Hey There!
We are the OldSchoolProduction and this is our website. This website is part of our AS Media course work and we would like to hear your comments and criticism about our work.
I'm Toni Buchholtz and this is my Blog. Check out the other's on the sidebar ->
We hope you have fun!
OldSchoolProduction
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EVALUATION - Question 1
This is my Question 1 for the Evaluation. The question was:"In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge formas and conventions of real media productions?". Please check it out!!!!
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EVALUATION - Question 2
This is my Question 2 for the Evaluation. The question was: "How does your media product represent particular social groups?" Please check out my ISSUU:
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EVALUATION - Question 3
This is my Question 3 for the Evaluation. The question was: " What kind of media institution might distribute your products and why?"
Check out the PREZI: https://prezi.com/2bhclfvl1fua/question-3/
Check out the PREZI: https://prezi.com/2bhclfvl1fua/question-3/
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EVALUATION - Question 4
This is my Question 4 for the Evaluation. The question was: "Who would be the audience for your media production?" Check out the video!!!!
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EVALUATION - Question 5
This is my question 5 for the Evaluation. The question was:" How did you attract/ address your audience?". Please check out my PREZI: https://prezi.com/z_q_yil7vh4h/question-5/
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EVALUATION - Question 6
This is my Question 6 for the Evaluation. The question was: " What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing your product? Please check out the ISSUU:
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EVALUATION - Question 7
Looking back at your
preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it
to the full product?
I have learnt a lot since we filmed our preliminary task. As this is my first year of studying Media Studies in school I have never worked with any of the equipment, editing programs or generally the thematic before. As the camerawoman of our production I mainly concentrated on the work with angles, atmospheres, tracks, cranes and cameras. However, through the creation of my v-log and through being assistant editor, I am familiar with the editing process as well. Since the preliminary task I feel as though my camera work has improved a lot, eliminating the camera shakes we had in our film and correcting mistakes before they were made. Especially in the organisation we, as a group, improved a lot compared to the beginning and learnt some valuable lessons about teamwork.
After finishing our media horror product, I feel as though we have learnt a great deal in creating media. At first I found learning the shots and angles was easy but when I got round how to do it, it was hard to put them into practice without camera shake and keeping the object or character in frame. Looking at our preliminary task, we have improved with our shots and editing. Back then we did not use all the editing techniques as we were not confident to put them in whereas in our final product we have used more. The costumes and make up improve from our preliminary task from being casual to our final product with fake-blood and black contact lenses.
For our preliminary task we did not use the codes and conventions of a horror film, as we did not intent to create fear. In our final product we tried to use as many codes and conventions in our psychological horror as it is aimed at an age 15 plus audience, whereas our preliminary task had no specific age specification or codes and conventions.
For our preliminary task we did not have a detailed storyline or shotlist as it was not going to be seen by our audience. For our final product, on the other hand, we needed to organise our ideas into a shotlist and timeline. We split the different jobs editor, director, make-up, costume, camera work and promotion, to make our work more efficient and successful, as everyone only did what she liked, in my case it is the camera work.
3 Days
This is the finished version of our Final Film. We hope you enjoy it!
Final Weeks
Hey guys!
The final weeks before the exams are here and we are all very nervous and excited about our resluts for our blogs. We hope you had two wonderful weeks off around easter and started fresh and energised into the new term.
OldSchoolProduction
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3 Days
We decided to call our new final film 3 days. This is the short version of the plot:
Camera, crime board, a stranger hiding behind the trees.When Manjana discovered she is being watched, time is running out for her.
We hope you are excited to watch the final version.
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Old School Production Intro
This is our intro video which you will see at the beginning of all our films. Thanks Elisa for doing this!!!
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Over Again
After a long discussion we decided to overthrow our final idea and start again from the beginning. Our story Death to Death turned out to be not easy to follow and not understandable for the viewer. Especially this close to the exams it is a risky decision but we hope it turns out to be for the best.
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The Dead Sis
This is Manjana's costume as the dead ghost sister
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Death for Death - film
This is the first raw version of our final film
Death for Death
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Death for Death
At the moment we are working on our final film. We named it Death for Death. The story is about two sisters who are parted by a terrible incident. When the younger sister (Manjana) gets killed in a car accident caused by her sister, she is seeking for revenge....
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This is the final version of our Preliminary Task, Gossip. You can clearly see we followed the 180 degree rule throughout the whole film and even added a jump cut in between to create the idea of a continuing motion which links up with our match on action. The shot/ reverse shot is represented in the conversation on the end which makes the situation of a nice small talk very clear.
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Gossip
Survey
It would be great if you could support us and take a few minutes of your time to complete our Survey which Elisa created for us: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NVV8LTG
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Twitter
We are getting global!!!! Youtube, Facebook and now Twitter. Follow us to check out our latest projects and progress.
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Gossip- film
This is the final version of our Preliminary Task, Gossip. You can clearly see we followed the 180 degree rule throughout the whole film and even added a jump cut in between to create the idea of a continuing motion which links up with our match on action. The shot/ reverse shot is represented in the conversation on the end which makes the situation of a nice small talk very clear.
As we are heading towards our final exams, we are working on our Preliminary Task. Our task is to show our filming and editing skills in a short film, using: match on action shot, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule. We decided to name our short film Gossip.
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Facebook
We are proudly introducing our new established Facebook page. Thank you Elisa for doing our publicity work. So check it out!!!!
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Our Logo:
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| Great job designing it Sirin and Manjana!!!! |
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Happy New (Cough) Year
2015 is here!!!!! And I was ill over the whole holidays so if got to catch up with a looooooot of work. But hey, life is life!!!! We hope you had a great start into the new year.
Oh and there is something else new. We have got a youtube channel now. Sooooo CHECK IT OUT!!!!!
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Jingle Bells
Christmas is cooooming and we are all totally excited!!! We are still working on our projects, but are allowed to give them in after the holidays which gives us some extra time and takes a lot of pressure from us. Happy holidays everyone!!!!!
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Christmas Work
At the moment we are all working on our Christmas Work. We got different task that have to be finished until Christmas Holidays. Manjana is planning her Vlog about Codes & Conventions at the moment while Sirin and I are working on the difference of 15 and 18 as film classification. Elisa is working on our film intro.
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The Meeting - Das Treffen
Our first research is about different Shot-Types. We got the task to choose at least 3 different types to present. Sirin and Toni sat together to work in a pair and chose to present the Shot-Types. Here is what came out:
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The Ring
We watched The Ring in the lessons and got the Task to make some research on Codes and Conventions Symbolic/Macro Elements with an example film. So I chose The Cabin in the Woods.
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Play Me the Song of Death
Finally finished!!!! And we are very proud.
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Play Me The Song Of Death
At the moment we are working on our first self-made film "Play Me the Song of Death”. As we are four people and everyone lives in different directions it is not that easy to find a place and time that suits everybody. But we decided to film over at Sirin’s place as she has the perfect location/house to film a horror movie at, it's big, dark and lonely.
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Our first film
Hurray! We are doing our first “big” film. We got the task to make a horror or thriller movie that has to last at least 2 minutes and a maximum of 4 minutes. We cannot wait to start!!!
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