Making sense of the range of options you have is one of the key processes in producing a piece of video that you like. Choosing from the effects and styles that your software has built into it is a vital part of producing a high quality finished piece of work. Magix Movie Editing software has a wide array of transitional, audio and video templates which can be applied to any of your clips on a re-scalable timeline.
While the editing process is fairly tedious at first, the piece soon takes shape. Going through each clip and trimming the unusable footage, or the unwanted footage takes the most time. The stage of rearranging the clips is undoubtedly the most important part of the editing stage, refining video and audio to produce a seamless artifact.
As of this writing I have not been able to devote as much time to the editing as I would have liked because of University exams and other subject coursework, but I hope to be dedicating myself to this piece very shortly.
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Sunday, 10 January 2010
Storyboard Upload
My latest storyboard. Modified slightly from my original ideas to fit some of the footage I have.
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Sunday, 3 January 2010
Christmas Filming
Over the school holidays I have managed to acquire the footage which will make up the main task of the advanced production. This has pleased me thoroughly! I hope to get through the editing stage as quickly as possible and get onto the fine tuning of the documentary extract so I can focus on the two ancillary projects.
I will combine the video material I got from the virtual band I interviewed and a selection of footage from the BBC Digital Revolution site, which as I mentioned in a previous post is available for use as long as you credit the site in the piece of work.
Looking back on some of my initial ideas, I can see things that would not work with the footage I have, and thus am rethinking the way I want to position the audience.
I will combine the video material I got from the virtual band I interviewed and a selection of footage from the BBC Digital Revolution site, which as I mentioned in a previous post is available for use as long as you credit the site in the piece of work.
Looking back on some of my initial ideas, I can see things that would not work with the footage I have, and thus am rethinking the way I want to position the audience.
Friday, 11 December 2009
Copyright issues
I have found some material which I may be able to use from the BBC website. They have released some rushes from a documentary they are currently producing to the public. There is also a competition associated with the material, and because of this the licence agreement grants use of the material in any way as long as you credit the BBC Digital Revolution site. This site will prove useful in making my documentary, the full agreement can be read here.
Monday, 7 December 2009
Roland Barthes extended
I have made another sheet, which moves a bit further into Roland Barthes' narrative codes, although my sheet does not go into too much depth, I reccommend looking at the articles I have linked in the docuement.
It can be accessed here.
The link to my first sheet.
It can be accessed here.
The link to my first sheet.
Friday, 4 December 2009
Political Spectrum
We looked at this picture in class today, one which illustrates nicely the differences within the political spectrum. This diagram puts the whole concept of political 'left' and 'right' into a nice, easy to digest format, making the whole thing easy to understand.
Thursday, 26 November 2009
Media Theorists, and Creativity Revisited
My latest task was to research a particular media theorist in terms of narrative structures. I chose Roland Barthes, an influential 70s postmodernist who wrote several books, one of which was an auto-biography where he analysed himself as a text.
His most famous piece of work is probably the idea of the 'author' and the 'scriptor', otherwise known as 'The Death of the Author'. Barthes' theory is that instead of the author being the one to give meaning to a text, it is now the readers own experience and knowledge of conventions that brings meaning to a text. In conjuction with this, he also described media texts as being either 'open' or 'closed'. An open media texts could have any number of threads of meaning, all depending on the readers experience. Whereas a closed text could only have one main thread of meaning. These 'threads' of meaning were decided by Barthes as being 'narrative codes', and he categorised 5 of them:
His most famous piece of work is probably the idea of the 'author' and the 'scriptor', otherwise known as 'The Death of the Author'. Barthes' theory is that instead of the author being the one to give meaning to a text, it is now the readers own experience and knowledge of conventions that brings meaning to a text. In conjuction with this, he also described media texts as being either 'open' or 'closed'. An open media texts could have any number of threads of meaning, all depending on the readers experience. Whereas a closed text could only have one main thread of meaning. These 'threads' of meaning were decided by Barthes as being 'narrative codes', and he categorised 5 of them:
- Action/proiarectic code & enigma code (Answers and Questions)#
- Symbols and Signs
- Points of Cultural Reference
- Simple Description/reproduction
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