Useful youtube video showing how to upload youtube videos to your blog

The video shown above is very useful as it slowly explains how to upload a youtube video to a blog.

Useful site for uploading a powerpoint presentation to your blog

Site which I found useful for uploading a powerpoint presentation to a blog

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3876331/How-to-Embed-Your-PowerPoint-Into-Blogger

The link above shows a site I found very useful in knowing how to upload a powerpoint presentation on to a post in a blogger. For other tasks in the future, this website will be very useful when it comes to uploading a powerpoint image storyboard.

Synopsis of Preliminary Task

Synopsis of Preliminary Task

My group's preliminary task was based on an action/thriller genre movie. We thought that by making and filming a thriller or action movie, it would be most affective given the amount of time and the basic rules for the preliminary task.

Our movie is based on a evil, goldigger women (Selina) who has hired an unwilling citizen (Max) to kill her old husband. Knowing that her husband is on the verge of death, Selina takes full advantage as she is that one step closer to recieving her billionaire lover's fortune.

However, Selina's clever, and knowing that the police are already suspicious due to previous circumstances, she decides that killing her husband is not a job for her. Max who is resistant at first, cowardly and unwilling, eventually gives in due to the wad of cash offered to him if he completes this task, offers to kill Selina's husband.

Although, when Max arrives back at Selina's the next day, she asks him very forcefully ,'Did you do it?' There is no reply so she asks again, the next time screaming and again there is no reply. She gets up out of her seat and fires him in the head with her shotgun. Did Max really know what he was getting himself into? Never trust a pretty face.

    

The Preliminary task

Research for preliminary task

Research for preliminary task

For our preliminary task, we researched films in which the genre is action, however, the main villian is likely to be a women, for example, Demi Moore in Charlie's Angels Full Throttle. She shows an evil villianous character with her wicked laugh and the gun she holds. The way she is presented also shows her to be of high authority and superior to the other characters.





Another action movie that our group found as influencial is 'Kill Bill Volume 1'

Photographic storyboard for preliminary task

Photographic storyboard for preliminary task

My prelim task focused on two individuals in a room, with one coming through a door. I've based my task on an action movie, involving a woman and a hitman. The woman is determined that the hitman has killed her husband, however, the hitman finds out that as he as not completed the job, his life ends.


We created a photographic storyboard in order to plan our task, using different shots and using the 180 degree rule at all times.

Recap of the lesson (Filming the preliminary task)

Filming the preliminary task

In my media lesson today, I filmed my preliminary task. There were a few problems I encountered on the day, even before filming as the members of my group were abscent with no notification which meant I had to film on my own and arrange props. This was really difficult as I had to find new props and arrange everything to film including the camera, in a really short time that I was given. I did not want to film on another day as it was the deadline and I wanted it to be finished so we could begin editing.


Fortunately, another member of my Media Studies class was on her own as the members in her group did also not show up. So we thought it would be good to team up together and film our preliminary task. She helped with the acting and we used our tutor in our task too. I had already made a version of our storyboard in which helped me as it guided me through as I filmed, knowing which shots and angels to use. I used a mixture of shots, including panning shot, long shot and two-shot. I also made sure that I used the 180 degree rule at all times as this is an important aspect when making films, trailers, movies etc. I knew that using the 180 degree rule would have a better effect on the audience as it would not confuse them whilst watching, and also will give me a better experience for when we film our main task.

Even though I had problems to start with, I found filming the preliminary task a good and helpful experience, as I learnt how to use and manage a camera myself and also, more importantly, learnt how to direct and organise people if ever these problems did occur again. It really helped me become more independent in Media Studies and I learnt new things all in the time space I had to shoot in.