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This post will include current readings (required) for the external assessment "Interaction between society and a media genre". This will also be in the term three exam.
Reading 1: Interactive television - BBC wannabes
Reading 2: Same topic
Reading 3: same again but different

Kiwi identity

more ideas about kiwi identity

This website is very good - from the Ministry of Social development.

Current readings

Seeing the light (Tui beer drinker ads)
Women in film, tv honoured
Also this competition - Some of you might like to have a go at this - I'm happy to help if you want to do it.
Click here for competition details

outside the square but fun

Hey how about this - I'm going to send for the stickers so let me know if you want to start YABing.
You are beautiful

Info about podcasts for productions

http://radio.about.com/od/podcastin1/a/aa030805a.htm

Best revision site - Film terms

http://www.filmsite.org/filmterms1.html - alphabetical listings are really useful
film terms

Well done

Thanks to all of you who have sent your work in - hopefully I have turned it around quickly enough for you to be able to carry on with it where necessary. I have been away for a lot of the time - working on a couple of different education based projects in Media Studies - and visiting my great kids - managed to see them all during the 'break'.
Here's to prove I went to Wellington.

email address for holiday work

Hey dudes and dudesses
Keep that work rolling in - shazzandrob@surf.co.nz is probably the best bet to email me, or sharonh@mmc.school.nz
Let me know what stage you are at and how near you are to completion with each set you send in. The sooner you send it, the sooner I can feed it back to you.

Learn about lighting

this website provides interactive lighting lessons - well worth investigating
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/qtvr/cineUpdate.jhtml

Also useful:
http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/htmfiles/mise-en-scene.htm

Strongly advise you to read this

http://www.uni-koeln.de/~ame02/pppf.htm

This site also has links to some other good ones for you

In my father's den website

http://www.inmyfathersden.com/index.html
You should find this helpful

Montage theory

http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/montage.html

Might be useful to print out and add to your notes. Take a look around other parts of this site as there are quite a few useful tips here.

Please email me your email address to shazzandrob@surf.co.nz, somehow I lost them last time I tried to add them in.
Thanks

Heavenly Creatures website

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Studio/2194/faq2/framehome_files/frstfrm.html

Read and save for Reality TV work

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/28/reality.fashion.ap/index.html

FYI

My Mormon name is Charmon Ashare!
What's yours?

readings for 3.2

This list will be added to and you are advised to make your own notes from them.
Two Cars, One Night - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0169806/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390579/
http://www.bestvbest.com/index.php?film=two-cars-one-night (this is the one I read out to you in class and also has a connection to another website. Don't forget to illustrate your visual diary as this makes it easier to remember for later (visual clues).
If you think it might be helpful create your own blog just for Media studies as a way of keeping sites, pictures and notes you find useful. You will be amazed at how useful this can be later on when you are looking for something you forgot!!!

Work for Thursday 23 Feb

1) a - List the features of your chosen director's work
b) Write about which of these aspects you plan to include in your own short film

2) On scrap paper plan a stick figure, 10 sequence storyboard for your own short film
N.B: if you are stuck for ideas for this begin by basing it on song lyrics - your ideas should NOT be a literal interpretation of the lyrics, rather a REPRESENTATION of the ideas in the song.

Wicked TV video tips

http://www.tki.org.nz/r/wick_ed/wickedtv/index.php
Have a go at sending something in here!!! You can book cameras from Mr Richards at computer office and once you've paid your materials fees I'll go buy some tapes - you should each have a digital tape you use for the year.
Check out the short films - do a google search and see what other ones you can find; research your 'artist model' director.

Abby in postgrad mag

 
 

Storyboards

Work through these lessons and you should (just about) be an expert.
http://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/lessons/storyboards.html

Friday 10 feb

Work for today is to peruse this blog (which I naturally think is one of the world's best!) On the sidebar there are links to some useful sites and throughout the blog are readings that you need to print out and include in your collection of readings - as you read each one highlight points and summarise the main ideas. For a great place to revise shot types etc go to http://filmsite.org/filmterms2.html - this is the best reference I've come across so far for specific terminology stuff. Learn this lot and you're well on the way to being an awesome film buff - try testing each other on them. See you next week and be good to Mr Wallace.