Digital Literacies Blog
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Field House VR Tour
Suz and I worked on this practice VR tour together. We went to the field house and took 360 pictures of areas we were familiar with.
Monday, February 12, 2018
Final Shot List
1- Opening, introducing myself and the B-Roll topics with tips
2- Facing myself and Angela, telling the viewers to stay tuned
3- Early morning car ride
4- Sunrise
5-Entering FL
6-10- Showing the action of the Expo, footage and pictures
11-14- Show footage of my house, and the beach
Have a video of the night before the race
Music Change
15- Video of numbers
16- Picture from before the race
17-19 Videos during the race
20-22- Pictures of finishers
End with black screen showing the event, music cuts off.
2- Facing myself and Angela, telling the viewers to stay tuned
3- Early morning car ride
4- Sunrise
5-Entering FL
6-10- Showing the action of the Expo, footage and pictures
11-14- Show footage of my house, and the beach
Have a video of the night before the race
Music Change
15- Video of numbers
16- Picture from before the race
17-19 Videos during the race
20-22- Pictures of finishers
End with black screen showing the event, music cuts off.
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Shot list for B-Roll
The idea I have for my B-roll video is to show the journey of the little destination half marathon run my roommates and I are taking on this up coming weekend!
1- Show myself and my roommates in the camera, talking about the half marathon
2- 5 am Friday, show that we are leaving on the 7 hour journey, cut away to the car
3- Throughout the journey show little videos of the girls in the car, driving
4- Take video of myself when we are arriving to my house in FL, cut away to the house, the rooms in the house and my family
5- Show the food and activities of the weekend
6- Day of the race, take a video of the girls running the race, cut away to the crowd, (possibly mom tapes the finish?)
7- Show the celebration of completing the run! Cut away to food and drinks and activities
This is what I have brainstormed so far, I know that as I start to shoot it might change, or have to be adjusted. Also, in between shots, if needed, I will come on and explain the do's and don't's of creating the b-roll video!
1- Show myself and my roommates in the camera, talking about the half marathon
2- 5 am Friday, show that we are leaving on the 7 hour journey, cut away to the car
3- Throughout the journey show little videos of the girls in the car, driving
4- Take video of myself when we are arriving to my house in FL, cut away to the house, the rooms in the house and my family
5- Show the food and activities of the weekend
6- Day of the race, take a video of the girls running the race, cut away to the crowd, (possibly mom tapes the finish?)
7- Show the celebration of completing the run! Cut away to food and drinks and activities
This is what I have brainstormed so far, I know that as I start to shoot it might change, or have to be adjusted. Also, in between shots, if needed, I will come on and explain the do's and don't's of creating the b-roll video!
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Live Blog video shoot tips
Rule of Thirds
- divide image in camera viewfinder horizontal and vertical, stick things in the intersection of lines (most interesting things)
180 Degree
- Line between subjects. Put camera in the 180 degrees above or below, but not both
Shooting interviews
- Do your homework, know who you are talking to
- Have your questions written down on paper
- Don't as yes or no questions
- Ask your subject to look at you, not the camera
-Don't interrupt when asking a question
Shooting B Roll
-plan movements, interactions, and shot list
-set camera up to highest frame rate
-pre picked music
- release all energy and have something that leads into your video
More Interview Tips
- Diffuse your light
- Nose room- more space in front of the persons nose
-Head room- subject doesn't need any space above their head, compose your shot so subsets eyes are 2/3 above the frame
- Compose so your subject isn't breaking frame while they are talking, do not let hands pop in and out of the frame
- have a nice background
- divide image in camera viewfinder horizontal and vertical, stick things in the intersection of lines (most interesting things)
180 Degree
- Line between subjects. Put camera in the 180 degrees above or below, but not both
Shooting interviews
- Do your homework, know who you are talking to
- Have your questions written down on paper
- Don't as yes or no questions
- Ask your subject to look at you, not the camera
-Don't interrupt when asking a question
Shooting B Roll
-plan movements, interactions, and shot list
-set camera up to highest frame rate
-pre picked music
- release all energy and have something that leads into your video
More Interview Tips
- Diffuse your light
- Nose room- more space in front of the persons nose
-Head room- subject doesn't need any space above their head, compose your shot so subsets eyes are 2/3 above the frame
- Compose so your subject isn't breaking frame while they are talking, do not let hands pop in and out of the frame
- have a nice background
Monday, February 5, 2018
Video Shots!
