Rule of thirds

What is the rule of thirds and how do you use it?

The rule of thirds is that when you are taking a photograph landscape or portrait, using the grid will make the focus on the image a lot better. As the eyes are the most important part of the face within the image, make sure you keep the lines that join within the same position of the persons face.

How do you manually select the auto focus point?

Selecting the auto focus manually, you would look on the lens of the camera and you will notice a little switch that will say MF or AF ( Manual focus and Auto Focus). You then select the auto focus and the click the top right button that looks like a square with a cross in it; that allows you focus on whatever point you want.

JAMES

Working Title:                          US Vs THEM

Summary of the idea:
A clean game of Dodge ball in the sports hall within City Of Westminster, the participants within the the 5-10 minute game will be students, who either study but it is open to any student who wants to take part and also teachers/staff will be versing against the Students.

Legal Issues:
The Legal issues will involve health and safety, along with permission from students, teachers/staff and the enrichment team. A contract or permission form will be made to make sure the all that are going to be involved would like to filmed, also with it being alright for the footage to be breached on the college website if it was possible. To further add health and safety;

Exits – I will make sure that there are enough exits for everyone to leave the building in a short amount of time, safely.
Spillages; to ensure that the surfaces are safe and dry, so if there are spillages they will automatically be cleaned up before any situations occur.
Cables; as there will be camera equipment within the area, the cables will need to be hidden with the cable matts to make sure that no one trips over or has an accident.
Dodge balls; to make sure that the balls aren’t too firm, as the players will be throwing them at each other from waist below.
Health Kit; this may be needed as someone may endure an injury during the game so the kit will be present at all time to attend the injury quickly.
Required Space; is a must there will be a lot of equipment in the same environment around people, so the space will be needed to keep everyone clear from anything so nothing will be broken.

Overall this is will ensure that everyone including; audience, production team, participants and personell are safe at all times as anything can happen at any moment.

Content Synopsis: My idea for the pre-recorder entertainment is a game of softball/dodge ball where we will find out if the younger or older generation has a better team. This is a game/sport where they will be opposing teams (students Vs teachers) where they will throw balls at each other and dodge it. The people who dodge them and have the most people standing will win.

Target Audience: 16-35 years old as teachers and student will be involved. As the entertainment is a sport, this will be appeal to them because during primary and secondary school day’s students always used to see sports as a fun lesson. This will have a broad audience as within this generation sports is very popular, especially to men older or younger. Most participants will be studying sports between the ages 16-19 but this is an open option to those that want to take part whether they study sports or not, and surely male teachers would like to take in a challenge with their students more than females teachers would.

Resources required:

Camera/s; 4 cameras will be needed to recored the event, along with be positioned differently as well as two cameras being either hand held or placed on a tripod with or without wheels for a tracking movement. If this is done, the overall production will have a variety of shots once it has been edited so it wont look bland as dogdeball isn't a slow paced sport.
Microphone: For the presenter to announce what’s happening, who’s coming off the court, and how the game ends. The presenter will be able to interact with the audience so they can feel engaged within the game, as their opinions will be stated having a little lime light for a few seconds.

Dodge ball: as the balls will be needed to be thrown at each other, so overall 12 balls will be needed 6 on each team. Slowly as players are being taken off the court, balls will be taken as well as the players may become a little hasty at the fact the one team as so many against 1 or 2 on the other side.

Knee pads; for health and safety reasons, as they may need to get on their knees to retrieve the ball/s.

Floor tape; to let them teams know where the line is for them to know where the border line is, if you cross the line you will be off the court. Once the line is crossed, the player/s who have crossed the line will be given 2 chances if those 2 chances have been used up they will be out of the game until the final round.

Personnel required:

Students & teachers: both teams will need 6 teacher and 6 students will be needed for the game to be played.
Presenter: The presenter will be needed as he or she will need to announce what’s happening during the game, to introduce the game itself, commentary throughout the game and introduce the players and the winning team.
Cameraman; to ensure the shots are at a variety with both cameras from both prospectives.

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Mood board for my final project

Being a freelancer for a magazine

Within the generation of today, Cosmetics seems to be the be all and end off on social networks such as; YouTube, Instagram, Vine and others. As a typical female, I am always up to date with the fashion and always looking into under rated clothing lines looking for individuality. Yet make up seems to speaking for itself allowing many male and female to experiment with it, along with feeling comfortable in their own skin. Being an original, stealing and making it their own with a twist.

         In all cases whether it's contouring, eyebrow shaping, eye shadow tutorials. Lipstick seems to be the one everyone wants to get right, hitting it right on the head. It gives a woman her character whether she is naturally blessed with rose pink lips, a change hurt every now and then. 

