Preliminary Tasks

From doing preliminary task I was able to test out the different types of Media and see what I enjoyed most, found the most interesting, found maybe the easiest for my lifestyle and situation. I really enjoyed creating all four different types of film, but found the most creative to be the music video. The music video fitted easily around my lifestyle and so meant I would be able to concentrate on it very well and really show my own individual style. Here I will explain the process of each film and how I found it and if I could of improved it if I had more time.

Music Video:
When working on the music video we were given a song that we were not aware of. This meant we looked intensely at the lyrics instead of the kind of feeling you gain from the music and so therefore focuses on the idea of sweets, 'candy'. We also played around with the colouring of the video due to the idea that the film is colourful because of the sweets, so we enhanced that by changing the colours of the screen shot. I enjoyed the creativity with edits on this film, but I didn't like the lack of knowledge of the song and so I felt I was limited to just focusing on the lyrics.
From this though I have decided to create a music video for my coursework. I have decided this on the bases that I enjoyed creating it and I feel that when I choose a song that I am familiar with and feel I can create a great re-creation of the songs video in a completely unique and different way.


 Music video - Candy Shop from Lucy Gosling on Vimeo.

Documentary:
The topic we chose for the documentary was 'Stress Of Exams'. This was a very easy choice due to the time we filmed it, it was the exam period and so it was all very fresh in peoples minds. This was important when it came to the interviews. It meant that people were actually experiences the stress of having exams and they were able to explain that to us and also help us find out how things can be changed so people are so stressed and upset the minute someone mentions an EXAM! I enjoyed interviewing the public when filming this and I also enjoyed looking into a subject that I was experiencing myself as well. Although I did over all enjoy creating this film,, I found it difficult to keep the documentary open minded to different opinions and keep up the technique of almost subtly persuading the audience to understand the opinion that exams are stressful. This was a down factor to me choosing to create a documentary for my coursework.

Documentary- Stress Of Exams from Lucy Gosling on Vimeo.

Advertisement:
We were asked to pick an item out of a box and this is the item in which my group were assigned. This was really fun to film and we instantly had an idea of what we were going to do to produce an advert that would be as slick as the Apple adverts themselves, (with the white background and the simplicity of the mise-en-scen), but showed off all the features of the iPhone. I felt the advert is very successful and I enjoyed filming it. Although, I felt I couldn't be as creative as I could be with other types of video. Advertisement can be very difficult. Making a moving image attractive to a specific audience can be hard and you need to know your item extremely well. As well as this, if I chose this for my coursework I would have to make up my own item and that can be quite difficult as there are a lot to compete with in the world, pretty much everything is already a product being sold! So this is a factor I have taken into account when choosing what type of media I am going to create.

Advertisement - Lucy&Bri from Lucy Gosling on Vimeo.

Short Film:
The short film was one of my favourite medias to create. This short film was inspired by french short films that are silent and black and white, with a simplistic but catchy tune in the background in which would help with the creation of the emotion/ or mood that we, as actors, were trying to create. The theme of the video was that the cardboard robot head is imaginary and the girl didn't realise that she had an imaginary friend until one of her real friends sits on the robot friend and the robot disappears. The girl then becomes very confused and upset with the fact she has been spending all this time was an imaginary friend. So her and robot fall out and robot is left to fade away in the rain. It is a sad ending but I think that is what makes the film different and interesting. I really enjoyed making this film and it was one of my favourite tasks. I was stuck between creating a short film or a music video but thought that I have a better understand for the music video and so have chosen to create a music video for my coursework.

Short Film- Robot Love from Lucy Gosling on Vimeo.