Media Studies 2009-11

Before going to record any footage a number of planning steps must be involved before you actually go out with a camera and film. One of the first steps in this planning process is to make a storyboard or an animatic of the film in chronological order. After this stage it goes on the the Recce Report in which you go out to your various location and take still images on a camera. The third stage is casting and following on from this is the scripts and dialouge and then the shooting of the script. All these factors of planning are taken into consideration before filming but one of the main things to watch out for is the saftey of the location of were your going to be filming and also getting permisson off the landowner if the area is private.

Storyboards are used in the planning of a film , movie or animation. It is usualy a set of small drawings done on little cards and put in chronological order of how it will happen in the actuall production, the drawings could represent a single shot or a short scene and these are always in a sequence.  The benifical effect of using a storyboard process in the production of a film is that any changes that need making can be made earlier on in the planning stage rather than leaving it to the editing process saving time and in big feature presentations probably money aswell!!

WordPress is a very simple site to use, and therefore is very popular with many people on the web. Nothing on the website is overcomplicated or hard to understand, and so you can grasp the basics of working the site pretty quickly. As soon as you log in, you are presented with the ‘dashboard’. This gives you a basic overview of your blog, who has commented, etc. You can quickly access all of your posts, and subsequently delete them or edit them whenever you want. At the dashboard, you can change your settings, manage your blog, write a personal profile, and write posts. To do this, you simply click on ‘Write’ and you are presented with the very simple application, which lets you type in your post. You can enter a title, although it is not compulsary, and can also add tags, change the alignment of your text, add a picture, change the colours, change the font weight, and many other things, although these too are not compulsary. You also have the option to do HTML which allows for more complicated posts, like adding a table, amongst other things. You can embed media and websites into your blog which makes it simpler to convey a message that requires other people to read the website to grasp your message. Once you have completed your post, you can post your message inside a catagory so that in the future it is easy to find. This creates a catalogue of your posts for reference. As you reach the bottom of the page, you are presented with several more complicated options. These are for the more advanced bloggers, although if you read about the features, they are reasonably easy to use. One of them is the option to password protect your post, which allows you to keep your blog either private, or restricted to a select amount of readers who you share the password with. As well as posting, there are many other features around the site, most of which are incredibly simple to use, and therefore appealing to many people.

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