Poppy GCSE Media Blog

Tuesday 28th February 2023 LO: to explore the concept and format of news. Education: -School girls humiliated by staff skirt inspections. Pupils at Merseyside school claim they have had their skirt length inspected by male teachers. Family: - when do parents find out about secondary school places? councils will soon be offering secondary school places to children in England and Wales. Health: - Parents to be offered weaning advice for babies a series of local family hubs will be opened in England after a survey showed knowledge gaps existed different types of news stories: -Politics       -Uk -Climate      -World - sport          -Tech -business     -Entertainment  -local           -Celebrity -Human interest Fake News: -the people who want you to believe the war in Ukraine is fake. -French TV host suspended in 'news for hire' scandal -Could AI swamp social media with fake accoun...

Thursday 9th February 2023 LO: To plan, film and edit an effective sequence. Our trailer was a love story between me and Lauren. She proposed to me and then we had a marriage scene and a first dance. We also had a scene of us doing a hand clap and some scenes of us individually.

 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...

 Tuesday 6th December 2022 L/O: To explore the concept of film genre. Do Now: Film Genres: Comedy Fantasy Action adventure Sci-fi Horror Drama Thriller Romance Western Documentaries Crime Animation Period drama Family? Kids? Musical Rom-Com (is a hybrid) Action-Comedy (is a hybrid) Music Christmas? Genre - A style, especially in the arts, that involves a particular set of characteristics. Hybrid - mixture of of 2 or more genres. Sub-genres - categories a genre can be divided into.  Animation: Frozen The Emoji Movie Beauty and the beast Cinderella Snow White Sleeping Beauty Moana Tangled Princess and the frog Coco Wall-E Inside Out Soul Up Monsters Inc. Lady and the Tramp Animation Sub-Genres: Fantasy Music Adventure Romance Comedy Animated Film Research: 1) Find out and list the main genre conventions for your genre. 1) Some of the main genre conventions from animation are: Hero - In every animated film there is always someone who is going to save the day in the nick of time. ...

 Tuesday 29th November 2022 LO: To refine and develop photoshop skills. Do Now: Well done! WWW: you've included most of the elements of a horror poster EBI: include release details and a tagline Fantasy Fantasy film conventions - Colour palette of blue, white and purple. Alice in wonderland has a slightly different one - Gold or silver details - The title is in the middle or the bottom of the poster - A certain setting to show important parts of the film Do Now (for Thursday 1st December) Tron is a sci-fi film because the colour palette is blue, and the main image includes very futuristic technology. It looks like the main characters are on a high platform, and their outfits look very futuristic as well. It looks like the platform is suspended by a forcefield above the city. Judgement of Paris is an action movie as there is a lot of fire, explosions and the man in the main image is holding a gun. These are all conventions of an action movie. Pan's Labyrinth is a fantasy film....