Tuesday, 11 January 2011

What Have I found from my Media Comparisons?


In my research I have compared my project to other relevant media texts and films, like for my ancillary task of conducting a Magazine Review for my Film I looked into film review magazine companies such as Empire and then looked into how you go about actually writing the review. What I have noticed is when writing the review you have to keep from being biased toward the film this will be hard for me because it is my own created and directed film.
I also looked into posters which is another ancillary task I need to conduct, so I looked at 2 posters, 'Casino Royale' & 'The Matrix' and payed special attention towards the Matrix poster because my film is very similar where I will probably include a Homage somewhere in the film. I noticed that a simplistic look is very clever for a post modern film because it goes against the Grand Narratives of the traditional action packed poster with as much stuff in it as possible.
Finally I compared some of the features in my film to Inception and Blade Runner, I done this because both of them are revolutionary films for Post Modern in my view and what I found was that the viewer likes to think about the film not to have the whole story line put on a metal platter.

The Sky is the limit


With technology constantly developing a few have caught my eye and interest to research and learn about the software. An example of this was Cinema 4d made by MAXON studios, which I took to and learnt the program to the best of my abilities but this isn't what I think is a technology that is going to take of because of the competition that surrounds it like Blender and 3DS MAX.
So a technology that is going to take of has to be a revolutionary, next generation piece of software. So I started to look at some software and an application on the web stood out, this is called PREZI.
Prezi lets you create zooming interactive presentation that is easily editable but provide a very professional look to it. Think of Microsoft PowerPoint which is a flat slide show presentation with little animations apart from transitions and intro/outro text.
I decided to play around with the application and decided to use it for one of my many script ideas...