Wiki
In 'Contemporary Media Issues' we were told we had to bring in an article about the media. Rushing around that morning, I found an article on a woman who was raped, and after watching CSI all the time, she helped solve her rape by leaving her DNA in the car during the ordeal. Fortunately, the rapist was found and jailed. We were put into groups based on the topic of our articles, mine being TV. We used a website called Wetpaint to create a wiki page about all of our articles.
Here's the link: http://contemporarymediaissues.wetpaint.com/page/TV
I didn't really like using wetpaint because I found it boring. It was simple to use, as all you needed to do was type but appearance-wise I didn't find it captivating to read, compared to the likes of prezi anyway.
Photoshop
In 'Digital Media Tools' we were given the task of taking 3 photos of something we walk past every day. I chose the creepy looking shed on top of a building that I can see outside from my window.
Here's the original:
Our task was to photoshop it in anyway we want. As I've never used photoshop before, I didn't really have a clue what I was doing so decided to make it black and white by playing round with brightness, exposure, saturation and contrast.
Here's the photoshopped version:
I like how it looks creepier and more haunted.
Storyboard
As part of our assessment for the end of the year, an assignment we were given was to produce a storyboard consisting of 20-30 shots. Our story was about a husband who went on a date with his girlfriend and his wife is watching him. We then see a mystery figure follow him and subsequently kill him. The final shot is the figue revealing theirselves as the wife. I really enjoyed planning how the shots would look and positioning the characters in a way where the photos would come out best.
In Friday's 'Film Language' someone had the clever idea of putting on the film 'Antichrist' for us to watch and note the cinematography. All I can say is, anyone who managed to write notes during that film is a hero. It was genuinely the most disturbing film I've ever seen. There was no need for anyone's genitals to get bashed or cut off, there was no need for the wife to drill a hole in her husband's leg and bolt a boulder to it, there wasn't even a need for the wife to start bashing her head against the toilet. In my opinion there wasn't a need for the film. However, the director, Lars Von Trier, did create some very effective scenes such as the opening scene. It is shown in black and white, with classical music playing and shows the couple having sex and their child watching them then falling out the window. The music built up the tension of what was going to happen to the child and became slower once the child had died. Another effective technique that was used was that throughout the film, scenes would often be pretty quick and the transition was sharp.
But honestly, don't put yourself through the torture of watching this film, I couldn't even eat lunch after it, and it takes a lot for me not to eat lunch...
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