8 shot journey the task set

The task for the “8 shot journey was to create a sequence of shots. The aim was for your actor to start at a particular place and then go to another destination. For my video it was for Louis to get from a classroom where he got a phone call, and then it ended the traveller meeting a mate on a climbing frame in the park outside of college. The 8 shots would use a variety of different shots, varying from ECU to a W/S. First we had to create a storyboard of our 8 shots, knowing what we wanted each shot to look like and thinking about what shot types we wanted, also the movement of the traveller in each shot. In cinematography there is a term known as building blocks, this is the different stages of filming or producing videos. The order goes from 1 – 5.

Frame – This is a single cell of film
Shots – This is a continued strip of motion picture film
Scene – Part of the action that happens in a single location
Sequence – Number of a scenes which forms a distinct action
Movies and programmes – Entire bodies of work

So we had to create an 8 shot journey which would be made up of frames (25 frames per second) to make up each shot to create a scene which would end up being one short sequence and movie.

"8 Shot Journey"

This is basically a brief overview of all my shots throughout my “8 Shot Journey”. My first shot is the traveller is sitting on a chair in a classroom and gets a phone call. After being on the phone he gets up and walks to the bin on his left to put something in it. This is then the edit point that will cut this shot to the next. The shot type on this shot is a MCU, this is so that you can see the person with decent detail, seeing what he is doing, and also a good amount of background included so people know where he is. The second shot is a CU of the bin and the traveller putting his rubbish in the bin. This again is the edit point, I chose this shot type so there’s a variety of shots. Also why I chose this shot type is because it suites the detail. You would want a wide shot of someone putting rubbish in the bin because you wouldn’t know what they were doing. This way you get good detail and information of what he is doing. The third shot is an O/S, this shot is the traveller opening the classroom door and turning left. You don’t see much in this shot, where is he going people are thinking? The forth shot is the traveller going down a long corridor then turning left at the end of a corridor. This shot type is a L/S. So you get the impression that the traveller is going somewhere quite a way away. The fifth shot is a low angled M/S, in this shot all you see is the feet of the traveller. He is on the way outside as you see him going through a fire exit. In the sixth shot you finally see the traveller outside, like all the shots before the traveller is walking, this suggests a slow tempo journey. I’ve used the depth in this shot using a bike wheels in the foreground and then the traveller in the mid ground and then in the back ground the building. The seventh shot has the traveller running up the steps, this shows a change in tempo of the journey, is he late? This shot is a W/S so you get a good amount of detail of where he is. The final shot is again the traveller running, he’s meeting a mate on a playground and he was a little late. This is again a wide shot so you can see the whole detail of the area of the shot.

If I were to do this again I would defiantly shorten the last shot as it goes on for some time. Other than that I think that my “8 shot journey” is fairly good. It may be a bit long but that shows a slow tempo to the “8 shot journey”.

8 Shot Journey

Radio Jingle notes

Jingle – What’s it for, who’s it for, Target audience – Vital young audience
Background music/ sound effects
Comp.gen.edited/ distinctive voices/ fast paced editing very complex
Include station

Codes and conventions of a radio jingle

Speech – clear and understand, articulate and give correct and relevant information
Sound effects – Appropriate for your target audience
Music – Recognisable and relevant for your target audience
Must identify station

Show promo – Name of the presenter use highlights of idea of what is in the show, past shows time the show is on.

News jingle – The name of the presenter, what news is going to be on the show.

Station Ident – a short sequence of music to get people to recognise your radio station.

Evaluation of 3 jingles

News Jingle

Station Ident

The aim of the task was to create three jingles which would be used to suite the Suffolk New College radio show, the three jingles were station identification, this would be used for a specific radio station, and this would be unique for this radio station. The next radio jingle was for a news station, this would be formal and very suitable for a news intro. The last jingle would be based on a station promo. This would be used to promote your show.

Things that went well in my jingles were that I thought I completed the task of the target audience, the music and sounds I used I personally thought they would suite a student ages group. Also I thought that I completed the station identification very well, the use of music chosen was a good choice. The way in which I got my music and sounds went very well too, this was because al of the music I used was of my phone, so all I needed was my adapter and could successfully add music to my computer to use.

There were many things in my jingles that didn’t go very well; I didn’t complete the full task as a result of this. The programme we used on the Macs was very poor, for me personally the programme kept randomly closing and freezing, as a result of this the file either closed without saving or just corrupted; this was very annoying as I had to start all over again about three times. This wasn’t just the case for me; I found that this happened to a few other people. I didn’t use my time correctly either, this was a bad thing because I spent way too long on a specific jingle and then had to rush the other two, and with the programme crashing it gave me not long to do two jingles.

