As my final post for media studies I decided to end my blog by talking about how the study of media is deeply connected to the use of technology. Without technological tools, both the creation and distribution of media products would be very limited. This post aims to reflect on the technological convergence that our …
For this blog post I decided that I would present my development, both personal and technical though a video so enjoy! Transcript: “Hello everyone, my name is Mara and I am one of the creators of “The shape of regret”! In this reflection exercise I will be talking and explaining the skills that I developed …
As our coursework development came to an end, I would like to take a moment to present our finished film opening and reflect upon our overall journey, including my personal thoughts on this entire process Here is our final film opening, “The shape of regret”: Looking back at all the effort and time put into …
for this post, I decided to do a presentation in order for you to get a better visual example of our promotion! NOTE:
How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues? When starting out this project, my group and I aimed from the beginning to produce something that had a clear emotional impact and a really strong female character representation. We decided to focus on themes such as mental …
With all of the research and planning done, with the sound, fonts, credits, title and filming done. We were ready to start editing. Going into this we knew this was going to be very challenging since our preliminary did not need as much editing as our film opening needs. Overall this was a very lengthy …
For this blog post, me and my team decided to do a couple of test shots in order to establish a foundation for our film opening. We wanted to get a clearer overview of what our film opening is going to visually look like so we decided to take some videos of different angles before …
About the artist and the song Canadian singer and songwriter Feist is well-known for her passionate, simple melodies and gentle voice. She was a member of the indie band Broken Social Scene and gained fame in the early 2000s with her music often feeling intimate and emotional. She became well-known after releasing her album The …
For this post we decided that, before we started editing our film opening, we needed to decide the music, sound effects and settle the diegetic and the non-diegetic sounds. Therefore while, looking at the script and the research and planning post, we already had in mind that we have very little dialogue and therefore we …
For the third day of filming, we decided to be a bit more organised then in the other days, with a more strict filming schedule. On this filming day we had to film the very first scene in public so we wanted to be as quick and efficient as possible. In this scene, me and …