task 10 - production diary

Production Diary

Name: Hayley crone Production:

Team: Sheet no. _____ .

Date: 20/09/2013 Location:

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Personal Roles & Responsibilities Undertaken: I did research to find out what single and multi-camera set ups mean and to find the advantages and disadvantages of them both. I also researched where they are usually used. Brief Description of Experiences: (including problems encountered, teamwork, & what had been learned) I didn’t come across any problems when doing this task. I worked independently as it was not a group task.

Date: 27/09/2013 Location:

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Personal Roles & Responsibilities Undertaken: I researched a variety of different moving image formats, I the presented what I have found in a PowerPoint and gave necessary examples of these moving image formats. Brief Description of Experiences: (including problems encountered, teamwork, & what had been learned) The only problem that I found with doing this independent task was finding examples of different types of moving image formats.

Production Diary

Date: 04/10/2013 Location:

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Personal Roles & Responsibilities Undertaken: This week we worked as a group to display the different types of camera movement. We then put a video together to display these using final cut and uploaded it onto youtube. Brief Description of Experiences: (including problems encountered, teamwork, & what had been learned) We found it difficult to use final cut pro as we have never used it before however worked well as a group and had fun.

Date: 18/10/2013 Location:

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Personal Roles & Responsibilities Undertaken: This week we brain stormed ideas for our music video on a piece of A3 paper Brief Description of Experiences: (including problems encountered, teamwork, & what had been learned) We struggled on deciding what song to choose but have come to the decision of ‘pursuit of happiness – kid cudi’ however this may change. I think that we worked well as a team and everyone gave me there ideas and I wrote them down as well as my own.

Date: 15/11/2013 Location:

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Personal Roles & Responsibilities Undertaken: We made a brief PowerPoint of our idea as we decided to change our song to ‘sub focus – turn it around’ we then presented this brief PowerPoint to the class to get their feedback. We were also all set tasks to do my role was the story boards. Brief Description of Experiences: (including problems encountered, teamwork, & what had been learned) We found that because we spent so much time deciding on what song to use in our video we didn’t have a lot of time to focus on our powerpoint however we have all agreed to use our original powerpoint and add to it individually.

Date: 22/11/2013 Location:	Time (from – to): Activities:
Personal Roles & Responsibilities Undertaken: We finished our risk assements, cast list and story boards and filmed all of our video in one night at the weekend. Brief Description of Experiences: (including problems encountered, teamwork, & what had been learned) The only problem that we encountered was that not all of the cast turned up to the video shoot.

Date: 22/11/2013 – 13/12/2013 Location:

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Personal Roles & Responsibilities Undertaken: We finished editing our video, it came together brilliantly and it was great to see all together instead of in separate quick clips. Brief Description of Experiences: (including problems encountered, teamwork, & what had been learned) The only problems that we came across where that some of our group didn’t come in throughout the editing process and therefore didn’t get there say in how the video was edited. We also struggled to find enough footage once we had edited the clips down to how we wanted them to be.

Date: 06/01/2014 -  24/01/2014 Location:

Time (from – to): Activities:

Personal Roles & Responsibilities Undertaken: I added all of my pre-production to my blog for example I took pictures of my story boards and got my other group members to send me the risk assessment forms and the cast list. I also added our video to YouTube and then added that to my blog. After this is wrote an evaluation for this unit. Brief Description of Experiences: (including problems encountered, teamwork, & what had been learned) I experienced no problems with any of this and used the evaluation check list to help me cover every point I needed to cover when evaluating my work.

Date: 31/01/14 – 07/02/14 Location:	Time (from – to): Activities:
Personal Roles & Responsibilities Undertaken: I updated everything I need to on my blog and added to my research and pre-production. Brief Description of Experiences: (including problems encountered, teamwork, & what had been learned) I encountered no problems with these independent tasks.

task 9 - Evaluation

Single Camera Techniques Evaluation

To plan our video we firstly started off by discussing our different ideas about what we could do. Our first idea was doing a video to ‘Wheetus – Teenage dirtbag’ however when we started to brain storm these ideas we noticed that with this song telling a story, it would limit us to a narrative music video. We then carried on discussing our ideas and found that most of us enjoyed watching music videos of live gigs or parties. This gave us the idea of having a party based music video as they are fun and random and it doesn’t really limit us on what we could do in the video. Once we had decided on the idea we then started to think of a song. We all sat and discussed what would suit our party them. We tried ‘kid cudi -pursuit of happiness’ and all thought it would be the perfect song so we decided to brain storm our ideas on a sheet of A3 paper. We wrote about what camera angles we would use, what props we would need and what equipment/lighting we wanted. My role in the brainstorming was writing down other people’s ideas as well as my own. We thought that this would be perfect however we then discovered that the song was over 7 minutes, it was too long as it would take ages to film and edit.  We then tried ‘Bondax – gold’ however then decided that it would be too slow for the fast paced music video we were hoping to create. Finally we all listen to ‘Sub focus – turn it around’ and decided that it would be perfect as it has a mix of slow and fast paced beats and doesn’t limit us on what we could do and isn’t too long.

