Need an Idea for my research!

[zaf_81]

Hello everybody here in this Forum.
I am a Media student doing my BA in Mediaproduction. Soon i will be starting my Bachelor exam project and I need your help. I want to find an idea to do my research on. something practical that could be a problem solving project. I need to do somehing abit more advanced.


So could anybody has got a good idea that would be worth to do my research on? Please write your idea in detail.
If you have an idea, could you please explain it to me WHY i should do my research on this. If you can´t answer it is ok.

Thanking you in advance.
Zaf

[lordsmurf]

What kind of media production?
What are your interests?
What niche of the field do you plan to work in?

I can help you, but I don't know enough about your project goals and needs.

[zaf_81]

What kind of media production?
What are your interests?
What niche of the field do you plan to work in?

I can help you, but I don't know enough about your project goals and needs.

Mediaproduction is a very bredth program where a student learn almost abit of everything that belongs to Media. like fictionfilm, Documentry, journalism, Tv production and many more. I want to work within Fiction but as far as my Project is concern. I will work on Dramaturgy, Naratalogy, picture or could be something i can gain my intrest.

My project goals are to research on something practicaly and then write 30 pages about it. for example shoot a film with two different kind of lighting, compare it and find out the meaning of it´s Naratalogy and why is it so? it is only a example. I am not intrested in Lighting.

So Is there some ideas?

[lordsmurf]

Personally, I think black-and-white is under-appreciated. Same goes for "silents" (which still have music, just no talking). I would be curious on this topic:

News reporting, a "double-up" study of some kind.

Shoot two cameras. One is B&W "silent" (add appropriate music later -- classical, of course, with a silent-era style). The other is your normal color, with the reporter being heard. This is an on-location shoot, not a newsroom, at some sort of event.

The first sit-down would be the audience watching the B&W silent, and writing down what they think is happening. The next would be them watching the color/talk version, and seeing how far off they were from the original.

Part of it relates to body language and story-telling animation. Humans were the first anime characters! For whatever reason, we've become a "talking head" society.

Also ask them which one they preferred. You'll have to shoot a nice contrasty B&W, and the color needs to be normal, not super-pumped like CSI episodes are (because news is never like that).

Did the vocal version give the feel of "bias"? Some folks think everybody that speaks is bias. Or maybe yet, how does one's own bias affect the story when the reporter says ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to them? Be sure the topic allows for this.

That's not a polished topic, but it's got some interesting aspects to it. How does the audio-visual quality affect how people focus, as well as the factor of silence and watcher-bias (which is so much stronger than so-called "media bias" could ever be).

[zaf_81]

Personally, I think black-and-white is under-appreciated. Same goes for "silents" (which still have music, just no talking). I would be curious on this topic:

News reporting, a "double-up" study of some kind.

Shoot two cameras. One is B&W "silent" (add appropriate music later -- classical, of course, with a silent-era style). The other is your normal color, with the reporter being heard. This is an on-location shoot, not a newsroom, at some sort of even

The first sit-down would be the audience watching the B&W silent, and writing down what they think is happening. The next would be them watching the color/talk version, and seeing how far off they were from the original.

Part of it relates to body language and story-telling animation. Humans were the first anime characters! For whatever reason, we've become a "talking head" society.

Also ask them which one they preferred. You'll have to shoot a nice contrasty B&W, and the color needs to be normal, not super-pumped like CSI episodes are (because news is never like that).

Did the vocal version give the feel of "bias"? Some folks think everybody that speaks is bias. Or maybe yet, how does one's own bias affect the story when the reporter says ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to them? Be sure the topic allows for this.

That's not a polished topic, but it's got some interesting aspects to it. How does the audio-visual quality affect how people focus, as well as the factor of silence and watcher-bias (which is so much stronger than so-called "media bias" could ever be).

Thanks broth! What a smart idea you have got. But let me know about your 2nd and third sentence about the reporter being heard.
You mean to say that the reporter even should be seen in both or just being heard in color version???

Anyway the idea is very good. Just let me talk to my classmate if he is agree with this idea.

[lordsmurf]

Seen in both. That means he's actually got to communicate with the audience, not just stand there like a statue with moving lips. The B-roll cut-aways would be of the event only. In our modern tech society, I would think they could finally use a hands-free microphone and use their hands for communication (as opposed to a fleshy microphone stand).

The reporter acts as narrator and storyteller (good at what they do), instead of just eye-candy with a nice voice (and sometimes that's all they have going for them -- as a journalist, they're as dumb as a stump, hence the lacking quality of TV-broadcast media as a whole).

