web evaluation

EVALUATION

(Answer questions straight on to this document in word)

· Describe the tools and Processes you used in Photoshop to design your pages

Move tool, crop, colour adjustments, text, font.

· Describe any skills, techniques or shortcuts that you have discovered during the project

The pixel dimensions for a web page

· Discuss how the web evaluations of the good and bad website and research helped you design your website

I was able to create an effective website that does not confuse the user.

· Describe any problems or difficulties you encountered during the web design process?

Creating page links, remembering all small details that are important eg changing the colour of buttons when clicked.

· Describe your chosen colour scheme, the textures and fonts and why you selected them or what meaning they created

Plain black, with colour/black and white photos. Simple and effective and appeals to a professional audience. Font is feminine and attractive whilst also being easy to read.

· What feelings about, or response do you have to your finished web site?

It is simple and could have more pages/features. Perhaps a less harsh coloured background would be more appealing.

· Are you happy with the final result?

Yes.

· Do you feel that you worked hard on this project?

As I do not completely understand dreamweaver, I could not use it to its full potential. However, I learnt a lot about the program in the process of making my website.

· Are there things you would like to change? What would you do differently?

Change the background colour and add more features.

· Do you think that your Target Audience would be happy with your web site? Why?

Yes. It is professional looking, simple and appealing. It showcases my work effectively and has clear links to the pages.

· If you could start again or add to your Web Portfolio, what would you do differently?

Nothing.

This term you can create:

1. A Website of your choice eg. For your own business, personal profile, innovative idea etc.

Note: You must start by planning this site, creating a Design Brief including;

Site map

Target Audience

Intended Purpose

Mood Board

2. or create an updated version of your Portfolio with 4 more pages

You will also need to update your design brief, especially the site map and mood board if your ideas have changed

Start by Making a list of the extra pages and possible links you will add to your site and then complete an updated Design Brief

Creative Industries Evaluation: Term 01 2011

Synopsis

My film walks the viewer through "a day in the life of Jocelyn Savage." It shows the adventures of a teenage girl and represents freedom and happiness. Spirituality is also incorporated through the soft music and facial expressions of the model.

A synopsis is a summary given in brief terms that covers the major points of your film. Synopses are usually more in-depth than a mere "summary", and aim to give a fair idea of the topic.

Evaluation of Film Progress

Introduction:

Has your film been edited to engage the audience initially and to establish the tone of the piece?

Yes. there are cross dissolves and slow motion to create a soft, romantic feel.

What are you going to do to engage the audience? Describe the sounds, lighting, shot types and effects that fit with the genre of your film and how you will incorporate these at the start of your film.

the lighting is soft, with a range of shot types to engage the audience. the music is slow and meditative which adds to the spiritual aspect of the film. the film starts with just the voice of the singer which instantly creates a peaceful atmosphere.

Have you carefully chosen audio to suit the pace of the project?

Describe the audio and the pace

the audio is slow and peaceful to reflect what happens in the film.

Describe the pace of your music and the type of shots (close-up, mid, high, etc) that you will be creating to fit with the music

the model makes body movements on the beat of the music and the movements are slow paced when the music is slower and quieter. slow motion is also used to enhance this.

Have you included credits at the start or end of your film?

What information should be included here?

no.

but information should include sound editor, filmer, actor/s etc

Emotional intention

Have you edited the footage to create heightened expression and audience responses? Describe how you are going to achieve this. i.e. cross dissolves, graphic matches, effects etc

the film creates a sense of peace and meditation within the viewer. also happiness and relaxation due to the cross dissolves and slow motion.

Editing techniques

Have you created links between shots and throughout the film to emotionally engage the viewer with your story ( i.e. is your film tied together through theme, colour, story, objects etc?)

it is tied together through the stages of the day (morning - afternoon)

Imovie Revision Test

Final Cut Pro

Academy Award Nominations

Best film – The Notebook

Best Actor – Brad Pitt

Best Actress – Angelina Jolie

Best Supporting Actor – Joseph Gordon Levert

Best Supporting Actress – Emily Osment

Best Director – Stephen Spielberg

Best Original Screenplay (script) - UP

Best Screen Adaptation – Winnie The Pooh

Best Cinematic Photography – The Last Song

Best Editing - Avatar

Best Special Effects - King Kong

Best Original Score (music) -

Best Costumes / Wardrobe – Burlesque

Best Title Sequence / Credits - Titanic

Best Short (film) - Billabong Hi Summer 1010 clip

Special Award for Services to the Cinema Industry, the motion picture business, the dream

factory, the movie world.


