Focus Groups

 

SOUND RECORDING OF OUR FOCUS GROUP

A focus group is a small ammount of people whcih diecuss a certain topic that applies to them (3-10 people) they usually talk about opinions and answer questions about a topic or a product.

Treatment

Script For My Production - January 2016

6 Hour Film Competition

Throughout the previous three lectures with Tobie, we were set a task to film a short film with one prop that we were given (A Light) in 6 hours.
We decided to make the story involve the light alot, we made it so the light coud teleport you to a different dimention and with a different personality and different clothing, we used eachothers jackets in our group to make it look like i was in a different place every time i teleported.

We started by filming the first two scenes in the first 2 hour lesson, we went to the studio first and filmed me as a actor having a interview and the asked me to act with the light but when i press it they didnt tell me that i would teleport.

the next scene i ended up in a location near office buildings wearing a coach jacket, with glasses on smoking a ciggerette to give the feel of old fashioned times or a few decades ago, i then get interupted by the interviewer then i press the button and transport to a enclosed area with a suitcase waering modern clothing, i then open the suitcase and go back to the studio, i then leave the interview and aiden may comes on as another actor and the same process happens with him but i cut it before the scene leads on into the interview. Dan milsom is also in shot as he is used as a runner in the iterview.

Actors:
Ryan Pratt
Aaron Chandler
Aiden May

Filming:
Dan Milsom
Aiden May

Sound:
Aaron Chandler

Things we can improve on:
Boom Mic placement
Background Noise
Spend more time on planning and scrit writing.

Here is my Short Film

Story Board for short film!

 These two screenshots are of my storyboard

videos x-mas ads

Sainsburys Christmas Advert
The clip was about a cat called Mog, who saved his families christmas, by accidentally called the fire department after he had a bad dream and switched the cooker on, this led forward and ruined the house, after that the fire department came and friends and locals came and helped them have good christmas.

Silly Symphony- Santa Workshop
Silly Symphony is a short christmas musical made by walk disney. it shows us the story of how the Elfs make the presents at Christmas, the colour and sound made a huge difference as in some parts they used the same animation scene, and the colour helped as well as it brought the emotion. The common stereotypes that were used were kids wanting everything and santa being jolly which is acceptable.

Silly Symphony - A night before christmas
We then watched another film which was made by the same company as last time. They used the same snow animation as the last one, they also used lots of new animation which made it more believable and more entertaining. The colour that they used on the houses and on the toys were good as it brought out the christmas spirit a lot more, They sound they used was a lot more simple than the last one as the only dialect used was Santa's laugh and a babies sneeze. A lot of stereotypes were children being clumsy and reference of bottoms a lot.

Santa Claus is Coming 
the final clip that we watched was made by flash, it started with a christmas feel and when the girl went to go and see santa downstairs, santa is referred as a creature that eats anything left out for it and makes his own presents. colour an sound are good but the sound was slacking.

Patterns in photoshop - "Candy"

Firstly we started a page in photoshop that was 100 x 100 pixels and created the background transparent. We then set a rule i the middle of the page and created a new layer and placed a dark red rectangle and duplicated it twice and put it either side of the page. This Created the Pattern.

We then created a new file, with a plain white background then
used the text tool to apply the word Candy on to the page.
I then applied that pattern onto the text, then put a darker red as an outline, then added a  golden outer glow.




After i dome this a made the background the same pattern apart from i made it a light pink colour, then tilted the background slightly to make it the same angle as the text.

X-mas Cards

I done this christmas card on Adobe Illustrator, Firstly i placed the background colour and i added the snow hill by drawing a shape with the pen tool, then drew the trees by inserting a triangle then narrowing it down and copying it many times and changed the colour of them to show the effect of shadows. I then drew the shadows of the trees, then inserted the text and coloured it with a yellow and orange gradient with a white stroke. i then drew a snowflake using the line tool and shrunk it down and copied it many times and changed the size. Then finally drew santa his slay and reindeers all by scratch using the pen tool

I done this card by using a text that would suit the christmas spirit then added a slant to it, then using the brush tool i imported some X-mas trees, i picked the one that i liked then applied it to the middle of the card

5 Shot Method = Interview with J.J the Guitarist

Guitarist: J.J

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXljdpo5I4A

In todays lecture we edited our 5 shot method that we filmed last week, we used Adobe premiere to edit these clips to make an interview.

I started by going down into the performance space and filmed George (J.J) playing the guitar, after we had done that we went to the studio and filmed the interviews as the performance space was too loud. We had to film it and record the sound on a different piece of equipment.

