Thursday 7 December 2017

Grade A RMT essay

Conventions are followed as they allow for the audience to understand what genre or type of media a piece is. They can however be subverted or the conventions can be changed slightly while still recognizable; for example, a boost could be shaped like a circle or square, but if the intended meaning is shown (in this example a form of advertisement) then the use of convention is successful. I have learnt from the past two years that semiotics is different in each genre and how to adjust to them. In AS my focus was music magazines in a genre of our choice, to create the magazine I used References from real media texts or RMT. One of the ones that I used was NME – this was due to the fact it had a wide range of diverse types of artist but the outline was the same – this choice limited my creativity, however, it did allow me to understand the conventions of layout. From the magazine, I learned that the cover lines, boost and images fell into the ‘rule of thirds’ this helped me space my writing correctly. However, I also changed this slightly as the rule of thirds states that you must put your subject on one of the intersecting line. To be more atypical I placed my artist in the center of the page, this is so it would be more eye catching. I believe that this was successful. My semiotics in colour were less successful. The reason for this being that even though I used white, red, and black – as a symbol of the rock genre. I did so in the wrong ratio making the image look more like a pop magazine due to the lightness. This was only made effective on my double page spread as most of the first page and second are shown to have main and secondary images typical of the genre. The real media text I used for my trailer shaped the way in which I will edit it. Using the conjuring 2 trailer I worked out a rough time line and what to put in each section of the trailer. Within the three sections the pace gets faster and only use the disruption section of the film. Starting with tracking shots we filmed in the woods, and abbey ruins, these were texture shots which showed outlined the scenery for the audience as more mood than action. We get to the first cut to black at twenty seconds – this is a teaser trailer so each of the sections is roughly 20 seconds. Oculus follows this much better than the conjuring two trailer but I chose it due to the subsections and not the overall layout. Learning about this means that each section is not to long and the audience does not get bored. As my trailer is a monster trailer the semiotic shows that. This is by using low key lighting to signify death and by using the conventional stock scenes of the monster’s natural weapons but not the abilities. This is as that shows the resolution of the film and would spoil the ending not to mention the fact that as a teaser trailer there need to be less dialogue/monologuing to allow for the producers to capture the audience. This was more successful than my first-year magazine as we learned more about the conventions via RMT but we also learned how and why they were used this allowed me to apply them effectively and change them when my creativity needed to. In the end, my use of conventions was more effective in the second-year due to my use of references (I used more) this is as it allowed me in the second year to explore more, however, this limited me to one genre which may have been the reason it was more effective as I was forced to look at unusual ways to interpret text. The repeated conventions where chosen from the research and planning questionnaire and has shown to be effective in meeting the expectations of the audience (other students) who are within the age range 15+. But I also now understand the uses of semiotics and their meanings while being able to apply them. By restricting my creativity, I can explore more successfully.

Monday 4 December 2017

2.6 30 -45 seconds editing & A grade Mags

D - understand conventions of trailers in terms of sections, titles, sound and transitions

C - apply structural conventions to refine footage in trailers to refine 15 - 30 seconds

B - analyse structure and editing techniques for purpose and Tone

A-  create the 30 - 45 seconds story section demonstrating excellent control over the edit

http://ctkmediaa2horror.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/26-30-45-seconds-editing.html