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28th February 2023 Tuesday What is news? Do now:100% Types of news . uk . world . business . politics . tech . science . Health . Environment . Local . Sport . Entertainment UK: The young teachers demanding better pay World:cold snap leaves Barcelona covered in snow Business: Amazons uk workers strike for better pay Politics:New brexit deal restores balance to NI, says Sunak Tech: Musk defends Dilbert creator's racist triade Fake news is false information that is used to shape your views and opinions.The information is often exaggerated heavily biased or simply not true.It is often intentionally misleading.It can also be known as propaganda. Fake news 1. 5 examples of fake news is Pope francis endorses trump, Hillary Clinton voters get to vote by text, Canada is building a wall along its US border, Obamas mother charged with larceny and The Nigerian president died in London. 2.I think people write fake news so that no one can trust regular news therefore making it easier to hi...

  26th January 2023 Thursday lo:to plan and construct an effective green screen scene  Do now: 6/8 75% For my green screen scene i'm going to do a fight scene in a hospital. Tuesday 7th February 2023 I think in the future special effects are going to progress with VR so that a movie is a 360 ° experience . I also think that VR is going to get more realistic by adding things like touch sensors rumble controls and body trackers so that the movie can give a more immersive experience.

  Tuesday 24th January 2023 lo:to create a realistic green screen using imovie DO NOW for my movie trailer I turned the E.T trailer Into a horror trailer. I did this by cutting and slowing clips of the trailer to feel more suspenseful,i also changed the music. ON YOUR BLOGS  Special effects include all effects that are achieved live on set such as . mocap . pyrotechnics . prosthetics . stop motion Avatar is a movie that uses a lot of special effects Definition of cgi Computer-generated imagery is the use of computer graphics to create or contribute to images in art, printed media, video games, simulators, and visual effects in films, television programs, shorts, commercials, and videos.

13th December 2022 Tuesday lo: Changing film genre The film i'm changing genre for is "Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory" and i'm turning it into a horror film. Location: Assuming were going of the most popular film version "The film released in 1971" I would change the setting to be more like the original book and make the town Charlie grows up in to be a poor slum instead of the more fantasy like houses in the original movie.  Characters: For the characters i would keep them relatively the same to really add a sense of fear to the movie for these normal children to be attacked like this. Storyline: For the storyline I would i would change the golden ticket troupe to instead have Willy Wonka kidnap these children for him to tortue and test on. In this movie the oompa loompas aren't some made up type of human but instead Children that were "tested" on. The movie starts following all of the children's POV's until they are kidnapped w...

  5th December Monday 2022 LO:To explore the concept of film genres Starter: list as many film genres as you can Action Adventure Drama Horror Musical Historical Western Romance Comedy War Crime Science fiction List of action films: Jurassic world Nobody Bullet train Uncharted Godfather Deadpool Tomb raider  Mulan Total recall Pirates of the Caribbean The gray man No time to die Black widow Morbius Jason bourne  John wick List of action film subgenres: War/military Spy/espionage Martial arts Western Action hybrid Vigilante Disaster Science fiction action Action horror Action adventure Action comedy Main genre conventions for Action Movies: Large heists Military grade weapons Highly skilled protagonist Evil organisations Futuristic objects and weapons Main Blockbuster action movie directors James cameron Michael bay Peter Jackson Blockbuster film posters Which sub genres would teenagers prefer: I think that teenagers would prefer Military action films as it is not complete...

22nd November Tuesday 2022 Lo: Zombie movie overview Overview The summary of my zombie movie is about a lab leak that releases a virus in a densely populated city and affects most of the population with only few people left to survive and discover this viruses secret. Character profiles Derek Derek is  a scientist that used to work in the lab so his knowledge of biology are very useful to the surrounding group of survivors, though it seems that he is not letting on all he knows. What secrets could he be hiding. Quentin Is a 30 something nihilistic office worker that has nothing but cynicism and pessimism for the world around him and know with the apocalypse on the horizon he has to give up this lack of  love for the world to keep his now orphaned nephew as he seems to both Quentin and his nephew seems to be resistant to zombies. George George is Quentin's nephew and though only being 7 years he old he seems to have age beyond his years. George also seems to know a lot about th...

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