The equipment that we used was:

• Cannon 50D
• ZOOM H4N
• Tripod 
• Props

Animation - flash - popcorn

In todays lecture we looked at how popcorn in made and how we can make that effect on flash.
Firstly we started by creating a android app and made a circle and applied it to "Up" and "Over".
Then we made a different coloured one on the next frame "Down" and hit was the last frame which allowed us the range of where to click on the button.

We then did the same process apart from on the first two frames to pop corn unpopped, and the third frame it popping and the same process on the last frame.  After that Steve sent us some sound effects, i put in a booing sound so it made a noise when it is clicked

Message Maps / Pitching

In todays lecture we looked at employability, we looked into detail about pitching. Pitching is when a product is presented to someone or a group of people, ie. Dragons Den or The Apperentice.
We then made Message maps.

1. Do you think the pitch was successful and WHY?

No because it wasn’t very formal and the majority of them seemed unconfident and they were not organized.

2. What works well and what doesn’t in your opinion and WHY?

What worked well was the contrast of colour of the actual product, however the way they presented it was not good as it was informal

3. Is there anything you would do differently?

Interesting, confident, organized and made sure that everything was at a professional standard and not a sloppy pitch. I would make the advert very good to show the target audience

Christmas tree. Illustrator

I did this christmas tree by using the line brush tool and made a triangle, afterwards i made a new layer and used the pen tool to draw the trunk and the star. I preferred to do this illustrator as i find photoshop difficult and confusing, i do wish to use photoshop more in the future.

Postcard design (sketch) / Ink Stamps

 Sketching of Christmas Cards

I stared by looking on google images and Pinterest for ideas on what to draw on our sheet of paper

When i decided what i wanted i used the Fontpair.co to get a good idea on what i wanted on the front of my card then i combined a few designs together to make my designs.

Ink Stamps

I started by thinking of what to put on the front of my card, then i experienced by using different sized stamps and stamped them three times to see what looked best. 

animation - Adobe Flash

In todays lecture we also looked at animation for ourselves

Adobe flash has a text tool, so i wrote my name and made it move down the page, then i inserted a photo of a few dollar signs and a dollar and made them move across the page, the dollar signs got bigger as they moved

The Forest

In todays lecture we looked at a short film called The Forest, it was made by David Scharf using 3D CGI animation. The story behind the film is of a 12 year old girl that lives in a small apartment with a strict father which tries to show her the actions of life. She got put into a therapist after she was expelled from school, she wakes up to the real world and retaliates, and tries to cancel all technology but fails and gets put away

Six Word Story

Receive money, spend money = no money

Cambodia Rice - 5 Shot method

Five Shot Method

                                                            The Video on Youtube

Shots used...

1. Close up - Hands
2. Close up - Face
3. Wide shot 
4. Over the Shoulder 
5. Side shot (unusual) 

The five shot method is a set series of shots for the editor to keep the attraction of the viewer.

This is used so the viewers continue watching the video because they are drawn in to see what they are doing, also when they can only see the persons hands they are drawn in to see what they look like, what they are doing and why they are doing that. 

Christmas Cards - Preliminary Photoshop Designs

In todays lecture we created preliminary designs for our christmas cards using photoshop.

We started by applying a gradient to the background, we did this by choosing the colour then using the gradient tool to create the effect, then placed a half colour gradient effect.
Afterwards we looked at filters, we chose the filter, noise and applied that to the page then turned it to around 30% - 40% to create the card effect instead of a solid boring colour.

 Once i done this i used the polygonal lasso tool to draw the triangle then coloured this triangle yellow, after that i changed the opacity of the triangle down to 50% so the ends of the triangle were faded out into the red background.










after that i installed a snowflake brush to use around and in the yellow triangle, we changed the size jitter so there was a variety of different sized snow flakes, we coloured them a lighter yellow and scattered them in and the outline of the triangle to make this.      \/   \/   \/   \/   \/   \/   \/   \/   \/   \/   \/   \/   \/   \/   \/   \/   \/   \/   \/   \/

i did the same to the white star and the plant pot and then i inserted text saying merry christmas then i put a white outline around the text. and then i was finished. this is the final product.








                                                 

Library Foley

While doing the foley for the library clip i learnt many new things about sound and equipment.
before we started to record our sound we had to go through how the equipment worked, so we learnt about male and female cables and XLR cables and shotgun microphone etc. After i was told how to use this equipment we started recording, we moved locations three times because we had interference with people come in and out and technicians. So that was also another thing i learnt that i will not repeat to save time. We recorded all of the sounds in the drama studio as it was empty and quiet. I liked this activity as i know that all the sounds used in the foley are my own and they fit in with the clip.

