This playlist features quite big sounds. I chose the songs as sort of build up songs that would get someone hyped up for something. I listen to these types of songs to get me going before a football match for example, some are played in various football montages on the TV and some I have even discovered when they are played at football grounds.
Block Rockin' Beats - The Chemical Brothers
Blue Monday '88 - New Order
Aerodynamic - Daft Punk
We'll Live And Die In These Towns - The Enemy
Genesis - Justice
Underdog - Kasabian
It's Not Over Yet - Klaxons
Helicopter - Bloc Party
Always Like This - Bombay Bicycle Club
Mardy Bum - Arctic Monkeys
Fot I Hose - Casiokids
No You Didn't, No You Don't - The Courteeners
Not In Love - Crystal Castles ft. Robert Smith
Bang A Gong - T-Rex
Come Closer - Miles Kane
Me And You - Nero
Come With Me (Instrumental) - Puff Daddy & Jimmy Page
Supreme - Robbie Williams
Black Wax - Dananananakroyd
Monday, 28 May 2012
Friday, 16 March 2012
Digital Technology
Adobe Photoshop
- the programme allowed image manipulation. I used the lasso tool to cut around images, the colour changes to posterize my image for digipack.
- I used the lasso tool to select around the image to change a certain part of the photo to tweak it to make it fit my own needs.
- The gradient tool is something I used in my magazine to give a more interesting background than plain white .
- the colour presets were helpful in my digipack as it allowed me to give a good effect on my photo's to make them look professional and in a bit more of an interesting aspect then maybe normal black & white.
iMovie
- I used this to edit my music video. It is very easy to use but give a very professional look as opposed to something like Windows Movie Maker which is very poor for editing video.
- I used the clip editor to change the length of shots and cut transitions for the video. With the song being quite fast and upbeat we had to make the cut and shot speed fit this.
- I used the frame crop tool to make our frames smaller and zoom in to the picture more to leave less blank space on-screen.
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- the programme allowed image manipulation. I used the lasso tool to cut around images, the colour changes to posterize my image for digipack.
- I used the lasso tool to select around the image to change a certain part of the photo to tweak it to make it fit my own needs.
- The gradient tool is something I used in my magazine to give a more interesting background than plain white .
- the colour presets were helpful in my digipack as it allowed me to give a good effect on my photo's to make them look professional and in a bit more of an interesting aspect then maybe normal black & white.
iMovie
- I used this to edit my music video. It is very easy to use but give a very professional look as opposed to something like Windows Movie Maker which is very poor for editing video.
- I used the clip editor to change the length of shots and cut transitions for the video. With the song being quite fast and upbeat we had to make the cut and shot speed fit this.
- I used the frame crop tool to make our frames smaller and zoom in to the picture more to leave less blank space on-screen.
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Thursday, 15 March 2012
Kramer's theory examples
11. Embraces contradicitons
For this characteristic I have chosen Atlantis To Interzone by The Klaxons, this song begins with an electronic sort of beat, similar to a futuristic keyboard rhythm. This beat continues through the song and it becomes more like rock music as the heavy baseline and drum beat kick in.
14. encompasses pluralism and eclecticism
This is a mash up of
For this characteristic I have chosen Atlantis To Interzone by The Klaxons, this song begins with an electronic sort of beat, similar to a futuristic keyboard rhythm. This beat continues through the song and it becomes more like rock music as the heavy baseline and drum beat kick in.
14. encompasses pluralism and eclecticism
This is a mash up of
Friday, 9 March 2012
Friday, 2 March 2012
6 post production choices.
Choices I made that link to media concepts:
Representation
- In our music video we decided that we wanted our lead singer to have an almost 'iconic' look and feel. Therefore we had to make sure he was highlighted in a certain way and we needed plenty of shots of him. Although the band was in the britpop/indie, the music video was not totally within this genre. Two music videos we were inspired by with low lightin were The drums - Let's go Surfing! & The Horrors - Sheena is a Parasite. Two contrasting bands, The Drums being more indie/pop and The Horrors in goth-rock. So the video was challenging a convention that th genre of the band must have a completley matching video. Although the video is dark-lit, the mood is quite cheery - from the feel to the song.
