What Went Well and Even Better If - Preliminary Task

This is the Preliminary task we had to make for media as part as our course work which is based upon Continuity Editing. 

WWW:We used continuity editing in our clips which is where it tells a story as though the movement hasn't stopped a good example of this in our work is when Michael was opening a door and it cut to a close up of his hand pushing the door then after cutting to Michael inside the classroom which shows effective use of continuity editing. Another good point is effective use of eye line match where we see Michael looking to the right and then cutting to a shot of Harry sitting on the chair, this is a good shot because it's creative and it tells you the full story of where Michael's attention is focused creating a clear shot and good use of editing. We then later see use of Shot Reverse Shot, this is when Michael and Harry are talking, I think this is  a part of What Went Well because we can see clear communication and no jump cuts, and that the two characters are talking. It also is within the 180 degree rule, so that the shot doesn't confuse anyone who is watching the clip.


EBI: Firstly when watching the clip Michael is walking down the hall we see that he walks up towards the camera, then we cut to a mid-shot where he is about to open the door, however we can see that there is a reverse shot as it slightly looks like Michael has walked backwards to open the door, this can cause confusion to the audience to improve this we should cut the shot a little bit earlier. Also towards the end the shots are unfocused, which makes the clip look not as well presented, to improve this we should make sure the camera is fully focused before shooting. Lastly at the end of the clip we see that it suddenly cuts off, this is due to time running out, however if we had more time we could extend the clip so that it doesn't suddenly cut off and confuse the audience.

Annotations on a youtube video guide!

This is a guide on how to add annotations to a YouTube video!

1) Firstly login to YouTube, click 'My Channel'. Then select 'My Videos'. Once you're on your videos select a video you would like to add annotations to. Once you chose then video you should notice a small bar below the timings of the video you hover over them with your mouse, one should say 'Annotations' Select that.

 

2) You're then taken to page with this, you're able to view your video, and to the right of that you can see a drop bar, click that and then select 'Note' Or 'Speech Bubble'.

3)There is a box underneath it, where you can choose what you would like to write in your annotation, you can see this appearing on your video, you are also able to move it around and expand the box size. Also you can change the timing of how long the annotation is shown for if you see where it say's start and end you can click the drop bar underneath to change the timings.

4) Next you can see there is a 'Fill' tool, this allows you to change the colour of the annotation box if you would like to.

5) You can then move the annotation icon on the time line that appears below the YouTube video to choose where you want to appear during the video.

6) Then there is save and publish button in the top right corner, select publish and it will save the video and add the annotation into it.

You have now put an annotation on a YouTube video.

Creating and embedding Youtube explained.

Embedding a video to your blog. Firstly find a video you want to embed from YouTube, then scroll down on the page select 'Share' under the video, then go across to where it says 'Embed'. It will then give you a link, copy the link, then Login to your blog, select create new. Next to where it says 'Compose' it should say 'HTML' press that, then after you get to the page, paste the link which you copied, then you have embedded your video to your blog!!!

Icona Pop - Youtube

How to screen capture...

My screen shot!

To screen capture on a apple mac computer you hold down cmd+shift+4 on the keyboard then you will see a target shaped icon appear on the screen, you then drag it over the part of the screen which you want to screen capture and the image will then automatically saved into a screen capture folder and then you have a screen shot!

Intoduction.

Hi my name is Casey Jenson, I am blogging for media studies which is a course I am taking for A-Level. I have chosen to take media because I am interested in the film industry.