Our idea for the Brief and the 180 degree line

Me and my group have decided to create a crime, detective scene for the brief and we will chose a range of different camera shots, angles and movements to fit each part of the scene to create a very well done piece. We have chosen to create a piece about an detective questioning a young girl about a crime that had been committed recently. We are going to use a lot of camera shots, angles and movements when the detective is walking down the stairs past the window and into the room where the girl will be sat. We thought this would be a good idea because it would make the scene very serious and dramatic.

We have recently looked at a short clip from the ring and watched carefully how they created the tension, seriousness and also at parts funniness. There was one this that we looked at very carefully from this clip is the 180 degree line where if you cross over the 180 degree line it will make you confused and make everything look back to front. In the clip they have the cameras all on the front of the bed and every camera is either on the line or in front of it and it doesn't cross it.

Preliminary Task

For planning my preliminary task me and my group first had to plan and draw out a storyboard of our idea adding in the camera angle/shot/movement by the side and also if we wanted to add in speech so our group and others would get the basic idea of what the actors/actresses are going to say. I was the one in charge of drawing the storyboard as I'm very creative and was able to show what the actors/actresses were going to do without having to draw stick people which makes it harder to understand
After we had completed our storyboard we started writting the script for each actor which wasnt to hard because the ideas just popped into our heads and we just wrote them down. Katie was the main writter for the script but we just gave her some ideas. The script isnt very long because our preliminary task only has to be short, so we didnt need a long script.
After this we had to find the actors/actresses, location and when we were going to film. Set up the camera, get all the correct equipment such as the boom and tripod and also the video camera obviously. The place where we are going to film is in the lower school corridor of the school and also in the languages office. 

Demo and Preliminary Task

Me and my group have been working on a filming project. So far we have each been using a school video camera to film 5 seconds of each media shot such as close up, medium, long shot etc. Also filming the camera movements such as tracking and also the camera angles such as low and high. We then put the film on to Premier Pro edited how long each clip was and then inserted the name of the camera shot/angle/moevment at the top of each clip. We are now working on our preliminary task where we have to film a person walking into room and sitting down, but we can choose what we want to do for it. Our idea is too have two men, a detective and a policemen walking into an interegation room sitting down infront of a young girl and then talking to her to ask her where she was on the scene of the crime. It seems very simple at the moment, but when we film it using the angles/shots and movements that we will use will make it look much more interesting and we have already written a script for our actors to say so we just need to find out when me and my group are going to film and where we are going to film it, but our idea so far is to film in school using one of the lower school coridors and one of the rooms which lie there. We had this idea because its like the kind of place that would be in a police station, but were not quite sure what decade to base it in yet!

THE START OF A2

THE START OF A2!

As Media Coursework Evaluation

My final double page spread

Here is my final double page spread. My first idea of my double page spread didn't look much like this the colour scheme was different it was pink and white, but i changed this because it was too feminine and classy and didn't go with the front cover, so they I changed it to the colours vibe use in there magazine which was light blue, black and white but i added an extra colour which was grey which went with my front cover, and these colours look more professional the colours i first used seemed like it could be in a kids magazine which wasn't good at all. The layout of my double page spread came front one of Vibes double Page spread and it looks about the same just with different images and text.

I didn't put as many images along the top row because I wanted them more spread out, also the contrast of mine wasn't as high as vibes. I made the images at the top black and white because it makes the main image stand out more because its in colour and also i changed the opacity to they wouldn't stand out as much again.  iI like vibes double page spread because all the other ones I've seen so far are all pretty much the same 1 large image on the left/right and text on the other side, so i chose to imitate this one because it is different, and thats what i wanted to achieve, Different! I have all the main conventions you would see on a double page spread which is the page, number, web address and small bits of text saying who took the photo and where, also quotes from the artists. I chose this main image because it seems like she's looking at the text on the right of her or looking at the miniature photos of her on her right, also because its like she's bending down, like she can fit in the page. I also copied the V OLU ME in the top right corner because i liked it and it was laid out like my title of my contents so it shows continuity, but instead of putting 'NOW' i put 'VO LU ME 3 OUT NOW' because i didn't understand the 'NOW'. But I think that my double page spread turned out good and I'm happy with it there's nothing I personally would change.

Here was the start of my double page spread and as you can see the colours don't work too well, the photo on the right wasn't cut out and blurred properly it was a bit of a mess and the photo was all that great anyway, instead of looking like a singer she looked more like a person on a kids TV show so it wasn't good at all, but the lighting wasn't to bad. The photo on the wasn't cut out completely, I had to boast up the contrast and brightness because the lighting wasn't very good, but it wasn't a bad pose.

Would my magazine be priced or Free?

I would like my magazine to be priced but not for to much money because I wouldn't have thought people would be very interested as they can see whats happening with artists on the internet , but because it is priced it would include free codes to upload music to there ITunes. Also there would be digital subscriptions so iPad editions, interactive magazines and codes published in physical title that unlock extra content online.