Monday, 4 November 2013
Storyboards
As part of my Pre-Production I drafted out storyboards for my video. In these I outlined a sketch of the scene plus described it below and said what sounds would be in it.
Risk Assessment -- Outside
As part of my Pre-Production I assessed the risks for filming outside of the college. Photographs of this have been attached below.
Risk Assessment -- Inside
As part of the Pre-Production I have created Risk Assessments of the locations. The first set is for the locations inside the College.
Shot List
As part of my Pre-Preduction I listed all the locations and shots i was going to use within the 45 second promotional video for Gateshead College. It also includes who will be in the shot.
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Shot List
Location
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Shot
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Outside – Hawks Road
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Long Shot of exterior
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Inside – Drama Studio
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Mid Shot of Main on stage
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Inside – Drama Studio
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Mid shot of Student 1 teaching Main
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Inside – Music Studio
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Mid Shot of Main on drums / instrument
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Inside – Music Studio
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Mid shot of Student 2 teaching Main
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Inside – Photography Studio
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Mid Shot of Main taking a photo
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Inside – Photography Studio
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Mid shot of Student 3 teaching Main
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Inside – Metro Studio
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Mid Shot of Main trying to understand the desk
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Inside – Metro Studio
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Mid shot of Metro Expert teaching Main
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N/A
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Fade to black.
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Equipment List
Another section of my pre-Production is a list of all the equipment I will need for the production of the video to go ahead. I have also listed which scene the different pieces of equipment will be required for.
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Equipment List
Equipment
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Scene
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HD Camera
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All
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Tripod
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All
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Skull
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Drama Studio
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Instrument (Drums preferably)
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Music Studio
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Microphone
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Music Studio
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Microphone Stand
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Music Studio
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DSLR Camera
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Photography Studio
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Flower
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Photography Studio
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Metro Studio
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Metro Studio
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Cast and Crew List
The first part of my Pre-Production was to create a list of the Cast and Crew I plan to be using during the production of my 45 second promotional video for Gatehead College. I intend to use three students from the college plus a member of Metro Radios team during the production.
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Cast and Crew List
Name
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Role
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Adam Gilson
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Camera Man / Director / Main
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Jordy Cernik
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Student 1/ Camera Person
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Harry Cassidy
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Student 2 / Camera Person
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Georgina Cassidy
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Student 3 / Camera Person
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Jatinder Dhillon
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Metro ‘Expert’
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Monday, 21 October 2013
Digital Video Pitch
This is the digital video pitch i created. I decided my final idea was for the video to have an informal jokey theme to it with a person testing out the facilities within the college.
45 second video pitch from sims1uni
Link to PowerPoint
Feedback
After presenting the pitch to a selection of my peers, I recieved feedback on it. I have selected certain comments and I will discuss each one.
"I feel the college would want you to show something going right in the end" - I had never considered this and i think it would improve the video no end. As such i will now add a final scene where the character finds something they are good at.
"Students might not be available to assist in production" - This is a very true comment, however it is not something i can forsee or solve at this time. I will likely negotiate times with them at a prior date and plan the recording around it.
"Depending how it's done, Studnets saying 'No get out' may promote that the college doesn't want new students" - Having considered this point I agree. I will therefore change the format slightly to remove that phrase and instead revert to the phrase 'HEY' to be said by the students. I could follow this up later with a message saying 'Hey, what are you going to do today?'
"Funny video will appeal to TA" - Thank you.
Link to PowerPoint
Feedback
After presenting the pitch to a selection of my peers, I recieved feedback on it. I have selected certain comments and I will discuss each one.
"I feel the college would want you to show something going right in the end" - I had never considered this and i think it would improve the video no end. As such i will now add a final scene where the character finds something they are good at.
"Students might not be available to assist in production" - This is a very true comment, however it is not something i can forsee or solve at this time. I will likely negotiate times with them at a prior date and plan the recording around it.
