Excellent academic article for all A2 Media and Communications students looking into the effect of facebook on Identity construction.
http://www.tasa.org.au/conferences/conferencepapers07/papers/309.pdf
Category Archives: Creative and Media Diploma
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood
An excellent video I found on youtube posted by the Media Education Foundation.
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Product Placement in 2010 Oscar-Nominated Films, from Barbie to Budweiser
Photoshop tutorial for beginners
There are many Photoshop tutorials in Youtube. If you feel you need extra practice at learning how to use the technology, you are more than welcome to spend your free lessons in room 110 learning from these tutorials and getting to know the equipment if you are a Collingwood Media/Film/Comms student.
Photoshop tutorial : Awesome eyes
Quite an advanced tutorial for those already confident with Photoshop. This shows how to improve the eyes of a model to give them greater impact and definition in an image.
AS Film Studies – Video essays
As part of our teaching and learning on the micro elemets of film the AS class all completed video essays on a specific use of cinematography.
Please watch and enjoy:
Unit 6 & 7 Inspiration Films from the BBC Film Network
This is for all Year 11 Creative and Media Diploma Stduents completing their Unit 6 portfolios’s.
You should watch these two videos as model examples for your own pieces of work. Which ever season you have been gievn it is important that the piece of moving image you create has had an influence of some sort and you know what type of footage you want to take for what reason. If you are shooting stills for a montage the same applies.
For your voiceover you can choose to voice poetry (either sourced or your own) and for your music you could even create your own.