Before Filming..

We decided that we could no longer use Izzy to film our work. We decided this because she doesnt have much free time after school, and this is mostly where we needed to use our filming and this is where we needed to take time out to actually film. Therefore, we decided that we needed to switch our main female character.
We chose to use Becca Bentley, and although she is not longer the 'typical blonde' that we wanted, we still think that she will be able to do a good job because herself and Ben will be able to work together to create the effect that we need.
We hope to start filming on Monday, with both Becca and Ben.

Audience's and Institutions Powerpoint

Audiences and institutions

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This is the powerpoint I created for 'Heat' Magazine as part of the Audiences and Institutions work.
It helped me to understand how many magazines were actually owned by the same people and therefore how many companies were actually around.

Audiences and Institutions

In our previous lesson with Mr Michie on monday, we were given a task to complete by next monday. This task was looking at different magazines, and finding out this information about them to create a powerpoint presentation. Firstly, we need to look at the ownership of the magazine, this is the company behind the production of the magazine and will be quite easy to find the information out too. These are the questions in which we must answer.

Ownership:

• Who publishes the magazine?
• Which other titles do they publish?
• Are there any particular sectors of the Magazine Industry that they dominate?
• Who is their parent company?
• Who/What else do they own?

We also need to look closely at the magazine we have been given seperately. This will help us to create more information for our presentation. The things we need to find out for this is:

The Magazine:

• How has the magazine expanded diagonally?
• How does the magazine make use of new media technologies and/or social media?
• How does the magazine promote the other arms of it's business within its pages?
• Would you argue that the magazine has created a 'brand' for itself? How?
• Complete an analysis of the front cover, contents, editors letter and feature pages - how does the magazine appeal to it's readers.

To do this, I will need to closely analyse the front cover of the magazine, The website, and other websites to go with the magazine. This includes things such as facebook and twitter.

The magazine I have been given to analyse is Heat magazine, which is a magazine aimed at females, and includes celebrity gossip and lifestyle pages.

Practise Shooting.

Today we decided that we needed to try our parctise shot of the panning and then zoom. We shot many videos, all of which were fairly shaky and could be improved. Therefore, this is our last video and we think it came out the best because you can see the panning and then the zoom into the paper which will be our picture. I feel that this video is shaky at the end, and this is something that we will need to work on as a group.
I think this helped us because we now know what we need to do when we are actually filming this scene for real. Although we are starting with a different scene first, when it gets to this one we will know exactly what to do, therefore making this time effective and useful.

Shooting Schedule

this is our shooting schedule. We were originally going to start filming Today (Wednesday 11th January) except that Izzy was unable to film then and therefore we stepped back and decided to start filming a little later. We decided that on Thursdays, we were going to film Izzy, however I believe we would have to change this to a Wednesday because more people are free then.

Hopefully we will be able to stick to this and get our first cut done by the deadlines as I think this is important.

Lighting

Yesterday Alice, Avey and I decided to find how we could make our printing room red. We decided we needed to play around with different fabrics and card and a lamp. This is the room we are trying to light up.

We went into art to see if they had any red material that could help us within our product. We got a transparent red piece of paper and decided to play around with it with different lights.

This was the piece of paper we were using to create the red lights.

this was our first attempt using the red transparent paper. We used the lights off our phones and so it didnt work very well and this was one corner of the room:

To get this effect we needed to hold up the lights close to the ceiling and this therefore wouldnt be very practical. We then got hold of a lamp and we decided that this worked better. This is the look it created and we think that this works very well. This is what the room looks like when we use a lamp.

Audience

Our target Audience was 15+. This is because we discussed mostly with people of the ages 16 and 17 and this gave us what they wanted to see on the screen. We found that because we are this age, it will be easier to think what these people might like to see, and therefore found that this was the target age we wanted.
After reviewing what the BBFC said was set for this age group, i feel that we will be able to meet this well and with ease.