Matilda GCSE blog

 L.O.    to evaluate and review our news day project 

28 February L.O. to explore the concept and format of news There are tons of different types of news, for example: Climate, Politics, UK, International, Business, Entertainment and Arts, Science, Health, Sport, Weather, Education, Wellbeing, Celebrity, Human interest, Local, Family.      Climate                                               Politics     Business                                               Health Fake News Fake news: false information used to shape your views, opinions or ideas. The information is often exaggerated heavily biased or simply not true. It is often intentionally misleading. It can also be known as propaganda. I think people write and spread fake news to create an influence over others and make a fals...

9 February   L.O. To plan, film and edit an effective sequence  Me, Josh, Tai and Matt made an action trailer. Josh and Tai were the main characters, and i filmed all of the clips. Matt died, Tai and Josh killed him with their guns while they roamed around school looking for people to kill

 26 January   L.O. to plan and construct an effective green screen scene 7 February I think in the future there will be more advanced special effects, such as virtual reality used in everyday life rather than just in  films and animation. 

12 January Trailers and genres L.O. to explore the different features of iMovie and experiment with different genre features i have chosen charlie st cloud, a romance/ drama movie and am changing it into a thriller / drama movie. To change the genre of my trailer, i re-arranged the clips and scenes that were used and changed the music from a bubbly warm song to more intense and fast music to set the scene. I also added titles and text to sugfgest a different storyline that would fit my genre.  WWW: i think for my first attempt it went pretty well and i changed the genre from what it was before.  EBI: i think next time i should give myself more time and choose a railer with less choppy and more available clips for my editing. i would also like if the storyline was more clear and if it was longer.  24 January SFX - L.O. to create a realistic green screened clip using imovie what is included under special effects? Special effects is any editing that can either enhance or ch...

6 December do now drama, action-adventure, fantasy, sci-fi, comedy, horror, rom-com, romance, thriller, documentary, crime, western, musical, animation, social realism, biopic, period drama,  L.O. To explore the concept of film genre a style especially in the arts that involves a particular set of characteristics. Hybrid = mixture of two or more genres. sub-grenre = categories that a genre can be divided into Romance love actually, bridget jones, mamma mia, dirty dancing, love rosie, beauty and the beast, grease, about time,  sub-genres: comedy, musical, drama, christmas romance genre conventions- happy ending, two protagonists/ main characters, extreme highs and lows, red+white colour palette, sometimes struggle to make a relationship work, usually a boy and a girl fall in love, red/white title, usually two people (the people who fall in love) on romantic poster,  Examples of famous romance film directors could be Christian Ditter, Richard Curtis, Nancy Meyers - they hav...

29 November L.O. to refine and develop photoshop skills  do now. Great work Matilda WWW: you've included all of the main elements of a horror poster EBI: think about the size and placement of you       Sci-fi Film Poster Sci-fi film potser genre conventions  - a lot of neon colours  - dark backgrounds / outer space backgrounds / stars  - futuristic elements - block capitols and a font that stands out on the poster for the title - sometimes dystopian characteristics 1 December  do now Sci-fi                                                Action                              Fantasy We can identify that the first one is sci-fi because it follows the genre conventions such as neon colours, futuristic features and font,  We also can see by looking at...