Magazine Advertisement 1

Here is the magazine advertisement

Magazine article Review 2

This is an appealing magazine article by Kerrang for the blink-182 bassist Mark Hoppus. The magazine article is eye catching with the very big title "My Dinosaur Life" which makes sense when you read the main article.
Lighting
The lighting is light and vibrant, showing that this is an upbeat article, doesn't contain many dark themes and is in general a nice read rather than touching on dark and deep issues.
Colour
The colours are bright, while what he is wearing is dark he is still portrayed as a fun guy with the bright red and white colour background.
Costumes
His outfit is in keeping with the genre he plays in the band. As a punk musician he also goes against the norm as he has done with his outfit with the background being bright and nice he has gone opposite with black clothing.
Camera Angles
The camera is aimed up at him showing him that he is important, which he is to the article. it gives him a look of power over the dinosaur as he is the most important out of the two in this article.

Questionnaire results

Question 1: How would you rate our video? 1-10

Answer: On the average 7.3/10 (With a range between of 4-10)


Question 2: If below 5 what can we do to improve? (Low at encourages feedback)

Answers:

•  Needs a final bench scene, the panning shot at the end need to be of the bench as a closing scene
•  That appeared to be the only type of improvement that people seemed to notice

Question 3: What do you like?

Answers:

•  Simplicity and different shots used. Fits the mood of the song
•  The camera skills
•  The stairs was mentioned a lot, people seemed to like the part where i filmed my hand on the banister
•  Repetition of bench scene in the beginning
• Transition of shots
• Change of black and white to reflect mood  
• The soundtrack                                   

Question 4: Do you think it all fits in time?

Answer: Every single answer said yes, that the timing for everything was good and that it all fitted well


Question 5: How do you perceive the ending?

Answer: The answer on here was fairly mixed, which is what i was hoping for really, with the fact that people cant decide whether i have jumped or not is exactly what i was looking for as i want it to be open for personal interpretation.

Magazine Advert Analysis

This is a magazine pull out of the band 'Hawk Eyes' it is used to promote their new upcoming album which is not yet confirmed.
As you can see their is one main image followed by two smaller images. All of them of the band in the studio. Which this is called 'In The Studio Special' The main advert is one Q&A session with one of the band members Paul Astick.

Main Characteristics. 

1. Main picture of band
2. Band/Album Information
3. Two Sub Pictures
4. Main Article Q&A session
5. News header / In the studio special header.

Colours is also a factor i need to focus on when creating my article. What colours represent our band? What are eye catching. The lighining is also important as I need to display the video in the light I want it to. A black and white colour scheme will be good to represent what we will create. My article shall contain no people yet in this article they have dressed the band members accordingly to the genre of music that they play which is alternative rock with a denim jacket and brown boots they fit the profile of a alt rock band thus when people see thsi then it gets into their head that they must play good music accordingly to what they wear. Their body language is playful that they are having a good time rather than sitting there looking moppy. This will get it ingrained into the minds of the people that read this that their concerts will be fun as they look like fun guys as no one wants to go see a group sit around looking sad. Their props are their insturuments. This shows that they are being productive in the studio rather than not thinking about the fans when they go there.

Props.

In any normal movie or music video you can see a high amount of props. Whereas in our short three minute video we only had the idea to use one prop, an evelope. But in our Major game change we no longer required this prop.
After the game change. We used a pair of headphones. It was to show that the kid was drowning his sorrows within music. But he felt it was just not enough.

What Is Post-Modernism?

Post Modernism is the recognition that times around us are changing, that culture is moving on. Post-Modernism accepts that all pieces of media are open to user interpretation, therefore the value of all are equal to one another. An excellent example I could use is the TV show 'Dexter' which has an incredibly Post-Modernist concept, where we see the Miami metro lab tech also being Miami's biggest serial killer. Before Post-Modernism set in that would have not been culturally accepted as it would have been to dark. Another very Post Modern example is 'The Office' which was a British Sit-Com made in the early 2000's. Its genre was being a Mockumentary. A Mockumentary is the taking of a fictitious story line and showing it as realistic to the viewer. This is a good example purely because when it originally came out it had people questioning weather it was real or not. With it's Documentary layout and realistic Q&A sessions with the Co-Workers it really sets out to be real.

Rock of the Ages. 
This is a very Post- Modern example. As normal musicals contain classical music and tend to have one women singing about something stupid on a hill top. Whereas this has taken the whole idea of the stereotypical musical and turned it on its head. While still following most genre conventions. The music in the movie is a bit different from the standard things you would hear in a musical. They are all massive rock hits from the 80's and with that it sways away from the standard family musical, and becomes a more a 21st century musical in which we realize life isn't all glamorous and cheesy songs.



Pulp Fiction.

The film is interweaving some stories of gangsters. A boxer and robbers. The film breaks down the chronological time and demonstrates a particular fascination with intertextuality. For example bringing in some texts from both traditionally 'high' and 'low' realms of art. The use of different parts of media creates 'a loose, transitory combination of media consumption choices.' Pulp Fiction fractures the time by using asynchronous time lines, and by using different styles and combining them together to form a movie. It also demonstrates the postmodern obsession with signs and subjective perspective as the exclusive location of anything resembling meaning.

Editing - A Summary

Thus the arduous task of editing is complete. Even after our major game change in which i expressed earlier in my blog.

Above is the first screen shot that we have, this was taken before the game change in which we have all our old footage in. We only really worked on half this stuff on the 1st day of editing before my partner and I really decided to change a lot.

Next we have our new idea. With all the new stuff that we filmed put into action on Movie Maker. Non of it is in order. We added the music as one of the 1st things we did, so we could move things around it and make it fit accordingly. 

And finally here is the finished version. With everything in order and all of the transition shots and tones set into it. This is what our final piece will run off.

Whilst editing, I learnt a lot. Not to say i went in totally clueless, iv had some experience before, but never with anything this large. I understood the basics on how to move the scenes around and adjust the volume. That was about it. In my 3 weeks on Movie Maker, I'v learnt about transitions between scenes and not to use a straight cut all the time. I also learnt how to add music to the background and how to drown out video volume so i can use music volume. 

Not everything starts off perfect. I ended up with 7 attempts on my laptop before i got one that i felt was right. It was actually attempt 6 that turned out the best of all 7. 

But i did enjoy my task, and i found Movie Maker comfortable simple to work with.

This is a picture of my  partner and I editing our movie.