8/12/09

In our previous lessons, we were planning to finish of the poster on the 8th of December and present it to Ms Gooch. Unfortunately we are delayed by a lesson, meaning we will have to finish the work in our spear time, this was not a problem for me because I enjoy working on Adobe Photo Shop and learning new features. Thursday the 17th of December is the day that we plan to finish our poster after school.

Here are some examples of Musical Posters:

01/12/2009

In preparation to this lesson, our homework was to capture an image of a brick wall. The detailed planning in previous lessons gave us a finalised idea for the poster. Last week’s tutorial on Adobe Photoshop was of great benefit this lesson. We started sketching out the layout onto the software. The poster is now taking shape and form.  

17/11/2009

We were given a variety of posters which we analyzed such as the font, style, layout, theme and colour. The analysis gave us an inspiration to creating our posters. We then planned the outline for our poster individually in our groups. This provided us with the benefit of having everyone's visual ideas of the poster.

Media 24/11/09

We learnt how to use Adobe Photoshop on Mac. The brief was to create a poster on West Side Story. It was easy for me to follow the brief as I had already used the software previously. By planning the layout of the poster it was uncomplicated when putting information into the software. I had an overall vision of where to insert text and the design of the poster.

 

10/11/09

In our lesson we were designing our posters on West Side Story. After we had finish, we all came back together in our groups and shared our ideas around. From each poster we commented on how they can improve and what went well. In my poster, I had to work on the font and also the colour. The positive thing that went well was: the way I placed the pictures, text and also the Dunraven logo. While my group were carrying on with poster, Ms Taylor gave me another job to do. I had to plan out the lessons on what we will be doing until the end of this project.

Tuesday 3rd November

Tuesday 3rd of November
On Tuesday we were split in to two groups, the trailers, and the poster. I decided to work with the poster group, because I found it creative. I would have loved to work and also film, with the trailer group, but I wanted to give other people a chance to learn how to use a camcorder. This is because I have had many experiences with camcorders and different types of editing software. In our group there were 4 people, each of us had to come up with a brief poster design for West Side Story. Here are few of the ideas that we came up with in our group, explaining about what we should include in our poster.

· Background (bricks)
· Slogan
· Colours that we have to include in our poster (red, blue and yellow)
· Title
· Venue
· Pictures
· Different types of Font

At the end of the lesson, we presented our ideas to the class, explaining what an excellent poster must include. We also showed the class our sketches on the posters and had few feedbacks on how we can improve it.

Teacher Feedback

I'm glad to see that you have started to organise your blog into one.  You have also include many detailed responses. To improve, you need to complete missing work. Blog after everyone lesson and include images such as video link and photographs. Your blog does not reflect the hard work you have put into your poster. Get it in there.

Review on the short films we watched at the BFI.

I found the story interesting and a bit scary. It shows how people with a mental disorder behave. I also found it emotional, due to the fact that the husband did not recognise his wife.

The story was set in a house. The way how costumes were used in the film was productive, because when they show the husband in a young age, he is wearing casual clothes. But at the end when the director shows the husband at his real form, he is wearing his nightwear.

Sound, music and special effects are used to create a distressing and up beating atmosphere.
The person who I think is important is the husband, because the story line is based on himself and his illness.

I recommend that people should watch this film, because it shows, how a mental disorder person would act and also how members of the family have to respond towards their life.

The mark that I award to this short film is 10/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZhythuRBPg

Publicity

Learning objective: to determine the house style
· To decide what types of publicity we will do.
· To assign roles.

West Side story trailer.

· The font
· Colours
· Logo
· Size
· Music
· Relate to flim/ old-fashoned etc
· Design/ layout, busy
· Information

Red, Blue, Yellow

• Red connotes passion.
  
• Blue denotes Dunrave colour.
  
• Yellow connotes hope.

Review on ‘Every good boy deserves favour’.

A dissident is locked up in an asylum. If he accepts that he was ill. He has been treated and is now cured, he will be released, but he refuses. Sharing his cell is a real lunatic, who believes himself to be surround by an orchestra. The dissident son begs his father to free himself with a lie. Tom stopparels devely funny play asks if denying the truth is a price worth paying for liberty.