What i haven't enjoyed about this task was people butting into my sounds when i was recording and having to move around a lot which would waste a lot of time.

When i recorded the sounds i wanted them to sound exactly how the clip shows but obviously it s hard to do that when you haven't got the clip right in front of you, but when it come to adding the sounds to the actual clip it wasn't so bad as i was able to edit the sound and make it fit in better.

Balanced audio is very important. If you have sounds that you have recorded that clip or are way too quiet, they are no good, you need sound which doesn't clip and every sound that you record needs to be in the same range otherwise they are hard to work with or may have to redo them.

I used this ZOOM sound recorder with a shotgun microphone 

Drugs and Health

What did you read that you didn’t know before?
I looked at some statistics on the Internet on the amount of people use drugs for different reasons and I was blown away by some of the things that people do.

Does this blog post change your views? If so, how?

This blog changed my views against drug as people are using it for the sake of stress for example and when you read facts of what drugs do to you it is quite scary knowing what they do and people actually consume these things. For example marijuana is used for a anti depressant but people are in danger because some people that sell it they may insert some other substances which can be harmful.

How might the information in this post be useful to you?

This information could be useful to me to inform other people about the problems of drugs on why they are illegal etc.

What are some of the risks involved in doing drugs? Do you think about these risks? Why or why not?

The risks in taking drugs are that you can seriously injure you and even kill you and I think that to the  people know that it does hat to them it is very upsetting people have to result to it.

How does media play a role in drug use and addiction? Consider all types of media, including television and movies, social media, and advertisements
Media usually shows drug addiction a lot more than other things, for example, alcohol. For example you may see on the news of some people or celebrities using or making drugs which are in trouble with the police because of having use of illegal substances, but you mostly see it on television on soaps like Coronation street and Eastenders, they are usually class A drugs ie. cocaine. You also see use of drugs in films, usually people taking drugs or dealing drugs in either comedy or action films.

Market Research

Pinterest 

In todays lecture we were able to sign up to Pinterest, which allows us to look at other peoples ideas, crafts and other things. This is good because i searched a term christmas and found the picturea that i liked. (left picture) I liked the christmas card as it has been rafted and i like this because i like the idea of hand made and crafted products as they wil apply to my christmas card design. Pinterest has shown me various colours but i picked this colour shceme (photo on the right) as i think it really suits the christmas and i can use the colour theme and others to make my chistmas card my own and to suit my sytle of craft.

Fontpair.co

 using font pair we could get some font combinations for our card design

Claymations - DLD, Morph and Adam

In todays lecture we looked at three videos which were all animation. They were all made from clay. This includes characters props the the background. To make these clips they take a series of photos and put them together to make the character/prop etc move.

Darkness, Lightness, Darkness -  contained two hands in a small room. the further the progressed with making body parts the more the body parts came. for example they found a moth (ears) and grabbed the moth and tour it in half, and used them to listen, then other parts of the body came into the room like feet and a head. Eventually it made a fully grown man and he was squished in the small room and turned the light off.


Morph - Morph is about a man more like a stick man that was making jelly, he has a strange blog like pet, the pet is interested into what he is making, the man makes the jelly and leaves the jelly to set as he walked off his pet goes to see the jelly and finds out it is another one of the blob pets and the stickman come back to the jelly and tries to eat it but the jelly jumps off the table and walks away with the mans pet.


Adam -  Adam is about a boy that has been placed on the moon, he is alone and doesn't know what to do. constantly making mistakes as he is trying to get use to the habitat he has been put in by a hand (creator) when he finally realises he is getting company he is disappointed with a penguin, they hold hands and hug.

Ryan and Aiden - Claymation - Our story was of a blue blob rolling minding its own business
, when it runs into a lighter and the lighter burns it into a puddle, the puddle then shows that it is still ok from the flame. We did this using a stop-motion software and put it together and added music on pro-premiere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyH-ESc5SCY

Assassins Creed 3

In todays lecture we learnt what folioing is, i done this on assassins creed gameplay, we all worked on pro premiere and added sound effects to create the video.

This task was good fun also i learnt how to fade in and out clips and sound effects and how to make the fade shorter or longer.

Location scout + Recce + Risk assessments

Location scout

A location scout is a vital process in pre-production, it is used in film making and commertial photography. Once the producers and directors have decided on what they want the scene to look like they will send out a Location scout to go and find a location and inspect it to make sure it fits the producers and directors standards.

Recce

Recce is a bit like a location scout apartfrom their job is to go out to the location that the Location scout has selected and to inspect the location to make sure the location is suitible to film on and is what the producer and director would like to use.

