What I Have Learnt From Last Year?

Refections of my development this yea

What New Terms Or Concepts Have I Learnt This Year?
- McGuffin

- Audinces and Institutions
- Enigma
- Digitisation
- Long Tail Theory
- Male Gaze Theory
- Digital/Analogue
- Niche's and Hits 
- Convergence
- Actual audience and intended adience
- Mass audience and niche audience
- Diegetic and non-diegetic sounds
- How big of an affect the internet has 
- Soft and sharp focus

What Skills Have You Developed From The Beginning Of The Course To The Present Day?
- How to use Final Cut Pro and how to edit
- Shooting footage on the new digital camera, and how to use the new DSLR camera
- Setting up the shot and thinking about what goes into the frame: Mise en scene and lighting
- Storyboarding/shotlisting/screenplaying
- How to analyse a moving picture

How Have Digital Technologies Impacted Your Production Work?
- Final Cut Pro has made it simple and easier to edit the footage together and it is advanced so can do a lot of things to make the film look better
- The new camera that we got makes the footage much better quality and makes it easier to shoot the film. It also makes it quicker and easier to produce the film

To What Extent Did Knowledge Of Media Products Influence Your Media Products?
- Forest Gump- the McGuffin

- Fairytale books- Shrek and Cinderella story

- Dark fairytale films e.g. Corraline, Snow White and The Huntsman, Alice In Wonderland, Frankenweenie

- Tim Burton