DANNY'S BLOG

so i started my editing by short listing the final perfect shots for my video and after i was done with my short listing the first thing i did was bringing down all the final shots on adobe premiere pro. i started to place my shots on the sequence panel in such a way that i wanted my video to be organised. After all the clips came down to the time panel then i started to arrange them in order and while i was doing all the i started to save my video as well so even if any mishap happens i have my video saved

Due to corona virus we had to cut the shooting days short as if wasnt safe to go out every day so we tried to finish it in one day. We went to second cup on the last day Where we shot the last scenes of the music video

The second day of shoot was a major game changer we had to shoot many scenes from the music video for example all the basic scenes for park With the proposal and swings and that dance part these all suppose to be getting done with in that single day however we were on shoot for 7 hours straight from 11 in the afternoon till 6 in the evening just to get all the perfect shots

Baudrillard – Hyper Reality: “Some texts are difficult to distinguish in terms of the representation of reality from a simulation of reality e.g. Big Brother. The boundaries are blurred as codes and conventions create a set of signifiers which we understand but in fact the representation is a copy of a copy”. Judith Butler – Queer Theory: “Gender is what you do, not who you are with the theory contesting the categorization of gender and sexuality – identities are not fixed and they cannot be labelled e.g. potentially androgynous representations like Gok Wan. Carol Clover – Last Girl Theory (Horror): “In many horror films, like Halloween typically the last girl that survives is pure, chaste and virginal while all of her friends with looser morals have been killed. Even the name of the last girl is often unisex e.g. Sidney, Teddy or Billie and has elements of androgyny and sometimes also a shared history with the killer”. Richard Dyer – Stereotypes Legitimize Inequality: “A way to ...

Roland Barthes – Cultural, Semantic, Symbolic, Hermeneutic, Proairetic Codes (5 Narrative Codes): “The cultural, or referential code in Star Trek (2009) draws on audience pre-existing understanding of science ‘fact’ while symbolism is created from the tension and character development of Spock and Kirk, placed in opposition to each other. Applying the semantic code there are additional connotations to both characters’ dress code; Spock is clean shaven, immaculately dressed with correct posture and gate while Kirk slumps in his chair, is scruffy on Earth (the bouncer calls him ‘farm boy’) and is not so well turned out. When battle commences the proairetic or action code adds suspense and excitement to the narrative while the hermeneutic code in opposition, limits the audience understanding to create enigma making audiences want to know more”. Goodwin – Useful for Analysing Music Videos if relevant for MS2 or MS3 internal assessment – 5 key features: “Using Andrew Goodwin’s theory of m...