Vote on the one below then have a look at creating your own
Sunday, 11 March 2012
PollDaddy
Just testing to see how inter-operable Wordpress is, but PollDaddy (which I looked at as part of this) seems a useful site - you can create polls which aren't confined to your blog but which can be pushed on FB etc too
Vote on the one below then have a look at creating your own
Vote on the one below then have a look at creating your own
Saturday, 10 March 2012
March 2012 Top10 update
10 days in and exactly 1,000 views as of now - not bad!
No.1 currently is ... me!
Two Girls Aloud rough cuts in there ... and two Lonely Island edits, seem to be pulling in the fans quite steadily many months on. A 2011 AS prelim (seemingly down to SamB reminiscing on FB with hyperlinks!), the 2010 Britney, and a current AS rough cut (Sam/Dillon's) are also amongst the current Top10; I'll publish the final chart just before we break up for Easter!
No.1 currently is ... me!
Two Girls Aloud rough cuts in there ... and two Lonely Island edits, seem to be pulling in the fans quite steadily many months on. A 2011 AS prelim (seemingly down to SamB reminiscing on FB with hyperlinks!), the 2010 Britney, and a current AS rough cut (Sam/Dillon's) are also amongst the current Top10; I'll publish the final chart just before we break up for Easter!
Thursday, 8 March 2012
IGSMediaStudies channel hits 20,000 views!
The race is on for the March Top Ten (if I ever get all the AS idents in, a new comp of those could be a late contender alongside current leader ... the DB3 lip dub guide!), but in the meantime we passed 20,000 views a few hours ago!
Is your coursework breaking the law?
Read http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/mar/08/sexist-comments-to-become-criminal-offence to see what I'm getting at! (and its not the copyright issue: that you can't include copyright material in your coursework)
Sunday, 4 March 2012
Top 10 ... of YOUR vids!
Whilst trying to figure out why the channel page was saying 18,971
views for 3 straight days, I took a look at the analytics (which inform
me that its now 19,341 views!); thought you might be interested in the
all-time top 10 and current (Feb) top 10. These reflect the role of
tags, which I generally take the time to do (and you can edit in even
after uploading): without these its unlikely your own uploads will be
found. As AS coursework is centred on new films, they're never likely to
reach the same audience, though it was interesting to see a swede (the
harry potter tag obviously being key) and compilation of idents (maybe
through in-school promotion as well as Media students/teachers searching
'company ident'?) well up there.
So, here's the all-time and the Feb 2012 Top 10 IGSMediaStudies hits!
(Will the LipDub vid, silly ident and all, make it into March's top 10? Will Sunburnt in December counter all expectations of metalcore and trump over the girlband giants?! Will an imminent new compilation of AS company idents prove a fresh hit? I'll try to update these next month...)
So, here's the all-time and the Feb 2012 Top 10 IGSMediaStudies hits!
(Will the LipDub vid, silly ident and all, make it into March's top 10? Will Sunburnt in December counter all expectations of metalcore and trump over the girlband giants?! Will an imminent new compilation of AS company idents prove a fresh hit? I'll try to update these next month...)
Remember too, an event to celebrate the achievements of those of you who will have completed your 2-year Media journey has been mooted: its up to yourselves now to think about this, consult with parents and think about suitable venues - which doesn't have to be school.
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| The Alice Cooper vid's still hanging in there! A new one remains in the pipeline... |
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| Other
than class exercises/BritVid, the excellent Joy Division vid remains
the all-time coursework champ. Could that face a new challenger? |
LipDubs: a DB guide
They're another good example of digitisation as a democratising tool; music vids (which ultimately is what lip dubs are) created by schools, unis etc attracting huge audiences online, without any paid-for advertising campaign.
Here's a guide I've prepared in my limited spare time:
If you've any other good egs of lip dubs, add brief info + a URL as a comment
We'll shortly be getting a steadicam rig for the shooting of this; there's a job there for someone - and these rigs take some practice to get used to, to get the balance set right
If possible, we'll make it available for some final AS coursework filming...
