Week 3

Following the 180 degree rule we learnt about "Hypodermic Syringe" and "Two Flow". We learnt that "Hypodermic Syringe" is as if the producer is injecting the audience with their product. Two flow is when the producer uses the feedback from the audience e.g. booing or laughing. This is important because media is a large industry and any changes they can use will help their product become more desirable.

We then found out our final topic for the first piece of coursework we are doing on the 180 degree rule. We have to record someone walking through a door sitting down with another person and then saying 2 sentences. We then took stills and are currently creating our story board.

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Week two

Today we started our work on the 180 degree rule. We started on a practise story board did a rough copy and took some still images to do our better version. It took a while to get started because we wasn't really sure what stimulus to use but in the end we decided on dancing. We are now currently making the final version of our storyboard ready to submit as our work.


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My First Lesson

I have just started the AS Media Studies Course at Smithdon High School. To Start thecourse we had a little time to learn how to use the equipment, we was also given a sheet with all the different camera angles and was asked to have a go at them.

It was quite interesting because when I came home that night I noticed things on the television that would normally not strike me about camera angles and certain shots. Following this we then learnt how to upload what we had recorded on the camcorder to the Macintosh ready for editing.

After this taste of "Media Life" I know that this course will be interesting. Bring on the next lesson!

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