http://americanbedu.com/
Saudi Arabia.
'American Bedu' is an American citizen who is currently in Saudi Arabia. He is blogging about experiences and observations he has made about Saudi Arabia.
We can assume that the content found on this website would have been previously written in a form of a diary or a letter before the invention of the internet and computers. We can assume this because of the personal experiences he is en-counting.
There are many different types of media that can be found on the website such as images posted to illustrate what he is blogging about. There are also advertisements surrounding the blog which are related to the blog itself.
There are visable blogs which are related and they are set in order of popularity and the date of when they were set.
Tuesday, 4 March 2014
Tuesday, 11 February 2014
David Gauntlett theory 2.0
David Gauntlett compared Web 1.0 and 2.0 to each other. He came up with the idea that web 1.0 are individual allotments and Web 2.0 is a shared garden. Web 2.0 allowed people to share different ideas and work together. For instance, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter all work together to allow their users to share and recieve on each of its sites. It allowed people to connect together.
Gaunlett also shares the ideas that before Web 2.0 was established,Web 1.0 portrayed this idea that there were 'Media Gods' that handed down the media assecibility to the 'little people'. This meant that media was only available if the 'Media Gods' wanted them to recieve it and for it to be available to them. This can be reinforced because the Media headquatres had huge church like buildings that could be intimidating to people.
Web 1.0 has been renound for people having to schedule their lives around media and social online events where as web 2.0 is seen as being a lot more user friendly. This means that people are able to view things online instead of having to be in a specific place at the right to be view something.
Web 2.0 is readiliy available now, this has realised Tim Berners-Lee dream of an interenet where everything is connected. 'Web 1.0 is connecting computers, Web 2.0 is about connecting people'
Gaunlett also shares the ideas that before Web 2.0 was established,Web 1.0 portrayed this idea that there were 'Media Gods' that handed down the media assecibility to the 'little people'. This meant that media was only available if the 'Media Gods' wanted them to recieve it and for it to be available to them. This can be reinforced because the Media headquatres had huge church like buildings that could be intimidating to people.
Web 1.0 has been renound for people having to schedule their lives around media and social online events where as web 2.0 is seen as being a lot more user friendly. This means that people are able to view things online instead of having to be in a specific place at the right to be view something.
Web 2.0 is readiliy available now, this has realised Tim Berners-Lee dream of an interenet where everything is connected. 'Web 1.0 is connecting computers, Web 2.0 is about connecting people'
Thursday, 12 September 2013
Music Video Genres
There are 5 different types of music genres which are:
+ Image
+ Narrative
+ Performance
+ Personal
+ Spectical
Within the 5 different types of music genres come different types of music such as Pop, Rock or Soul.
Types of music that belong to the Image genre include Pop music and girl bands such as Girls Aloud and Little Mix and One Direction or Union J.
The types of music that belong to the Narrative music include Indie music with Kodaline.
Within the Performance genre you have bands such as Kings of Leon that belong to the Rock genre. Also within performance you can have Pop music with boy bands such as One Direction or Take That.
Personal music can include a lot of different music types such as Rap with Eminem or Soft Rock with artists such as Adele.
Spectical can also include a lot of different genres such as Rock with Red Hot Chili Peppers or Pop with Lady Gaga.
Mark Reid argues that genre changes based on what you are told, also known as the tomato pureé theory.
David Broadwell argues that the audience, rather than the director chooses the genre of the music.
We decided to take 4 of the different genres of music and take pictures of what we think a conventional music video within that genre would look like.
The first one we took was of a girl on the stairs with her tounge out and positioning her hand in the rock pose to make her look like she is crazy. We chose to do it on the stairs because it isn't a typical place to have a music video and it falls well into the category of Specital.
The second picture we took was of a boy band with all the boys lined up together with their arms around each other. They are all wearing stylish clothes and are smiling or posing to make themselves have more appeal to younger girls which is similar to Union J or One direction and fall into the Image genre.
+ Image
+ Narrative
+ Performance
+ Personal
+ Spectical
Within the 5 different types of music genres come different types of music such as Pop, Rock or Soul.
Types of music that belong to the Image genre include Pop music and girl bands such as Girls Aloud and Little Mix and One Direction or Union J.
The types of music that belong to the Narrative music include Indie music with Kodaline.
Within the Performance genre you have bands such as Kings of Leon that belong to the Rock genre. Also within performance you can have Pop music with boy bands such as One Direction or Take That.
