Sydney Stone year 12 prep

Notes On The Guardian: Due to audience fragmentation, helped created by modern streaming sites such as Netflix  and demand, as well as the desire of 'Mega-Budget' shows and movies on a constant conveyor belt of content, the low - mid budget  film industry has taken a massive hit in their audiences interests. Domestic UK films such as Train Spotting and Oscar-winning The Lobster , have plummeted in popularity since their realise, making less grossing, despite their high praise. In comparison to high budget franchises, they build so much euphoria before realise do to their brand or characters consumers have fallen in awe of over several movies, limiting the demand for low budget movies further. The British Film institute (BFI)say that the majority of low budget films are funded by European Producers.  Netflix's The Crown For example, with societies current Super Hero Movie Epidemic, Marvel have this cult like fandom that will ...

A Ten second count down made by Sydney and Daniel as an introduction to Media.  Our theme was people into number so people either make the numbers with their bodies or hold up the numbers and dance. 

 Initial brain storm of Pre-Production  We were asked to mind map what we think some pre-production steps are for different media platforms. Pre Production: The documents created before a media product can be made. Key Words: Entertainment : Gaining the attention of an audience so that they relax and enjoy the activity . Information : Providing facts about a topic or answering a question. Promotion : Raising the awareness of a product in potential customers.This in turn can increase popularity of a brand. Revenue Stream : A method of raising money for a project. Revenue streams contain elements of unpredictability, risk and return. Sponsorship : Money paid for a brand to be associated with final media production. This can involve the placement of a brand name or logo on the final product or telling the viewer who a TV product is sponsored.  Crowd funding : How finance can be generated for a project or idea conceived by amateur...

During the summer consumers view a lot of different and unique media content; my experience wasn't much different. Over the break I looked at several media formats that I normally would on a regular basis, including: film, TV, music and video games. 1# image from the animated short from the  Ghibli museum. 2# image from studio Ghibli's Porco Rosso . Studio Ghibli:  In Japan (where I visited this summer) I went to the Studio Ghibli museum, which is an animation studio based in Japan. There i was able to watch an animated short in preparation, meaning the short was fully animated but the sound and voice acting weren't finished for production. This led to all the audio for the piece being done by the animator just using his voice, meaning all the sound effects were organic with claps, speech and noises produced by one man. This gave insight into the animation and voice acting process Studio Ghibli use, and when watching their finished movies once retu...