29th September 2010

Today in the lesson we were discussing about the topic horror movies. We were shown many different things that scare people and were told to say what we found most scary in are lives. We then got told to do for homework a PowerPoint about horror movies and include what film we got selected from the teacher randomly and add in it the PowerPoint, which we could add to are blog through Slide share. I got the film Alice, sweet Alice.

28th September 2010

In my last media lesson we started of in the media room, we were then split up into two halves and one half stayed in the media room on the macs and another went out to film the start of the preliminary task. My group started of on the Macs where were were shown by the teacher how to transfer content like videos and pictures captured could be put onto the Macs. Then we were shown more ways in which to edit videos on Final Cut and we were then allowed to play around with the software.
After the first lesson we then swapped with the other half of the class and me and Aaron Payne went to film are task and we managed to film the whole of it but we need just a bit more for a complete job.

Practising On the Macs.

Today we were working in the media room with the Macs in are are groups. We were shown how to use a video editing programme and also how to work on the Macs generally. After the tutorial we were allowed to play around with the programme and gets to grips with how to edit etc. At the end of the lesson we were showed a previous year thirteen two minute horror movie to see what sort of films we would be aiming for and how they did it with the editing programme we would be using.

What we did in lesson

In the past lesson we continued to work on are priliminary tasks in are groups. The aim of the lesson was to finish are storyboards of the primilanry task we were going to perform, however my group did not finish in time and we will continue on it next lesson. Also are teacher gave us an in depth analysis on how to use the camera's and how the tripod fits all together and how we could use it in different positions to create different camera angles and shots. We also got given group names to distinguish who was in what group more easily, my groups nickname is Lynch.

What we have done so far.

At the start of my first lesson in media studies i was given a breif introduction on the course and how to make a blog on a website called Blogger. My teacher also told me how to personalise my blog in different ways like the design, add pictures, change layout, settings and also add different gadgets and videos etc. The following lesson we got showed how to use are school email adrress and how to link and send messages to are teacher if we were struggling and unsure with are work tasks. Then we were showed how to register with a programe called Slideshare and was showed how to send powerpoints to are posts. At the end of the lesson we were then told to choose are groups we would work with (Aaron Payne)  througout the course. Then we were showed how to briefley use the cameras we would be using for are premilinary task and also what sort of camera shots we would have to use. Lastly we then started to produce are ideas on are comic strips in are groups.