"Depending how it's done, Studnets saying 'No get out' may promote that the college doesn't want new students" - Having considered this point I agree. I will therefore change the format slightly to remove that phrase and instead revert to the phrase 'HEY' to be said by the students. I could follow this up later with a message saying 'Hey, what are you going to do today?'
"Funny video will appeal to TA" - Thank you.
Monday, 14 October 2013
Assignment 2.1 - Intial Ideas
In this task I doodled and wrote down my initial ideas and tried to make sense of an idea. Below you can see my mindmap.
From the brain storming i have decided to do a comedy style video with a single person going round and trying out all the studios for the subjects. I'd then have the students come in and tell them off. The video would subtly show off the facilities and the students while being funny.
Legal and Ethical Considerations
Copyright
Copyright is where one person uses something created by another without the proper consent. Copyright is covered by the Copyright Designs and Patents act of 1988 which regulates the use of copyrighted material. Literally anything can be copyrighted and as long as you can prove that you created it first, you can sue people for using it. Copyrights or patents last for as long as the person lives plus 70 years after their demise. As a result, the works of Shakespeare and Bram Stoker are free to use because the writers are long since dead.
Copyright infringement is a civil offense which means that you can be sued or face heavy fines should you be caught breaching it. A recent case where copyright was beached could include Will.I.Am and Chris Browns latest track which is alleged to be too close to a trance track by Arty & Matt Zo. It is claimed that Will.I.Am’s track is a rip of off the track and as a result the singer is being sued for an undisclosed amount of money.
Interestingly, part of the Copyright Designs and Patents act of 1988 allows for ‘Fair Use’ of copyrighted material. This means that people can use ‘Small Clips’ of content for features like news or for reviews. In these cases, facts or opinions need to be expressed and the true owner of the copyrighted material made clear to the consumer.
Copyright infringement is a civil offense which means that you can be sued or face heavy fines should you be caught breaching it. A recent case where copyright was beached could include Will.I.Am and Chris Browns latest track which is alleged to be too close to a trance track by Arty & Matt Zo. It is claimed that Will.I.Am’s track is a rip of off the track and as a result the singer is being sued for an undisclosed amount of money.
Interestingly, part of the Copyright Designs and Patents act of 1988 allows for ‘Fair Use’ of copyrighted material. This means that people can use ‘Small Clips’ of content for features like news or for reviews. In these cases, facts or opinions need to be expressed and the true owner of the copyrighted material made clear to the consumer.
Advantages:
The biggest advantage of copyright laws is of course the fact that it keeps safe the intellectual property of individuals or businesses and makes sure that they get the proper recognition they deserve.
Another advantage could be that the laws make it easier to understand what is or isn’t copyrighted
Disadvantages:
Another advantage could be that the laws make it easier to understand what is or isn’t copyrighted
Disadvantages:
The biggest disadvantage of the copyright laws is that it’s sometimes difficult to make sure you have got permission for all of the copyrighted materials. Even the smallest things can be copyrighted such as in one case the tattoo of Mike Tyson. When this tattoo was copied in spoof comedy ‘The hangover’ the film makers were sued. However they weren’t sued by Tyson who had given them permission to copy it, but by the original artist who had created it. The artist had the real intellectual property of the tattoo and demanded money or that the film makers digitally alter it.
This brings me to the other disadvantage of copyright, to make a claim you have to prove that you created it first which isn’t always easy. In extreme cases the true owner may lose out to somebody who has a definitive date for their ‘creation’ while you may not be able to prove you created it earlier.
This brings me to the other disadvantage of copyright, to make a claim you have to prove that you created it first which isn’t always easy. In extreme cases the true owner may lose out to somebody who has a definitive date for their ‘creation’ while you may not be able to prove you created it earlier.
