Research

Today we were given the task to research Rape awareness and the different types of public service announcement that are shown. I started off by searching public service announcements online using youtube hoping that i would get a few ideas which i could use in our own one which we will be creating.

A lot of the Public Service announcement videos use celebrities or well known people to get the point across that these things can happen to anyone, like these ones each one respresenting a different topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg8QL9pOZe4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LWNJ1YNhgA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LsuJi33B2U
All the public service announcements focus on the hard facts and statitics along with the negative sides, which are effective because it gets the message across to people and makes them aware of whats going on.

Typing into google Rape awareness brought up this website http://www.gmp.police.uk/mainsite/pages/75280BA071FB5F9C802572D6004D3EB6.htm
which included facts and videos that were used as adverts to get the point across about rape and how it can happen to anyone and not to think that it wouldn`t happen to you.

Police recorded 53,540 sexual offences in England and Wales in the year ending March 2008. This represented a 7% drop over 2006-07 figures.
In 2007, there were 248,300 victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault.
Approximately 2/3 of rapes were committed by someone known to the victim.173% of sexual assaults were perpetrated by a non-stranger.138% of rapists are a friend or acquaintance.128% are an intimate.17% are a relative.

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/hors237.pdf
The 2000 British Crime Survey (BCS) was conducted in the first half of 2000, with the
majority of interviews taking place between January and April. Respondents were asked if
they had experienced an incident of sexual victimisation since age 16 and also ‘in the last
12 months’ (preceding the date of the interview).
• 0.9 per cent of women aged 16 to 59 said they had been subject to some form
of sexual victimisation (including rape) during the last year.
• 0.4 per cent of women said they had been raped in this period.
• In the year preceding the 2000 BCS it is estimated that 61,000 women were the
victim of a rape in England and Wales.

Filming and editing

We were set the task of creating a short film about a phonecall. We had to do a storyboard for this so that when we started to film we knew what we were doing, there had to be 16 shots all planned out. Unfortantly i missed this lesson so had to catch up on what was happening in the next lesson. We then started filming in the first setting which was on the storyboard, and found someone that agreed to be filmed. We did this for the first hour and finished all our shots within it. The things that i learnt were how the different shots and camera angles are needed to get what your trying to achieve across to your audience. Also how the length of shots are important whilst filming. We had the examples of what we needed to improve on from filming last time so we knew what we had to work on.
In the second hour we uploaded our short film onto the Macs and began to edit the shots into one short film. It took our group a little longer to understand using it but after a few attempts and being shown what we needed to do to cut a shot we got the hang of it.
Unfortunately, technology didn't seem to like our group and we had a few problems, resulting in us loosing the editing we had already done in IMovie, but we contiuned it during the free lessons we had.
The next lesson was just finishing the editing of our short film and adding in titles and credits in which was more simple than i thought it would be after getting the hang of the editing the first time round, finishing it didnt take to long and we experimented in the titles and credits at the beginning and end of the film. After all the groups had finished their editing we all watched eachothers short films and made comments of the strengths and what could have been improved but each groups were good and gave us ideas on how being given the same task can turn out differently in the different groups.

A2 Media

This year we have been given the task of creating either and music video, a film trailer or a short film. After completing a short film of a tour of the school some skills and improvements need to be developed. These were; keeping the camera still at all times whilst filming, thinking about what is included in the shot, framing the shots and the length of them making them shorter would improve the length of the film in total. Also thinking about the use of sound and voice over when necessary, also how the sounds that are picked up which you may not want in the shot.

At the start of this project i think that im at a level 2, however by the end of the project i aim to be at a level 4, in order to acheive this i will need to develop the skills needed to do this.