Media Ident Pitch 09:53

Above is our pitch, if for some reason the iFrame is not workng, you can check it out here.
Unfortunately, that powerpoint doesn't work correctly when published to Google Docs, so here is a download for the powerpoint version, the idents themselves can be found on the shared drive on either the academy network or the VLE in the following location: W:\media studies\Teachers' Folders\Miss Raison\BTEC NAT 10-11\final animation

Music Video Research 12:43

Unit 2 - Communication Studies 10:47

I've published my Unit 2 work from communication studies. I am still adding work to this, bu here's the link:
http://gspencermedia.blogspot.com/p/unit-2-communication-studies_18.html

Adding "awesome" to our music video 11:00

A few days ago the class got together in a discussion and we looked at some popular music videos on YouTube. The class have all been tasked with adding a more dynamic scene to our music videos. In our group we brainstormed and came up with a few ideas we thought would make our video more appealing to our audiences. As a continuous scene in our music video you can see a face of a random woman we found via Google and this is used to represent the lead characters loss of a girlfriend in the video; we thought we could create a stop motion of Dan ripping this up and replacing it with other faces. Another idea is to use a prop, we have in mind a life size Marilyn Monroa as photographed on the left (minus the fashion show banner) or a giant 3D heart we have access to (was also used in the Media Fashion Show). We would incorporate Marilyn Monroe in the video as an icon, or the heart to represent feelings. We are i the process of storyboarding our new scene to add to the video, I will post where we are going with this after we've completed storyboarding.

Client Proposal 10:09

Above is my proposal for our groups ident project, it's a proposal of our actions to the client, Miss D Raison of Park Hall Academy. It's a Google Document so if the above iFrame doesn't work, here's a link https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1q-BKG6-yTCv8hSKZyqXxhs9S1jl9m-SteI_WEsI9whg

Different types of communication 11:03

Communication is a vital part of human life, civilization as we know it would not be recognisable to how it currently is. Different types of communication include:

• Verbal Communication - i.e. Speech, video conferencing, telephone communication.
• Written Communication - i.e. email, writing a letter, SMS, Instant Messaging
• Electronic Communication  - (sub-cat) SMS, Phone, Email, IM, Video Conferencing
• Physical Communication - Body language, listening, repeating key aspects of speakers comments

Communication is important so things can get done. Communication is how we share and propose our ideas, how we make impressions and how we can build relationships. Communication can have an impact on people around us mainly through the form of body language (in-direct) and if you have good, readable, confident body language you can make a positive impression on those around you. A good communicator is someone whom is loud, clear, has good confident body language and can demonstrate emotion through their communication.

Communication in social situations:

If I was speaking to a friend then my communication would apear relaxed and not particularly stressed. My body language and verbal language would be informal, this may appear through the use of abbreviations, slang language, using a regional dialect/accent.

In a conversation with an employer my language would change drastically from that of speaking to a friend. My communication could perhaps appear stressed and nervous as this is a person I would have never met with before. My body language would be sharp and focused, i.e. sitting with shoulders up and back rested on the chair back and my verbal language would be pronouncing words in full to show knowledge as well as tuning my speech for this situation being careful not to offend the conversators.

Dialects mainly consists of vocals and pronunciations. A dialect could be a word that is not in the dictionary but is used in a specific region, or a word that is in the dictionary but is not said as it is intended. An example of pronunciation in the midlands is water, often pronounced "War-Ta". An example of a word used to represent something being good is "sick" where it's dictionary meaning is a physical or mental function. Vocals affect how we pronounce words but as people are so used to speaking this can cuase the mis-pronunciation of words, however, people can still speak in standard english as this is not a formality.

Accents are a regional case and are always specific to a region, these are caused by human nature, if you are raised as a child by australian  parents, living in the midlands, if you listen to both accent sets then you will have a mixed accent, however, if you were born in the midlands, and raised in australia then you will learn an australian accent. It is down to the sounds you hear, not a personality you are born with.