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Thursday 31 March 2011
Thursday 24 March 2011
Tuesday 1 March 2011
Specification for Evaluation
In the evaluation the following questions must be answered:
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Who would be the audience for your media product?
How did you attract/address your audience?
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Monday 28 February 2011
The end is in sight!
Myself and Joseph have almost completed our OTS, it has taken a rather long time due to the sheer amount of complexity we set out for the project. We seem to have come into a few difficulties with music and sound, as fitting in a variety of music doesn't always sound 'right'. We've been testing out different music tracks and such, just a few more adjustments need to be made.
Sunday 27 February 2011
Script
As our OTS has several musical changes and sounds, we thought it would be best to keep the voice overs short and simple, but long enough to further explain what the viewers are seeing on screen.
Vee
"I still remember that night. The smell of my babies sweet clothes. That shot changed my life in a second.
My guy took money from a man with no soul. My family paid the price."
Butch
"It's just business he said, we'll make it big. We made it all right. In this business, it's a one man game he said.
Apparently I wasn't that man. Everyone's expendable. They can rip your future away in a second."
Champ
"My mother. Faith. Children. Love. Security, For what? It took him 2 days to leave her. It took me a week to find her. Her heart. My heart. Stolen. Ripped. Dead. For what?
Wherever he went, chaos followed. Now we were brought together. For what? Revenge."
I wanted the pieces of dialogue to be very short in order for them to be spoken slowly and clearly. This is to contrast the speed the stories unravel on the screen. If the voice overs were long and drawn out, it would force them to be spoken quicker, therefore creating too much of a fast and rushed pace for the OTS as a whole.
Vee
"I still remember that night. The smell of my babies sweet clothes. That shot changed my life in a second.
My guy took money from a man with no soul. My family paid the price."
Butch
"It's just business he said, we'll make it big. We made it all right. In this business, it's a one man game he said.
Apparently I wasn't that man. Everyone's expendable. They can rip your future away in a second."
Champ
"My mother. Faith. Children. Love. Security, For what? It took him 2 days to leave her. It took me a week to find her. Her heart. My heart. Stolen. Ripped. Dead. For what?
Wherever he went, chaos followed. Now we were brought together. For what? Revenge."
I wanted the pieces of dialogue to be very short in order for them to be spoken slowly and clearly. This is to contrast the speed the stories unravel on the screen. If the voice overs were long and drawn out, it would force them to be spoken quicker, therefore creating too much of a fast and rushed pace for the OTS as a whole.
Tuesday 22 February 2011
Target Audience
Our target audience for our OTS will be both males and females aged between 15 and 20.
As our OTS involves more male characters than female it may stereotypically be more attractive to females. Our femme fatale is not a conventional girly, long haired beauty. She turns conventions through the discarding of a dress and wearing of jeans, and having short spiky hair. This may also attract females as it has more of a 'girl power' feel.
We decided upon this category whilst collecting information from questionnaires and polls.
We thought the suitable class choice would be middle to lower class, as from what we have found, these are the classes that are more open to unconventional styles and editing. A mature (perhaps in their 20's) audience may enjoy our OTS more as it has quite a confusing and interpretable storyline.
The classification for our OTS will be a 15, as it contains a fairly adult storyline involving death, murder and crime. This would not be suitable material for younger audiences.
As our OTS involves more male characters than female it may stereotypically be more attractive to females. Our femme fatale is not a conventional girly, long haired beauty. She turns conventions through the discarding of a dress and wearing of jeans, and having short spiky hair. This may also attract females as it has more of a 'girl power' feel.
We decided upon this category whilst collecting information from questionnaires and polls.
We thought the suitable class choice would be middle to lower class, as from what we have found, these are the classes that are more open to unconventional styles and editing. A mature (perhaps in their 20's) audience may enjoy our OTS more as it has quite a confusing and interpretable storyline.
The classification for our OTS will be a 15, as it contains a fairly adult storyline involving death, murder and crime. This would not be suitable material for younger audiences.
Copyright
Whilst deliberating over what music and sounds we wanted to use in our OTS, we had to research copyright laws in order not to break them unintentionally.
Copyright
Copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted to the author or creator of an original
work, including the right to copy, distribute and adapt the work. Copyright does
not protect ideas, only their expression. In most jurisdictions copyright arises
upon fixation and does not need to be registered.
Copyright owners have the exclusive statutory right to exercise control over
copying and other exploitation of the works for a specific period of time, after
which the work is said to enter the public domain.Uses covered under
limitations and exceptions to copyright, such as fair use, do not require permission
from the copyright owner.
All other uses require permission and copyright owners can license or permanently
transfer or assign their exclusive rights to others..
work, including the right to copy, distribute and adapt the work. Copyright does
not protect ideas, only their expression. In most jurisdictions copyright arises
upon fixation and does not need to be registered.
Copyright owners have the exclusive statutory right to exercise control over
copying and other exploitation of the works for a specific period of time, after
which the work is said to enter the public domain.Uses covered under
limitations and exceptions to copyright, such as fair use, do not require permission
from the copyright owner.
All other uses require permission and copyright owners can license or permanently
transfer or assign their exclusive rights to others..
-This is a section taken from wikipedia.
There are principally 2 types of copyright to consider when we talk about music copyright.
-The traditional ©, ‘C in a circle’ copyright, applies to the composition, musical score,lyrics as well as any artwork or cover designs, as all of these are individually subject
to copyright in their own rights, (though when you register, you can include them all in
a single registration provided they have the same copyright owner(s)).
-The second type of copyright applies to the sound recording itself, and is signified by
the ‘P in a circle’
.
the ‘P in a circle’
.If we want to use music in our piece, it must either be copyright free, or only be used
for a small amount of time. We will need to consider this when editing the music
into our final piece.
for a small amount of time. We will need to consider this when editing the music
into our final piece.
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