Michael Bay

Michael Bay is a very successful directer who directs many great films. Examples of his work are Tranformers, Pearl Harbour, Friday the 13th and The Island.
Michael Bay's films get mixed reviews. His work are based more towards the male gender because of the way he uses the women's costumes, how they act and what happens to them to represent women as sex symbols. He also includes a lot of explosions and cars which generally appeal to men.
Michael Bay's trademark is using very extreme explosions, attractive women and slow motion scenes. In the film 'Bad Boys' he spent over $25,000 for the explosion scene.
Michael Bay has also worked with Aerosmith for their music video.

Spike Jonze

Spike Jonze's work is based for teenagers and young adults. Therefore he has to make it appeal to them and be exiting. Examples of this is the film Jackass which he directed which are full of excitement, danger and generally appeal to the teenage market.
His work is associated with skateboarding and other urban sports like that.
He has also been infuenced by Arcade Fire.

Here is an example of his work which involves skateboarding.

Shynola

Shynola is the name of the four directors that work together to produce music videos and title sequences. The four men are Chris Harding, Jason Grooves, Richard Kenworthy and also Gideon Baws (Who passed away in 2008.)

Shynola's work includes music videos for bands such as Coldplay, Blur, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead and many more. They have also done the title sequence for the film Scot Pilgrim Vs the World, and also a a small collection of adverts for companies such as Nike and Orange.

Shynola use animated sequences to create the effects in their work. They are very well known for using stop motion which is where you take many different shots of a subject who moves slightly on every shot and when the shots are stitched together the subject is animated. Shynola use bright colours in their work to give of connotations of happiness which relates to the music video or film etc.

The inspiration behind Shynola's work is comic books, tv programs and general everyday life.

Shynola won the award for the Best New British Animation.

Wes Anderson

Wes Anderson has directed a variety of different types of media. His most famous and conspicuous work is the films that he has directed. 8 of these include:

• Bottle Rocket
• Rushmore
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
• The Darjeeling Li,ited
• Hotel Chevalier
• Fantastic Mr Fox
• Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

Wes Anderson uses British Rock and Folk music in his films to express the certain connotations and feeling the film portrays to the audience. He also uses visual effects to give off certain connotations. For example, he is well known for using washed out colours such as beige which makes his films seem natural. These effects are used in films such as The Royal Tenenbaums and Rushmore.

The use of symmetry and extreme close ups gives the audience a sense of claustrophobia. Anderson likes to include the same actors in his work - Owen Wilson and Bill Murray have roles in all of his films.

Anderson describes his target audience as 'outsiders' which makes his audience and films seem unique and abnormal. 

My Name is Earl - Representation of gender

These are two clips from the TV Show 'My Name is Earl'. The episode is a unique episode as it uses the original introduction used in the program for each of the characters. I used the introduction for the characters Randy Hickey and Joy Hickey because it shows how the representation of genders differs between each character. Joy's character is represented as being very attractive and appealing to the audience. She is shows this way through the use of revealing costumes and also props such as the truck used in the clip above. Randy is shown as being rather stupid and unreliable. His stance is very childish because his arms are by his side and he's very unobservant and dopey.

Photography

I enjoy photography and have been out on many occasions to take pictures of various different subjects. I used to go out to a lake near where I live to capture a grey heron but it was very shy and took me many different attempts but I invested in camouflage clothes and a camouflage net which kept me hidden and free to take pictures of it.

This is a picture of the very still heron. I got many other pictures but decided to put this picture on my blog to show what went wrong with it. This is actually 3 pictures stitched together creating a panorama. What went wrong with this picture is that the middle picture was taken slightly out of focus and the top picture is not aligned correctly. This is shown clearly by the tree in the background underneath the heron's beak. The tree trunk is not a straight line.

I took many pictures of the heron and in my opinion this one stood out the most because it really shows the true detail and beauty of the bird. The best part of this picture for me is the heron's eye. It is looking directly at the camera lens and shows the wild, wondrous side to the heron. I also like the heron's posture and stance and the positioning it has on the picture. I put the subject very slightly left of the picture to show that it has something ahead of it which is out of view. This adds a slight mystery.

Another one of my favourite photographs is the one I took in Tenerife. I decided to get a picture of the sunrise which meant getting up at 5:30 and down to the sea by 6:00. I took the picture during the 'Golden Hour' and am very happy with the results.
Both of these photos have been edited on Adobe Photoshop CS2. I used Curves to make the orange brighter and the shadows darker  to add a rich, warm mood to the photo.

About Myself...

My Name is Luke Niblett. I am studying Media Studies at AS level because I am very enthusiastic on video making, photographing, editing and publishing images. I also enjoy making animations on Macromedia Flash.
I am also studying ICT, Product Design and also English Language. I like mostly hard rock bands for example Guns N Roses and Van Halen but respect bands that make their own music. A good example of this is one of my favorite bands The White Stripes.. This shows the true genius of Jack White.
My favourite TV shows are Family Guy, My Name is Earl and Friends.


My Favourite film Indianna Jones Temple of Doom. I don't tend to read magazines apart from SLR Photography and when I was young I used to read the Dandy Comics.

The websites I go on the most are probably Facebook, Twitter and the TV Guide.