Pop Culture

Pop Culture

Statement of Intent  27/10/12

It is my intention to create a 360 rotation for the Pop Culture part of the assignment, my idea is to have a teenager ( family member) sat on a turntable in the studio at college, and he will be holding an I-pad as if he is playing a game on it. To show how today's society including children are obsessed with technology, playing games are a massive part of the mobile media, and children from the age of 2 know how to use a mobile phone. I realise that things are not how they were when I was a child, and these days its not safe to let your children out on the streets, but there has to be more to life than playing on a mobile phone, I-pad,computer or X-box; or is there ???? 

One issue I have is the fact that these children ( if no parental controls are set) can access anything online, a scary thought..

In order to carry this out he will need to completely still for the length of time it will take to get the shots, (I'm not sure this is possible) but if there is slight movement it should be fine and will give a feel of movement in the finished rotation. Planning when I can do this is proving difficult due to the fact that he is in school, and the possibility of getting him to college is looking slim.

13/11/12

I have been giving second thoughts to what I am going to shoot for my pop culture, and one option I came up with was to do a stop motion movie, using the same principle as I had mentioned in my statement of intent of a child playing on an I-pad.

I have been researching videos on you tube and found some very inspiring work which mad me reconsider my original proposal, mainly because the child would need to come into the studio at college to do the 360 rotation shoot, my problem there is that the child will be in school at the same time I can have access to the studios, and without taking him out of school I can't seem to work around this problem, other than change my plan, to something which I am able to produce out of school times.

20/1/13

Due to the lack of time and availability of the child, because of school and my work I have decided to make a video with music, of him arriving home from school, going into the house and immediately picking up the I-pad (normal occurrence) going to his bedroom and starting to play on his X-box, after some time he picks up the laptop and at this point I am going to zoom into the laptop and have some x-rated website displayed, so that it looks as if he was accessing adult sites.

This example is to put a point across about how young children are able to access things on the Internet they shouldn't, very easily, especially if their parents/guardians are computer illiterate. Children are now taught at a very early age in school and at home how to use computers/I-pads/mobile phones which; if you can use one then you can work out the others too. It is amazing actually how many parents do not know how to use a computer, but buy them for their children because nowadays they HAVE to have one in order to complete their homework, sometimes they have to email their work in, this is not only making them computer reliant but unsocial and in some cases a recluse.

The finished video , you can also see it on this link.

http://youtu.be/V-4gaqZYnaw