At the beginning of the course we were given the task of creating a 1 minute movie that captured some sort of message. We had 1 hour to go out and film as much as we could, this was after we had planned what we was going to do, and then we had to edit the footage. My footage tried to capture homelessness as a subject whereas other groups captured things like: the environment, Birmingham and loneliness. This task was a great start to the course and gave everybody an insight into what the next two years will be like.
After this, we were given other people's work to recapture their footage in order to understand what it was like to work with other people's work as this is what it would be like in the industry.
Below is my 1 minute movie capturing homelessness:
Introduction to Moving Image Language
Once understanding all concepts of moving image language such as: camera movements/shots, editing, Mise en Scene etc, we were given an extract from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and we had to wipe out the sound and re-do it all. I like this as we got to interpret the visual clip in our own way and apply sound to what we thought would suit it best.
We also had to test out our editing skills with an extract from Psycho (1960), in which we had to transform the famous shower scene into an advert, advertising shampoo/shower gel.
This task was obviously difficult due to the fact that the clip was a montage, therefore each individual shot cuts continuously to the next. Although it was difficult, it was also interesting as it helped me to get stuck in to editing with such a tough scene.
Psycho Shampoo advert:
Working in TV
Another project we was given was to be able to show job roles within television. The brief was to create a voxpop style video showing what the 2 jobs do and it needed to be aimed at Year 9's who were thinking about working within the television industry. My team was given Directors and producers and this is what we came up with:
Soap Opera
Towards the end of the unit we have to create the beginning of a soap opera, so to prepare for this we did lots of different research into soap opera. The first thing i did was to create a timeline of the History of British Soap in order to understand how soap opera came about.
After watching different extracts from british soap and analyzing them to find the different codes and conventions,we had another brief to create a section from a television show defining british soap. It had to include the history of soap, social realism, codes & conventions and whether Hollyoaks is a soap or not.
Below is the final product:
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