Aice Media Commercial

Down below is my Commercial. It was one of the projects that I did for Aice Media. It was the first one out of three. For that project, my partner and I had to make a one thirty-second video. We had to act in it but there was no talking. We also had to film and edit. One of our friends helped us by showing us how to use the tripod. My partner and I both had to act and film. Then we worked together on the editing part. We also had to come up with a storyboard.

I think that the storyboard was one sheet of paper. Since this was the first project my partner and I did not have any experience with filming. This made doing the project a little difficult. We also had not done acting before. This made that part of the project harder. We also did not film enough scenes the first time. This meant that we had to go back and add more scenes and refilm some of them to make them longer. But after the second time of filming,we could edit. Editing was not that hard as most of the scenes were long. This meant we did not have to do too much.

Aice Media Music Video

Down below is my Music Video. It was one of the projects that I did for Aice Media. It was the second one out of three. For that project, my partner and I had to make a one minute video. We did not have to sing but we had to act in the video. We also had to film and edit. One of our friends helped us by being an actor. My partner and I both had to act and film. Then we worked together on the editing part. We also had to come up with a storyboard.

I think that the storyboard was two sheets of paper. Since this was the second project my partner and I already had some experience with filming. This made doing the project much easier. We also had done acting before. This made that part of the project easier. We also did not film enough scenes the first time. This meant that we had to go back and add more scenes and refilm some of them to make them longer. But after the second time of filming,we could edit. Editing was not that hard as most of the scenes were long. This meant we did not have to do too much.

Audience and Institution Practice Essay

Kol Bennett

Audiences and Institution Essay

My Question: In relation to the media area you have studied, discuss the way audience consumption has changed over time.

Kol Bennett

Audiences and Institution Essay

The way people and audiences have consumed media has changed over time. Consumption of movies, music, and print has also changed but this essay will cover video games. Video games have been around for years and the way people play them has changed drastically over time. As Jeff Desjardins makes clear in his article The History and Evolution of the Video Games Market, video games have gotten much better since the first video game, Spacewar! in 1962. The more current video games have gained complexity, sophistication, and quality.

The first video games were large cartridges on small televisions and screens. The controllers only had one button and had to be connected to the console. It was like that for years and those games were very pixelated. However, televisions became more advanced and so did the games. There was the Gameboy which came out in 1989 and it was a handheld console made by Nintendo. It changed the way people played and viewed video games. It was still in black and white, but the control buttons were on the physical device so there was no remote needed. Then came the Gameboy color which allowed people to play the games they loved but in color. After that, there was the Gameboy Advanced which had a wider screen and smaller cartridges and kept the color. However, the Wii, which was also made by Nintendo was one of the first consoles with wireless controllers. That console also used discs for its games instead of cartridges.

More recent changes in gaming include the Wii U, Nintendo DS, and 3DS, the Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PlayStation, and even specialized computers. These recent consoles and game devices are the most popular. They have better graphics and run much smoother. Most of them use discs but the DS series and the Switch still use cartridges, but these are small.

The Xbox and the PlayStation has become so popular that multiple versions of the console have been released over the years. The latest version of the Xbox is the Xbox 1X and the latest PlayStation is the PlayStation 4. As each new console was released, they had new features and one of the biggest things with this technology is being able to play online with other people and play with your friends. Consoles have become very popular with gamers. In fact, according to the series The evolution of video gaming and content consumption people who identify themselves as heavy gamers say they use consoles 45% of the time compared to computers at 47%.

 There are also computers and monitors specifically made for gaming. In the Executive Summary of The evolution of video gaming and content consumption, “…gamers now spend more time playing games than streaming movies or television shows to their computer…”  There is now even cross-promotion in video games between Xbox and Spotify. You can download Spotify on your Xbox and play your music from there.

Overall, the way people consume media through video games has changed over many years. Kevin Webb of Business Insider stated it well when he said “Gaming is… transforming pop culture and redefining the ways that young people consume entertainment.” Consumption of media is probably going to grow and change even more in the future. Just how far video games have come is impressive and it is going to keep growing.

Practice Extract Essay

Practice Extract Essay 

Kol Bennett 

  

The author's vision for that part of the movie was intense. The whole extract felt tense and serious. The author did a good job of doing that because all the characters were very serious during the scenes. 

The first scene starts off with dialogue between the interrogator and the woman. There is a zoom on the clock and the camera to show the viewer that there are other people watching and that time was very important. With all these factors the scene becomes very intense and serious. After some dialogue, the camera cuts to other people watching the interrogation then cuts back after. 

In the second scene, there is a bit more. The viewer can tell that the interrogator is more serious, and you can tell because there is a close-up shot on him, and you can very clearly see his emotions. Also, he flips the table out of anger but the woman still remains calm. But a little after flipping the table she charges at the woman who is in her chair and pushes her against the wall and starts choking her and then other people must come into the room and stop him. 

The director's vision must be intensity all the way because that is what the whole scene is. Everyone is serious and it just feels so tense and there is no happiness whatsoever. It is just pure seriousness. 

Final Task CCR

This is my CCR for my final task. It is a twelve-minute long video. It goes over the four CCR questions. I am answering the four questions that there are. I go over things like conventions and real media texts. I also go over how I used technology and how my production skills have improved. Along with that, I also just go over stuff I did during the project. I also go back and reference previous projects and talk about how it has affected me. I will talk about how the stuff I learned in those projects helped me this time. But this project was definitely the most work out of all of them.

This project was our last filming project. But with the CCR I had to edit that a bit before I put it onto my blog. I had to make sure that I talked long enough during each question. This is because the CCR had to be at least twelve minutes. But I did a fine job of talking about each topic as much as possible. But there were some of the questions that I talked about more than others. This is because there was just more to talk about some of them. The one asking about how I integrated technology I definitely talked about the most. It was just so easy to talk about because there was so much to talk about. Also, some of them there was just a short answer and that was it so I would have to drag the question and the answer on longer than it really needed to be. But overall the CCR went good.

https://youtu.be/kcabvWhtSto

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmwYr2Sw-NNqQidRYiYDe8w?view_as=subscriber
This is a link to the actual channel with both videos.

Final Task Movie

Below is my final task which is a movie. It is the final recording project that we have this year. It is about two minutes long. It was our third filming project of the year. The two previous ones which were a commercial and a music video helped prepare us for this movie. This project was definitely a lot more work than the other two projects. But because we had more experience with this project. This project helped my production skills improve by a lot. It was also a good experience. But the movie went good overall during production.

https://youtu.be/4btoDEZSt_I

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmwYr2Sw-NNqQidRYiYDe8w?view_as=subscriber
This is a link to the actual channel with both videos.

Final Exam Re-edit

If we refilmed anything for our movie my partner and I would have to re-edit. But we did not reshoot any scenes from our movie. But if we had, since we cannot meet up. We probably would have just worked on it over a video chat. But corona has made it so that no one can meet up. No one can even leave their house. This is probably affecting other groups badly. Thankfully we had already finished our movie before corona. But the virus has affected everyone and all of my classes. But it has not affected this one that much.

But corona has made it hard to do anything. But the CCR is individual. This means that I do not have to worry about meeting up with my partner because we can do this from our own houses. But this virus has changed a lot of things. It is making it harder for people to do their work and do what they need to do. Even though corona makes it harder to do things, it is still important to stay home. But for the rest of the project, I can do whatever I need to from home. Even if we could go out I probably would not need to. For this project at least. But my partner and I have nothing to re-edit.