Like I said, it's a bit rough as any idea still, will take some polishing on the details, as you're already seeing. This is where your skills/education come in, should this be a project you choose to pursue.

Good luck.

I work in an all-media type situation too (design, photo, video, writing, etc).

[zaf_81]

Seen in both. That means he's actually got to communicate with the audience, not just stand there like a statue with moving lips. The B-roll cut-aways would be of the event only. In our modern tech society, I would think they could finally use a hands-free microphone and use their hands for communication (as opposed to a fleshy microphone stand).

The reporter acts as narrator and storyteller (good at what they do), instead of just eye-candy with a nice voice (and sometimes that's all they have going for them -- as a journalist, they're as dumb as a stump, hence the lacking quality of TV-broadcast media as a whole).

Like I said, it's a bit rough as any idea still, will take some polishing on the details, as you're already seeing. This is where your skills/education come in, should this be a project you choose to pursue.

Good luck.

I work in an all-media type situation too (design, photo, video, writing, etc).

I think there is something still unclear to me. Why it should be shoot with two cameras?
It can be shoot with one camera and later on in the post production, the newsreport can be edited into two version. One will be turned into B&W with silent mode, that we can just see the talking head (reporter)what is happening and the another version will be in Colour where we both see and hear the same report. What i understood. it will be only one type of news report will be shoot on location. isn´t it?
Is it so you too mean to say or i got it wrong?

i think working with one camera is easier and will not take more time. the shooting angle will not change and the audience will experience the same news report from the same camera angle into two version. working with two camera and shoot the report at the same time, cause different camera angle, maybe not so much but still.

best regards
Zaf

[lordsmurf]

True, you can shoot one and then convert to B&W and remove audio track (replace with musical) in post. I was mentioning two for the purpose of explaining the situation. You still might want a second camera, however, for B-roll. Sometimes it's easier to do B-roll at the same time, not before or after. Depends on your resources. You can often rent or borrow cameras from the school or a local studio.

These days, you might even consider shooting 16:9 HD. May as well. Unless you've got no access, where 4:3 DV is fine.

[zaf_81]

Hi once again!
THIS PROJECT HAS STARTED A DEBATE, THAT IS WHY I AM WONDERING IF YOU COULD GIVE ME MORE INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR THOIOUGHTS.


[quote="lordsmurf"] Personally, I think black-and-white is under-appreciated. Same goes for "silents" (which still have music, just no talking). I would be curious on this topic:

ZAF=COULD YOU PLEASE TELL ME WHAT IS YOUR EXACT POINT OF VIEW WHERE YOU SAY ¨B&W is under -appreciated?




[quote="lordsmurf"] The first sit-down would be the audience watching the B&W silent, and writing down what they think is happening.

YOU MEAN THAT THE AUDIENCE AFTER WATCHING WRITE DOWN WHAT THEY THINK? WHAT SHOULD I DO IF I DON´T GET THE AUDIENCE TO WITE DOWN?

[quote="lordsmurf"] The next would be them watching the color/talk version, and seeing how far off they were from the original.

WHICH ONE WOULD BE CALLED THE ORIGINAL ONE? THE B&W ONE?


[quote="lordsmurf"]Part of it relates to body language and story-telling animation.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN HERE?


[quote="lordsmurf"] Humans were the first anime characters! For whatever reason, we've become a "talking head" society.
I
S THERE ANY LITTERATUR THAT BASED ON THIS TEORI?


WOULD BE THE EXACT PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT? I JUST WANNA BE SURE THAT I GOT YOUR POINT OF VIEW.


[quote="lordsmurf"] Did the vocal version give the feel of "bias"? Some folks think everybody that speaks is bias.
BIAS? HOW COME? THIS IS SOMETHING NOT FAMILIAR TO ME? COULD YOU PLEASE GIVE MORE INFO ABOUT HOW YOU THINK AND WHY?

[quote="lordsmurf"] Or maybe yet, how does one's own bias affect the story when the reporter says ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to them? Be sure the topic allows for this.

[lordsmurf]

You're on your own at this point, I don't have time to advise a project these days. Sorry! All I can do is give you an idea. The research for these topics exists out there. I don't know of any exact authors or articles, but I've read plenty in the past few years.

[zaf_81]

You're on your own at this point, I don't have time to advise a project these days. Sorry! All I can do is give you an idea. The research for these topics exists out there. I don't know of any exact authors or articles, but I've read plenty in the past few years.

Then i must thank you brother for an Idea.