There are many other devices I used to get my jingle working, for additional voices on top of the sounds I used the built in microphone on the Macs. This was very helpful as I didn’t have the nuisance of changing the formats and everything just to put it onto the programme.

An overview of the assignment would be that I didn’t use my times wisely, and would space my time out for each jingle. Also if I was to do this assignment again I would not use the programme (Soundbooth) on the Macs. This is because the programme kept crashing and I have used more and better programmes that do the same job and I know the layout of those programmes, maybe I could say that the lack of experience of the programme could be a reason for not a great set of jingles.

I thought that the best jingle of my 2 was the station identification; this was because I put the most effort into this one due to it being more interesting. I would defiantly do the harder jingles first if I was to do this again so that I give myself more time of those ones. Or I would create a timetable so that I can keep to a set period for each jingle.

How the images were created

An image is created onto photographic paper because of light conditions and exposure timings. The brighter the area is that you are capturing the image from, the shorter length of time you are going to need to exposure your pinhole for. Therefore the darker the area you are using, the longer you will have to leave the camera to expose for. This is because of the photographic paper takes longer to capture the when it is darker, therefore it take a short exposure time to capture the image when in a bright area. So if you were to capture an image outside it would take a short time due to the brightness being very bright. My images took about 30 seconds when capturing outside. But when capturing images it took a lot longer, some took about 20 minutes.

To calculate our F.stop distance we had to do a calculation

Focus length                                        72
-------------    = F.stop                    --------- = 90
aperture                                               0.8

Therefore interier shots should be about 30 minutes and outerier should be about 30 seconds

Images Of photography

First Picture - negative view

First picture - possitive view

First picture - possitive flipped

Second Picture - negative view

Second picture - possitive view

Second picture - possitive flipped

third picture - neggative view

third Picture - posstive view

Third picture - possitive flipped

Logg Sheet

Logg Sheet -

Storyboard - 8 shot Journey

Storyboard shots 1 - 6, 7 -8

Heath and Safety - Photography

Health and Safety
Studio

Dark room

Location

Digital Suite

- Trailing cables – When room is dark it is hard to see where you are going. You may fall due to tripping over cables. Get hurt and lights full and break.

- Lights – lights are and can cause burnings on arms.

- Backdrops – heavy and could easily break, also very expensive.

- Coasts and bags- dark, hot substances so don’t want to be dogging bags and coats.

- Food and drink – don’t want spillages in any rooms, which could end up in things breaking and end up not working.

- Sensible behaviour – no messing around, if so you will be told to leave.

- Wet and dry areas – keep the two areas separate.

- Chemical spills – Clean up after a spillage, or tell your tutor.

Introduction to Photography

Throughout this week I have been learning and doing practical activities about photography. The definition of photography is the process, activity and art of creating either moving or still pictures by recording on a sensitive such as a photographic film. It could also be an electronic sensor. Light patterns reflected or emitted from object active a sensitive chemical or electrical sensor during a timed exposure. This is usually through a photographic lens in a device known as a camera that also stores the resulting information chemically or electronically photography has many uses for business, science, art and pleasure.

Genres

There are many different genres of photography. They are spread from Black and white photography which we have been creating this week, to paparazzi photography. The many different types of genres are listed as: Aerial, black and white, commercial, documentary, fashion, fine art, forensic, glamour, high speed, illustration, landscape, nature, paparazzi, photojournalism, portrait, still life, stock, underwater and wedding.

There are many devices and parts to what a photograph has to go through for it to actually produce a picture. For example a camera, this is a device that records images; this can be either as still images or as a moving image, known as a movie or video. An early mechanism of projecting image where an entire room functional as a real time imaging system the modern camera evolved from the camera obscure.

Shutter, in photography a shutter is a device which allows light to pass for a determined period of time for the purpose of exposure photography film or a light sensitive electronic sensor to light capture a permanent image of a scene. There is also a shutter speed. This determines how long you hold the shutter down.

Lens

The lens of a camera captures the light from the subject and brings it to a focus on the film or the detector.

Aperture

In optics and aperture is a hole or an opening through which light travels. In photography this can be measured in increments called f.stops. The size of the aperture and the brightness of the scene control the amount of light that enters the camera during the period of time and the shutter controls the length of time that the lights hit the recording surface. Equivalent exposes can be made which a larger aperture and a faster shutter speed slowed down.

Good Day Mate

Hello and this is my blog. On this blog you will see all my work throughout me first year of ND 1 Media at Suffolk New College. there we be all different kinds of posts throughtout the year, they will differ from TV, radio and Photography.