Here's a guide I've prepared in my limited spare time:
If you've any other good egs of lip dubs, add brief info + a URL as a comment
We'll shortly be getting a steadicam rig for the shooting of this; there's a job there for someone - and these rigs take some practice to get used to, to get the balance set right
If possible, we'll make it available for some final AS coursework filming...
Thursday, 1 March 2012
DIGITISATION: self-published short film
Across these blogs I'll keep returning to the concept of
digitisation, the ongoing process of change and transformation of our
media, a key element of which is the opening up of opportunities for
micro-budget media producers to (occasionally!) attract large audiences
and even make some money...
We mustn't forget that giant global conglomerates remain utterly dominant, but the possibilities for someone with a digital camera and a Mac are infinitely higher now than 10, 20 years ago. There have always been amateur/debut film-makers somehow bringing together feature films on infinitesimally small budgets, from Wes Craven's Last House on the Left and John Carpenter's Halloween, through Alex Cox's Repo Man (see his superb book X Films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker, there's a copy in Lib/F6), Kevin Smith's Clerks and closer to home the rather more dubious Colin!
Here's an interesting example of a horror buff with her own successful blog, Final Girl, who made a short film ... and monetised it through this blog, charging $5 for a DVD of the 10min short film! The short is a postmodern lesbian vampire skit using knock-off Barbie dolls, reflecting the filmmaker's feminist sensibilities. If you do watch it, remember its NOT a feature film - shorts can be rather quirkier. It is, whatever you make of the film itself (the sound is nicely done and the mise-en-scene well handled given the size of the characters!), a great example of how digitisation has expanded the possibilities for enthusiastic amateur filmmakers and media producers generally to go ahead and create, distribute and exhibit work without having to sign deals with larger media firms.
'Final Girl' runs a monthly slasher film club; check it out and if you blog on it she may add a link to your blog on hers!
There is of course another example of a self-publishing filmmaker closer to home, and we will be looking at a trailer for his latest production in Friday's lessons, and with a bit of luck hearing a little from the filmmaker himself on how he went about it, and his plans for this new opus...
We'll also have a look at the film Monsters, a good example of how digitisation has opened up possibilities for filmmakers to produce slick work on very limited money and with a crew barely bigger than a Media coursework group; I have previously blogged on this and various other examples of digitisation, plus analyses, in a wide range of posts you should be looking over whether for AS/A2 exam or AS/A2 coursework (especially Evaluation)...
We mustn't forget that giant global conglomerates remain utterly dominant, but the possibilities for someone with a digital camera and a Mac are infinitely higher now than 10, 20 years ago. There have always been amateur/debut film-makers somehow bringing together feature films on infinitesimally small budgets, from Wes Craven's Last House on the Left and John Carpenter's Halloween, through Alex Cox's Repo Man (see his superb book X Films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker, there's a copy in Lib/F6), Kevin Smith's Clerks and closer to home the rather more dubious Colin!
Here's an interesting example of a horror buff with her own successful blog, Final Girl, who made a short film ... and monetised it through this blog, charging $5 for a DVD of the 10min short film! The short is a postmodern lesbian vampire skit using knock-off Barbie dolls, reflecting the filmmaker's feminist sensibilities. If you do watch it, remember its NOT a feature film - shorts can be rather quirkier. It is, whatever you make of the film itself (the sound is nicely done and the mise-en-scene well handled given the size of the characters!), a great example of how digitisation has expanded the possibilities for enthusiastic amateur filmmakers and media producers generally to go ahead and create, distribute and exhibit work without having to sign deals with larger media firms.
'Final Girl' runs a monthly slasher film club; check it out and if you blog on it she may add a link to your blog on hers!
There is of course another example of a self-publishing filmmaker closer to home, and we will be looking at a trailer for his latest production in Friday's lessons, and with a bit of luck hearing a little from the filmmaker himself on how he went about it, and his plans for this new opus...
We'll also have a look at the film Monsters, a good example of how digitisation has opened up possibilities for filmmakers to produce slick work on very limited money and with a crew barely bigger than a Media coursework group; I have previously blogged on this and various other examples of digitisation, plus analyses, in a wide range of posts you should be looking over whether for AS/A2 exam or AS/A2 coursework (especially Evaluation)...
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