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