Schedule - Now and Then!

Planning Stage

Sign agreement form = 1/12/10 This went to plan, we had a strict deadline for these!

Complete storyboard = 17/1/10 I never completed a Storyboard due to technical limitations of my computer at home. (This was supposed to be designed during the holiday period, my computer actually got a virus during that time.) I had to create a plan using Photography of the proposed shots I wished to use.

Complete voiceover script = 19/1/10 This was written when I came up with the inital idea of doing a mini promotional documentary. It was completed on time.

Shooting Phase

Begin shooting = 19/1/11

Shoots will take place every Wednesday after this date until review of raw footage = 8 days shooting - The shooting worked to my schedule until I had to include an extra week so I could feature a 'female' in the video. My plan for the promotional video was to include a female but in the 8 days shooting not one woman attended the gym. This required me to bring in an 'actor' to be filmed in order to get the shots i required. Because of this, I ran over the shooting schedule by ONE WEEK.

Interview day with gym members (advertised by owner) = 9/2/11 - This never happened due to my client not making members aware of me filming. I had to organise all interviews with members myself throughout my 8 weeks of shooting.

Editing Phase

Review of raw footage with client = 16/3/11 This will be a week later than scheduled due to the re-shoot.

Review and feedback of edit before project hand in with client = 6/4/11 I am on track for this.

Evaluation Phase

Project hand in = 21/4/11

Evaluation complete and handed in = 28/4/11

It is good to look back on the proposed schedule and figure out what went wrong and for what reasons. This will help me when evaluating my work as a Practitioner.

SHOWREEL

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Shooting Tomorrow

It is my second day of shooting tomorrow, I am now using a Panasonic HMC 151 after studying online about various cameras that perform well in low lighting!

A few key points I am able to take from my last shoot.....

• Try not to use so much movement in the shots
• Wide angled shots featuring a lot of activity are tough on viewers
• Sometimes people do not want to be filmed!

With this in mind I am much better prepared for filming tomorrow. I am going to spend 3 hours in the morning from 10-1 and then 3 hours in the evening from 4-7pm. This means I will be able to catch the gym at its most well lit period (am) and its busiest period (pm).

January Shoot Schedule + Interviews - Client Project

I have two days of shooting in January as agreed with my client, tomorrow and the wednesday after....

19/01/11 + 26/01/11


At this stage I am also writing questions for the interview day of shooting on the 2nd of February. The footage I intend to capture of people talking is to be short and snappy, so my questions need to be brief

Ideas I have considered so far are:

What is your favorite thing about the gym?

Why choose this gym when there are others within a 3 mile radius?

Are you training for a particular event?

Have the facilities of this gym helped you prepare for an event?

I will take snippets of the replys and edit them into short sections throughout the promotional video.

GYM PROMO VIDEOS!

I've been browsing around the internet for ideas that might work with the gym I am involved in for my client project, and the one that has caught my eye the most is one for a gym in loughborough.



The things I like about the video are that it advertises all aspects of fitness, therefore appealing to a wider audience. The cuts are easy to follow and not too quick. The only thing I am not too keen on is the video effect that is used throughout the piece as sometimes it made the image a little difficult to see, but other than that I felt the piece was very affective and it gave me some ideas of what I could create for my video!

Piracy Simulated Project LOW QUALITY

Had to upload in low quality as my connection is really under par.... whenever i try to upload the 100mb fail it just fails on me!

Piracy simulated project COMPLETE!

My 30 second piracy advert is finally finished! I am quite happy with how the final advert has turned out.

I began the editing by really playing with the audio, recording an ambient white noise track and cranking up the levels on this to distort the audio quality. I added a de-noiser and upped the threshold, turning the actual noise reduction UP so it resulted in a very up and down audio level throughout, (working to the dodgey sound archetype of pirate videos)

The most problematic part of my project I found was the actual filming! I wanted really low resolution footage to make the video seem as though it has actually been pirated, so this required me to film on my camera phone! I began by filming on my iphone but the camera quality of this phone is actually quite good, so I got out one of my old Nokias and shot the footage on that phone! This meant my actor had to learn his lines to say in one take, not a major issue due to the short nature of the clip but had the project been of a larger scale, then this could well have been a problem! I was originally going to include more facts and statistics at the end of the video, but i think the 75,000 jobs line works well against the fact that the dodgey dealer is talking about running his successful business!

I will post the video as soon as it is done uploading to youtube!