Audience

What is an audience
-an audience is people that consume media text.

Why audiences are important, audiences are important because without an audience there would be
-No media, and if there was no audience's there would be no money. With no audience, there would be no category of media text since everyone prefers different genres and with no audience, there would be no one to review the media text. audiences have become fragmented in

The impact of new technology on the audience
- Audiences have become fragmented into two smaller groups due to a variety of media outlets, like on demand, and being able to download and re-watch tv and films online. 

Types of an audience.
-There are two main types of audience, these consist of mass and niche. Mass is a big group of people that broadcast to a large audience. a niche audience is a smaller selective group with a unique interest.

The two main systems for categorizing audiences? 
- One of the ways that we categorize audience is by a psychographics this is by the catorising audience of different personality types, there are about 8 different categories that we use.
The other method is called demographics,  this is where the audience is defined by different characteristics, like age, gender, nation/region and finally social economy 

Foley Work Shower Scene

Today we have seen our foley work. I think that I and Matt did really well, in producing a funny comical version of the famous psycho shower scene. With our sounds, we used a soundtrack of Taylor Swift's song " I knew you were trouble, with a goat scream sound effect in it, I think that we could have matched the sound to the movie clip more, by adjusting the sound clip, since I felt it was slightly out of place.

I think our foley went fairly well, since we wanted to try to make the scene funny not scary, and have our own twist on the famous Physico scene, I felt that the running water down the drain SFX, worked really well as a shower, compared to rice which we had filmed in another clip, and I felt it sounded like the water was really heavy and was not shower like. Also the riping of fabric worked really well, to create a ripping of the shower curtain effect, to create a sense that the woman had fallen, we used a knife hitting a cabbige, this created a sound that sounded like something was falling with force.  In the future, I think I will try to get three different sound effects that sound similar so that I can find the one that fits it better, which is something I found with the water and the rice.

Overall I found the editing process fairly easy, I found that having the sound waves on with the original sounds helped to match up the sounds that we recorded,  some challenges we faced was that we didn't have enough sound effects so we had to repeat a lot of the sound effects, and we could have tried to add more by filming more or by making the sound clips longer so they are not repeted.
I felt that we achieved a fairly good sync with the sounds because we used the sound waves from the original clip to match up with the sounds we recorded.
We managed to volume balance the sound clips by turning the volume down and finding the correct volume. We added music which was the main part of our edited physic sceene.

We found that people thought that our clip was very funny, entertaning, and very original, people thought we could do better if we added more sound effects, and to try to make it scarier.

Week 3 caracole

This week we went to tv production, my role in this was the director,

We were put into groups of 4 and we had to think of ideas to do with the 4 coloured pen,  our groups idea was to do it on the moon, since 1970 was the release date for this pen and there was also a moon landing around the years of 1970, our group was voted to be used and that is how I got the role of being the director, with this I had to  make/design the set, for this we used simple objects like desks and computer screens to make a simple but effective space shuttle, we also put green and red lights behind the actors to give a flashing light effect of the buttons and lights in the space shuttle. I also had to get the camera’s in the correct angles so that there would be no ceiling  lights in the top corner of the camera, and also had to look over the auto cue. When filming I had to control what was happening and give cues to the floor manager of when the actors had to do certain things like raising a pen.

our primary information was from a sheet given to us about the bic pen, and secondary information was given from the director.

I found directing hard since it required a lot of concentration, patience and being able to be doing a multiple of things at a time.

skills have learned,
how to direct
how to make a set
technical codes to use to inform people of what to do.

1. Document what you did in the session on Wednesday (Pictures, Diary entries, Printouts ETC)

• Research that you carry out in these sessions

the teacher showed us a powerpoint on different photos and the effect the apature and the focus point had on the photos.

• Skills that you have triedI have tried taking photos using different aperture,  and focus points,
  

• The processes 
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  We went around taking photos of friends and throwing levels at them to make a margin effect. this was done by changing the aperture, we then went on to take photos of plants and close up photos changing the focus point. 

• Method

We took close up getting friends to stand still, whilst we threw things like leaves at them. 

