Stop Motion production diary and evaluation

Lesson one 

The idea I have for my first stop motion animation is to create a time lapse drawing of either a Disney cartoon character or a famous person. This is the idea most likely to happen, however it seems quite simple compared to what animation can consist of.

Another idea that is a possibility is creating an animated music video, such as Taylor Swift's lyric video for eyes open.

If I were to do the lyric video idea i think I would do it on the song Runaway by The Vamps or Burn by The Vamps, as they both have quite a lot of imagery in them.

I am also considering model animation, and I am going to start looking at examples of lego animation as I am unable to use the clay due to allergies.
Lesson two 
Idea One- Lyric video a song which is to be determined.
I took inspiration from the lyric video for Eyes open by Taylor Swift.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hsVICl7d8k
I like the idea of using paper, however if I was to do this idea I would use more drawings to represent words. 
Idea Two- Time Lapse Drawing of either a famous person or a disney character.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_cwJsGGjU8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSmbLmUFNmo

Idea 3- create a story using lego blocks to make the characters and the sets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ_JOBCLF-I

Lesson three

My final idea is to produce a lyric video for a song which is not yet detemined. I am in the process of elimination. The lyric video will be paper based.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIIlaiuTSEs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ15xiY8yrQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w348pEAEQlw
I Found a Girl by The Vamps has a simple concept through the lyrics ('I found a girl who's in love with a girl') and could easily be very symbol/picture based which is what I wanted. I have begun to see where I could fit pictures into the lyrics.

Lesson four

I have decided on the song for the lyric video- I found a girl by The Vamps.
I have looked through font generator sites to get ideas of how to write the lyrics, and I have test drawn some.

Lesson five

This week I continued work on the font design, and printed the official Vamps logo out to use as a background.

The final product

When it came to the deadline, I didn't feel like I had enough time to do the lyric video well so I switched ideas back to the timelapse drawing of the famous person and drew Levi Jones from the Tide. I recorded the animation on my Ipad with these settings:

This is the final product. 

Understanding the ethical and legal considerations when working in the creative media sector

Understanding the ethical and legal considerations when working in the creative media sector

It is important for producers to understand the legal considerations when working in the creative sectors so that their work is legally able to be broadcast.

Libel law

Libel law is a law against publishing in print something which is not true or may harm that persons reputation and may bring hate or scorn towards them.

It must be a statement which claims to be fact and is not clearly identified as an opinion.

An example of the libel law is a tweet by Sally Bercow, the wife of the UK parliaments speaker of the house of commons, which read "why is lord McAlpine trending? *innocent face*" The tweet occurred at the same time as a case assuming he had sexually abused children at a foster home, which made McAlpine able to sue Bercow for posting a libelous tweet saying that he wasn't innocent.

Privacy law

The Privacy law (or Human rights law) is a regulation that protects a persons right to be left alone and says that people are allowed to be left alone and have 'the right to privacy' and 'the right to be left alone'- 'Harassment and data protection'. 
An example of the Privacy Law being broken is the News of the World phone hacking scandal. This incident resulted in the hacking of the phones of the Royal Family, celebrities, and 13 year old Millie Dowler who had been murdered. 
The result of the phone hacking was the News of the world being shut down and millions of pounds being paid to victims of the hacking.

Obscene Publications act 1959 (and later amendments)

The Obscene publications act 1959 (c.66) is an act of parliament of the United kingdom parliament that significantly reformed the law related to obscenity in England and wales.
The act stops any content being published that may 'deprave and corrupt' anyone who may read/see it (torture, beastiality etc.) and was created to strengthen the law concerning pornography, as well as the law preventing the publication/ production of obscene matter.
An example of Obscene Publications being carried out in media is the Human Centipede sequel being banned in the UK as a DVD or a download and denied an 18 rating in the cinema due to thoughts that it contains a real risk to viewers.

Copyright and intellectual property law

Intellectual property is something that is unique to you if physically created. I.e. an idea is not your intellectual property but the words you write are. Copyright is a type of intellectual law that protects your work.By knowing your rights and having the right type of protection you can stop people stealing or copying:

• The names of your products or brands
• Your inventions
• The design or look of your products
• Things you write, make, or produce

An example of the copyright law being somewhat broken is the court situation between the Avatar director James Cameron and artist Roger Dean, who said that Cameron had ripped off his artwork in the film.

This picture shows the scene from avatar on the left compared to the art work on the right by Roger Dean.

James Cameron won the case and did not have to pay $50 million in damages as the court declared him innocent.

Official Secrets Act 1989

The official secrets act of 1989 is a term used in Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Malaysia, and the United kingdom, and formerly in Canada and New Zealand for legislation that provides for the protection of state secrets and official information, mainly related to national security.
An example of a breach of the Official Secrets Act is the Royal Navy officer Edward Devenney being jailed for offering nuclear submarine secrets to MI5 agents posing as Russian spies.

