Post-Production: Editing – 25/04

 

 

 

Post-Production: Editing 23/04

Placing Berlin footage where necessary over Ali’s interview

Final Letter to Self

Dear Yasmin,

I hope that you have enjoyed your first year! Yes the adult life has been pretty scary but I think I have been able to adapt well to it and have thoroughly enjoyed my independence and freedom. You said only three years to go but by the time I have replied to your letter, it has now decreased to two. 

Your hopes have been fulfilled because I have truly gained a lot of experience from the projects that we have had to complete which have included group work, individual work, technical skills and reflective work. All of the modules have added up over the year to give me a taster of different aspects of media. I have certainly gained so much more confidence not just with the equipment side of things but also my confidence with people. I am able to talk to people who I don’t know and hold a full length conversation with them as I have had to do for the documentary module for example. As we have been made to work with different members in the class, it has truly given me the opportunity to make new friends and allow the class to support each other throughout the year.

You speak of creating a short film, well I have certainly achieved this as I have made a short horror film at the beginning of the year based on students playing with a Ouija board. I was involved with creating the ideas, the props, the filming, the narrative and the editing. I enjoyed all of these stages of production and realized how much of an achievement it was to have completed something that I never would have thought I would have been able to create in the first place. My ideas on what I wanted to do within the media have certainly changed as I have thoroughly enjoyed the role of floor manager in my production module as well as creating documentaries so these are the areas that I would like to study further in order to establish which of the two I could see myself doing in a couple of years time.

This year has made me even more amibitious than I started off which I think is great and I think you would be very proud of me for.

I feel as those I have succeeded in another one of your aims for me as I have already gathered up ideas for my second year work placement. I will be searching around during the summer holidays in order to investigate which organizations would be happy to take students on for work experience to enable me to get a head start.

I will admit that the library hasn’t initially been my second home this year due to carrying out most of my work within the walls of my flat although I have used the resources available to me in order to carry out more specific research on certain topics that I was studying at the time. This has helped me hugely and has expanded my knowledge and understanding of concepts that I may have not understood beforehand.

The only area that I feel as though we haven’t looked at very much is radio and photography. I feel as though these aspects could have been in-cooperated into one of the modules to enable all of the students to fully gain a variety of mixed media experience but apart from this, the modules have been brilliant.

As you can see my first year has been very productive and I have thoroughly enjoyed myself so you have nothing to worry about. I am going to work even harder in the next two years to truly show people what I am capable of.

Take care

xx

Selecting a specific module

I have set out my blog so that on the right hand side you are able to select which module you would like to see in order to make it easier for yourselves.

Enjoy

Practical Broadcast Media

My blog to this module is:

http://yasmin113.wordpress.com/

‘Potter Puppet’

As I was searching for moral stories for my 113 MC module, I came across this video on YouTube that I found to be rather amusing.

I like the idea of using a simple beat in the background with the addition of characters repeating their lines at different times. I will suggest this idea to the Orange Group to see what the possibility would be of creating something like this.

My Dean Holbrook inspired background set

After doing some research for set ideas and growing fond of Dean Holbrooke’s painting, I used this to create the set to our children’s programme.

I think that it looks great and very childlike which is exactly the look that I wanted along with the rest of the group for this set.