Monday, 26 November 2012

Assignment 4: Assessment Record

Self Assessment
 WWW:
-Pictures matched key term
-Understood task
-Completed the extension task
EBI:
-Take more pictures to show knowledge of key term
-Add a picture for 'rules of thirds'
-Next time to green level to exceed target level

Peer Assessment
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Teacher Assessment

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Assignment 4: Camera Shots, Camera Angles, Camera Movement and Composition


Wednesday, 21 November 2012

Film review of 'fish tank'

For this task my group, members included myself, Monae, Jhane and Fatou
My group completed and wrote a film review which is called 'The Struggle'
Firstly, each person wrote their own paragraph and underneath each paragraph their name is at the end of the paragraph.

Fish tank is no different from any other of the typical drama films.Director Andreas Arnold presents a typical melodramatic teenager with dreams and aspirations who is blocked by a glass ceiling-her poverty. Arnold uses the theme of poverty to make the audience aware of what real life Britain entails.Mia (the main character) goes through hard fights with her family which leads her to spend her time isolated in a deserted flat where she pursuits her dream of becoming a dancer.In addition to the twists,turns and turmoils of the main characters life, the saucy stepfather who started to fall for, the plot took a turn for the worst but the most interesting.
By: Abigail
The film fish tanks is about a young troubled teenager played by Katie Jarvis who lives the stereotypical views of life within a council flat and due to the isolation from peers and family,the main character Mia seeks a sense of freedom and the sense of security(dance).Before watching the film, I had watched elements of the film via the trailer and my views on the view was that there may have twisted relationships which may be classed as inappropriate and wrong.After watching the film,my feelings have not changed after watching this film but instead confirmed what I was thinking and expanded on my thoughts on different relationships and her relationships with others.Mia's relationship is very distant as her mum is not affectionate towards her but instead gives the essentials which is needed.For example no love is shown within her family unit but instead replaced by swearing at her.Through this it is mimicked through her little sister as she's influenced by her surroundings and family members/peers.Shortly following Connor(her new Step-father) allows Mia to feel and have a sense of hope as he gives her the affection which she has been seeking and allows her to be herself taking down the defensive mechanism. Issues with the relationship is that the relationship which he expressed was not a father and daughter relationship but instead a more intimate relationship which was not beneficial as she is underage and is the step daughter.This is a prime example of twisted relationships which occurred within the film Fish Tanks and allowed me (being only one of the audience) to feel a variety of feelings towards the film in general whether it was sympathy,anger,relief etc.
By:Jhane
The scene setting shots are charmingly exquisite, as if made from a 'Skins' episode without the teenagers.As it is a straight forward attitude, the plot is able to move forward and tell a story to the audience of what and how real life entails and the cultural state at the moment in what were living in.Most British films go deep into their depth to find a way to preach to the audience whilst the enriching style of the film makes it flow,it adds extra drama continuously.
By: Fatou
This concludes to why you should watch this niche film.It is a intriguing drama film, that some people will find they have some through in reality and also will lift you off your seats and take you on an ongoing,most likely an unstoppable flight.As the audience you will feel sorrow for Mia (Jarvis) and want to know what happens in the next step in her life because of the strong story line.There will be parts when you laugh,cry and hold on tight.
By:Monae

Next, we each recorded ourselves reading our paragraph using photo booth on my iPad
We then uploaded out video onto YouTube by firstly signing up to YouTube and then uploaded our video on the unlisted category
Next we copied the embedding code from YouTube and embedded the YouTube video, below is the video clip of myself and the rest of my group reading and recording our individual paragraphs of the fish tank review.

Monday, 19 November 2012

Assessment record

Below is my assessment record which is all my grades so far in media. My current grade is a grade C2.
To improve in media, I need to do the extensions task in my assignments, go to the teacher for help if I don't understand the task and go into more detail in my assignments.