These are both important in the filming industry as they both have to be done otherwise they will never have a plavce to film, also getting permisson and legal licences to use the property is also important with these two terms. Which also applys to televison industry.

we used these in our lecture last wednesday, we walked up to Royal Creasent and on the way there we stopped at some locations and took some photos, we had to use these techniques to make sure it was ok for us to film on and that is was suitible for our team.

Risk Assessment

We carry out Risk Assessments to highlight minor to serious dangers when it comes to going to film. so we can be aware of all the possible things that could happen for example, from tripping over a camera wire to being set on fire because you are using fire in a certain scene. we look at these so we can learn how to prevent these accidents from happening and making the set a safer place.

Explosion GIF

In todays lecture we learned how to make a gif. i started by thinking of a design, i thought of a cartoon bomb, so i drew out three and one had a long thread and the other two had shorter threads, then i also drew 3 cartoon explosions 1 small one, medium one and a large one to fit the page. i started by taking the photos and gradually putting in the photos into it, after i taken 34 photos i put them all into photoshop and started by putting them out of layers and into frames and then spaced the time out between the frames out. after i was happy i exported it as a  animated GIF. 'save for web legacy and uploaded it onto my drive.

this is the timeline with all of the frames on it.

Final Postcard

This is my final postcard design, i chose this as mt final design because i did alot of work and tweaked the filters alot to get the final outcome, i thought it would be a good final design as i liked the look of it, also it appeals to my target audience because of the layout and the colours used.

All postcard designs!

 This postcard was started by inserting a photo from the camera that i took the photo with, after i sized it i started putting a hazey and a vignette filter onto the postcard, afterwards i started playing with the brightness and contrast to get a colourful effect, lastly i finished by using a old fashioned/modern font and wrote text along the bottom of the postcard.

I started this postcard by selecting four photos from the photos we took around bath.i then inserted them into photoshop, then size them all so they could all fit equally onto the page, after i sized them all i inserted a royal blue box to show the royalty of bath, then lastly i inserted a thin text to show uniqueness of bath.

This postcard that i designed i started by selecting four photos from the photos we took around bath.i then inserted them into photoshop, then size them all so they could all fit equally onto the page, after i sized them all i started by inserting a gold shield into the middle of the page. after that i put gold lines along lines where the photos collided, lastly i inserted Roman Bath in the middle of the shield but made the font old english to show the vintage theme.

This postcard that i designed i started by selecting a photo from google and put a blue filter on it so the snow was highlighted more, after that i put dark blue lines along the top and the bottom of the postcard. Lastly i finished by downloading a font from 'DaFont' and inserted that into photoshop, then wront Bath Spa in the middle of the postcard. i think this font gave it a retro feel so that is why i chose it.

Short Film - Dark Knight

Short Film - Dark Night

we started by finding a location around colllege, one we found where to film our short film, we set the camera up, after that me and shane started filming and started acting out certain scene from the film, Batman Dark Night, after that we
went back to the class room we edited the videos to create a story.

Layout & indesign (thumbnails)

To create this thumbnail i started by putting the background a light blue then made a new layer and inserted a stickman and copied and pasted the stick man many times to make rows of them, after that i copied the whole row and made it smaller. after i done that a few times i then drew a few lines around the stckmen to create a sense of a stage, then i put a dark blue shade in the background. finally inserted test into it, i made the title font bigger than the rest the put a breif decription about it.


to create this thumbnail i started by reseaching about how many people listen to rap music, i then put a yellow background in and then drew up a microphone to relate to the thumbnail.
i then inserted some text and wrote a basic brief on what i was showing after that i ended by changingthe font of the title and the rappers names to show emphasizm.

Visualising data: Infographic Creation

Finished Infographic Design

In todays lecture we started talking about the data that we got back from the class's responses to the questionnare that we did last week, after we recived the data from steve i started by opening illustrator and looking for a good font for the heading. after i found a good font i started by making a school like design along the top, after this i made a rough drawing of a pen and added that to spice the infographic up, i then ended by adding text and the data itself. finally i ended it by adding the creator and copyright.

180 degree rule!

180 degree rule

The 180 degree rule is used when two people are in a scene and the camera is not allowed to cross the line, for example if the camera is in front of the two people the camera cannot go behind the two people. The reason why this is used is becuse when you break the 180 degree rule and going behind he poeple, the people switch seats and when it comes to filming it can confuse the reader.

An exaple of this is the photos below.

as you can see the old man is on the right, but when the camera goes behind them the old man is on the left which is confusing to te eye.