Audience
- When I produce work, I look to make something that I enjoy myself. This doesn't always fit with the feel of the audience. As all products ae designed to fit an audience I must make the products fit a wider audience than just me. Through audience feedback I was able to improve my work to fit the audience.
Representation
- In our music video we decided that we wanted our lead singer to have an almost 'iconic' look and feel. Therefore we had to make sure he was highlighted in a certain way and we needed plenty of shots of him. Although the band was in the britpop/indie, the music video was not totally within this genre. Two music videos we were inspired by with low lightin were The drums - Let's go Surfing! & The Horrors - Sheena is a Parasite. Two contrasting bands, The Drums being more indie/pop and The Horrors in goth-rock. So the video was challenging a convention that th genre of the band must have a completley matching video. Although the video is dark-lit, the mood is quite cheery - from the feel to the song.
Audience
- When I produce work, I look to make something that I enjoy myself. This doesn't always fit with the feel of the audience. As all products ae designed to fit an audience I must make the products fit a wider audience than just me. Through audience feedback I was able to improve my work to fit the audience.
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Evaluation AS vs A2
AS
- Blogger
At AS I only really posted evaluation questions as essay-type answers posted into blogger with a few pictures.
A2
- iMovie
As a group we used this to present an answer to question 1, we had our video playing and clips of videos that we were inspired by and was speaking over the top.
- Prezi
This was used as a more creative way to present work. I used it to evaluate my digipack, so it was helpful to be able to move around it and comment on specific sections
- Photoshop
I used this in question 4 where we had to describe and evaluate how we used technology. I made it look like a catalogue so there was a big image of all our hardware and software that we used and then each had a description of how it was used to go with it.
- Blogger
I used this to post some questions in draft form, just to get a feel for the written part of them.
An obvious conclusion I can draw from this, in terms of how I have improved, is that at A2 I have used a wider range of methods when posting the evaluation questions. I got a lower grade in my AS coursework than I expected, but I think my evaluation is where I let myself down. Just doing blog posts was a boring method. in A2 I used a wider range of technologies in y evaluation work and I feel this was a lot more effective.
- Blogger
At AS I only really posted evaluation questions as essay-type answers posted into blogger with a few pictures.
A2
- iMovie
As a group we used this to present an answer to question 1, we had our video playing and clips of videos that we were inspired by and was speaking over the top.
- Prezi
This was used as a more creative way to present work. I used it to evaluate my digipack, so it was helpful to be able to move around it and comment on specific sections
- Photoshop
I used this in question 4 where we had to describe and evaluate how we used technology. I made it look like a catalogue so there was a big image of all our hardware and software that we used and then each had a description of how it was used to go with it.
- Blogger
I used this to post some questions in draft form, just to get a feel for the written part of them.
An obvious conclusion I can draw from this, in terms of how I have improved, is that at A2 I have used a wider range of methods when posting the evaluation questions. I got a lower grade in my AS coursework than I expected, but I think my evaluation is where I let myself down. Just doing blog posts was a boring method. in A2 I used a wider range of technologies in y evaluation work and I feel this was a lot more effective.
Post Production Task A2
Post Production at A2:
-iMovie
I used iMovie to edit my video footage into the music video
- cutting the clips to fit the storyboard and make them right with the song
- cropping shots to frame them right
- getting the cut speed right to make it fast paced
- fading the start from black
- sped some shots up slightly to fit music
-Photshop
I used photoshop to produce my digipack at A2
- changing the colour of my image for black and white effect - posterize
- adding a coloured pattern background
- layout of text on page
- adding different images of the band
-iMovie
I used iMovie to edit my video footage into the music video
- cutting the clips to fit the storyboard and make them right with the song
- cropping shots to frame them right
- getting the cut speed right to make it fast paced
- fading the start from black
- sped some shots up slightly to fit music
-Photshop
I used photoshop to produce my digipack at A2
- changing the colour of my image for black and white effect - posterize
- adding a coloured pattern background
- layout of text on page
- adding different images of the band
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