownloadedfootage onto FCP, and pieced together my

firsttimelinesequence, I did not really plan how to do this before

hand. It was the preliminary task at AS that required us to produce a

short sequence containing a match cut. I had recorded severalminutes of shots and downloaded the entire lot into FCP. This

resulted in the logging bin being full of clips, many of which I would not

need and none of which I could recognise from the time-code labels. It

took ages for me to sort this through and I wasted valuable editing

time. I ended up swapping clips about on the timeline as I found new

ones in the bin, in an attempt to put together my match cut sequence. Should be continued in more depth.and refer to specific

examples from your project


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Next, evaluate how successful this skill wasOn reflection, this was not the most constructive use of my time. I

should have watched each clip before hand, on the mac, and then made

a list of the ones that I was going to use in my final sequence. If Id

renamed the clips using suitable names then I could have found them

more easily in the bin. This would have made editing the match-cut a

quicker process and I could have spent more time learning how to put

transitions on the clips.


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What happened next, as a result of this?

Through the match cut tutorial, I learnedhow to create a sequence in a

linear style, where the clips follow on one from the other on the same

video track. Forexample, the first clip was of an establishing shot of the

outside of the college, which then cut immediately to another clip on the

same video track of the corridor on the third floor thus establishing for

the audience the location that the action was set within. I realised that

this was pretty simple editing, but I felt confident in my skills through

learning this first.


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And the final project that you used this skill in:

The final time I came to edit a sequence in FCP was for my music

video during my A2 year. Here I used the time line in a completely

different way to the previous projects Id created. Wed recorded

several base tracks and I used these 5 base tracks as the basis

and outline structure for my music video. One base track was a

close up of the singer, the second was a long shot from the back of

the room, the third was. (You get the picture.). I layed them

one on top of the other, and using the razor blade tool, cut into

them at paced intervals to create a structure.


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Important to remember:

To get an A: you must have a:

Clear sense of progression;

Appropriate selection of clear examples;

Articulate reflection on technical skill;

Fluent evaluation of progress over time

Link decisions to creative outcomes


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Revision of Question 1b

Application of theory to a

concept


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What are the five areas?

NarrativeJanuary 2011

GenreJune 2010

RepresentationJanuary 2010

MediaLanguage Audience

Marked out of 25 marks allow 30 minutesto answer


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What are you being markedon?

To get an A grade you must show:

A clear understanding of theory;

Ability to relate this theory to yourproduction work;

Ability to identify a broad range ofsuitable examples from your production

work to illustrate this.


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Theory Veryimportant!!

Media Language:

Goodwin

Bordwell

Vernallis

Narrative

Todorov

Goodwin

Vernallis

Representation

Mulvey

Goodwin

Genre

Vernallis

Goodwin

Audience

Willis

Goodwin

Outline plan for answering


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Outline plan for answeringa question on Media

LanguageSmall task for you to do wake up.

Write a briefintroductorysentence on what medialanguage is at

the top of the piece of paper

Pass the paper to the

person to the left of

you

Next, underneath the sentence that youve been passed, pick a

theory and brieflyoutline its main points.



you


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Pick one example from yourproduction work that fits thetheory written on the paper and write two sentences about it.



you

Write one sentence about how well your production work

fits the theory outlined in paragraph two above.

Pass the paper back three

spaces to yourright to the

first person who wrote on it

read it through


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Thats all folks!

Good luck in your exam from the whole mediateam

Dont forget:

10am Wednesday Media in the Online Age

10am Thursday Collective Identity

Exam: Thursday 1.30pm in PAS

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