EXAM Q1a - Digital Technology

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REFLECTIONS ON AS COURSEWORK

• I have definitely gone through a massive journey in terms of my technological skills (Final Cut Pro, Blogger), I had never edited a film or blogged before
• Still have yet to work with Photoshop and Wix (although Photoshop might change when I resubmit the AS blog)
• Final Cut Pro was overwhelming in terms of getting the hang of it, I still have a lot to learn there
• Effect of digitization, I sometimes think it's gone too far, would sometimes prefer to do it all on paper, the "normal way in school"

HOPES

• Bring in some aspirations that Bowie had about the emerging new technologies, the internet, especially when engaging with AUDIENCES 
• Use digital technology more and more for RESEARCH AND PLANNING 

USEFUL LINKS:

• ProdEval Advice on Digital Technology 
• ProdEval on Web 2.0
• DIGITISATION: self-published short film; (further eg on how web 2.0 functions + how YOUR work isn't mere abstract academic exercise)
• DIGITISATION: book industry; (has web 2.0 made publishers obsolete?)
• Newspaper asks for applications via tweets; (eg of how far convergence has gone: social media being used to get work in 'old media')
• TT3D as eg of A2-level filmmaking in real world; feature film made using same equipment as you guys
• Creativity and R+P: Monsters; here's an $800k debut feature by a director who struggled to get financing because he didn't have a full script - like Loach. Leigh etc Gareth Edwards wanted to organically develop his script with his cast during the shoot. Indeed, he hired non-actors as he travelled (entire crew in ONE car!) on location... Editing was done as they went: digital tech means footage can be quickly + cheaply checked out (it doesn't need to expensively developed like 35mm film)  
• Coens on using Final Cut for Oscar-nommed True Grit; 
• Micro-budget films +DCRUP; 
• Zombie flicks - low budget, inferior to your productions?;
• Rotting Hill - 4min zombie short; another eg of we-media/UGC
• British horror + budgets; bright future?;
• Using YouTube video to pitch for $45k horror; 
• Fan trailers of movies they WANT made!; this isn't just fan-made material like the trailers cut to a favourite music track, but rather franchise fans trying to influence studio decisions about sequels/prequels/remakes
• Researching recent genre egs + presenting this in vid; 
• Being Human: Auds, Repns, Dig.Tech;
• 80s Madman Reborn on web; how an 80s 'video nasty' continues to make money [long tail theory...] through multiple digital platforms, raising its profile + creating talk of a remake
• Colin, the £45 film; this made it to the cinema despite being really rather poor, not least the lack of shot variety and excessively long takes - clever exploitation of marketing, not least online, helped the case and it continues to make decent money from DVD sales