Star Theory

Star theory is all about why we pay to watch films. Reasons range from the film’s director, genre to the actors and trailers. To understand star theory, I will be talking about two key theories. Christine Gledhill A film theorist who was fundamental in the development of star theory, her study showed that stars can

Postmodernism & Hyper reality

It is difficult to define postmodernism do I am going to be using different characteristics that will help me define this term. Postmodernism can be characterised as an artistic philosophy which is all about distrusting different theories and drawing attention to conventions. It is a region of any idea of objective truth. It looks at

Sigmund Freud

Psychoanalysis is a way of understanding our subconscious and unconsciousness. It tries to show what makes us do certain things. Although psychoanalysis was originally developed by Sigmund Freud, many academics apply it today through the work of Jacques Lacan. Lacan called this the ‘Mirror Stage’s‘ if it reflects who we are what our place in

Auteur Theory

Auteur is the French word for “author” and just as a book has an author so must a film. Every filmmaker has their signature style, an example is Alfred Hitchcock. His films can be easily recognised. However, it can be a bit tricky to recognise peoples work, as books are written by one author whereas

documnatry tips

Aucuracy of docmntry Methological or research pluriasm Never use wiki pedia its not always right as its not changed Cross refrebncing resources is trianglatsaion Balance of information Micheal moor doent lket anyones elsew opion come on its all about the way he thinks, he also uses imagesthat he ewants to show as they will help

PORTFOLIO

Rea’s Portfolio This is some of the projects i have worked on for the past two years.

Music Video Time line

(I had made a blog for this unfortunately my account had not been working well and didn’t save, I did go to the IT people however I couldn’t get it back.) 1920 This era was mostly about jazz music which is how the first music video was produced. The first jazz music video was filmed

work experience

Music Video Experiments

These are some experiments we did use a crane a week before our first filming day, we decided to also experiment our editing skills. By trying out overlays as well as colour grading some shots, this was very helpful a on the day we were quite good with the crane shots. As well as putting

Set Design for my Music Video

We really challenged ourselves with our music video, we went out for the backdrops, costumes and even the colours. For the sets we wanted them to look very trendy and aesthetic which is why we picked bright retro colours as that seems to be a trend in music videos. We also went with the cloud