Thursday 13 January 2011

Collective Identity Questions

1. Discuss your decision making process of which images, language, colours you chose to have on your collage.

I chose to put the things that I liked to do. 
Dancing- Image of dancing shoes instantly recognisable as a ballet dancer. The awards show that I like dancing enough to do the exams.
Violin- image of violin is instantly recognisable and shows that I play the violin.
Films- These are pictures of some of the films I like and that I enjoy watching films.
Music- Images of the types of music that I enjoy.
Food- Image of types of food I enjoy.
Friends- Image of happy friends to represent that I like to hang out with my friends.
I have used simple text titles to help explain each section.
I didn't really think about the colour side of it. 

2. Do you feel that the collage allowed you to express all aspects of your life and identity? For example: your age, gender, race, status, where you live, your lifestyle, interests/ hobbies, personal beliefs/ philosophies? Explain.

All I have put in are the main aspects of my life. With more time I could put in more images but I feel that I have captured the main aspects.

3. What did you deliberately choose not to place on your collage and why?

All the things I don't like. 

4. How aware were you, when choosing key images, of how they might be received/ read? How far did this impact on your choices?

Every image was chosen to represent me in as simple a manner as possible. I thought about how I saw myself and not how other people saw me.

5. What comments did the group make that you agreed or disagreed with?

 Few comment were made in the discussion.

6. If you were to do this exercise again, what would you change?

I might add some more images.
7. How ‘mediated’ do you feel your peers charts were? Explain. Because I don't know some of the people in class that well it was difficult to know which collage matched them,  
however other people recognised them from their collage and so some people constructed and image of themselves better than others. For example when I saw Marks collage I knew it was his because I know Mark quite well and that his hobby is karting.

Collective Identity Collage

Sunday 19 September 2010

Prelim Evaluation Post Production

We edited our remake of 'that what I go to school for' on the imac. Uploading the music video was a problem because it took along time. Also the interior shots had fades on them which cut off parts of the film. We had some trouble trying to fit the shots with the music especially with the lip syncing. Because we were put in big groups some of us edited and others did other work and then we swapped over.

Prelim Evaluation Production

Our class split into two group. One group went and did the exterior shots and the other group did the interior shots. I was in the exterior shot as one of the screaming groupies. There were only about 6 of us in the background which was a problem. Because we had little time we had to join up the exteriors shots and the interior shots which meant there were a lot of mistakes with the continuity.

Saturday 18 September 2010

Prelim Evaluation Pre- Production

We watched the video of Busted ' thats what I go to school for' then we were put into groups of 7 or 8. We then had to make a storyboard of the music video. Our group split the video up so it would be easier to do the storyboard. After that we made a prop list of what we needed for our remake of the music video and we gave out roles to everyone in our group. We also had to make a risk assessment.