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G235 1a) AS - Conventions of real media texts from Charis Creber

The Conventions of Real Media: MEDIA CONCEPTS

“the conventions of each genre shift, new genres and sub-genres emerge and others are 'discontinued' (Chandler)

a) Have you stuck closely to genre conventions in your production work?
b) Have you created a hybrid piece?
c) Have you used intertextual references?

'one could... argue that no set of necessary and sufficient conditions can mark off genres from other sorts of groupings in ways that all experts or ordinary film-goers would find acceptable' (Bordwell 1989, 147).

a) Do you think it is hard to agree on a set of ‘rules’ to follow when making a product?
b) How far have you followed any set of ‘rules’?
c) To what extent did you break ‘rules’?
d) Did you make any rules of your own?

Conventions give the producers a framework to work with- a set of guidelines (McQuail)

a) Was it helpful to work within a set of guidelines?
b) Did you feel more secure knowing what the guidelines were?
c) Were you happier breaking the conventions once you knew what they were?

“Sometimes, working within constraints produces the most interesting work” (Branston and Strafford)

a) Do you think you produced better work because you stuck to the conventions of the genre?
b) Would you have produced more creative work if you had not known what the guidelines were?

Here is the link to all the AS blogs from AS

http://www.tumblr.com/blog/asmedia2013

You will need to look at these at home as we can't view Tumblr at school!

Sergei Eisenstein and Editing Post Production Question

Sergei Eisenstein believed that editing was: ‘the foundation of film art’
For Eisenstein, meaning in cinema lay not in the individual shot but only in the relationships among shots established by editing.
He created an editing style that he called "dialectical montage" that was abrupt and jagged and did not aim for smooth continuity.
The jaggedness of Eisenstein's editing can create a sense of emotional and physical violence , but he also aimed to use editing to suggest ideas, a style he termed "intellectual montage."
One of his films concludes with three shots of statues of stone lions edited to look like a single lion rising up and roaring, embodying the idea of the wrath of the people and the voice of the revolution.

Homework: Answer the question below for next lesson using you're own critical reflections across AS and A2.
- Remember to discuss specific editing effects, the connotations of each editing effect and whether each was successful.
- Aim for 6 separate points in your answer and exapiln whether you were more experimental and adventurous in your editing of the AS production compared to the A2 production.

Exam Question: “The post-production process can be the most important part of the filming process”. How important has the post-production stage been in your foundation and advanced portfolios and how have your skills developed over these two years?

Useful terminology:
Word bank:
To suggest…
To give the commutation of….
To signify …
To symbolise…
To show…


Overlap
Fade / Wipe / Wash in/out/ Cross dissolve
Fast / Slow motion effects
Superimpose
Fast cut montage effects
Split Screen
Colourisation – be specific

cut A cut is when you go from one shot to another in a video without using any time of transition, such as a fade or wipe.

dissolve A dissolve is when one scene of your video slowly disappears into another scene. Most video editors will allow you to decide how long you want a dissolve to take, allowing you to lengthen or shorten the length of the transition based on how you want your finished video to look.

fade A fade is very similar to a dissolve, but instead of transitioning between two different scenes, a fade transitions between the scene and blank or black screen.

in/out point Every video editing program will ask you to set in and out points on clips you want to use in your final product. The in point is simply where the video will start, and the out point is where it will end.

real time Real time allows you to see effects that you added to your video immediately, without the need to wait to render the video. If a video editor touts that it allows you to do something in real time, it means that you will be able to see the effect immediately.

rendering The process where an effect is applied to video. Think of it like developing a picture from a film camera; rendering is what applies an effect such as a wipe or fade to a piece of video.

time code Time code is the numerical address for a piece of video. Typically listed as hours : minutes : seconds : frames, each frame of your video essentially has its own time code to help you identify it.

transition A transition is what goes between two video clips in order to make moving between the two of them more visually appealing. Common transitions include dissolves and wipes.

wipe A wipe is a type of transition where one scene appears to be pushed of "wiped" off the screen by another.

 from http://g325criticalperspectives.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-max=2011-02-07T02:06:00-08:00&max-results=7&start=7&by-date=false

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What you have done on Post Production so far

"There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie." Keenen Ivory Wayans
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