Favourites This Week

Film: Inglorious Bastards
Programme: Big Fat Quiz of the Year

Song: Knock on Wood, by Amy Stewart

Website: Celebrity Style Guide

Advert: Intel

Research

Preliminary Moving Image Task

Favourite This Week

Film: The Dark Night

Programme: Gilmore Girls

Advert: Doir Homme Sport

Song: Baby It's Cold Outside, from the Elf soundtrack.

Website: HMV- best website for gifts, because whats better than films at christmas time?

Sherlock Holmes

A film about the great fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, directed by Guy Richie, starring the multi talented actor Robert Downey Jr, cheeky english actor Jude Law, the gorgeous Rachel McAdams, and Mark Strong, and music from Hans Zimmer. Could this be the best film of the year?

Sadly the film is released christmas day, so I will have to wait patiently till I am available, and I am hoping it will help me get over my post-christmas blues.

Favourites This Week

Film: When Harry Met Sally

Programme: Friends

Song: Winter Wonderland, by Ella Fitzgerald

Magazine: Harper's Bazaar

Favourites This Week

Film: Elf

Programme: Gilmore Girls

Song: Last Christmas

Website: IMDB

Magazine: Asos magazine

Preliminary Task

For the contents page for the school magazine, I aim to achieve a simple and effective page that would be easy to read.

I wasn't too imaginative or creative with this page because it was only a starting point.

I tried to continue the colour schemes from the front cover, to keep a continuous theme.

By giving the magazine a neat, simple and maturer look, it gives the school a better image, suggesting the school is mature and classic.

I added quite a few photos, the reason I chose this is because it almost seems like there is a lot to do, many opportunities at Chew Valley School.

Preliminary Task

The preliminary task was to create a magazine that was appropriate as a school magazine, Using our own photos and ideas that had to be original. I wanted to produce a popular, appropriate and realistic looking magazine cover.
I chose the title 'Academy' because it represents school/college, and suits the magazine, and because I incorporated the school colour into it, I think it represents Chew Valley well.
The font I chose is youthful without being childish or innappropriate, and is instantly noticable, I also tried to keep the font colours consistant, to allow the magazine cover to flow together.
I used different sized fonts to catch peoples eye, and to make words stand out.

The main photo I used was originally taken in sepia, I experimented with a colour version but the magazine imediatly looked too busy and caotic. I also toyed with having a black and white photo, but that washed out the page and looked almost vintage. That was not the visual look I wanted to achieve so I settled with the original sepia photo.

Although my target audience are the students of Chew Valley School, I wanted to magazine to be accessable to people outside of school, so I tried to create a magazine that was appropiate to achieve this.

My magazine would be distributed by the school to offer the Students and possibly the teaching staff. It would be released as a monthly magazine, highlighting news, topics and events at the school. It used conventional items and layout that could be convincing in a published magazine.

Favourites This Week

Film: Star Wars Original Trilogy.
Programme: Big Bang Theory
Song: Sleigh Ride, by Ella Fitzgerald
Website: E! Online
Magazine: Empire

Preliminary Task

Our preliminary task is produce the front page of a new school magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead.
I have started to create the front cover, researching other magazines of different genres as I proceed.
I decided to direct my school magazine at the students. To do this I have to make my choices carefully, as I am targeting students from the ages 11-18 (including the 6th form students).
My first idea was to create a magazine purely for 6th form students but this way I can provide for a larger bracket of students.

Something I really didn't want was the magazine to act like a school newsletter. I want my magazine to appeal to the students, I want them to want to read it. And hopefully not be screwed up into a paper ball or folded into an paper airplane.
To achieve this I have to apply things to my magazine that they would want to read, and attract the to read it. This means using appropriate fonts, pictures and layout.

I have attached my title to this post, I feel it is appropriate for the students magazine and contains the school colour.
Factors like those have to be considered throughout producing this task.

