Progress review

Moving Image

I've had some previous experience with Moving Image in completed courses such as Film Studies, Photography. My knowledge consisted of mostly shot types, some camera work and the basics of Premier Pro. Since September I have improved my shot-type knowledge such as the "5 shot method" and more obscure camera angles. I have also learned about key light/fill light/back light which is used to improve the impact of the shot and the atmosphere. This year I've had my first proper go at directing a film, a crew, and actors - which went really well. For my short film I also had to learn/research more advanced photoshop techniques to get the effect I wanted.
The thing I found most difficult with Moving Image is the interviews. We had to go out on the street and select members of the public and ask them if we had their permission to interview them. Only a very small minority of the public would let us film them.

Interactive

With this subject I mainly knew about the basics of Flash and Photoshop from previous courses. I learned InDesign, Illustrator, and I Stop Motion, while also expanding my knowledge of Flash and Photoshop. I enjoyed the stop-start animation the most because it was good to use a different type of software like iStop motion because in the past I've only used Imovie, Premier Pro and Windows Movie Maker to make stop-start animations. I incorporated the skills I used in this module of the course to make a UFO in Illustrator for my FMP. I found the colour work difficult, for example the colour wheels and colour harmony.

Publishing/Media Theory

This was the first time I've used a WACOM tablet to create a comic book within Publishing. The WACOM tablet was difficult to get used to, but I was quite pleased with the result. I enjoyed the photoshop and indesign tutorials, this expanded my knowledge in both fields and they were very useful to learn and experiment with to find new shortcuts and ways of doing things. I didn't enjoy doing the Christmas cards because this did not capture my imagination and I wasn't as enthusiastic about this aspect of publishing. Media Theory has mostly been incorporated in all three subjects. In publishing we have looked into the eye-path of comic books and layouts. In Moving Image we looked at script and stories. The eye-path topic was new to me and learning about this helped perfect my final comic design.