3. Think about these questions.

a. Which clip from a particular film would you never tire of seeing? King Julian in Madagascar 2 explaining how to sacrifice to the gods

b. What trailers have you seen recently that really made you want to go and see the

film? – Burlesque

c. Can you think of any scenes from films you think should have been cut?

Or can you think of any entire film you think should have been banned? – The Human Centipede

d. Which of these features do you, in general, like a film to have:

1. a happy ending? yes

2. a complicated plot or a simple storyline? both

3. lots of action? NO!

4. a political or social message? social

5. totally naturalistic dialogue? yes

6. larger than life or true-to-life characters? true to life

7. (in the case of foreign films) subtitles or dubbed dialogue? either or

8. lots of close-up shots of people’s faces? yes

9. long sequences of desert, jungle etc.? no

10.a fair number of stars or a cast of unknowns’? doesnt matter as long as they are good actors/actresses

e. What can the cinema offer that the theatre can’t – and vice versa? Surround sound, a big screen

f. Which plays have you seen which you have also seen the film of? Hairspray

How did the two versions compare? play is always more entertaining. more real.

g. Would you let your ten-year-old son go off to Hollywood to be in a film, with or without you there? yes, with me

Synopsis:
For our media assessment piece, Jocelyn, Holly and myself are going to create a music video to the song The Piper's Song, by Gypsy & the Cat. The film is will depict a road trip in the life of three teenagers in the summer, and focus on the themes freedom, social bonding, and nature. It will be featured on beaches, at the currumbin rock pools, and in a meadow. The talent will be acting in a way that demonstrates the themes, being very fluid and peaceful. Costumes will be very casual, as most of the film will be shot at the beach, costumes will mostly be bikini's and summer dresses. However, pieces of material will be used to add effect. Overall, the music video will be very creative, relaxed and summery.

Gypsy & the Cat - The Pipers Song

Song Lyrics:
In the night see a face in the dark
In his face see a light shining gold
And this man, walks alone singing songs of victory
When he sleeps there’s a struggle and the light begins to fade

Heaven tells the past all he had was love and fear
He was stronger then all he had was love and pain
Then one day he found a stroke, evil tears run down his face
Another change good to buy good to buy

Where to run, are you there are you there
In the winter sun, he’s dancing in the wind
Where to run, are you there are you there
In the wilderness, look and you will find him

Another weeps a child sleeps his broken heart
A bleeding wine just passing time their horror shows
They’re at his grave at Valid creek where he began to see
The evil tide that proves that always good still within

Heaven tells the past all he had was love and fear
He was stronger then all he had was love and pain
Then one day he found a stroke, evil tears run down his face
Another change good to buy good to buy

Where to run, are you there are you there
In the winter sun, he’s dancing in the wind
Where to run, are you there are you there
In the wilderness, look and you will find him

Thunder, thunder in the time
Thunder, waiting for a sun
Thunder, thunder in the time
Thunder, waiting for a sun
Tonight tonight see the sun

Where to run, are you there are you there
In the wilderness, look and you will find him
Where to run, are you there are you there
In the winter sun, he’s dancing in the wind

Where to run, are you there are you there
In the wilderness, look and you will find him
Where to run, are you there are you there
In the winter sun, he’s dancing in the wind

tree mind map

shot types

long shot

close up
high angle
low angle
birds eye view
over the shoulder conversation shot
ants view
medium shot

low/cool light

Inspirational images for music video

half under water, half aboveocean, looking out to sea, wet hair
forest, trees
relaxing, spiritual, beach, sky
rockpools, peaceful, serene, spiritual
spiritual, forest
hair shot, driving in the car with wind blowing, sun
beach, relaxing, reflective

BLOG NOTES AND CLASS ACTIVITIES

COMPLETED ASSIGNMENT OF PRODUCTION CREW
Jocelyn - actor, camera operator, producer, film editor
Holly - actor, director, costume/set designer, camera operator
Issie - actor, camera operator, sound designer

SELECTED FILM TYPE AND POSSIBLE THEMES
Music video, teenage life, nature, freedom, fun


Synopsis:
For our media assessment piece, Jocelyn, Holly and myself are going to create a music video to the song The Piper's Song, by Gypsy & the Cat. The film is will depict a road trip in the life of three teenagers in the summer, and focus on the themes freedom, social bonding, and nature. It will be featured on beaches, at the currumbin rock pools, and in a meadow. The talent will be acting in a way that demonstrates the themes, being very fluid and peaceful. Costumes will be very casual, as most of the film will be shot at the beach, costumes will mostly be bikini's and summer dresses. However, pieces of material will be used to add effect. Overall, the music video will be very creative, relaxed and summery.

