Media Lesson 5 - Representation

This person is presented to us in a way that you get the sense of what he is about, gangster and dangerous. As a teen this artist produces the sort of music I listen to, gangster rap. He is giving the image that he is rich; you can tell that from the wheels he is sat on and the chains round his neck.

By the tattoos and the look he is giving the camera you can also tell he is quite a strong proud person. Most of the messages of how he represented are all in the image, the big wire wheels, wearing his trousers low, loads of chains these are all indications of him as a person.

The target audience for this artist personally it think the age of 14, because that is the sort of age you get out there and hear this sort of music and decide whether you like it, this sort of music is only played on certain channels and at certain times due to the explicit language and meanings of the songs made by this artist and artists of this genre. These songs include topics such as drugs, sex and women. They often also sing about where they come from the hard upcoming they have had and then compare and talk about how far they have come and what they have managed to achieve regardless of their roots, they also never forget where they come from that is something that is mentioned in gangster rap very often.

Media Lesson 4 - Diagetic & Non-diagetic Sounds

Diagetic sounds: these are sounds made by sources that are visible on the screen, or sounds that are made to be present by the action that is part of the scene in the film.

·         The music using instruments, used in the scene.

·         The voices of the characters.

·         Sounds made by objects etc in the film.

Diagetic sounds don’t always have to be visible, depends on whether they are included in the shot or not, diagetic sound also called actual sound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lciSaPCz2Po

Non-diagetic sounds: a source of sound that has not been made to be present on screen nor in the action.

·         Sound effects added to make something more dramatic.

·         The narrator’s commentary.

·         Mood music.

Sounds which are made to be added, not part of the activity of the scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l650hWV1Vhk

Diagetic and Non-diagetic sounds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TC9bKyDB5Y

The trailer above is of the well known Paranormal Activity film, the first one, as a group we have chosen to do horror. We identified that in horrors there are very quick camera movements and every time there is a camera movement there tends to be a new type of camera angle. Due to only having a two minute slot we thought by doing horror in a short space of time we would be able to include many different camera shots and be able to create a good piece. 
In the group we are all fans of horror films and all have visions of what our end product would look like hence doing all the camera work and acting ourselves. 
We had many ideas as to story but it was late down the line when we confirmed one, thats what the other aspect of doing horror, the story can be flexible and we found this to be an advantage.
Another advantage of horror is you can make any setting/backdrop into horror, we have filmed many scenes inside the school but if i did not tell you that then you could only guess where they where filmed. Due to have Apple Mac facilities we were able to alter clarity, sound and lighting in the first few scenes we shot, we made the backdrop dark and filmed the scenes and then when it came to editing we found they where too dark and making it brighter from the Mac did not give the effect we were looking for, so we where able to go back and re-film the scene in much more light and then darken it which helped us alter it to specification.