From planning our 7 minute presentaion, myself and ryan carman have inadvertently made a list of things we shall be doing over the next week or so.
The things we have to are as follows; we will do a word-association poll to make sure that, in terms of semiotics, the signifiers we will be using actually get the desired response from the audience, develop the finalised story and script, take photos of our desired locations and use them to produce a storyboard and upload the videos of our influences to our blogs.
Thursday 19 November 2009
Tuesday 17 November 2009
Presentation for Thursday(19/11/09)
7 minute presentation per group including
-Semiotics
-Meta-analysis
-Analysis of directors
-Evidence of criticising/denoting(Sound, Lighting, Camera, Editing and Script)
-Storyboard
-Location
-Semiotics
-Meta-analysis
-Analysis of directors
-Evidence of criticising/denoting(Sound, Lighting, Camera, Editing and Script)
-Storyboard
-Location
Tuesday 3 November 2009
Soundbite essay on Semiotics
Semiotics is defined as the study of sign processes, or signification and communication, signs and symbols, into three branches. This specific definition is from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics). My understanding of the term is when a physical object, visual symbol or specific sound represents something more then what it is. The study of semiotics is then divided into three areas which is the sign (the picture, object or sound), the system into which these signs are organised and the culture in which these signs operate.
According to a research report by Arienne L. Longstreth on semiotics, an example of semiotics is to think of a smell of a favorite food. The smell of the food might trigger a memory of eating which can trigger hunger, or the smell could remind one of the last time they ate this food, possibly a loved one. The point is that the smell of the food can mean so much more then just a smell because of what it can represent. Arienne also mentions Roland Barthes, one of Europe’s most renowned theorists of semiotics, and how he believed that in order to generate a complete sign, there are two parts that have to work together. He named these parts the signifier and the signified.
When thinking about the semiotics of my own upcoming production for A2 media, I realized some of the semiotics myself and my group had thought of without knowing about semiotics. While thinking about ways to make the location we will be filming in seem dark, desolate and a “scene of the crime” type of place, the ideas we came up with were actually semiotics as they represented other things that we will be trying to get across, for example left over needles and other drug paraphernalia in the area represent drug use which represents darker things like addiction, desperation and poverty. These representations then make their impression on the location itself thus turning a location into a scene in our film.
According to a research report by Arienne L. Longstreth on semiotics, an example of semiotics is to think of a smell of a favorite food. The smell of the food might trigger a memory of eating which can trigger hunger, or the smell could remind one of the last time they ate this food, possibly a loved one. The point is that the smell of the food can mean so much more then just a smell because of what it can represent. Arienne also mentions Roland Barthes, one of Europe’s most renowned theorists of semiotics, and how he believed that in order to generate a complete sign, there are two parts that have to work together. He named these parts the signifier and the signified.
When thinking about the semiotics of my own upcoming production for A2 media, I realized some of the semiotics myself and my group had thought of without knowing about semiotics. While thinking about ways to make the location we will be filming in seem dark, desolate and a “scene of the crime” type of place, the ideas we came up with were actually semiotics as they represented other things that we will be trying to get across, for example left over needles and other drug paraphernalia in the area represent drug use which represents darker things like addiction, desperation and poverty. These representations then make their impression on the location itself thus turning a location into a scene in our film.
Thursday 22 October 2009
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino is one of the directors that has really influenced me as a director because of the way he creates suspense in his scenes by keeping shots longer then usual and focusing on the charaters facial expression. These are some of the traits that i hope i will be able to use in my production to get the same desired effect. I am also a fan of Tarantino's use of modern culture in the dialogue between his characters but because we only have 5 minutes for our film, i doubt we will be using this method
Thursday 8 October 2009
soundbite essays
we have been asked to do soundbite essays, my understanding of those is;
a soundbite is - a short extract or taster of a larger piece - e.g a review of a film could be classed as a taster/soundbite essay in comparison to the film. a paragraph from an essay, a podcast ad for a radio show
they;
expand understanding without spoling the whole
give tastes
introduce an idea or a possibility
explain a viewpoint
as the person responsible for direction/concept and storyboards i need soundbite essays on each of the style of directing i want to do, the style of storyboarding i want to do and a rough idea of the concept.
a soundbite is - a short extract or taster of a larger piece - e.g a review of a film could be classed as a taster/soundbite essay in comparison to the film. a paragraph from an essay, a podcast ad for a radio show
they;
expand understanding without spoling the whole
give tastes
introduce an idea or a possibility
explain a viewpoint
as the person responsible for direction/concept and storyboards i need soundbite essays on each of the style of directing i want to do, the style of storyboarding i want to do and a rough idea of the concept.
Thursday 1 October 2009
Group videos
here are two videos of myself, ryan carman and joe claxton discussing our ideas and influences on different aspects of our project.
Thursday 17 September 2009
first A2 media project
For my first media project in a2 i shall be making a short film with ryan carman and joeseph claxton. The film should last 5 minutes approximitly. We have divided up the roles of the film making as follows; myself and joesph shall be co-directing, i shall be doing the storyboarding and conecpt(script ect.), joeseph shall be in charge of music and sound technician and ryan carman shall be in charge of editing, camera and lighting.
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