Favourite this week

Film: Sleepless in Seattle
Programme: Veronica Mars
Song: It's oh so quiet, by Bjork
Website: Café Press
Magazine: Vanity Fair

After ALOT of consideration, i have finally decided to create the print task.
Although I would like to go on to work in Film and TV in the future, and the filming task would give me experience in that.
I think that I would achieve a better grade in this task if I went forward to create and study magazines.
I will use my brothers band, in my final piece. I looking foward to studing music magazines and having ago at creating one myself.

Favourites this week

Film: The Holiday
Programme: Veronica Mars
Song: Just havn't met you yet, by Michael Búble
Magazine: Sky mag (for the interviews)
Webstie: Empire Online

Ferdinand De Saussure

Ferdinand De Saussure, the swiss linguist who is generally considered to be the founder of modern structural linguistics and therefore the grandfather of structuralism. His ideas went on to lie a foundation for future developements in linguistics.
A few years after Saussure's death in 1913, some of his former students published a book upon notes they had made on his lectures.

Favourites this week

Film: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Programme: Gilmore Girls
Song: Rich Girls, by The Virgins
Website: IMDB

Favourites This Week

Film: Step Brothers

Programme: Gilmore Girls

Song: Be Somebody, The Enemy

Magazine: Look

Favourite This Week

Film: Sabrina

Programme: House

Advert: Chanel Coco Madamoiselle

Magazine: Look

Website: IMDB

Song: Tears dry on their own, by Amy Winehouse

A short post just to show my excitement for two films coming out soon.



First Orson Welles and Me - A film I originally heard about months ago, starring Zac Efron and Claire Danes. The film is about a teenager (Efron)that is cast in the Mercury Theatre production of "Julius Ceasar" directed by a young Orson Welles(Christian McKay) in 1937. 25th November 2009






Secondly The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - This film has been publicised a lot, especially around the time that sadly Heath Ledger died. And I for one am extremely excited about seeing Heath's last film, and the role he played being shared between him and his closest friends - Jude Law, Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell. The plot of the film contains the story of a traveling theater company that gives its audience much more than they were expecting. 16th October 2009

Favourites this week

Film: Hsm2

Programme: Gossip Girl

Song: Good girls go bad, by Cobra Starship ft Leighton Meester

Magazine: Asos magazine

Advert: Mc Donalds (earlier mornings)

Website: Sidereel

We started the lit fest advertising assignment with open minds, and prepared to take on the task. Our first task was to take photos that we planned to use in our different pieces of work. So we went round school choosing our victims to be our models. In the ends we didn't even use the photos, we thought it didn't work with the theme of our production.
After sitting at the computer staring at a almost blank screen, attempting to create some sort of work. Our group willingly admitted we were stuck, with this I went home brainstorming and sketching ideas, eventually I designed a hand drawn poster that I thought was appropriate and creative for the advert.

The thing I think we found the hardest was concentrating, getting our heads down and working in the time given.
When it came to presenting our work, we all knew we weren't prepared, luckily enough I had confident and witty students in my group, so we were able to survive through the presentation.
I admit we didn't work at our best, or use the time to our advantage.
If we were to do it again, I would brainstorm and collect our ideas together, and then plan our time acordingly. I would also ensure that we knew what we were saying in our presentations, and that everyone had something to work on.

Favourites this week

Film: The Holiday
Programme: Reaper
Song: Bust a move, Young MC
Website: Asos
Advert: Chanel mademoiselle perfume

Favourites This Week

Film: Twilight
Programme: Gilmore Girls
Song: Let Me sign, Robert Pattinson
Advert: Dolce and Gabbana fragrance anthology
Magazine: Look
Website: Sidereel

My Speed Meeting Answers

1. To me, media is Entertainment
   
2. I have chosen to study media because I want to work in Film and television
3. The last film I watched was Twilight
4. The last song I downloaded was Let me sign, Robert Pattinson
5. My favourite band is The Arctic Monkeys
6. If I could be in a TV show it would be Heroes
7. My radio is usually tuned into Radio 1
8. I use the internet for Facebook and IMDB
9. The newspaper that I'd be most likely to read is The Daily Mail (but because of the Sodoku)
10. If I was to buy a magazine it would be Look, GQ or Vogue
11. If I had to choose, I would rather be a Film Director
12. The song that I wish I'd written is Clair De Lune or pretty much any song written by my favourite bands.
    
