Poppy GCSE Media Blog

 Thursday 26th January 2023 LO: To plan and construct an effective green screen scene. -Poppy -George -Lauren LAUREN: Tonight, there has been an unfortunate turn of events for Lloyds Bank (by your side) down in London. Where it was unfortunately robbed 2 hours ago by 2 males dressed as Barbie and Ken. The police have arrested a suspect however we don't have any information current- POPPY: HIIIII excusez-moi do you know where the closest Costa is? I could really go for a latte right now. LAUREN: Wow, not like I was doing anything over here! POPPY: Well i'm sorry but i NEED my latte! I'm going through a crisis. LAUREN: I don't care about your probably stupid crisis. POPPY: Well Asda closed down, I need a few days to mentally recover. LAUREN: As I said... stupid  POPPY: DON'T YOU DARE CRITICISE OUR LORD AND SAVIOU R ASDA LAUREN: SECURITY! SECURITY! POPPY: Oh my... am i on the news... HEY SUSAN.... I MADE IT ON TV LAUREN: You know what.. I cant anymore... I quit! POPPY:...

  Tuesday 17th January 2023 LO: To explore the different features of IMovie & experiment with different genre features. Tuesday 24th January 2023 Do now: I decided to change Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban from a fantasy to a comedy by reversing Snape when he enters the classroom to make it look like he was slamming the door, I added some light comedic music and slowed down the scene where harry smashed into the glass on the bus. WWW: I  didn't have much time so i focused on the bits that i did have time to do more so they looked good. EBI: Next time i could finish it as i was off school for the first lesson of IMovie so i couldn't finish it. Also i didn't cut off the end that i hadn't had the chance to finish SFX  LO: To create a realistic green screened clip using IMovie. SFX - special effects.  What is included under special effects? -CGI -Stop motion -Motion control -prosthetics -pyrotechnics  -green screen CGI-   computer-generated imagery...

Tuesday 10th January 2022 Task: Choose a film from one genre and explain, in detail, how you would change it to a different genre. For this task, I chose Harry Potter and the goblet of fire from the fantasy genre to turn into a comedy. Locations: The first location I would change in this film is the black lake. There are horrifying creatures in there, and the water is incredibly dark, hence it being called the black lake. One of the conventions of comedy is happiness and light, so you could change the colour of the water in the black lake to a clear blue (which would include more comedy because the water is a bright blue but it's still called the black lake), and still have some creatures but things such as innocent looking water snakes, or a funny-looking three eyed fish. The second location i would change is the library as in the film it's again incredibly dark. It is set at night, however I would change the time of day to daytime and then have the characters enter the librar...