ANALYSING MEDIA PRODUCTS AND AUDIENCES

RESOURCES

• link to unit as PDF

 

Your presentation tools

OCR slideshow example

Prezi     printing your prezi

PowerPoint or Apple Keynote    print 2 slides per page

Sway.com     currently does not support printing except as screenshots/PrtScn

Website such as Wix, Weebly, Tumblr or WordPress

Word Document (not good for presenting clips but great for citing references)

citethisforme.com   youtubetime.com

If you want more control over YouTube clips (not working for Prezi, which is annoying)

Edit YouTube clips online with clipconverter.cc or keepvid then download as mp4 and upload to Prezi (limit of 50MB) or upload to your own YouTube account and link from there.

http://www.shapeways.com and www.heroforge.com

 

Presentation skills:

Garr Reynolds presentation tips

Guy Kawasaki secular evangelist for Apple etc.

 

British Board of Film Classification

Children's British Board of Film Classification

PEGI age rating for games

Advertising Standards Authority

History of Advertising Trust/Arrows

 

tmaskall.com/timetable/week001.htm

printable questionnaire 1 - rate these films and games

 

Examples of green screen techniques in use:

Dan Snow - Aircraft of WW1

 

Example subject with links:
Pirates in an Adventure with Scientists/Band of Misfits

(US release name sometimes differs, as with "Philosopher's Stone" and George III type names)

Check Internet Movie DataBase imdb

VFX breakdown on YouTube and Vimeo

VLogs and Production Logs: Pirates Tumblr production log

Facebook pages often have 'in progress' updates, either 'official' or personal

Twitter accounts are great for 'in progress' updates - Peter Lord of Aardman posted greenscreen images and other production notes and has now put up over 1000 pics on Twitter

Review sites: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/54169 (Pirates)

Tutorial sites will often break down scenes and encourage you to recreate them: 3DWorld StarWars

 

play dos games online and if you are ok with installing Java java.playdosgamesonline.com

 

Also see: Box Trolls end credits, (+ making of talk at Google), Sky Captain, Sin City

This War of Mine by 11 Bit Studios

TWoM has a different take on the war experience - you are not an elite soldier, you are trying to keep a group of civilians alive in a city under siege. Based on the situation in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war. 83 on Metacritic, available on Windows/Mac/Linux from Nov 2014. Released on iOS and Android July 2015 with PS4 and XboxOne slated for Jan 2016 release of The Little Ones - your group includes kids....

See also http://www.warisnotachoice.com

 

 

 

Copyright is automatic unless waived

• If you'd like people to be able to use your images or music in their own projects (or want to use other's work for your project) consider a Creative Commons License. A computer programmer turned singer-songwriter, Jonathan Coulton aka 'JoCo' made his songs available to anyone who wanted to use them as a soundtrack for their videos, and as a result a huge number can be found on YouTube providing him with free publicity. Nickelodeon went against the trend of issuing cease and desist orders against people who put up YouTube clips, and instead ran ads under the clips along the lines of 'if you enjoyed this, watch more at Nickelodeon'. However Nick's parent company Viacom sued Google/YouTube and provided evidence that the founders were happy to exploit copyrighted material to grow their popularity and user base. Kevin McKleod at incompetech is becoming well known as a composer of atmospheric music for film-makers, and is a favourite of my son Jamie for his Lego animations. Free or cheap licensed music from Jamendo. The mash-up Gotye has edited together from fan videos for his hit Somebody that I used to Know.

  Digital Millenium Copyright Act. DRM (Digital Rights Management) issues. Peer to peer filesharing rights, wrongs & risks of using the likes of Pirate Bay & BitTorrent.

  While you can use Photoshop to add a © text layer with reduced opacity to your images to deter online theft (handy for eBay) you can also add an invisible digimarc from the bottom of the Filters menu. On Windows you can get the © symbol by holding down Alt and typing 0169 on the numeric keypad, or Alt g on a Mac.  no right click

• royalty free photography - stay within copyright laws using stock photography, it can be surprisingly cheap (or indeed free if you find the right site). My current favourite is 123RF, you pay about £29 to buy enough credits for 29 Web sized images, or a fewer number at a higher resolution for magazines. You can also download images at low resolutions and watermarks for use in 'comping' - putting together a mock-up to show a client prior to spending money/dreits on an image that may be rejected by your customer. If you are a photographer then consider uploading some of your own images to earn commission.
  
• Other good stock photo sites include: istockphoto.com; www.shutterstock.com; www.corbisimages.com and Adobe has relaunched its own offering, integrated with its CreativeCloud.
• Free options include Google advanced image search (hidden under the gear wheel) with licensing options at the bottom of the list set to free to use and Flickr Commons
• Classic books are available from project gutenberg

 

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