13. The advert that has caught my eye recently is The Natural Confectionery Company adverts.
    
14. If I could interview any celebrity/famous person it would be Robert Pattinson or Zac Efron
15. If I was a brand I'd be something quirky, funny like Paramount.
    

Favourites This Week

Film- Harry Potter, Goblet of Fire
Song- Let me sign, by Robert Pattinson
Programme- House
Website- IMDB
Magazine- Vogue

Introduction

I was always one of those kids that thought they didn't have any hobbies. When I was younger I used to go swimming and attended horse riding lesson, but they were never hobbies of mine. About a year ago, I was over at my uncles house (who is about 36 but acts about 26) and he has the biggest collection of DVDs,It was like a HMV store. I spent the day going through his DVDs and labelling the ones I wanted to watch and the ones I had already seen. Once I had finished I realised every single DVD was labelled. This was the critical moment of which I realised, I love films.
As a child, I would watch a film, such as The Lion King and once the credits had rolled I would put on another film so I could compare them, and find myself repeating the quotes all day long.

Another thing I've been known to do is watch the special features on the DVDs, one to see what the actors are like off screen, and also to see the atmosphere and admire the production. From the outtakes to the commentry, I'd watch all the features.
If there wasn't any on the DVD I would search online for something, I like to see how each production, cast and crew is different.
I have worried I had become obsessed but I believe I have it controlled.

I am also very interested in the Magazine and Music industry, I love finding unsigned bands that I know me and my friends would like. My brothers band has played in a few times in Bristol now and that has been a good way to find out the unsigned bands in the Bristol area.
Whenever I enter a convenience store or supermarket, I attempt to skim read my favourite magazines. I particularly love the Photography in Vanity Fair, the layout and themes in GQ and the way Vogue is written.

Favourite this week

My Favourites this week:

Film- Twilight
Programme - Stephan Fry in America
Song- Fire, Kasabian
Website- MLB
Magazine - Look

Transformers

This month I have truely dedicated my time to all things related to the film Transformers.
I downloaded the Transformer soundtrack, watched the special features on the dvd, went to the cinema to watch Transformers 2 for the second time.

After realising that the film has pretty much everything a great film should have, I have placed it on my bedroom shelf amongst Walk the Line and Pulp Fiction, (the two other films I really love this month, for being simply brilliant).

These are a few reasons why I believe the first Transformers film is such a top film.

The film contains fantastic actors -
Shia LaBeouf: A extremely talented actor with a quick natural wit. Who most of our generation set eyes on him in the hilarious child comedy programme Even Stevens.
(Which I have been watching recently on CITV, because it allows me to appreciate Shia's immense comic abilities and acting skills at a reasonably young age.)
Megan Fox: A gorgeous actress that's been rated sexiest woman in the world by FHM readers, who exceeded everyones expectations by being really quite great in Transformers.
John Turturro: Who can play two completely different characters, and both be incredibly believable. And even though in the first Transformers film he played a devious sector seven agent, who was cruelly intelligent and arrogant. John played the character so skillfully he became someone who you loved to hate, and really hated to love.
Josh Duhamel: A actor I was apprehensive about, I first came across him in Win a Date with Tad Hamilton, a rom com starring himself and Kate Bosworth, and was doubtful because i was unsure he'd be able to play such a strong yet loving army captain. But he stepped up and went through crazy army training for the film, to really capture the character for the film.

In my opinion one of the best directors as executive producer, Steven Spielberg.
And an awesome and dedicated director, who needs no introduction or 'bigging up', Michael Bay.

Finally aswell as having one fantastic cast, director and crew, the film is very accessable for girls and women, it contains a clever storyline, comical moments, a heart warming love plot, and outstanding special effects.

It even won over 9 awards, including an MTV movie award for best movie, a People choice award for best movie and best sci-fi movie, and a teen choice award for Breakout Male.