Media Studies Introduction


Media Studies Blog - Introduction


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Creating my blog

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CREATING MY BLOG Over the last couple of days I have begun to create my new media studies blog. During this process I created a new blog on the website Blogger and filmed a short introduction for the page. The video includes a welcome from me and a quick interview. For the video I used a green screen, a DSLR camera and lighting equipment. The green screen was in the equipment so that I was able to have an interesting and eye-catching background. When filming it was important that there was soft lighting so that there are no extreme shadows. After filming this I went onto editing the video, adding text, a moving background and colour correction.  
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