Theoretical Evaluation of Production

Skill Development

When we choose to move, the action is controlled by the concious brain using a collection of learned movements.

Types of skill:

• Cognitive - or interllectual skills that require thought processes


• Perceptual - interpretation of presented information


• Motor - movement and muscle control


• Perceptual motor - involve the thought, interpretation and movement skills
  

How we teach a new skill - the teaching of a new skill can be achieved by various methods:

• Verbal instructions


• Demonstation


• Video


• Diagrams


• Photo sequences

When creating my AS Media music magazine, I had to learn a lot of skills. This was good as I could be introduced to all of these new tools that I hadn't used before. Once I had got used to these tools, I was able to use these new skills to my advantage and create my music magazine to the best of my abililty. Creating my music magazine allowed me to development my media skills and use the skills that I already had.

Digital Technology

Digital techonolgies are tools which utilize a discrete method to convey information, such as letters or numbers. Its alternative is analog which utilizes a continuous method to convey information.

While creating my music magazine, I had to get professional photographs of my models. These models were going to be acting as pop stars. To get these professional photos, I used studio lighting and an SLR camera in order to get the best possible photos. I also used green screen and an auto-que for my planning documentary which I used to introduce my documentary of my magazine.

Creativity

Creativity is the act of turning new and imaginitive ideas into reality. Creativity involves two processes - thinking, then producing. Creativity requires passion and commitment in order to get the best outcome possible.

With my music magazine, I used my creativity to make sure that the magazine looked detailed and professional. The genre of my magazine is pop so I needed to make sure all of the colours and words related to the pop theme. With the images of the models, I wanted to make sure that I used different composition to make the images more interesting.

Research and Planning

Before creating anything, it's important to plan what you're going to do. Going straight into a task without knowing exactly what you're doing means that you can't go back and check that you're doing it right. Researching allows you to get ideas from what other people have done and gives you knowledge about how to go about completing the task and learning new ways of doing it.

Before creating my music magazine, I needed decide which genre of music I wanted to base the magazine around and I also needed to research well-known magazines of that genre. I decided to have pop music as my genre as I know a lot about it. So, I researched well-known pop magazines, including 'POP' magazine, and looked to see what colours it had used, what images it had used and what text it had used. I wanted the style of my magazine to reflect the pop genre of music - so the colours had to be girlie and innocent and not at all dominating, as the readers of pop magazines are mainly girlie girls with sweet and innocent personalities.

Post Production

Post production is part of the film-making process. It occurs in the making of motion pictures, television programmes, radio programmes, advertising, videos, audio recordings, photography, and digital art. It is the term for all stages of production occurring after the actual end of shooting and/or recording the completed work.

Using Media Convention

Relation to Real World Texts