Asylum:
An institution for the maintenance and care of the mentally ill, orphans, or other person requiring specialised assistance.

Dissident:
A person who dissents.

Dissents:
To differ in sentiment or opinion, esp. From the majority withhold assent.

Publicity and Marketing

How should we publicise west side story?

· Advertise- Leaflets- Newspaper

· Act it out in assembly

· Email parents

· Trailer

· Live trailer in assembly

· Word of mouth
· Poster
· Visual Countdown

What makes a good trailer?

Here are few examples, why war horse is a good trailer!
It has:

· Sound tracks

· Lighting
· Conventions

· Action shot

· Endorsements

· Dialogue

· Voice over

· Diegetic sounds: actual sounds

· Non-diegetic sounds: added sounds

· Hint of the narrative
· Action
· Enigmas: Question

Publishing West Side Story.

• It will give an opportunity to the drama students, to show their talent.
  
• Parents and public will know that Dunraven School can put on their own theatre production.
  
• It will inspire our school to do something creative in the future.

A mind map of different jobs in a theatre.

Publicity is an extensive mention in the news media or by
word of mouth or other means of communication. Publicity is the deliberate attempt to manage the public's perception of a subject. The subjects of publicity include people (for example, politicians and performing artists), goods and services, organizations of all kinds, and works of art or entertainment.
In our previous lessons, we were studying about publicity, and how we could publicise ‘West Side Story’.

Teacher Feedback

What you have is good, but you are missing several assignments and a link to the main blog. Please get to work! Also, please add a link to my blog.

What is a film festival?

A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. The films may be of recent date and, depending upon the focus of the individual festival, can include international releases as well as films produced by the organisers' domestic film industry.

Emma Sullivan.

Emma first studied at Central St Martins, where she did a BA Hons in Painting. After working in the visual arts as a designer and a photographer, she went on to the Royal College of Art to do an MA in Communication Art and Design, where she concentrated solely on film-making.She plans to continue writing and directing, and looks forward to working in both film and television.

After Tomorrow

Year of Production: 2009Running Time: 15 mins 50 secs

Director: Emma Sullivan

Producer: Annalise Davis

Executive/Co-Producers: Julia Caithness, Sam Burton

Editor: Agnieszka Liggett

Screenwriter: Emma Sullivan

Director of Photography: Eduard GrauProduction

Designer: John Dempsey

Sound: Rachael Horner

Music: Christian Henson

Principal Cast: Kika Markham, Joseph Mawle, Claire Hackett

Sarah wickens.

She graduated from the Surrey Institute of Art and Design in 2005 with a BA in Animation. Since then she have been trying to gain a foothold in the industry, starting off with work experience and running, and working her way up to doing Flash and After Effects animation. In the summer of 2006 she received a bursary from the Film and Video Workshop to make my film 'The Elephant in the Room' which was completed at the beginning of 2007.

Ambitions

She would like to continue to work on exciting projects with creative and talented people, and to develop her skills as an animator and filmmaker.

Through Yonder Window Breaks

Director: Sarah Wickens
Country: UK
Running time: 4min
Year: 2009

Rafael Sommerhalder

Jonas Odell (born 1962) is a Swedish music video and film director and founder of FilmTecknarna who was born in Stockholm. Odell, who specializes in a mix of animation and live action, has directed a number of short films, music videos and commercials.

His latest short flim, lies, proves that odell's approach to flimmaking canwork exceptioally well for long form narratives, in addition to the commercials and music videos for which he is more widely know.

Alex Taylor

Director:Alex Taylor
Writer:Alex Taylor (writer)
Release Date:October 2009 (UK) more
Genre:Short Drama more

Plot
An off-beat portrait of kids living in East London: An Essex boy sings a Country and Western love song; a young girl, Carmen, with her singing dog; two strange bone-collecting boys living in a caravan on a farm in Stepney Green. These portraits hang on the central story of Danielle, a young girl who attempts suicide but finds solace in the story of 'The Pig of Happiness'