Film Making

1. Film type : Music Video

2. Brief:
- Target Audience: adolescents, young adults
- Idea: teenage fun, day at the beach and the rockpools/roadtrip

3. Consider possible themes:
- Nature, spirituality and the soul
- Imagining
- Social bonding
- Teenage life

4. Brainstorm possible ideas:
- Setting: beach, car, rockpools
- Music: pipers song by gypsy and the cat
- Characters: issie, joss, holly
- Props: car, towels, cameras
- Costumes: bikinis, beach clothes
- Camera Angles: close ups, long shots, medium shots, slow pans

Shots & Angles

extreme close up

Cinematography

Cinematography - painting light in the dark (exposure)
- popular in horror movies
- a visual psychiatrist. goes into the mind and the way we think. making what is in the mind visible
- compose and create movement
- visually represent a story


Genre - historical romance/drama
Mise en Scene - shots go between above on the deck to below in the lower parts of the ship. there is chaos in the bottom of the ship and at the top it is still quite relaxed. this reflects the classes of people because the upper class is on the top deck and the lower is below. lighting is dark in the lower parts of the ship and warmer at the top. also suggest classes. the acting is panicked and fast paced, action packed in the lower parts of the ship. at the top of the ship the acting is relaxed and normal.
Cinematography - close up shots of the people down below to show fear and worry. wide angle shots at the top to show the relaxed, sophisticated atmosphere of the upper class.
Sound - dramatic, fast, loud in the bottom of ship.
Lighting - Dark, cold, blue haze

Genre: Foreign
Camera Movement: Slow movement at first to build anticipation, then fast movement. Camera movement is sped up and slowed down to enhance action and emotion.

Notting Hill

Genre: Romantic Comedy. There is romance, kissing, as well as laughter and jokes.

Style of Acting: Light hearted, fairly slow paced, relaxed, happy, romantic

Props: Clothing is normal, everyday, although fashionable and trendy. However different characters wear different clothing that reflects their personality (eg the extroverted family member wearing a bright orange dress and orange hair), bench with marks of love and a secret garden

Lighting: Mid- warm temperature lighting, clear, easy to see, mood lighting, lighting is cooled down when the couple is outside in the garden

Setting: Set in his family's home, and a secret garden. The garden suggests romance. Modern setting.

Raiders of the Lost Arc

Genre: Action, many close up shots to show scared facial expressions, edits are quick flashes between shots.

Style of Acting: Acting is very fast paced and action packed. The characters have to overcome tough obstacles and perform dangerous tasks very quickly. Actors are alert and dramatic.

Props: Clothing is torn, camouflage, spiders, skeletons, dead people

Lighting: Low temperature lighting, dark, ominous. Outside, lighting is warm temperature to show hot climate and tropical weather

Setting: the setting is in a type of forest and cave

Mise en Scene

This is the combination of all the visual elements within the frame (frame: the physical boundary that contains what the audience sees)

Shot Type

- Low angle shot
- Medium shot
- The intention of this angel and shot is to make the character look intimidating
- This shot shows his facial expression which makes him look mean and cruel

- Low angle shot to show how high he is and how big the cabinet is
- Haunting
- Long shot
- In office
- It appears as though he is going to commit suicide by the words on the poster
- A sense of escape

Shot type:
- Close up
- Low angle
- Clearly shows her facial expression
- Reflects anger
- Head looks big. Symbolises self-love
- Intended to make her look superior
- Crown is small. Shows she is in fact redundant/inferior

- Medium to close shot
- Very confronting
- The colour of his eyes and skin create a spooky effect

- High angle
- Long shot
- Makes Alice look small and inferior and the cat look superior

Reading Film

What does reading a film mean?
- Analysing how images and sound are used to tell a story
- Understanding how codes, conventions and stylistic devices create viewer responses
- Consciously identifying out unconscious repsonses

Why Learn How to Read Film?
- Emotional experience
- Entertainment
- Learn story
- Visually connect with characters
- Historic events
- Human condition
- Relate to characters

The First Basic Rule
Is cinema or film a text? Does it tell a story? How?

Cinema is a visual art form. Cinema is not literature. A film is not a novel.
- However, a film is a test, just as a play, poem or novel is a text
- Although the storyline is essential, when reading a film you must be able to examine, interpret and analyse the visual elements and style.

Elements of Film
- Shot types
- Setting
- Lighting
- Dialogue
- Sound
- Characters

Film Terminology

Shot - a shot is a continuous piece of filming without interruption from the time the camera is turned on and starts filming until it is turned off

Edit - An edit is a break in the film where one shot ends and the next shot begins