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Sunday 19 November 2017

Video games and me

I would consider myself to be a gamer, as a regularly play a variety of games on the PS4. I usually stick to playing on the weekends only though, because I do not have much time to play. I am largely into online games, including shooters, such as Doom, and story-based games, such as Uncharted and Resident Evil. I used to own a Wii though, making mme a large fan of the Mario and Zelda franchises. I play to releive the stress of constant workloads, and because games offer a sense of escapism, with possibly an enjoyable story. I play either with friends or by myself. I play most games on the PS4.

Minecraft mission

I have played Minecraft before, but, seeing as how I hadn't picked up the game for years, struggled to work out the basics of crafting and building. In the end, I was able to build a wooden house. I played the game's pocket edition on a tablet, which may have made the game harder to play than on the PC due to the controls. Minecraft is an open-world sandbox game, where anyone can build anything they want, or simply choose to survive monster attacks and such.

Monday 13 November 2017

Did you fulfill all the content requirements; both in terms of including all the correct features and as well as the actual choices made.

I beleive that we were sucessful in fololowing the requirements; we included three jingles and two tracks throughout the recording, along with an introduction, celebrity gamble game, and a news section. Our tracks were Forget You, by Cee Lo Green, and Our House, by Madness. Our introduction featured the host welcoming the audience to the show, and previewing the events that would occur throughout the show. The game of Celebrity Gamble involved the introduction of a phone-in viewer, Derek, and his journey to school. The news segment contained two short news segments reported by our news presenter.

Have you nailed the conventions and styles of Nick Grimshaw and the Radio 1 Breakfast Show?

 I feel that we were able to replicate Nick Grimshaw's style of radio broadcasting to an extent. We were able to copy his upbeat style of presenting, with a lively and energetic tone used by our host, in our show. However, we were unable to include consistant witty banter, a common feature of Nick Grimshaw's presenting.


How did you manage your running order/timings?

Timings were a large problem for us, with our first viable recording being 6 minutes long. This was shortened by fast talking and cutting out dialogue, whilst also shortening jingles and tracks. The second section was our lengthiest, and originally included a lot of unecessary dialogue, which we were able to cut out, and shorten our recording to just over 3 minutes.


Tuesday 7 November 2017

Analysis of current music video

Chosen video: Papaoutai, by Stromae

Basic settings- Many plain and basic settings are used throughout the video. This is so that the audience is able to focus on the story being told through the characters. This also links to the fact that the characters are all wearing brightly coloured clothes, most likely to draw attention towards the characters, and help the audience to acknowledge the dancing and story being told.
Sychronisation (dance and soundtrack)- The dancing scences only ever appear when the soundtrack is building up. This helps build suspense and anticipation up to the point where the music becomes more dramatic, and puts emphasis on the mies-en-scene throughout the video.

Mies-en-scene- The video tells the story of a boy and the father he grew up without.It does this through two different narratives: a street where we see a few pairs of parent and child performing their slick dance moves in sychronisation, and the boy without a dad frustratingly attempting to interact with a model of his father, with no results. The two narratives play out nicely, and eventually combine at the end of the video, when the model comes to life and starts to dance with the boy, giving the boy's ending a happier ending than one would have thought.
Fast-paced editing- Shots are often around 2 seconds long, and are changed frequently as the music speeds up. This sets up a pace for the video, and makes the unusual ending of the video all the more dramatic, as the ending slows down greatly.
Unconventional ending- The boy becomes a lifeless mannequin, like the one of his father at the end of the video. The ending doesn't make sense, and it doesn't need to, because it is in a music video, which are uncoventional, and don't need to make sense, unlike Hollywood. It is used to create a dramatic ending to the story, not exactly a happy ending, but not a sad one either. The story is about the artist, Stromae's missing father, after he was killed in the Rwandan genocide.