Libel
Libel is defamation of a person or organisation through use of written words or images. (However slander is the same but through spoken words). This is yet another case of a civil offence that is punishable by suing or by in journalistic cases, the journalist being fired and never being able to work in the industry again. Current English law allows the individual or individuals (sometimes companies) to challenge the statement. Where it gets interesting is that it’s up to the person who wrote the statement to prove it rather than the defendant to prove they are not. As a result it is possible for affluent individuals to pay lawyers who could defend their clients by casting doubt in the minds of jurors. This means that libel is a dangerous game for media producers.
However that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. In some Medias they on purpose publish libellous content to attract readers. The sale of the slanderous media easily pays for the costs of settling with the individual.
Advantages:
Anti-libel laws are swayed heavily and rightly so in the favour of the individual to make it possible to prosecute those who write libellous content.
However that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. In some Medias they on purpose publish libellous content to attract readers. The sale of the slanderous media easily pays for the costs of settling with the individual.
Advantages:
Anti-libel laws are swayed heavily and rightly so in the favour of the individual to make it possible to prosecute those who write libellous content.
Disadvantages:
The laws can be taken advantage of by hungry media producers to allow them to say what they want with almost minimal costs. As is the case with magazines such as heat who regularly pay off celebrities after slanderous comments.
Ethical Considerations
Legal Constraints
Within the media, ‘it is an offence to incite racial and religious hatred’- The Racial and Religious Hated Act of 2006. This act means that media producers cannot allow any form of racial or religious remarks to be published / broadcast. For example they must avoid all racist remarks on chat shows, phone ins or any other form of public media otherwise they will be prosecuted. This is after all a criminal law. Even if the remarks are balanced against anti-racist remarks, they will be prosecuted based on the fact that the remarks were said in the first place.
There is however a way they are allowed to have them. In fictional media such as films or TV shows, they may use the hatred if it portrays the character correctly. After all you cannot have a racist character that isn’t racist. This is because it isn’t real hatred. The law also allows the racism, loosely, in songs though why this is allowed is a bit of a grey area.
There is however a way they are allowed to have them. In fictional media such as films or TV shows, they may use the hatred if it portrays the character correctly. After all you cannot have a racist character that isn’t racist. This is because it isn’t real hatred. The law also allows the racism, loosely, in songs though why this is allowed is a bit of a grey area.
Advantages:
Makes sure that no forms of racism or anti-religious hatred is broadcast within the media. Therefore making the media a friendly place
Disadvantages:
The exceptions within the laws are grey and can be sometimes confusing. For example on Channel 4 they offer a small art of the day up for the public to offer their beliefs and air them. These beliefs however tend to cross boundaries into racism, religious hatred, homophobia and many other discriminative and generally wrong areas.
Representation
The representation of minority groups within media is another grey area. Producers must make sure they represent all minority groups fairly and make sure they don’t stereotype them. For example in media, they cannot follow the stereotypes of blondes being dumb, black people being thieves or Russians being the enemy. All of those stereotypes have been used within media recently. Laws about this used to be a lot less strict, as far back as the 70’s, it was perfectly fine to represent people however you liked.
Free speech also falls into this. In some cases people believe that media producers should be allowed to show the world as it is without falling foul of representation laws however this creates a grey are about what is allowed. The other argument this creates is the representation of violence, sex and bad language. Some say that it all should be lessened and should not be allowed while other people argue that producers should be allowed to show the world as it is, not a nice place. However this argument is different on the different medias. TV groups want it to stay off the television as kids may be watching, while movie groups say movies should be allowed to show what they want.
Free speech also falls into this. In some cases people believe that media producers should be allowed to show the world as it is without falling foul of representation laws however this creates a grey are about what is allowed. The other argument this creates is the representation of violence, sex and bad language. Some say that it all should be lessened and should not be allowed while other people argue that producers should be allowed to show the world as it is, not a nice place. However this argument is different on the different medias. TV groups want it to stay off the television as kids may be watching, while movie groups say movies should be allowed to show what they want.
Advantages:
Representation makes it fair for all social groups and makes sure that stereotypes are not shown within the media which is a good thing.
Representation also makes sure that minority groups are shown fairly and not forgotten or ignored within the media.