Personal music can include a lot of different music types such as Rap with Eminem or Soft Rock with artists such as Adele.
Spectical can also include a lot of different genres such as Rock with Red Hot Chili Peppers or Pop with Lady Gaga.
Mark Reid argues that genre changes based on what you are told, also known as the tomato pureé theory.
David Broadwell argues that the audience, rather than the director chooses the genre of the music.
We decided to take 4 of the different genres of music and take pictures of what we think a conventional music video within that genre would look like.
The first one we took was of a girl on the stairs with her tounge out and positioning her hand in the rock pose to make her look like she is crazy. We chose to do it on the stairs because it isn't a typical place to have a music video and it falls well into the category of Specital.
The second picture we took was of a boy band with all the boys lined up together with their arms around each other. They are all wearing stylish clothes and are smiling or posing to make themselves have more appeal to younger girls which is similar to Union J or One direction and fall into the Image genre.
To infinity and beyond
I am now in Year 13 doing A2 Media in which we are going to create a music video of our own after looking at lots of different genres of music videos.
Monday, 17 December 2012
Task 7 - Looking Back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the frogression from it to full product?
After completing our preliminary task I feel that I am more aware of the camera and what shots should be used. It has also made me more aware of not breaking the 180 degree rule and to always think of everything. We had a few continuity errors in the preliminary task which we were able to work out and it ended up looking really good, this made me more conscious that I didn't want to have the same problem whilst filming.
I feel that the preliminary task has also helped me with the editing because I feel that I am now more confident with using iMovie as it gave me more experience! I was able to over come the problems that occured during the making and editing of my final opening sequence due to completeing my Preliminary task. Things like using iMovie in more depth were developed during the editing of my final opening sequence, however I wouldnt be able to continue using iMovie as well as we all did if we had not been introduced to using the programme at the begining with our preliminary task.
We were able to use Match On Action very well as we had Sophie opening a door and the next shot of her opening the door. This gave me confidence to be able to use it in my official opening sequence.
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Task 2- How does your film represent particular social groups?
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| Bitter Youth |
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| One Hour Picture |
How does your film represent particular social groups?
The main character in our film is a mentally deranged man who is obsessed with a specific girl. He lives with a basement that is attached to the bottom of his house. The basement is full of pictures and videos of the girl, Sammy, who he is obsessed with. The main character lives alone and this add more depth into his eeriness. It is indicated in the opening sequence that he is sleep deprived and has twitches because of his lack of sleep.
The main character in our film is a mentally deranged man who is obsessed with a specific girl. He lives with a basement that is attached to the bottom of his house. The basement is full of pictures and videos of the girl, Sammy, who he is obsessed with. The main character lives alone and this add more depth into his eeriness. It is indicated in the opening sequence that he is sleep deprived and has twitches because of his lack of sleep.
When looking for comparasons of our main characted we found a film called, One Hour Photo, 2002. In this film, Robin Williams plays the characted Seymour Parrish who is obsessed over a family, the Yourkins. Like the main character in our film Seymour comes across as a normal man who looks for comfort by other people by obsessing over other people that he wished he could be with.
Just like in our opening sequence of Bitter Youth, Seymour Parrish has a board full of photos of people he has stalked, these photos include ones that he has taken himself or collected from the family he wants to be in.
The difference between the stalker from Bitter Youth amd Seymour Parrish from One Hour Picture is the board in our film doesn't have any method to the madness. They are disorganised pictures and they overlap and jump from different times and different places. In One Hour Picture, Seymours collage is very organised and this suggests that he may have obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). This builds on the image that he is in his own little world and that everything has to go as planned. This also indicates that his obsessions could have started at a young age as he may have had OCD from a young age. 
Thursday, 13 December 2012
Task 6 - What have you learnt about techologies from the process of constructing this product?
To shoot our film we used a cannon camera. This proved to be one of the best decisions we made due to it having high definition when we were recording which made the images to be very crisp and clear.
To edit and put our film together we used iMovie, this proved to be a task as iMovie is very minimal and some of the things we wanted to do to our film involving the credits proved most difficult however we were able to go onto YouTube and look up how to use iMovie more efficiently! YouTube made the process easier for us because we were able to look up everything that we found difficult.
To create the sound we were able to download various different clips off of YouTube. We placed them into GarageBand and we were able to change the tones and make it fit more into the opening sequence more. For instance, we wanted the sound we were going to have over the top of one of the church scenes to get progressively louder once the door was open and we were able to do this successfully on GarageBand.
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