Oliver Turner A2 Media Studies

original idea: The main basis of the plot will follow both a boy and girl with intermittent shots of the band playing throughout. In the initial scenes we will follow the boy in a school classroom. By using crab shots and also a tracking shot we will focus on the boy as a central focus amongst the other students. We could consider using...

Continue Reading

"Another Girl, Another Planet" [Blink-182] I Always flirt with death I could kill but I don't care about it I can face your threats Stand up tall and scream and shout about it I think I'm on another world with you I'm on another planet with you You always get under my skin I don't find it irritating You always play to win...

Continue Reading

Since our song is quite upbeat and energetic we decided that we wanted to have a mix of both narrative and live performance from a band. We decided it would be good to have a mix of the two because it breaks up the footage a bit and makes the video more interesting to watch. Another reason we decided to do a mix...

Continue Reading

Me and Drew decided that we would scout some locations to do the filming in. The first place we went to was the forest behind the local park to see if there was any places that we could either put in the band shots or have our couple be doing some sort of activity. It was very wet when we went and so we...

Continue Reading

As a group we have assigned individual roles for each person within the group. This is done to make the organisation and process of the task significantly quicker and mirror more of the real processes involved in producing media today. These are the roles each of us will carry out: Myself - Filming and editing Drew Anderson- Editing Sophia Diaper - Blog posts...

Continue Reading

We have chosen to use Blink 182 "another girl another planet" for our preliminary task. As a group we collectively decided that this song best suited any form of music video with the idea of having both a boy and girl the two lead protagonists. Furthermore, we chose to use this because we thought that it would work best with the conditions that we...

Continue Reading

  Genre: Alternative/Indie Music video 1 - Vance Joy (Riptide) Good/bad? This music video is by artist, Vance Joy. Perhaps one of the things that makes this music video particularly successful is this somewhat artistic, almost retro style of film. This is most likely achieved by using a particular film or camera lens (35mm) to give this appearance but also with editing techniques...

Continue Reading

In preparation for A2 coursework we have been given a trial effort over the next month to produce an original music video, and accompanying original CD cover for the release of the song. I will be working with: Drew Anderson Emma Hagstrom Sophia Diaper  Our media teacher arranged the groups himself meaning that we would be working with completely different people that we...

Continue Reading

  Hello and welcome to my second Media Studies blog for my A2 course to exhibit an advanced production portfolio. ...

Continue Reading