Industry Week is a yearly creative conference that happens at Confetti featuring talks, workshops, masterclasses and live performances by big names in the industry. It’s incredibly exciting but this year makes it far more special for our group since we didn’t have the real experience last year due to the pandemic. All of the talks […]
B2 Theory & Research
Production Formats
For A Dreamlike Depiction of Earth’s Descent, one of my goals is to be open-minded and not reject different methods or styles simply for the sake of sticking with an original idea. This is why I will be conducting research on a variety of different formats that could be used for the final product. Since I […]
Audience [Recap]
This is a recap of the final letter remaining out of what we have covered from MIGRAINE and is the last theory and industry lesson on that very acronym. Having done it last year and most of this year, we will now be using and applying the knowledge from our collection of studies in order […]
Client Research
Here I will be conducting all of the client research required for my creative project. As specified in the brief, the client is a company by the name of Passion Pictures and would like their next big idea to come to life through the application of research, pre-production and production for a final product of […]
Economics, Politics & Social [Recap]
The ‘E’ of MIGRAINE is to do with context. It refers to economics, politics and the social aspects of a media product. When analysing one, it is important to think about what time period it refers to (for a film this would be when it is set), when it was made and how this might […]
Ideologies [Recap]
” Good should overcome evil “ ” Law is better than disorder “ ” Pleasure is a goal in life “ Statements such as the ones above are generally followed and believed in by most people, making them the core of our social system, at least in terms of Western beliefs. They are obvious, […]
More Representation
Like the title suggests, this is a continuance of our study on representation, primarily focused on how men are portrayed in the media since we mainly explored women’s representation in the previous lesson. We began by looking at the female gaze, which in my opinion, is surprisingly unheard of, or misunderstood. The Female Gaze – […]
Bass vs Lichtenstein
For the final lesson of the term, we had a creative session focusing on two distinct artists and how their styles can be used for design work. Saul Bass American graphic designer and filmmaker Saul Bass (May 8, 1920 — April 25, 1996) was perhaps best known for his design of film […]
Representation [Recap]
In this lesson, we focused on the ‘R’ of M.I.G.R.A.I.N.E, which stands for representation. Representation is defined as how media texts deal with and present gender, age, ethnicity, national and regional identity, social issues and events to an audience. Because of this, media texts have the power to shape an audience’s knowledge and understanding of […]
The Morning Show – Ep. 1 Analysis
After having recapped Media Language, Genre and Narrative, we started watching a TV series as a group and applied our knowledge through an analysis of the first episode. The series that was chosen was The Morning Show and we were given a document with questions to fulfil either during or after the episode. The research below […]