Tuesday, 8 February 2011

Copyrighting Music

It is coming up to the time where we really have to concentrate on our music. Since we cannot copy any recent music due to copyright laws I decided to do a little research for myself to understand it.


What copyright exists in music?


There are usually 2 types of copyright to consider when we talk about music copyright.
  • The traditional ©, ‘C in a circle’ copyright, applies to the composition, musical score, lyrics, as well as any artwork or cover designs, as all of these are individually subject to copyright in their own rights, (though when you register, you can include them all in a single registration provided they have the same copyright owner(s)).
  • The second type of copyright applies to the sound recording itself, and is signified by the ‘P in a circle’ phonogram copyright symbol.


I print screened some information about copyrighting from wikipedia to show in good detail what copyrighting surrounds.




Sounds

This link will take you onto Kieron's experiment of sound effects. CLICK HERE

Tuesday, 1 February 2011

De-constructing of 'The Killers' O.T.S

To really get a feel of what me and my group want to create ourselves, we have to see how other people do it.
I have de-constructed the O.T.S from The Killers. I have listed what is conventional and what is unconventional about this opening title sequence.


Conventional:
- Fades in at the start to show 2 people in a car driving a long.
- There is an establishing shot which shows exactly where they are 'Brentwood'.
- There is non-diegetic music to create an alarming theme. Brass instruments were used to create that power.
- Titles and credits come in within 30 seconds.

Unconventional:
- Enigma has not been established.
- No speech up until 1.33. Most likely to create an 'eerie' feel as there is some non-diegetic music played quietly throughout the O.T.S
- Hook; Who are those men and why are they there?

Sound Foley Experiment

Today, Kieron set himself the task of finding the right sound effect for a gunshot. He conducted a test of 3 different items:
A - A dictionary
B - A ruler
C - A shoe

Go to Kieron's blog to see how he conducted this test or [click here]

Logo

As a group we have decided that this will be our logo as it is not a traditional film noir specifier. This shows that we are trying to put in a modern (neo-noir) side. However, a fingerprint is associated with forensics and crime - which film noir is loosely based around. Having the fingerprint this bright green shows that we are not going for the contemporary film. This gives our film an edge and an individuality for our wider audience to experience. This impression shows what our group is going for perfectly.

Group Progress and Final Cut.

Kieron: Assessment Criteria
              Inputting Sound

Jessica: Storyboards
              Styling

Melissa: Final Cut Express screen shots

 This is an example of what Melissa is doing. We have been trying to get used to using Final Cut Express, but so far, it's not really going well. Final Cut is very hard to use. Melissa has posted more information so to see that post click here.
I think that the main reason why we are having so much trouble with Final Cut is because we are so used to using iMovie from GCSE. I do personally think that by our group using Final Cut, we will gain a lot more experience.

Assessment Criteria

This assessment criteria is to assess what each of us have done so far. Individually and as a group we need to look at what needs to be done aswell. This helps us be a lot more organised and up to date with posts. Each of us need to make sure no one out of the group is falling behind so we need to link to eachothers posts and blogs.

Orange is what we have done.
Blue is in the progress of.
Red is what needs to be done.

VIDEO This is the specification for -
Level 4 48–60 marks A*/A High B
I am aiming high as I want to achieve and do well, so I will try and meet all the criteria.
There is evidence of excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:

-holding a shot steady, where appropriate;


-framing a shot, including and excluding elements as appropriate;


-using a variety of shot distances as appropriate;


-shooting material appropriate to the task set;


-selecting mise-en-scène including colour, figure, lighting, objects and setting;


-editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer;


-using varied shot transitions and other effects selectively and appropriately for the task set;


-using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;


-using titles appropriately.



Marking Criteria for the presentation of the RESEARCH AND PLANNING, specification for - Level 4 16–20 marks A*/A High B

There is excellent research into similar products and a potential target audience.


There is excellent organisation of actors, locations, costumes or props.


There is excellent work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or storyboarding.


There is an excellent level of care in the presentation of the research and planning


Time management is excellent.

Our editing

PROBLEM. According to the macs we are using, there is not enough disk space resulting in some of our clips disappearing. Melissa has been trying to find ways of sorting this out and hopefully by next lesson it will be successful. We have just about finished our dummy run but NEED to sort our real o.t.s soon as the deadline is coming up. EEK.

Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Linking to previous questions - Task 5 and 6

As a small theory task as a group we had to answer some questions separately and all together. On my own I answered 2 questions about how society affects our views on the media. This relates to our work because we need to know what the audience want to see. As I answered in the question, some people prefer to go to a cinema to see a film because it has a bigger dynamic. However, we need to make sure we can capture the audiences eyes just with our O.T.S. Basically what we need to do is make sure that society doesn't influence our film in a bad way. They need to see it for themselves and decide whether to like it or not themselves. We won't be able to influence their views on it but we could help change that by drawing them in to watch our film. (I feel like I'm writing a campaign!)