BRAND NEW online booking system for Media Studies equipment

The Media department have gone hi-tech!


All equipment now needs to be booked online:



(http://tinyurl.com/THSmediaequipmentbooking)

You need to select from a weekday, weekday evening or weekend booking using the 'Choose' button and then the equipment you require.


You'll need to create a free account, but you'll only need to do this once.

To amend or delete your booking, log in then select where it says 'Hello...' then click 'View appointments'.

Message for the external examiner

Hello,


Please find below a list of our AS students - their blogs should be hyperlinked to their names. I hope you find everything easy to locate.


D'arby Abberley (1400) 
Frank Adlington-Stringer (1002)
Stefanie Barnes (1018)
Tasmine Benton (1406)
Emily Bicknell (1032)
Max Biddlecombe (1314)
Samuel Boden (2027)
Max Bradbury (1046)
Georgina Brough (1055)
Carmel Davenport (1418)
Thomas Ellis (1100)
Shaun Hardwick (1129)
Rachael Hickton (1137)
Millicent Holmes (1142)
Brandon Hoult (1149)
Charlotte Howes (1152)
Max Jackson (1156)
Gabriel Judkins (1165)
James Key (1168)
Callum Laird (2147)
Andreas Lee (1176)
Eleaner Lester (1178)
Jake Lowe (1181)
Calum McDermott (1440)
Amber Needham (1196)
Emma Norton (1450)
Ryan Parsons (1455)
Joseph Patton (1457)
Reece Pollock (1217)
Oliver Revill (1465)
Bradley Roberts (1230)
Jade Roper (1467)
Robert Salt (1236)
Charley Shaw (1238)
Elizabeth Stafford (1473)
Brantley Steer (1262)
Matthew Wells (2259)
Lois Woodward (1309)


Our AS Thriller opening G321 Playlist

More After Effects titling effects

In terms of making your titles do amaaaaaazing things. This website collates good tutorials for different effects. Have a look.http://www.noupe.com/inspiration/tutorials-inspiration/50-excellent-adobe-after-effects-tutorials.html

Copyright Free Music Sites

Copyright Free Music/Audio Sites

(Note: not all music is free to download from copyright free sites – there are download fees)

• http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com/Copyright-friendly+music+and+sound
• http://www.shockwave-sound.com/
• http://audiojungle.net/
• http://www.musicmediatracks.com/?gclid=CK6V-r7ZiJgCFUse3god7XQJCw
• http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/free.html
• http://freeplaymusic.com/ (free downloads)
• http://www.trackline.com/acatalog/Tracks.html
• http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/documentary-general-production.html
• http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Sound_Files/Samples_and_Loops/
• www.freesound.org (free music)
• http://www.mobygratis.com/film-music.html (teacher needs to register for this one)

Free Sound Effects from PartnersInRhyme.com:

• http://www.ljudo.com/default.asp?lang=tEnglish&do=it
• http://www.jamendo.com/en
• http://derekaudette.ottawaarts.com/
• http://www.acoustica.com/sounds.htm
• http://www.alcljudprod.se/english/ljud.php

Many, many more sites are available just ‘Google’ ‘copyright free music audio download’ or ‘free audio editor software’

DO NOT USE (YET)

Filming over Xmas and NYE - Equipment

If you plan to film or fancy practising some filming over Xmas you CAN borrow equipment over the holidays. The sheets are up on the cupboards in ENG4. A2 students have priority as their deadline is 27th Feb whereas the AS one is Fri 6th March.

Please make sure you do not take more equipment than you need and you plan carefully when you take the equipment for. If others wish to use the equipment over the break then swap numbers and ensure you stick to the dates you booked it for.

Lastly, take care of the equipment and yourselves and take loads of footage! More is better.

A touch of frost: Disability

Sound is used in this specific clip to represent one way in which disabled characters are represented. In this particular clip, the different characters use different dialogue and have different attitudes when speaking to the disabled character.
Firstly the inspector describes the character with down syndrome as "mentally subnormal", this is quite a rude an insensitive way in which to describe a human being, as we then hear his dad say "handicapped" which shows he has a more sensitive and understanding attitude towards his son. By the inspector using the word subnormal, it presents the character as different to others and is describing him as not normal. Different audiences would respond to this statement in different ways. Certain people who have been brought up on the belief that people with down syndrome are abnormal would have a passive attitude towards this statement, However others who believe that is wrong to discriminate and describe a regular human as abnormal because of a condition they have no control over, may become quite irritated by this statement and will question it and question the intentions of the scene or director.
The investigator also uses quite child like and simple language in order to converse with our victimised character, he repeats words like "hurt" and "fallen down". This presents that the investigator thinks that the character will not understand him unless he treats him like a child when he is actually a grown man. He is patronised and belittled by his family and the inspector as he is constantly spoken to and about as a young child.