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Music Video
Sunday, January 28, 2018
Semiotics of Media and Culture
Were were asked to read an article called Semiotics of Media and Culture, we were given response questions to help us understand and comprehend the article.
1.
What
is “semiotics?”
To study semiosis, which is signs
in human and non-human elements, can also been seen as a cultural science.
Seeing signs and texts in mass media formats
2.
What
is the “semiosphere” and how it can be both liberating and constraining.
Regulates and enhances human
cognition in tandem, people born in already fixed systems will understand their
environment and determine how they understand whats happening around them.
Which can constrain them to their culture, but liberating becayse they can
provide resources where the people can construct new signs and systems at their
own will. Mass communication plays a big role in this.
3.
What
is the “semiotic law of media?”
as the
media change, so too do the sign systems of culture 1950’s it was a large
discipline
4.
The
author sees the 1938 Radio Broadcast “War of the Worlds” as a “simulacrum.”
What does he mean by that?
Where media can twist reality and
people are so invested that they can get the two mixed up. His radio show was
about aliens in New Jersey, and people actually started to panic! Well educated
people could tell the difference better
5.
What
did Paul Lazarfeld discover in a 1956 study on media and elections? What is
“Flow Theory,” and why was the 1960 election different?
He discovered that people will
only take from the media what agrees with their mindet already, and it had
virtually no effect on elections. The two step flow is when media starts with
an opinion leader and then goes to the group members in 1960 people who
listened to Kennedy and Nixon on the radio thought Nixon won, but people who
watched it on TV thought Kennedy did because of the way he presented himself. Visual
media has a large effect on people and their opinions
6.
Describe
McLuhan’s idea of the “mediashpere.”
he idea
of mediation, or the notion that media influence texts and other aspectsaditional religious sphere in shaping
signification
7.
According
to Roland Barthes, how can a photograph have CONNOTATIVE meaning? What is
“textual pastiche?”
It can have connotation by where
it is placed, what the caption lends, and where it is on the page or book where
it is being shown. Mix things together using ideas and things from other texts
8.
What
is the “culture industry?” What forces does Chomsky identify as shaping factors
on media production?
"churning
out popular texts for instant consumption"same way that factories churn out products. Government
has a impact on what is shown across media
9.
Stuart
Hall identified three possible “readings” to a cultural media text. Describe
them.
Preferred
reading
is the one that the makers intended to convey with their text. A
Negotiated
reading
is the one that involves some negotiation or compromise with
the
text’s intended meaning. An Oppositional is when the meaning is the opposite of what the audience thought.
oppositional reading is one that is in opposition to
what the makers of the text ha
10. What is “markedness?”
Which version of an idea stands
for everyone or just one type, they showed the example of calling all tourist
in the male form, and when saying tourist in the female form it is specially
referring to a female
11. Roland Barthes held that all
texts have denotative (linguistic) and connotative (rhetorical) power. Explain.
When someone sees something as a
denotative they see what the actual meaning is, but on another level when it
comes to connotative they will have an unconscious meaning of the object.
12. Name some evidence of
Levi-Strauss’ idea of "mythic opposition" in Star Wars.
Where Luke is dealing with his father being a villain
13. How would Mikhail
Bakhtin describe and explain the antics of outrageous celebrities in modern
media?
That
celebrities make a name for themselves with how they present themselves and
portray themselves to their viewers. Some of it is just for show, while at other times they are
passionate in what they are doing. It is a modern day “media carnival” famous
people go against the flow of society and they go against tradition
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