Media Studies Revision
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- Created on: 31-01-19 11:26
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- Media Studies February Mock Revision
- Mood Boards
- Collection of sample materials and products
- Purpose - Mood Boards help stimulate creativity and generate ideas at the start of a project
- They do not show what the final product is like but give a constant reminder of possible styles
- Content - Images, colours, text fonts and styles, fabrics and other materials
- Work Plans
- Structured lists of tasks to be completed with a timescale for when they need to be done
- Purpose - to map out all aspects of a project against time in order to meet the deadline
- Content - Tasks, activities, durations, timescales, milestones, deadlines, resources, contingencies with back-up plans and extra time.
- Used for any media product such as a comic book or film trailer
- Health and Safety
- A Recce is a visit to a specific location to be used for filming purposes to check access and environmental considerations
- Report may include notes on location, access, lighting, power and potential issues
- A Risk assessment is a report that determines hazards, who might be harmed and precautions to be taken
- When using computers make sure the chair height, seating position, distance from screen and keyboard/mice positioning are suitable to prevent repetitive strain on the body
- Keep loose cables tied up and out of the way to prevent trip hazards
- A Recce is a visit to a specific location to be used for filming purposes to check access and environmental considerations
- Hardware and Software
- Hardware is the devices and equipment used to create and digitise pre-production documents
- PC desktop, Laptop, Mac, iPad
- keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, graphics tablet
- Software is the applications used to create and digitise pre-production documents
- Hardware is the devices and equipment used to create and digitise pre-production documents
- Storyboards
- Used to illustrate a sequence of images, with a flow of scenes that follow a timeline
- Purpose - They provide a visual representation of the media project with guidance on what scenes to make and edit
- Uses - video projects, comic books and computer games
- Content - Images, locations, camera shots and movement, shot length and timings, lighting and sound
- Legislation
- copyright and intellectual property
- all content published on the internet is likely to have automatic copyright in the UK - to use it legally you must contact the owner and ask their permission to use it (sometimes there is a fee)
- certification and classification
- the UK has laws on content that is allowed to be seen and shown - e.g violence, strong language, scenes of sexual nature
- BBFC (British board of film classification) ratings for films - U, PG, 12, 12A, 15, 18.
- PEGI (Pan european game information) ratings for games - 3, 7, 12, 16, 18
- the UK has laws on content that is allowed to be seen and shown - e.g violence, strong language, scenes of sexual nature
- data protection
- Data Protection Act 1998 - organisations must collect and store personal information securely and with fair reason
- everyone has a right to view and correct their own personal information collected by an organisation
- Data Protection Act 1998 - organisations must collect and store personal information securely and with fair reason
- privacy and defamation
- people have the right to privacy and this should be considered at all stages in pre-production and production stages of a project
- you must be careful how you portray people, including how you write and talk about them
- copyright and intellectual property
- File Formats
- jpg. used as a common compressed image file format in digital cameras and phones (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
- png. similar to .jpg but supports transparency (portable network graphics)
- tiff. these files are uncompressed and maintain full quality; however they have a large file size making them somewhat unpopular (Tagged Image File Format)
- gif. supports animation and transparency; limited range of colours so it is more suitable for logos and graphics rather than photos (Graphic Interchange Format)
- pdf. widely used format for images and other documents that can be sent but cannot be edited (Portable Document Format)
- psd. Generic format used by adobe in its graphics software. Retains all layers of the image for future editing (Adobe Photoshop Document)
- this file is suitable for windows users; it is commonly used for image files that are awaiting editing or being used as a desktop background (bit-mapped file)
- visualisation diagrams
- rough hand drawn sketch of what final product is intended to look like
- purpose - to plan the layout of a static image visually
- uses - Blu-ray cover, poster, game menus, web page layout, comic book layout
- content - multiple images, colours, position and style of text, fonts, annotations
- scripts
- piece of written work that is often the starting point of products
- purpose - identify location of the action, who will be in the scene, provide stage directions and dialogue between characters
- uses - video, audio and animation products such as TV products
- content - scene descriptions, stage directions, set locations, names, sounds, dialogue, camera shot/angle
- Mood Boards
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