Health and safety act

The Health and safety act applies to all work activities in the UK, not excluding film, TV and broadcasting.
Employers are expected to have responsibilities and duties defined, have a system for managing health and safety, assess and manage risks, and regularly review the process and procedures for managing the risks.

It is important for producers to understand the ethical considerations when working in the creative sectors so that morally they aim to not cause harm or offence to the majority.

Social issues and sensitivities/Not causing harm or offence

Social issues and sensitivities, can be hard to ignore when it comes to the media, however the way these are represented can be the difference between your media product being broadcast or not.

Not causing harm or offence

It is important for media producers to try to not cause harm or offence, especially when representing stereotypes, however since people can be offended by different things it is difficult to draw a fine line as to what is okay to show and what is not, hence why most broadcasters have a code of which their 

Adhering to the professional body codes of practice (e.g. Broadcasters code, BBC producers' guidelines)

Ofcom set the standards for what a broadcasted program can or can't control in terms of certain criteria:

1. Protecting the under 18's
2. Harm and offence
3. Crime
4. Religion
5. Due impartiality and due accuracy and undue prominance of views and opinions
6. Elections and referendums
7. Fairness
8. Privacy
9. Commercial references in television programming
10. Commercial communications in radio programming

Sachsgate was a situation which involved the broadcasting of an inappropriate voicemail which Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross sent Andrew Sachs about his granddaughter Georgina Baillie. The voicemails breached these certain codes:

• 2.1- generally accepted standards must be applied to the contents of television and radio services so as to provide adequate protection for members of the public from the inclusion in such services of harmful and/or offensive material.

• 2.3- offensive material must be justified by the context

• 8.1 the standard requiring adequate protection for members of the public from unwarranted infringements of privacy.

The result of Sachsgate was that the Russell Brand show was discontinued.

Acts on ethics

The official secrets act is a term used in Hong kong, India, Ireland, Malaysia, and the United kingdom, and formerly in Canada and New Zealand for legislation that provides for the protection of state secrets and official information, mainly related to national security.

mi6 book damon mcbride

The Obscene publications act 1959 ( c.66) is an act of parliament of the United kingdom parliament that significantly reformed the law related to obscenity in England and wales

human centipede/ clockwork orange examples

Stop Motion Production Lesson five-

This week I continued work on the font design, and printed the official Vamps logo out to use as a background.

Mediacom Marketing Strategies

Questions:

1. Where do I hear about films/ who from/ where?
2. What do I like/dislike about the cinema experience?
3. Where do I go to the cinema?
4. Who with?
5. What makes me go/barriers to going?
6. Invent my ideal film (genre, stars, director)
7. What's my favourite film ever?
8. What am I doing this weekend?
9. What films would interest me next year?
10. What news story am I interested in this week?

Answers:

1. The cinema, youtube, social media accounts.
2. I like the big screen and loud speakers, i dislike the people
3. Cineworld Middlesbrough
4. Friends or family
5. Liking the look of a film makes me go, having no one to go with or having no money are barriers to going.
6. ZEFRON/ the vamps in the credits.
7. TANGLED
8. Nothing
9. FINDING DORY
10. Kesha

Pen Portraits are a marketing technique for defining a target audience. 

•What are they called?

•How old are they?

•Where do they live?

•Who do they want to be?

•Who do they like?

•What movies do they like

•Where do they shop?

•What is their personality

•What TV shows do they watch

•What do they do for a living or are they a student?

•What do they do over the weekend?

•What websites and social media do they consume

•What music do they like?

•What are their hobbies?

  

This is Levi, a 17 year old male from the US who is in his senior year of High School. He shops in Hot Topic and enjoys wearing band T shirts of bands like 21 Pilots and My Chemical Romance.  

This is Bradley, a 19 year old male from Birmingham, UK. He is studying journalism at university whilst living at home with his parents. His favourite bands are Arctic Monkeys and The 1975 and his favourite film is 21 Jump Street. He has an upbeat personality and enjoys TV shows such as The walking dead and the Simpsons. His hobbies include walking his dog, playing video games and playing football with his friends, as well as going out with his friends over the weekend.

Stop Motion Production Lesson four-22/02/16

I have decided on the song for the lyric video- I found a girl by The Vamps.
I have looked through font generator sites to get ideas of how to write the lyrics, and I have test drawn some.

Bias In Media

Definitions of words as they relate to the media industry

Balance includes using two opposing opinions to get a point across, in the most fair way possible. This is the free speech model which the BBC aims to use as one of the founders- John Reith-  wanted the guidelines to be 'to educate, inform, entertain'. 

The other model of free speech is the market model in which opinions are presented and people can choose to listen to them or not. Fox news uses this model.

Impartiality is the way in which media is presented as being fair and balanced with a neutral opinion.

Bias is when a particular opinion is the focus, and can be related to Propaganda videos as they are bias opinions.

A subjective documentary is a personal point of view and may include experiences of a personal story.

An objective documentary is an attempt to be unbias with truth, history and evidence from research.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/ These are the BBC's editorial guidelines which show how the programs on the BBC have to be presented.