Final interactive piece

instead of writing a huge essay i choose to make a quick video on my interactive piece.

ok not my best work …

i do love to edit in photoshop!

 

yeah i like em XD

A few of the video skate spots on my map

 

such a good start

a quick post to show my updated map http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?t=h&ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=115466792320825599519.000476c78723713eae6b5&z=14

 

and my first video blog lol yhhhhhhhhhhh

 

 

Final idea

Ok its about time i write about what i am hoping to achive with my final piece on this interactie stuffffffffff.

was thinking log and hard about the dreadlock thing but although there is a need on the internet around information about dreads i felt it would be more helpful to work around the skate scene in coventry.i want to work on the skate society facebook group and have a google map with google sketchup images and a small video showing the spot and what you need to know about it.

im also going to use pressi and after effects along the way but we shall see.

 

 

Google maps

write about my map

 

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=115466792320825599519.000476c78723713eae6b5&z=14

YOU GET ME!?!

 

back to basics i guess and although deep down i do know it through and through was good to have a recap on the things we learnt last year so just to make sure its fresh I’m going to re write it all up on here for you lovely internet people.

 

semiotics – The study of the processes signs and symbols go through to create meaning. it us usaly split into three parts.

• Semantics: Relation between signs and the things to which they refer; their denotata
• Syntactics: Relations among signs in formal structures
• Pragmatics: Relation between signs and their effects on those (people) who use them

cultural codes -

hypodermic syringe model – The hypodermic needle theory implied that mass media had a direct, immediate and powerful effect on their audiences.The phrasing "hypodermic needle" is meant to give a mental image of the direct, strategic, and planned infusion of a message into an individual. But as research methodology became more highly developed, it became apparent that the media had selective influences on people.

signifier/signified

connotation/ denotation

mythic meaning

processes of narration

semantic motovation

 

on the basis of understanding how we construct the things we see in every day life to make our understanding of the world  i am in the process of reading through “analysing media texts- by Gillespie and Toynbee” i have thought how it effects my own life. and i have come to the conclusion that by using these social understanding of representation we even do it by how we hold ourselves, how we dress and the type of hair we choose to have. when it comes to my style of dreads i think of it as a personal exploration and my way of saying don’t take what you see at first glance, see what is beneath and you will find someone worth talking to.

but in the past in my own family who know me from having curly hair, they see the change totally different and not a expression of my opinions. as my Nan is from Trinidad & Tobago the type of people who have dreadlock are the ones who use it as a status within drug gangs, live in the woods and generally the type of people you would not like to associate with.

i found it hard why my Nan felt so strongly against it when i made it clear the type of locks i wanted were going to end up nothing like the stereotypical “dirty” dreads.

the way i have come to understand is because i feel more learned in how dreads are made and the upbringing in the western world has enabled different tools to understand the variants’ of locks.

two different meanings from two different cultures, same sign.

Analysis of Robot Chicken

 

haha doubt anyone else will even begin to think of doing the start to this one … well hopefully.

the start of robot chicken is oh so weird and wonderful and in like allot of the robot chicken episodes you may have to take a second look to understand it. in my personal opinion i first thought robot chicken was a waste of time but this is purely as i was watching it from a denotative point of view and could not keep up with what almost came across as the underlined dialogue as it throws so many ideas as the audience at once.

with these types of cartoons there can be almost no rules to what they can throw together it speaks volumes that the main author of the show was Seth Green the voice of Chris in family guy.

the title scene starts by focusing on a lair of an evil scientist whom collects a dead bird from the side of the road and brings him back to life with the help of robotic add-ons.

this mad scheme carries on as he forces the robots eyes to stay fixated on a huge range of television screens that show different, random, television clips.

this is just how it is it throws an immense amount of denotation at the audience and its up to you to use your understanding of the world, your tools to decipher the not always motivated connotative meaning.

in this case the connective meaning was that the chicken is you and as the audience you are being made to watch and learn from the videos you are being forced to watch.

in some ways this is asking the audience to not understand the whole episode as a whole jus sit and let it take you on a journey.

in its wider context as it is on the internet it does not need to be restricted by conventions of television programs such as a timeframe or adverts. in this way it could be seen as mote free than most types of its genre.

Final derive!

 

well it has been an odd one to say the least and a lot of actually thinking about my editing for a change. kind of ironic when doing something experimental because in some ways you could look at ignoring conventions’ is pretty much making something technically shit on purpose!

but in any case i gained the drive to do this in the lecture mainly because i watched v for vendetta the night before lol! i wanted to create several feelings for the audience instead of having a narrative.

at first i they loads of odd shots together and after showing it to my housemates found that the pace was to slow and dragged at this point it was 5 min long with no audio apart from that of the clips.

after some tinkering i found that i was instinctively creating meaning with the edit and didn’t leave the understanding of the connotations up to the audience, i made my housemate Alex appear to be a villain and forcing the audience to make him into a character.

while filming for this i literally bought a box of fireworks and filmed them in our back garden after which i walked to the but with my camera. i had allot of good shots within the pub but as I’m learning nowadays just because you like a shot doesn’t give it cause to be used.

if it does not add to the piece it ends up subtracting lol quote me on that if you like. learnt that last year when we made a film about space and used a shot of a squirrel, great shot but it only had a denotative meaning.

 

but ok sorry got distracted for a while

i cut the shots down then found some more that would take the place of some that really were not working and then for the first time ever i found that the audio had a strong effect on how the audience would feel about specific shots. most of the audio in the final one was from mix craft 4.5 and i used a looped version of a soundtrack grabbed of the film so it was not totally quiet even though i was aware that using music is a modern realist technique i felt it helped keep an under tone to the film and kept the audience attention.

i wanted the film to have three main ideas.

1. a girl walking down a road so a sense of travel using sounds of transport, such as feet and cars, i also wanted the audience to feel engaged with her and wonder if she is going to get hurt even though i had a shot near the end of her skipping with a sparkler as i attempted to make the film have a darker feel near the end.

2. an understand if a man, Alex, around the outside of a house even though it is not evident that the house belongs to him or not. also you are supposed to wonder what his relation to the girl is.

3. finally by using a underlined heartbeat and flashing images i conclude the piece and give the audience  a feeling of danger.

i like how the v for vendetta feel is undertones throughout and when showing it to other people they agree they engaged with the text yet was not sure of the conotations. Scottie boi my housemate always helps me out with my films and was able to point out what shots did not work and i know not to just go on what i as a subjective editor feels.

oh i have dribbled enough watch the piece and let me know what you think.

 

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Penny for the guy

This is my first attempt at "experimental media" i wanted to construct feelings instead of a story for the audience to engage with and enable the meaning and story to be different.

i wanted this narrative to have a powerful start with images of fireworks a view that their is someone standing around a house.

for an understanding of transportation and people walking somewhere and then the suggestion that the girl is not walking alone. and if this person following her is the same one around a house.

and then finally a feel of danger as fireworks again come back and shots of alleyways and smoking come into play.

in this first attempt i don’t feel as if i spent enough time considering the visuals and audio to get my message across.

this is my first try at anything like this and never considered the audio to this effect as i only have a basic catalog of sound effects. audio wise i think i will have to think harder of the ambient sounds and how i want them to convey an underlined meaning for a specific shot and throughout the entire text.

but i am happy with the suggested tie in with v for vendetta and conspiracies’ around guy forks.

 

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