10 December 2012 - School Magazine Questionnaire

Questionnaire on School Magazines

1. Do you like/read magazines?

[   ] Yes          [   ] No          [   ] I don't know

2. If so, what type of genre would you mainly read?

[   ] Sport          [   ] Fashion          [   ] Music          [   ] Other _______________

3. Do you read a school magazine?

[   ] Yes          [   ] No              [   ] Sometimes

4. What would you want to see in a school magazine?

_________________________________________________________________________________

5. When you read/think of a school magazine, do you think it's...

[   ] Useful          [   ] Boring          [   ] Unnecessary          [   ] Other ________________

6. If you pick up a school magazine, which of these would be the first thing you notice?

[   ] Main picture          [   ] Title          [   ] Articles on front cover          [   ] Colour (Theme of Magazine)

7. Out of these three titles which one grabs your attention the most?

[   ] RHS News Round          [   ] News Around the Clock          [   ] RHC Times

8. Would you only read a school magazine IF you were featured inside?

[   ] Yes          [   ] No          [   ] Maybe          [   ] I don't know

9. Would you make the magazine's theme colour relate to your school colours?

[   ] Yes          [   ] No          [   ] Maybe          [   ] I don't know

10. Would you read an article on teacher's lives IF included in a school magazine?

[   ] Yes          [   ] No          [   ] Maybe          [   ] I don't know

10 December 2012 - School Magazine Cover prt1

This is the beginning of my Cover page for my School magazine:

As from what I have done so far I'm quite proud, as I was able to convert an MP4 video file into a JPG image file and then add it to Photoshop as my Cover Picture.

I then searched up fonts for my title and copied that onto my Photoshop and now I had only just started to erase the black box around my title as I only want the text on my Cover Page.

7 December 2012 - Film Editing Glossary

• CUT - A visual transition created in editing in which one shot in instantaneously replaced on screen by another.
• CONTINUITY EDITING - Editing that creates action that flows smoothly across shots and scenes without jarring visual inconsistencies. Establishes a sense of story for the viewer. (Invisible Editing)
• CROSS CUTTING - Cutting back and forth quickly between two or more lines of action, indicating they are happening simultaneously.
• DISSOLVE - A grade scene transition. The editor overlaps the end of one shot with the beginning of the next shot.
• EDITING - The work of selecting and joining together shots to create a finished film.
• ERRORS OF CONTINUITY - Disruptions in the flow of a scene, such as a failure to match action or the placement of props across shots.
• ESTABLISHING SHOTS - A shot, normally taken from a great distance or from a 'birds eye view', that establishes where the action is about to occur.
• EYE-LINE MATCHING - The matching of eye-lines between two or more characters. For example, if 'Sam' looks to the right in Shot A, 'Jean' will look to the left is Shot B. This establishes a relationship of proximity and continuity.
• FADE - A visual transition between shots or scenes that appear on screen as a brief interval with no picture. The editor fades one shot to black and then fades in the next. Often used to indicate a change in time and place.
• FINAL CUT - The finished edit of a film, approved by the director and the producer. This is what the audience sees.
• IRIS - Visible on screen as a circle closing down over or opening up on a shot. Seldom used in contemporary film, but common during the silent era of Hollywood films.
• JUMP CUT - A cut that creates a lack of continuity by leaving out parts of the action.
• MATCHED CUT - A cut joining two shots whose compositional elements match, helping to establish strong continuity of action.
• MONTAGE - Scenes whose emotional impact and visual design are achieved through the editing together of many brief shots. The shower scene from 'Psycho' is an example of Montage Editing.
• ROUGH CUT - The editor's first pass at assembling the shots into a film, before tightening and polishing occurs.
• SEQUENCE SHOT - A long take that extends for an entire scene or sequence. It is composed of only one shot with no editing.
• SHOT-REVERSE-SHOT CUTTING - Usually used for conversation scenes, this technique alternates between over-the-shoulder shots showing each character speaking.
• WIPE - Visible on screen as a bar travelling across the frame pushing one shot off and pulling the next shot into place. Rarely used in contemporary film, but common in films from the 1930's and 1940's.
• CREDITS - The information at the beginning and end of a film, which gives details of cast and crew etc.
• CUTAWAYS - A brief shot that momentarily interrupts continuous action by briefly inserting another related action; Object, or person (sometimes not part of the principle scene or main action), followed by a cutback to the original shot.
• FREEZE FRAME - The effect of seemingly stopping a film in order to focus in on one event or element.
• FLASHBACK - A scene or moment in a film in which the audience is shown an event, that happened earlier in the film's narrative.
• GRAPHIC MATCH - An edit in which two different objects of the same shape are dissolved from one into the other.
• JUXTAPOSITION - The placement of two (often opposed) images on either side of an edit to create an effect.
• LINEAR NARRATIVE - A style of storytelling in which events happen chronologically.
• PARALLEL EDITING - A type of editing in which events in two locations are cut together, in order to imply a connection between the two sets of events.
• VISUAL EFFECTS - Visual effects are usually used to alter previously-filmed elements by adding, removing or enhancing objects within the frame.
• MATCH ON ACTION - A shot that emphasises continuity of space and time by matching the action on the preceding shot with the continuation of the action. For example, a shot of a door opening after a shot of a close-up of a character's hand turning a door handle.