Depending on the tone, colour or event even: lipstick can change an appearance drastically lighting or darkening the face, adding a bit of colour to a dull out fill or defining the outfit all together flattering someone's skin tone and a persons persona. 

  Celebrities such as Jessie J and Salonge Knowles are perfect examples or roles models for such a topic.. *pictures* 

Explain what both women are wearing & the colour lipstick does.. 

My chosen magazine would be vogue or Cosmetic depending on the way id the lipstick to be presented light and bubble or classy with a tad a huskiness..

How I would gain such an image? 

The ways I would try and achieve such a masculine yet sophisticated photograph for vogue. I would need to have glossy effect using reflectors for the radiant skin tone, along with the use of shadows to defining the jawline and the structure of the face. 

700 word genre analysis

The American medicated Kids is a documentary that allows the audience/public to get an insight of families who believed that their children need to be closely medicated to sustain behavioural problems, along with how it affects lives in general. It also gives us the right to question whether it is right for children at the ages between 6-13 to be put on medication.

In documentaries there are many voiceovers of the presenter speaking, which allows and gives the audience a chance to take in the information and understand what is being said without confusion. For example; 

when we see the kids playing in the documentary we hear the presenter on the voiceover which enables us to see the child's behaviour but also listen to the voiceover which makes it more interesting and also cuts down time. We also see a lot of interviews with experts, such as; 

Doctors 

Physiatrists and others, so that what is being said is trustworthy and believeable as it's coming from a person who does it as their occupation for a living.

The main code that should be obeyed in the documentary would be privacy; because this is exposing families personal lives and issues. Also he has to be aware with the information he has researched. Specific information. With that he will need to think before he speaks as he will be asking and exposing information that May or may not be needed. But before he asks will need permission from the families to do so and at all times those and questions and informations must be appropriate at all times.

Example: When the presenter was asking the young girl if she actually needed the medication, he had to make sure he wasn't coming across as being too pushy or being in personal space as she was feeling agitated at that point.

Accuracy is another guideline that needs to be followed within this documentary, as this is talking about the realism of medicated children; what they are diagnosed with?, what's the cause behind it, if there is one? and many others. Throughout the broadcaster was stating information and commentary, all facts and information had to be true and not misleading in any way possible.

A prime example of this is when the presenter was stating facts to the doctor he was interviewing about the medication the children were taking and what it was for exactly. 

It was easy to figure out that this was a documentary, as there were many interviews with the subjects using yhe camera technique of shot reverse shot especially with the presenter and the young boy Hugh. Along with mid shots ( chest and upwards) or a close up (shoulders and upwards) giving the audience the chance to see any emotion professed by the body language or facial expressions by the children and adults. 

For example; 

When the presenter was having a conversation with Hughs parents about what medication he takes and whether he actually needs them or not. 

          Also having the in sight of the present staying the Hugh family's home was a way of allowing the audience to see the day to day routine of the child and families life; the round and the smooth. 

Lastly opinions and views had to be obeyed. The presenter had to ensure that his opinion was not baised but an all rounder, so the adults could fed off what he had said and respond without being offended. To further add he questions he had asked had to be open as all opinions are supposed to be spoken upon and fairly as this could reflect the code of impart/ially (uneven). 

OFCOM CODES AND BBC GUIDELINES

BBC guidelines  ; Privacy

Is a statement or legal document that a clients data or identity, which is kept private and confidental. The data includes;
Date of birth
Full name
Address
Nationality and much more..
          BBC guidelines 7.2.2 states '

A case to relate this guideline to is the mother




Accuracy;
All facts quoted must be vertified, for instance; if the government were to stareva fact in a meeting. It would need to be corrected or be realistic for it to be used. The due accuracy will be vary depending on the show, whether its not a factual programme, all opinions must be relevent.

Example: A report had been made by a reporter under the wing of ESPN wrote a report on misleading and unaccurate information on a young child being molested.



Opinion & Impartially: codes of OFCOM

'Undue Promience is a significant imbalance of views aired within coverage of matters of political or industrial controversy or matters releasing to the public policy'.
        In other words, opinions should be balanced in all sections of the media industry. All opinions are therefore related to the public policy at an equal.

Impartially, the word itself means not favouring one side over the other. As a result, if a newreporter were to present an debate, that person can not put forward their personal opinion as that will come across as baised.

The Mark Dougan Murder covers both because 2 vocalists were voicing their opinion, one for and against was the preoccptions made on the police officer. This is an obvious sign of balance. Along with impartially, the news reporter did not favour either sides even though what was being said was couldve been true, very accurate. No sides were taken.