Last week Fridays lesson

Im last weeks lesson we learnt about why films are released in the cinema and how they are promoted so that the audience that the film is for will be attracted to it. We also learnt why some cinema films are released in different countries before the UK and what the process is of getting films to cinemas across the globe and how complicated it is.

Last week Thursday lesson

In Thursdays lesson we went over what would be in the second part of the media exam and how to approach it. The second part of the exam will be similar to the English exam we were taught some key media aspects to help us to answer the questions properly.

The Evaluation of Hit Station

Today  me and my group went over the concept for our opening sequence for Hit Station and have decided that our idea wasn't as good as we though it was so we attempted to improve the story so that it would be more interesting. For example we decide that instead of their being two characters in the sequence that their would only be one, after we decided this we had to figure out how the character would recieve a signal and beign the story. After some intense thinking with our media studies teacher we decide that we would bring the future of technology into the opening scene and with this idea to focus on we decided that everything would be electronic instead of using paper based letters. Even though we were almost done remaking Hit Station we decided just to drop the idea.

Media Lesson

On Tuesday 17th January 2012 in my media lesson the class task was to watch previous media studies students opening sequences and to pick out the good and bad aspects of the opening sequences and from the three I watched all of them had good storylines but their mistakes were simple things which could have been prevented such as problems with the costumes which that they didn't fit the part of the characters and another problem was the non diegtic sound which was constantly used which is good but it was also mixed with diegetic sound which sort of over rules the point of the non diegetic sound. This lesson was very helpful because it helped me and my group to realise which aspects to look for and which ones to avoid because marks can be loss easily.

Props

Audience Research

Audience Research Project

My analysis of the opening sequence to Barton Fink

Barton Fink directed by Joel Coen 1991

In the opening of Barton Fink the lighting is dark which gives the audience a disadvantage at not being able to se where it is set or where they are until a man is given a direction to pull a certain string for the curtains or some sort of prop for the play. As the camera scrolls along the back of the stage their are loads of diegetic sound of people talking and smoking cigarettes which gives it that setting that working at the back of a stage is not a good job and to support this is when the man pulling the curtain is late for pulling one of the strings because he is smoking nad reading a newspaper which gives the audience the feeling that he doesn't care about his job. As the camera continues to scroll along their is a medium close up the character Barton Fink with glasses on his face and holding the script to the play which lets the audience know that he is the writer also another factor is that he is dressed differently to the other characters, he is dressed smart in a tuxedo which is basically showing that he has a higher rank than the mem working behind him, one last factor which let the audience know that he is writer is when he begins the recite that last few lines to play without looking at the paper in his hand. Another aspect is that when the play finishes he called on to the stage which usually happens to the writers of the play because they came up with the story line and the audience loved it so they demanded his presence and as Barton Fink came on stage and the audience gave him applause. When it cuts to the next part of the opening sequence where their is a point of view shot of the character walking through a restaurant where his is meeting someone who congratulates him on the success of the play and his hard work and introduces him to couple which are posh and the aspects which give it away are the attitudes of the couple and the way they are dressed which is in tuxedos and fancy dressed also how the restaurant is decorated with ice sculptures and expensive cutlery.