Magazine Cover

Continuity Editing Video

film openings.

The sequence begins with a hand holding a Polaroid picture as the image is developing; there is strong emotional music that injects a tense feeling into the audience causing us to perceive some tragic event that has happened. The picture hints on some bloody murder scene. We then realise that the image is fading and that time is actually in reverse, this produces questions to the audience of what has happened, when did this happened and how it happened, leading us to want to watch on further to find out. As we zoom out we see him take the photo and then a the wall ( crime scene) which is covered with blood.
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Film sequence Evaluation.

I have learnt how to use the Adobe Premiere program and have been able to successfully create a film sequence. we filmed this with the DV cameras, which i got used to using after playing around with them. The Adobe program is quite vast so it took time to figure out how to use all the tools. the cameras were easy to use but it took a bit of time and patience to get the films tape from the camera to the computer.The continuity editing we ere aiming to use worked well in the sequence and it was'nt much of a problem, howvever we did have to return to a location agian after we realises we needed more film. the final sequence was very good and runs smoothly, if i were to do it agian i would probably add sound affects and non-diegetic music to the peice.

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Video production.

Whe looked at how the following editing styles work: 180 the dregree rule, This is when the camera can be used in any shot from one side of a line, or 180 degrees, but cannot break over the line. Match on action, this is when a shot is used then cuts to another shot but is returned to to establish the persons position, so using the shot again, matching kit back up.

MEDIA EVALUATION

1. Who were your target audience? How did you ensure that you addressed them? Were you able to communicate to your audience effectively?
2. How is your text similar to other magazines? What did you take from other specific magazines? How have you attempted to be original? Was this successful?
3. If your magazine was real, would it be high or low budget? Where and how would it be distributed? Is your audience large enough to interest a major publisher? If not... how would you raise the money to establish your magazine? Advertising? How might this influence the nature of your text?
4. What have you learned about Adobe Photoshop, Quark Xpress and using the digital SLR cameras. What difficulties did you face with the technology and how did you solve them?
5. What would you do differently if you were to produce another magazine.

Our target audience was sixth form/college and university students aged from 16- 25, male and female and were from all backgrounds, to address this audience, we had to have content that this group would be interested in, so we researched this in other student magazines (national student)as an example and found that the main subjects in them were to do with; study, careers, jobs, and other media such as TV/film, music and literature, these were all very popular, so we incorporated this into our magazine content. We also looked at the presentation on the front cover which we noticed was normally a picture of a student, this is normally a trend as it engages the audience as it is a student on the cover, and the magazine is aimed at students, doing this is successful as it does engage the audience. Our magazine would be a low budget magazine to ensure a low cost or free price, as students don’t have much in disposable income. We would however use computer programming and a possible a voluntary editor and content researcher. The money needed would be provided by page advertising, this would limit the influence the adverts had on the general content. The magazine would be distributed around colleges and universities, being transferred electronically to keep costs down, it may be the case that its audience is large enough for a publisher, who could choose to distribute it as a supplement to a larger magazine or paper. Whilst creating our magazine I encountered issues with the technology we used, quark xpress and adobe Photoshop were hard to use at the beginning because of the professional use needed to work them, however the more I used and worked with them the more I learned of the programs and warmed to them. When using the SLR cameras in the studio, with the white background and studio lighting I found out how light affects the quality off your picture. If I did the magazine again though I would use a more colorful background for the cover picture of the magazine, the white we had on the background of our student on the cover proved to be a waste of cover space. I believe a better background, such as a outdoors shot would have been more esthetically pleasing.

Audience profile and magazine links

the audience profile for aour magazine will be 16-25 year olds, female and males who are college and university students. content will primarrily be on the conetented stated in last blog.
here are some links to magazines we looked at : http://bubl.ac.uk/Link/s/studentmagazines.htm

:http://www.national-student.co.uk/magazine/

:http://www.theiet.org/students/magazine/

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Student Magazine Research and Audience Profile

After loooking at some student magazines vier the internet we found that they ofen have the conventional type of cover with cover picture , usually of a student or young girl/boy 16-25. content infomation is on the front with the contents being mainly topics of other media such as
- TV reviews, guide
- Music reviews
- Computer, consoles
- Book reviews
there is also student related topics such as, studie guides and suggestions ect.

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Friday afternoon nock offs

Looked at a SLR digital camera today, took some pictures then uploaded them onto the computer using the sim card and sim card slot on the computer....most entertianing.

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my first day blog

i like top gear but not clarkson, hes not cool.