After doing our first bit of planning we collected the props/equipment that we would need to create the video. Megan bought drinking glasses and food. My role was gather together lots of fancy dress items so I borrowed wigs, glasses, hats and headbands from friends and family. I also wiped my cameras memory to make space to filming.

We had to complete our pre-production documents before we started video so that we had everything planned out. The documents were story boards, risk assessments and a list of who would be there as cast and crew. My role in the pre-production documents was to draw the storyboards. To do this is I drew out what each scene in the video would entail step by step. These came in very helpful when filming as they gave us a brief guide on what to film and roughly how each scene should be set out. The cast and crew list was done by Megan. She wrote out a list of everyone who would be definitely taking part in the video as the cast. She also listed all of the names of the cast so who would be videoing and setting up each scene. This also came in useful as we could then allocate each cast member to a certain scene before we started filming. Finally was the risk assessment document, these were filled out by Emily. These were very important as they allowed us to be confident in keeping our cast members safe and not at risk of injury while filming. She filled out the sheets with the various potential risks and safety hazards (such as smashed glass). The filming could not have taken place without all of these pre-production documents being filled out.  

We arranged a night a night when we would do all of the filming and notified all cast and crew members. When it came to the night of filming Megan and Emily set the house up to look like a party theme by lining up shot glasses and placing food out. I then filmed me and a group of the cast putting on our fancy dress accessories and getting prepared for the party ahead. I then filmed us on our journey to the party and this showed the local iconography. The filming inside of the house was very casual. Megan and I were the main film crew so we walked around and took a lot of clips of people enjoying the night so that the video looked more casual and un-staged. Emily also done some little clips of filming and helped us set up each scene and get the cast we needed to feature in it. We used the story boards I made as a brief guided for each scene. We took a variety of clips from people drinking to people dancing with ironing boards. I was also filmed in the video dancing and having a goodtime. We did improvise a lot when filming as we had lots of ideas when we started to actually film. Overall the filming went very well and we got it all done in one night. There was no accidents and all of the cast were very helpful and did exactly as we instructed.

We wanted the video to look as casual and un-staged as possible so we didn’t use a lot of equipment. To get the effect of the person filming also being involved in the party we wanted to use lightweight handheld cameras. 3 of us in the group have Nikon D3100’s so we all used our own cameras to film different areas and capture as much as we could.

In my opinion I think that we all worked very well as a team and overall the video was a success. I do think that some of the group did more than others for example a member of our group helped us to do the pre-production but then was unable to come to the actual filming or editing. We never had any other problems and everyone else stuck to their roles. Everyone in the group contributed in some way and I think that we all worked well as a team.

The only problem we really encountered was the changing of the song from ‘pursuit of happiness’ to ‘turn it around’ as most of our pre-production was specific to that song. Even though this did cause slight difficulties when it came to the editing we all sat together and worked as a team to edit the clips in appropriately.

The video overall was a great success. I think that it was very effective as it had a mixture of different emotions within it. It showed people dancing, laughing and also having serious discussions. I think another part of making the video that worked was how well we worked as a team if someone didn’t agree with what we were doing we allowed them to express their point and then we all worked together to alter whatever they disagreed on to make sure everyone was happy this allowed everything to work out well with no arguments and everyone happy in the end. By finishing the video in one night it allowed us more time to edit and left us with a lot more time that the other groups in the class had which was a great advantage. The pre-production and post-production both went well as we were all allocated roles and we made all of our decisions as a group. The only things that caused us were the song and attendance. The song was a problem because we had done all of our pre-production before we changed it. Our group’s attendance was also a problem as a member of our group left the course when we were mid pre-production and he had some of our work on his memory pen so we had to retrieve it.

I think that my skills in video production have improved a lot by doing this project. I have learnt about different camera techniques such as single and multi. I have learnt about different genres of moving image formats such as documentary and series. I think my skills in editing and filming have also improved as I have learnt from both my lecturer and my peers. I think my skills in using editing technology have also improved as I have been introduced to different types of software such as final cut.

