Audience Theories

What key words or statements would you describe the Hypodermic Needle Theory with? 

• Brainwashing audiences into one way of thinking
• audiences are passive
• audiences are injected with a message
• audiences have no opinion on the matter 
• message is received and accepted.

Animation Essay

TV and film is illusion. Any motion picture is basically frame by frame animation. The human eye sees it as movement because each frame is being updated quick enough for your brain to not notice it as individual frames. This is why stop frame animation can be viewed as motion rather than pictures. Going a bit off topic, in the days of shooting movies on actual film, which was very expensive, it worked out that 24fps was the lowest amount of frames that could still contain motion without the choppiness. So transferring that to animation, as long as you go above 20fps, you should still get that moving aspect.

Radio Drama Evaluation

Personal Strengths and Weaknesses
I thought this project was really good, because I could use a lot of my technical skills. The radio drama only required recording in a studio and getting sound effects, there was no set or location, time of the day etc. Script writing and the planning of the story was a bit of a downfall for me. Also, at the moment I’m trying to get more into sound, so this was pretty good to work on.

12 Basic Principles of Animation

You will be able to recognise and implement 12 basic principles of wtf it says on the board.
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Targets for FMP

• Make the contact page on my production diary work.
• Obtain some yellow cake uranium.
• Check file size on FMP so far.

The contact page on my production diary now works.

I did not manage to obtain some yellow cake uranium, I shall be bringing this target to my next lot of targets.

I did not check the file size of my FMP, last time I checked, it was about 3GB.

Stop Motion Animation

In this session you will gain an understanding of the history and development of animation techniques.

• Movement of Pictures
• Stone Age
• Victorian Era - Persistence of Vision

The Archers

Codes and Conventions
Pauses Between Scenes - There are a couple of seconds of silence between scenes to signify the scene change. This is done with a fade out from one scene to a fade in on the next.
Very Different Voices - There is quite a difference between mens voices and females voices in a radio drama. With video, we can easily tell when different people are talking, but with radio drama's it's a little more difficult. The character Pip sound quite young because she doesn't have so much of a strong accent, she speaks with a bit more of a higher pitch than the other characters. Pip's mother has a stronger accent than Pip, and speaks with a slight lower pitch to show her age more.
Background Sound - In one of the opening scenes, Pip is about to head off to the Students Union. You can hear keys being held in Pip's hand and also the start of the car at the end of the scene when Pip is about to head off. There is also a faint sound of cars in the background and I'm sure I can hear a cow moo at one point.
Voices Panned - To separate the dialogue from each character, you can hear certain people more out of one side. An example would be with Pip's Mum, you can hear her more through the left ear, and hear Pip more through the right ear.
Music - Music is used for the theme tune at the beginning and the end of the episocde. Sometimes there will be a bit of music in the background, but that's more meant to represent music being played in the background.