• The tools that you used

tools that i used was the nikon D3400. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uirzZBGuLF0

Music
In the film passenger the music that is used in the Scene “Spacewalk” at the beginning the tone of the song is very quiet at the beginning, this is so the audience can focus on the actors talking , it is also a soft violin sound, In the song there is only a piano and a violin,   When listening to it I thought the violin signified the character, Arora, and the piano signified the character, Jim, at 0.54 seconds of the clip, the music gains in tone and becomes louder which is a crescendo effect which is to create tension, and makes the audience feel tense, and to engage in the action that is happening, and also signifies the piano to show that the character Jim in front leading Arora. At 1;40 of the clip the characters hold hand and the tone of the piano and the violin are equal, this is to show that they trust each other, at 1,51 the music goes quietly to make the “do you trust me” dialogue stand out, and to make the audience focused on the actors rather than the music, and the speech is followed by the music focusing on the piano,  at 2.04  the tempo is now gained a lot this is to signify that they both trust each other and also because there is no dialogue the music is rased, to give a more emotional feel and let the audience focused on the music and the action in front.

Incidental/ambient 

The mood of the scene is very happy, emotional and also romantic, this scene is at the point of which the characters Jim and Arora finally connect and "trust" each other which the word Trust stands out from the rest of the dialogue. It is also emotional for them because it is something that you can only do if you are an astronaut, and it very rare for a citizen to do, and this is quite a spectacular experience for the character Arora since it is her first time seeing something like this and being so close to space, and with someone that she cares about. This scene is also romantic since these characters have grown to love each other and this is helped to be shown by the music that I explained earlier. 

Dialogue

At the beginning, there is a fair amount of dialogue but in very short sentences, witch some of these are quite funny, like the " what about my Dress"... " right" this is to add a sense of humor and to make a serious/dangerous event funny and not so serious.  There is then a pause and is supported by other fun events, which help to build up a trust relationship, When the characters go out to do the spacewalk the dialogue is very soft-spoken, and the keyword "trust" stood out from the rest by having a higher tone, and this is to allow the audience to focus on the words "trust". 

Sound effects.

There is very few sound effect in the clip from the passengers, however, those that are used consist of space control sound saying "tether attached" this is to make the silence not so boring since when this is played the two characters are just walking out of the spaceship. another sound effect is the steam/pressure release sound effect when the characters get out of the spacesuits, this adds a more realistic effect for the audience to make it more believable. At the begging there are a few short sound effects, like an electronic button being pushed, and the mechanics rotating the space suit around, this is all to add a sense of realism and to make the scene more believable, and it is also a lot better to have some sound effects rather than having just the dialogue. When the characters are out there is a short 2 second shot of inside Aroras helmet, this is followed by a heavy breathing sound effect, this is to add a sense of what the character Arora is scared, and is also a bit frightened, since what she is doing is very dangerous, and it also makes the audience tense, due to the heavy breathing.

What was the task?

The task was to recreate the sounds that were used in the iconic shower scene from physical. The method we were using is called foley, and this is where you create sounds for a short clip. Before we started to create the sounds we were given a sheet that was called a cut sheet, this is where we had to think of the sounds that we think we may hear on the screen, and this helped us to make the sounds that were needed, and where we could put them in the clip. 

What is foley 

Foley is to recreate sounds for the sound effect for fils or short clips. The equipment that we used was a microphone and adobe editing software.  Some of the objects we used were taps(to create a shower sound effect) balloons to create a high pitch scream,  my group found the scream difficult since we were a group of boys and none of us could reach the perfect scream, however, we found the sinks worked well to create a good shower effect. 

What is found content 

Found content is content that is found online and that you use in your clips, and you are only allowed to use a certain amount of "found content". some of the found content we had used was from other groups since we had missed some of the things from our list. 

How did you edit and what did you use 

To edit the sounds we used adobe editing software, we have not added any effect to the soft where since we found that our sounds fitted quite well and did not need to be edited.  Overall I think our work went well, however I think that we could add some more sounds, to add some detail, and also to take longer sound clips instead of repeating some of the clips because it does not sound right, overall though I think it is very good with the time that my group had. 

Week 3 interview

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2aqpIOy-QxmMUxlYnkxLURJVjQ

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2aqpIOy-QxmYzl1Sy1QeE1uR2c