First Workshop: The first workshop consisted of the layout and presentation of DVD covers. I enjoyed this as we looked into depth of the amount of effort that goes into them to appeal to the target audience which was Teenagers. We focused on 2 DVD covers, both very different in themes: Mean Girls; a very girly, pink and glamourised movie and Kidulthood; a very 'chavvy', street life and dangerous looking movie. Analysing both covers proved very useful as I learnt about the different techniques used to draw in teenagers. After getting given a mini storyline for a made-up movie called 'Social Notworking', we created our own DVD cover and positioned ourselves to what we thought was appropriate for the storyline infront of the green screen and a setting of our choice around the school building. This was interesting because we learnt how the positioning of characters is very important for a marketting success. We also used photoshop to edit our DVD front covers which I enjoyed very much because photoshop is just a heavenly gift!
Second Workshop: This was my favourite workshop as it was different but interesting at the same time. We were shown a simple, badly edited clip of a conversation between 2 people at school. We had to identify the bad editing and explain why it was bad which was challenging as most of us knew the problems but couldn't put it into words. We were let into the different shots and camera angles and techniques used and learnt new shot types such as the 30* rule. After this, we went onto iMovie and had to rearrange the clips of the clip we just watched using the different shot types to make sense. I found this particulary fun as Sheida and I 'tweaked' it a bit to make it funny by cutting clips shorter to grab facial expressions, converting some into slow motion and inserting funny sounds to make it more comical. Doing this also developed my accuracy with continuity shots as well as realising the importance of action shots.
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