Post 3-Skills

Skills Table

In our lesson we were given the task to create a skills table which would be describing and evaluating the skills we had developed over year 12. We looked at 5 different areas which were, digital technology, creativity, research and planning, post production and finally using conventions from real media texts. We then looked at the three different ways in which we had used the skills, these where, Technical, Interpersonal, Cognitive and Creativity. I think that after completing the two opening sequences from the course last year, as a group we are all confidant in the skills we have learnt and putting them into action when we produce our short film this year.

Targets
1. To stick to all deadlines set by both my teachers and fellow class mates whom i am working with. This i feel will help with my organisation and my overall project. When producing my last blog i feel behind on a few deadlines and i feel by doing this it effected other parts of my blog, this time around i would like to be more organised.


2. To improve my understanding of technology and try to take a more hands on role within the group. I feel i need to improve on my understanding of the editing suit and also the use of camera when recording footage. I feel if i improve on this i can then improve the overall standard of my project. I feel a high level of technological knowledge is needed in media and for this reason i am going to try my hardest to get my skills to the highest level possible.



3. To keep up the presentation of my blog and include everything on it that can be included. I feel i did not include everything i should have on my last blog and with this one i want to fully utilize the opportunity's i am given. As a blog is very visual i feel i need to include many diagrams and visual representations of what i have learnt, not mealy text.



 

4. I intend to use all the software to its full potential in order to produce the best project possible. I am going to learn how to use photo shop correctly to produce a good quality postcard that could be distributed for our short film. To do this I will first make a practice postcard using photo shop so that i can become familiar with the different settings and find the best techniques to use when creating my final postcard. I have chosen to improve upon using photo shop as i have never used the programme before so don't have any previous knowledge about it and also feel it could play a vital role in the advertising scheme.

5.For my A2 course i want to make sure that i stay organised throughout, making sure i don't fall behind with any tasks or work given to me. I think this is a very important skill that you need in producing films to make sure you are staying on top of the work load and keep organised. To do this i will make sure that i write up notes, keep all my documents in neat folder and work closely with my group to keep all joint documents together. This means that when writing up production and post production reports i will be able to write in great detail and i wont forget any important details.

Post 2

Creativity is having the ability to create your own ideas and having the passion and commitment to be able to put them into real life situations.

Game Of Consequences

Going along with the'Creativity' theme we were set a group task called 'Consequences'. As a group we had to come up with a sentence using different adverbs, nouns and verbs. The sentence that we came up with was "The beautiful flower hopped the running pig". From this we had to create a picture that would reflect the sentence. I think that my picture does show creativity as we had to use our imagination to think of what different pictures would illustrate the different motions and objects. Although it was a hard task it really made me think about how each object relates to each other and helped me in becoming more creative.

Our short film 

In groups we were given a task to create a one minute short film which had to include the appearance of a crayon. We had to make sure that we used different shot sizes and camera angles and that there was no continuity errors as we wouldn't be editing the filming. At first i found this task to be rather challenging as i find a crayon somewhat uninspiring. As a group we decided to base the film around the crayons life, and we decided to shot it in a Big Brother style with diegetic narration informing the audience of what the crayon was doing. As much as we did find it a challenge i think it worked out well, we showed our elements of creativity by making the crayon the main character of the film and using it as if it were a person. We were given no prior instruction as to what the film had to be based upon we were just given a crayon, thus meaning we could be as creative as possible and didn't have to stick to any codes or conventions. If i were to do this again i would have spent more time on the plot of the film as i feel we could have been a lot more creative, overall i really enjoyed doing this task as we were given the freedom to do whatever we wanted. 

My Own Way Of Being Creative

We were asked to come up with an idea to portray us being creative in our own personal way.I created this wall of images in my bedroom to reflect the my interests. It encompasses festival tickets, images of things i take interest in, for example music, fashion and bold bright eye catching posters. I feel this is creative as it shows my personality through the use of colours and words. It brings a sense of originality to my bedroom and is aesthetically pleasing. I feel this was a good way to express my emotion and overall portrays my originality. Overall i enjoyed this task and find being creative very enjoyable.

Overall the most important view on being creative is making sure that your ideas are original and are not influenced by others and view things/ideas in a new way. Linda Niaman states that creativity is 'The act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality. Creativity involves two processes: thinking, then producing.' She also states that having the ideas in your head but doing nothing about them is having a good imagination but its the producing of the ideas that is being creative. However when looking at the Wikipedia theory it states that creativity has to be appropriate. When we are looking at film making we have to follow conventions to produce the film to make it appropriate. This limits the range of how creative a producer can be if they have to follow the conventions