Knole House & Orlando

Last Friday, both our English and Media class went on a trip to Knole House in Kent, which used to belong to Vita Sackville West, Virginia Woolfs lover. The day was based around Virginia Woolfs novel 'Orlando' who's character changes sex from man to women, whilst living for centuries.
In the morning we were taken on a tour of the house in the style of a performance. Each room we were taken too represented a different time zone and their particular view on gender and gender identity, in relation to Vita Sackville West, Virginia Wolf and who 'Orlando' actually was. To see 17th, 18th and 19th century views on women was not only shocking but allowed me to challenge my initial thoughts on gender.
In the afternoon we took part in a small workshop, where we discussed gender and how it should not just described as 'binary' or two opposites. After this we watched Tilda Swinton's 1992 adaptation of 'Orlando' where we could see the progression of women's rights throughout the centuries.

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Final Music Video

Below is my final music video:

First Filming session

Today, Lauren and I had our first filming day. We had planned to film all our shots, which were in front of the green screen. Initially we found it difficult to fit the whole of our actor in the frame of the camera as not only was she was moving horizontally across the green screen but she had her hands vertically above her head, making it difficult to fit the whole move in the shot. However we were able to easily and effectively solve this problem by moving the camera back during the filming and then cropping the screen during the editing process. When filming we made sure we used our storyboard so we knew exactly what we were creating, however we also filmed extra shots incase they were needed in the editing stages. These are some photos of Lauren and I whilst filming our first shots.

Evaluation 1- In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Below is the script: At A2, the music video brief meant that our research of real media texts had to be much more extensive and on a larger scale. My group and I watched a huge range of films from the dance genre, especially Sia’s, ‘Chandelier’, but most significantly many Beyoncé’s music videos, including ‘Halo’ and ‘What now’. However, watching so many music videos from this genre, led me to notice the difference between narrative and performance. This led us to do a considerably larger amount of research- looking into different types of music videos to identify typical media conventions, which is much less genre defined as A2. Therefore, like ‘What now’, our music video had a combination of both performance and narrative, which put a distinctly contemporary spin on our music video. However, our researched was not just limited to one genre, like it was at AS. Watching other music video’s like Miley Cyrus’ ‘Malibu’ and Goyte’s ‘Somebody that I used to know’, we d...

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