AUDIENCE FEEDBACK

here is the REACTION CAM video of our audience feedback video.

in this we showed our piece to the WHOLE class and asked for feedback whilst videoing them hehehehehe.

you can find it at lydia earl's blog here.

LINK TO PREZI

If that embedding was not for you, which I can understand, here is a link.

oh happy day here is my prezi

EVALUATION

here is my evaluation that I did on the site PREZI,

a site that I would not applaud for efficience as it takes forever to do, and not very user-friendly.

happy reading!

DAISY CONWAY MEDIA EVALUATION G3323(or whatever) on Prezi

OUR FINAL PIECE

happy watching!

FINAL OTS

here is our final piece, which you can find at my team mate Lydia Earl's blog
HAPPY WATCHING

SOUND EFFECTS + NON COPYRIGHTED MUSIC.

For our film, which is in the film noir styley, we will be including some music, typically jazz, and because we had a gunshot involved we will be including a gunshot scene, we will of course be needing a gunshot noise. Because of our lacking of a working gun or the ability to play the sax or piano, we needed the use of a special effects CD. From what I hear, an old student's father used to work at the BBC, in the editing department, and he gave a heck of special effects and non copyrighted CDs to the school. Thank you, good sir. After searching long and hard for the right music we chose a plinky plonky piano number - which is quite unsettling. To make it even more unsettling, we put this weird eery screeching noise underneath - it doesn't sound quite as weird as it...sounds. We also chose a gun noise - now I can't be certain if the shot noise if suited to our plastic gun, but hopefully noone will notice that. This brings me to the subject of foley artists - ie. the people who find the noise to suit the situation. Whilst on a media trip to New York, we were taught about these and I discovered that to make the noise of a foot step in the snow they put custard powder in a bag and squeeze it! The thought of that actually makes me quite queasy, but more interestingly, they showed us a clip from titanic where a barrell falls over mid ship sinking, and the sound for it is actually a lion's roar backwards! I wonder where they came up with the idea to use that? I couldn't find a clip of this (thanks, copyright), but here is a shot of the scene, and you can see the big barrell starting to tip.

BIGGER PICTURE RESEARCH

I have become quite addicted to blogging these past few days I'll have you know! So I finally went and had a look at the Bigger Picture Research website, a blog written by freelance writer and researcher specialising in film, and on it, there's pretty much everything about everything. Having looked at the quality and depth of his posts, I don't know when this man finds time to eat or sleep or go to the toilet. A post in particular that interested me was the UK Cinema Admissions 2009; which shows how many people have been going to the cinema in the past year, and as it turns out it has gone up by 5.6%, meaning it is the busiest year since 2002, and December saw the highest sales of tickets since 2005 - was this caused by blockbuster Avatar?