I would be very happy to do video production in the future. I have had a lot of fun making the music video with my group and I would be keen to look into it more and develop my skills even further in the future.

task 8 - Music Video

This is our final music video, hope you enjoy!

task 7 - Pre-production Documentation

Our first step for our pre-production was to make story boards. This gave us a brief guide to follow and help us to remember which shot was where when editing.

We also made a cast and crew list so we knew roughly what people we wanted to be in each scene and to make sure we had enough room to fit all of the cast in.



Call List

25th October 2013

Cast

Hayley Crone            Megan Copeland           Emily Hackett           Chelsea Burrows       

Stacey Astley    

Sam White              Simon Hall                       Kaan Kurt                  Owen Briggs              

Emily Monaghan

James Monaghan    Reece Monaghan           Holly Robinson         Sophie Gibson          

Nicky Mowbray

Sam Diamond           Kayley Burnett                Alex Byron

Crew

Hayley Crone

Megan Copeland

Emily Hackett

Chelsea Burrows

Stacey Astley

Location

At the beginning of the video we are going to set the scene at house. We then are going to capture a scene in a moving car to capture the journey to the party. We will be then filming everything back in the house.

Our final part of our pre-production was the risk assesments. This was the most important part of the pre-production as we did not want any of our cast or crew to become injured.

 

task 6 - music video pitch

task 2 - moving image format

This is a powerpoint I created to show what I discovered when researching the different types of moving imge formats.

task 1 - single camera vs multi camera

Single and Multi Camera Set Ups

In media production there are two different types of camera set ups. These set ups are called single camera set up and multi camera set ups. These set ups are very popular in different areas of film and TV. Single camera set ups are used frequently in films and high budget TV series where as multi camera set ups are used more in soaps and documentarys to capture real life/live events.

Single camera set ups are when the film production is filmed using only one camera. This technique has always been very popular since it was discovered. There are a lot of advantages and disadvantages of using a single camera set up. The advantages are that using a singles camera set up allows you to film the production in a different order and then put it back into chronological order later on when editing. This means different scenes can be filmed on different days so this can be helpful. Single camera set ups also make the films look alot more realistic as they allow the director to have more control over each scene. It will allow him to be alot more precise with the positioning and the lighting of each scene. Its also more convinent when you have to retake a scene as theres only one camera filming. The disadvantages of using a single camera set up are that it is very time consuming as every scene has to be filmed using one camera. Its is also very time consuming when editing as there is only one camera so there will be lots of outakes.

Below is an example of a single camera set up. The graphic labelled 1 is the camera as you can see there is only one camera used in a single camera set up. The graphics labelled A and B are the subjects. Single camera set ups are used to pay more attention to detail. In this setting in particular it looks as if the camera (graphic 1) is focusing on subject B.

  Multi-camera set ups are when more than one camera is used when filming a scene. Each camera films at the same time but from different angles and are focused on different points. Usually the two central cameras are focused on the general action and pan around the scene. Unlike the central cameras the two outer cameras are used to focus on close up shots of the subject(s). An advantage of using a multi camera set up is that it is a lot quicker than using a single camera set up as there are multiple cameras which means more shots can be taken from different angles. This speeds the editing process up as well as the filming. Multi-camera set ups are most commonly used in things such as soap operas as the gave a strict time schedule and are aired on a regular basis. Multi camera set ups are great for filming live productions as the multipule cameras film different angles of the scene at the same time. It also provides more footage of the scene which could create a better production. A dissadvantage of using multi camera techniques is that if there is a mistake or a flaw in the scene the whole scene will have to be retaken as it will show on all cameras this problem is unlikely to occur when using a single camera technique. Another problem is that sometimes on a smaller set the cameras may capture something that is unwanted in the shot for example a light, microphone or camera. Using a multi camera set up may be cheaper and quicker however it does not allow you to get the exact shot that you would like everytime as you do not have as much control over the lighting and postioning as you do with a single camera set up.  Although it is very helpful and cheap in the long run using more than one camera, it is very costly paying for equipment before filming.

Below is an example of a multi camera set up. In this image graphics 1,2,3 and 4 are the cameras. A multi camera setup uses multipul cameras to shoot scenes from different angles and positions. This image is a perfect example of a multi camera set up where the 4 cameras are focusing on different angles of the subjects (graphics A and B).

I think that both set ups are very useful in there own ways depending on which type of production you are wanting to create.