Disadvantages:
It is claimed by some that the representation laws stifle free speech.
Privacy
Within the UK there are no specific laws on privacy; however as part of a country within the UN we have to follow the Human Rights Act of 1998 which exists to provide “The right to respect for private and family life, home and correspondence”. This basically means that people within the media should respect the privacy of others. However that doesn’t mean they always do. Look at Facebook for example. This company provides a service worldwide however it doesn’t exactly respect people’s privacy and numerous times this has been called up. Numerous probes into the company have been launched from numerous governments.
The problem with privacy is that different people hold different values and ethics and therefore tend to follow different rules. This is mostly because there are no real laws for privacy in the UK so they can. It’s generally thought that if a person spends most of their lives in the public’s eye and actively encourages the media to talk about them, then this person is more likely to have requests for privacy denied as is the case with Kim Kardashian. However just because you spend your life in the public eye doesn’t always mean you don’t get privacy. In the case of the Royal Family, they get respected. The reason isn’t because they’re royalty, but because they don’t encourage the media. They are in the public’s eye only when they are on duty somewhere. Every other time they do not wish to be in the media. As was the case with Kate Middleton and her topless sunbathing. She had wished for privacy however this was not followed out and as a result the royals sued everybody who published the pictures.
The problem with privacy is that different people hold different values and ethics and therefore tend to follow different rules. This is mostly because there are no real laws for privacy in the UK so they can. It’s generally thought that if a person spends most of their lives in the public’s eye and actively encourages the media to talk about them, then this person is more likely to have requests for privacy denied as is the case with Kim Kardashian. However just because you spend your life in the public eye doesn’t always mean you don’t get privacy. In the case of the Royal Family, they get respected. The reason isn’t because they’re royalty, but because they don’t encourage the media. They are in the public’s eye only when they are on duty somewhere. Every other time they do not wish to be in the media. As was the case with Kate Middleton and her topless sunbathing. She had wished for privacy however this was not followed out and as a result the royals sued everybody who published the pictures.
Monday, 7 October 2013
Camera Shots & Camera Angles
Today we have been learning about Camera Shots and Camera Angles.
In preperation for the creation of my main video i will be creating later, I have been experiementing with Camera Shots and Camera Angles.
Camera Shots
Extreme Long Shot - This shot normally takes place at a start of a video to etablish the location and time of the videoor film.
Long Shot - This shot usually establishes a Character by showing a full body shot of them.
Middle Shot - This shot usually shows a character closer up than the Long Shot and allows the audience to see more emotion.
Close Up - This shot usually shows the character from the shoulders upwards.
Extreme Close Up - This shot usually shows either a character or object in heavy close up.
Camera Angles
Zoom In / Out - This is where the camera zooms in on the subject while staying where it is.
Track In / Out - This is very similar to the zoom except it is the camera that moves closer or further away instead of it zooming.
Pan - This is where the camera moves from side to side or up and down to follow a subject
Tilt - This is where a camera pans up or down on an axis. Usually done with the aid of a tripod.
In preperation for the creation of my main video i will be creating later, I have been experiementing with Camera Shots and Camera Angles.
Camera Shots
Extreme Long Shot - This shot normally takes place at a start of a video to etablish the location and time of the videoor film.
Long Shot - This shot usually establishes a Character by showing a full body shot of them.
Middle Shot - This shot usually shows a character closer up than the Long Shot and allows the audience to see more emotion.
Close Up - This shot usually shows the character from the shoulders upwards.
Extreme Close Up - This shot usually shows either a character or object in heavy close up.
Camera Angles
Zoom In / Out - This is where the camera zooms in on the subject while staying where it is.
Track In / Out - This is very similar to the zoom except it is the camera that moves closer or further away instead of it zooming.
Pan - This is where the camera moves from side to side or up and down to follow a subject
Tilt - This is where a camera pans up or down on an axis. Usually done with the aid of a tripod.
Monday, 30 September 2013
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