Mood Board

Today I went out and brought 'Look' Magazine. I wanted to create a Mood Board from the kinds of images and phrases that the magazine used, in order to see whether they would have a positive or negative effect on the consumer.

Here is my Mood Board below;

 The magazine contained a lot of skinny/attractive women such as Cheryl Cole. It had an awful lot of negative pharses, such as 'Ugly.' People were also rated on their appearance in the magazine 'Hot or not?' and 'Rated or Slated?' The most signifiant thing I found was an advertisement for a breast englargement. If you look at the top right of my Mood Board there's a quote which states ''I've had my boobs done, but everyone notices my smile.' Lastly, it contained many beauty products such as anti-aging creams, hair prodcuts, toning sirums and nail varnishes. It is clear to see that the magazine concerntrated on people's image and its quite shocking that all this is just featured in one magazine. This has made me realise that doing my Documentary on body image is definitely a worth while topic to look into.

New Idea

I have now come up with a new idea for my Short Film which will be in a Documentary Genre.

The Video below explains;

Documentary Practice

As I have now decided to do a Documentary Film I decided it would be a good idea for me to have ago at shooting one as it is something completely different to what I have done before. I decided to use my time efficiently in class and produce a documentary about the teachers/pupils at Wymondham High.
Here is my Documentary;


Outcome:
From today I learn't that I definitely want to do a documentary for my five minute Short Film. I need to chose a topic I am interested in personally, otherwise I will probaly find creating the film quite tedious. I also learn't that I will need to find quite a few people to interview as that is what worked well when filming this today.

Documentary Overview

Definition:
A film of TV program/film presenting the facts about a person or event.

Background:
The Box Office has noticed the documentary film genre has become increasingly more successful over the years. Documentaries tend to have much lower budgets than dramatic narrative films, which make them more appealing to film companies.
Documentary films have expanded in the past 20 years. Modern documentaries have some overlap with television forms, with the development of ''reality television''

Examples:
Documentary Film's have developed over the years, they're many different factual programs/films about a variety of difficult topics available for people to watch.

Documentary Programs;
 1.'Extradinary People/Body Shock
These programmes air on channel four. They are about unusual people that are different to the conventional person, i.e. The tallest person in the world. As an audience people often become in grossed in watching these types of shows because they're intrigued to hear about peoples lives which are different to their own. In terms of how they cope day to day, what caused them to be that way and their own personal feelings about the way they are.
2. The World's Strictest Parents/Cherry Healeys Parenting Dilema's
These programmes are aired on BBC 3. They look at different ways to parent a child, giving advice to parents on how to parent their own children.

Outcome:
Of course I am not going to do a documentary programme, but I figured I could base my Documentary Film around one of these ideas that has been explored in one of the above tv shows.

Change of Idea

Having looked back at my initial idea, I like it and can imagine doing it for my Short Film, however part of me really wants to do a documentary style film. I love watching documentaries on television and am hoping to study Documentary Production at University. I think its really important you produce a Short Film in a topic which you're interested in, therefore I am considering coming up with an idea in a documentary style.

My Idea

Re

Animation

Today I have decided to look at some animation. It is something I wanted to have a look at and research because I feel it is an interesting area with in Media I have yet to explore and I may decide to use it in my Short Film.

Definition:
The techniques used in the production of aminated cartoons.

Types:

There are a wide range of different types of amination, but since I do not need to go in to great depth, I am just going to research the main ones. These are; Cel Amination, Stop Amination and Computre Amination.

Cel Amination:

Refers to traditional amination via using a set of hand drawings. Various pictures are drawn which gradually process slightly one after the other. The drawings that have been made are then traced on to a transparent sheet, which is known as 'A Cel' and acts as a medium for drawing frames. An outline of the images is drawn and are coloured on the back of the cel. This technique is effective and by combining characters and backgrounds enables the aminator to save time. Previous drawings can also be placed over the backgrounds or Cel. When doing this, as it can save previous aminations the same picture does not need to be drawn again. Having background means lighting and shading are needed for a longer period of time. After this, the camera is then used to photograph the drawings that have been made. In totday's society, this type of amination is made more appealing by combining the drawings with matching sound effects, music and association of timing for each effect.

Stop Amination:

Technique which is used to enable objects to move on their own. Simarly to Cel Amination, images are drawn in various positions and photographed. Films such as King Kong are aminated using stop motion.

Computer Amination:

The latest technique which includes 2D and 3D amination. This helps to enhance hand-drawn characters and make them appear more realistic compared to Cel Amination and Stop Amination.

Examples:
Monster's Ink and King Kong are examples of films which have been sucessful in using amination. In the image above of King Kong it is evidant the amination team have made the gorilla look incredibly realistic this particular shot of the animal looking down on actress Nicole Kidman really emphersises the size of the gorilla compared to her.

Here is a video of Stop Motion we looked at in class. I love this, I think it's so clever. I like how everything is done in the same place (on a double bed) yet various different things happen to the people and things surrounding them. If I was to do stop motion I would probably do something which kept in the same location. This video proves things being on the same set can work and it is obviously easier to keep everything in the same place.

Here is another really good video of Stop Motion. Once again, everything is filmed in the same location, this time however, it is based around sticky notes. I especially like how someone has used an usual object but made lots of different pictures out of them. It's a relatively simple concept but has been made into something really intriguing to watch. This makes me realise, stop motion doesn't have to involve people or characters made out of plasticine. Objects you might not even consider may actually be very good to use.

After looking at examples I decided to create my own short clip of Stop Motion;

I really enjoyed trying out animation. This is just a simple idea, but it took a lot of time. This is partly due to the fact I am not experienced in this field, but Stop Motion takes a lot of time regardless. I liked giving it ago, but I don't think I want to base my piece around it. I may use some Stop Motion however if it is fitting with my Short Film, but I wouldn't do it entirely on Stop Motion.

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