Minecraft practical

Radio practical

We were assigned a task to create a 3 minute clip of our own radio 1 interpretation. We had to include the basic things radio 1 also include, such as news and weather, a game and an interview.
My group was me, Maisie, Kieran, George and Sam, we were all given a different role to make the clip more reliable with different people being involved. Kieran played the role of the presenter, George was the news presenter, Maisie was the interviewer, Sam was the interviewee and i played the role of the audience, who got rang during the game.
We brought the fresh idea of a new game called 'confessional friday' this involves the audience texting in their name age and number to the shows number, and us randomly picking out a few numbers to ring for them to tell us a wacky and weird confession.
We interviewer Dani Dyer as he is well known through all ages, giving maximum audience interaction. We asked him questions which would relate to an older and younger audience, for example, questions about his new show and then also questions about his daughters relationship with Jack and occurring rumors about marriage.
We chose to play the artists Sam Smith, Mabel and Post Malone and their most recent drops. This is because they are well known British artists which is what Radio 1 try to promote.
Our running order was:

• Track - Mabel, dont call me up
• Track - sam smith, dancing with a stranger
• Gameshow
• Interview
• Track - post malone, wow
• News

We found this the best way to fit it all together as we had a short timing slot of 3 minutes. It seemed to flow by using this order better than any other order.

Our target audience is 15-29 year old, we offer a range of young and old entertainment and it fits this age range the best.

We attracted our audience by giving the opportunity to ring in and interact with us, this can appeal to everyone in the target audience as its fun and silly. The music played also attracts the audience as it is up to date music which we choose to play.

Our remake gits into the Radio 1 remit because it entertains and attracts all of the audience. 

To improve, we could of taken out one of the songs to replace it for the weather as we did not include that in our 3 minute clip. We also could of made the game-show a bit longer to keep the fun of it and engage the audience for longer.

Our initial feedback was to make the presenters voice more upbeat and energetic and to add news. Apart from that everyone loved the game and the songs involved.

I personally think the outcome was successful, i liked the game show and the interview as well as the songs we used. If we did it again i would change some of the content which has been mentioned previously to include the weather, gaining more interaction with the audiences life and days.

This was our outcome:

Daily mail mock up front cover

We had a task to recreate a daily mail front cover. We got given specific topics to base our stories on, including NHS, Christmas and i'm a celebrity get me out of here. We had an original front cover to look back on for a guide as to where everything goes.

We used the software Microsoft Publisher to create our front cover, it worked really well for our task as we could copy and paste easily and get all different shapes to put in to capture the real aspects of the Daily Mail covers. The hardest parts were to find the accurate fonts on the software which matched the closest to the original fonts.

This is a comparison to the guide we got given and the outcome i produced...

Sports drink advert

We have been given a task in a group of three to create an advert for a sports drink aimed at men 60 and over. We have to create this advert as well as the logo and name for the drink brand.

The name of our drink will be 'VOL', this is because the first sports drink was made in Tennessee and in Tennessee there is a place called 'vol' which is a university for athletic/sport. We thought this tied in perfectly with the advert title we have been given.

Our plan for making the advert is using two characters (Sam and Mr Dexter) to represent a younger boy and an older man. Our advert plan is as follows:

• Sam begins playing lots of different sport and being really good at them (these will be short clips of 5 or 6 different sports), to introduce the sport and energizing theme. The VOL will also be present in each one of these shots.

• Next Sam will fade into Mr Dexter, showing that he is an older version of Sam. We are going to do this by having Sam try to shoot a basketball into the hoop and as he jumps it fades into Mr Dexter, who then misses the hoop. This represents the fact hes older and he doesn't have the energy anymore. (This will be the only sport shot without the drink in it)

• We are the going to try and present time going past, for example a fat moving clock or a time-lapse of the clouds.

• Mr Dexter will be walking slowly and lonely, with duller colors and more sad toned music, this will present that hes not his young self. 

• He will then go to the shop (school diner) and walk past VOL. He then remembers the drink and buys it.

• He takes a sip which is then when it will fade back into Sam, showing that the drink has made him young and energized again. We will do the fade by Mr Dexter wiping his mouth after hes drank the drink, the getting Sam in the exact same position to carry on the wiping motion. 

• Then once the character is young again, we will have Sam recite the slogan we have created, "Volumize your energy".

• Mr Dexter starts off walking alone and sad

• He gets thrown the bottle of VOL and takes a sip

• Within the sip is the transition of Mr Dexter to Sam, where we will get them both to drink it in the same position then merge them together

• Then the sad music will change to happy energized music, where Sam will 'go wild' with loads of energy

• We will then take loads of different angles of Sam at the running track with VOL in the clips

From our initial plans above, we have partially changed part of it as we didn't want the advert to be too long, and for our audience to loose interest

We changed Mr Dexter from being at the end to the beginning as we felt it would make the initial mood sad, which is what we wanted the audience to feel when watching so that we can then change the mood into happy and energetic, to end the advert nicely.
Our run through of our advert is now:

-Mr Dexter walking alone 

- Him being thrown VOL

- Drinking VOL

- Changing into Sam (fade effect)

- Sam walking up to the start line (slow motion)

- The placement of the fingers on the line

- The head tilt upwards towards the finish line

- The beginning of the sprint

- Sam running, half way through his sprint

-Solo on VOL with slogan

Also during this day of recording, we chose 2 songs that we wanted behind our shots. One of these would be a happy, energetic song for Sam, and then a more dull, upsetting song for when Mr Dexter is shown on screen, during the first half of the advert. These songs are:

- Fury - Rogue (Happy, Energetic song)

- Cold - Jorge Méndes (Dull, Upsetting song)

Orignally we had an idea where Sam has just finished his race and someone throws him a VOL drink. He then catches the drink and says the brand's slogan 'VOLumizing your Energy'. However, when editing this section of the advert, we found that taking this out and replacing this with 3 seperate texts saying 'VOLumizing' , 'Your' , 'Energy' seemed for fitting for the style we wanted to present.

We also made an ending banner that shows a VOL sports drink on the left with the slogan on the right. This ends the advert with hype and positivity over this sports drink.

We made the first half of the advert noir style which showed of and clearly presented that it was a sad theme and the fact that Mr Dexter is an old, lonely man.

We used extra long shots on Mr Dexter to show no power and show he is alone.

We also used low views on Sam to show his domination after drinking VOL.

We used pan movement when Mr Dexter was walking so that the audience could really feel like they were there with him and feel the real emotions of loneliness.

This is our outcome...

Advert remake

Premiere edit

This is the first edit i made on Premiere. I used a range of different effects including speeding up/down as well as the mirrored effect. I included a split screen to make the longer shot more interesting so that my audience wouldn’t loose focus. I also changed the color of the last shot to all black and white so that it blended in better with the shot before, otherwise it would of looked displaced. I tried to use short clips which fitted together overall. I believe this worked particularly well in the phone clips as they slot in together nicely.