In our lesson today we were briefed on a new piece of work we have to do, but first we have to research.
We will be filming a short piece on Women's Rape/Women's Safety. The type of advert this is called is Public Service Announcement. These are done to either educate, entertain or inform the desired audience.
I will be researching into videos and have looked on a few websites and am now going to post the links - I will update this post once I have found some videos that I can put in.
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Following some research for first hand viewings of PSAs, I found a good video that was used as a public service announcements in 1976. It is about swine flu - here is the link (I will also add it to the 'links I have used') :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iJLpe1tZl8
I found this video to be quite good as it was informative enough, the music used when the man was talking to inform the audience seemed quite intense, as did his voice. It was informative enough to let the audience know the overall view of swine flu.
I will be researching further and adding links when I find other videos.
Monday, 22 June 2009
The Phone Call
On monday the 15th June we was set a task of planning, filming and editing a short video called "The phone call". We was given a list of instructions which displayed what the shot had to be i.e "Close up of phone" and as a group was enabled the freedom to decide the location of the shots and the meaning on the phonecall itself. We had to be creative with different angles and meaning of the scene.
Planning
We continued using groups from a previous task, in which I was absent because I had an A level exam, and there was only two persons present in our group for the planning stage - Daniel and myself. We carefully planned our story board with the timings for each scene, our locations and different shot angles. We discussed the purpose for the phone call and we decided to put an element of mystery and leave dialogue to a minimum. We also wanted to create a fast pace so this is another reason for the limitation of dialogue. Despite these factors we also wanted to make our production believable and use a variety of techniques of which we learnt.
Filming
On the day of filming we had 4 members in total that were present. We had some challenges with our location as it was quite noisy due to lessons that we ongoing and general classroom noise was present in our takes. We decided to continue filming as the noise may make the production seem more realistic. We took into account a variety of different angles and encorporated those from our plan into our filming process. After filming some of the shots we came to realise we could improve it but choosing a different angle and this was easily achieve but I feel we stuck to our plan throughout. The only real change we made to our filming from our planning was the location of character 2, as we planned to film at the back of school, on the day of filming the area was full of people that we could not have forseen. We moved away slightly so that the noise from these people was lost.
Editing
For the editing process our whole group were present however I found myself doing all the editing with no help. I used ImovieHD which at first seemed very confusing but after Mrs Howlett showed me some simple steps I was able to further investigate things such as inputting audio and special effects for slide transitions. I also had to cut some of the clips and rearrange them in order of the production. I used a "Centered Title Tool" and a "Rolling Credits Tool" in which finalised the video we planned, filmed and I edited.
Planning
We continued using groups from a previous task, in which I was absent because I had an A level exam, and there was only two persons present in our group for the planning stage - Daniel and myself. We carefully planned our story board with the timings for each scene, our locations and different shot angles. We discussed the purpose for the phone call and we decided to put an element of mystery and leave dialogue to a minimum. We also wanted to create a fast pace so this is another reason for the limitation of dialogue. Despite these factors we also wanted to make our production believable and use a variety of techniques of which we learnt.
Filming
On the day of filming we had 4 members in total that were present. We had some challenges with our location as it was quite noisy due to lessons that we ongoing and general classroom noise was present in our takes. We decided to continue filming as the noise may make the production seem more realistic. We took into account a variety of different angles and encorporated those from our plan into our filming process. After filming some of the shots we came to realise we could improve it but choosing a different angle and this was easily achieve but I feel we stuck to our plan throughout. The only real change we made to our filming from our planning was the location of character 2, as we planned to film at the back of school, on the day of filming the area was full of people that we could not have forseen. We moved away slightly so that the noise from these people was lost.
Editing
For the editing process our whole group were present however I found myself doing all the editing with no help. I used ImovieHD which at first seemed very confusing but after Mrs Howlett showed me some simple steps I was able to further investigate things such as inputting audio and special effects for slide transitions. I also had to cut some of the clips and rearrange them in order of the production. I used a "Centered Title Tool" and a "Rolling Credits Tool" in which finalised the video we planned, filmed and I edited.
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