8 shot journey evaluation

Evaluation

_{Before I started shooting my 8 shot journey, I had to put together a storyboard showing all 8 shots I will be taking in journey, I also had to include lots of notes, so I knew exactly what was happening in the shot and where abouts I'd be shooting it, Some of the notes i used were the location of the shot, size of shot, the end and start of the shot and also a little brief of what the subject will be doing in the shot. The storyboard shows the whole completed journey, which made it alot easier to know where abouts to edit when I came to that stage. I made sure my storyboard contained a variety of different shots, so that the video doesn't get boring to watch, for example I used a few close ups, one over the shoulder shot and a long shot. The shots vary a lot, the reason I made the shots vary are so that it can make the subject more powerful, for example I have a long shot of Laura sitting at the table, which cuts into a close up of her face pulling a confused look, By going into a close up it makes it more obvious what the viewer should be taking in. I had to follow a few rules when doing my storyboard, for example the 180 line and continuity of action. I followed both rules correctly, the most difficult to follow was making sure to keep continuity of action, I made sure Laura was walking the correct way and entering in the correct side of shot at all times. On each shot I drew I had to draw an arrow stating movement and what way the action is taking place.
Before we started filming we had to label and stripe our tapes. We labled our tapes so we didn't loose them, or if we did loose them, then hopefully they would come back to us. When we eventually started filming our shots, we had to make sure we had all the correct equipment and that it was working correctly. One of the most important parts of equipment we used, other than the camera itself, is the tripod. The benefits of using a tripod are that it makes the shot alot more stable, for example if you hold the camera with your hands than the shot could be shaky. Also with a tripod its easy to adjust the height and angle of the camera. At the begining and end of each take I took, I made sure i left 5 second handels, So that when it came to editing I would have space to edit and cut each shot down gradually. I recorded more than 1 take on quiet a few of my shots as various things went wrong, for example somebody would walk through the shot, or the framing was wrong. When filming I fortunately didn't overcome many problems, the biggest problem was people walking through the shot, but I just waited for the area to be clear before shooting.
When preparing for editing we had to log all our shots into a logging sheet. The information a logging sheet should include is the shot and take, for example shot 1 - take 1, Also they need to include the time of the begining of the shot and end, such as 00:04:00 - 00:09:00, the shot size, if there's any movement in the shot, the location or description of shot, comments saying whether the shot is ok or not and finally the EDL, which is the order of your shots. My logging sheet includes all of this information except shot movement as our camera had to be static. The timecode is the numbers on the top of your camera screen, it should start 00:00:00:00, the first column is hours, second column is minutes, third column is seconds and fourth is frames. The logging sheet definatly helped me when editing, as I knew exactly where to cut the shots.
Finally we edited our 8 shot journey together. We used Final Cut Pro to edit our shots, Final Cut Pro is a professional editing software. Before we could start editing, we had to log and batch capture all our footage before put the shots in place and editing, but doing this is mean the footage will be saved onto the computer as a digital file. I knew what footage needed capturing and what didn't by looking at my logging sheet, By looking at the sheet I could see what footage i was planning to use, I could also see exactly where I need to 'trim' my shots. When I started trimming I had to make sure I had cropped the shot before placing it into the timeline, I had to edit it in the viewer. Overall my 7 edits work and do complete a sequence, but if I was to do this execrise again, I would change my storyline to something more interesting and also use less Long shots and more other shots, such as point of view shots, to make it more interesting.}

Radio notes

Notes.

Logic pro is a DAW (Digital Audio Workshop)
You can multitrack, record audio, edit audio or apply plug ins.
Garageband, audacity, soundbooth and pro tools are an example of DAW's.

Differnet audio formats;
MP3 - used on mp3 players or windows media player, ideal for using online, in compression stages it loses quality.
AAC - apples compressed format.
WMA - windows compressed format
WAVS - brilliant to export project, big file.
AIFF - apples interchangable format

codes and conventions notes.

Script for Radio promo

Script for show promo.

Laura: Join me laura

Ellis: and me Ellis every monday night from 6 till 8

Laura: on SNC live!

Laura: Were we'll be playing a variety of tunes, such as r 'n' b, pop, dance and your most requested songs of the week.

Laura: Don't miss it

Links to my Radio work.

URL for my radio promo - http://www.supload.com/listen?s=JEmxfk

URL for my advert - http://www.supload.com/listen?s=AD1jYh

URL for my ident - http://www.supload.com/listen?s=oHm0hk

Radio Jingles evaluation

Radio production evaluation.

This week we done radio production, I really enjoyed this week as radio and music is what I'm most interested in doing. I had used garage band before but this week I learnt how to use logic pro, which I had never used before, at first I found it confusing to use but the more jingles and idents we made the easier and more fun it became. The first thing we had to do to get used to the software was make a 5 seconds ident for SNC live, my favourite part of doing this task was to decent on what sound effects to use in the background, I struggled with editing the vocals but after a few attempts it became easier and I now feel more confident with editing voices for example, changing the pitch or bass.

After making a few idents, we were then given the task of making a 20 - 30 seconds long promo for are our own radio show. Unfortunately my computer wasn't letting me log in so I worked with Laura, which actually worked very well as we had similar idea's and balanced out the work. I really enjoyed making the promo, I loved deciding what music to use as the bed and making the jingles inbetween. Making the radio promo was my favourite part of the week, as the promo had to be 20 - 30 seconds it meant we had more to edit which I really enjoy. After we made our promo's we had a little play around making our own music, we tried two techniques, one was using the keyboard and making our own sounds and the other was using loops to make a sequence, I preferred using the loops as there was a huge variety of sounds, I love making music like this and really enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to when we start the music production tasks.

This week has definitely been my favourite week so far, I would love to do this week again and can't wait to do radio production again. The only thing that would have made this week better is if I could have logged into my own account and made my own work, but this has been sorted now and i do feel Laura and I worked well together.

Pinhole camera Evaluation

For this task we had to make our own pinhole camera and take and develop our own shots. Before we started making the cameras we done some research on genres of photography, by doing this research I hoped that it would help me decide on what shots to take when it came to shooting. At the beginning of the task I hoped to find out how to make and work a pinhole camera, as I only had a small understanding about them, and I also hoped to gain more experience in the dark room, as just like the pinhole cameras, I didn’t have a huge understanding on how everything works inside there. When we first found out about our task I was feeling fairly unconfident as photography isn’t my strong point, I was worried about where I’d take my shots as I felt I couldn’t think of any interesting places, so I hoped that the research we done in class would help inspire me and build my confidence. More importantly I hoped to enjoy this task and produce some clear and interesting images to put onto my blog.

I enjoyed making our pinhole cameras as I never knew it was possible to make a camera using a Pringles tube. I learnt that we had to make sure the inside of the tube was all black so that no light would enter or reflect of the sides, because if light enters than the process won’t work as the exposure will be too high. After painting the inside we cut out a square shaped and taped a piece of tin foil over the top to produce the lens, which we then pierced a small hole into using a pin, we then had to make a shutter with a piece of card and make sure there were tabs on the side which could be taped so the light wouldn’t enter when the shutter was closed. I learnt that it’s defiantly a lot easier to make a pinhole camera than I thought, as all the equipment used was household items, but you couldn’t do this process at home unless you had a dark room. I also learnt that the time the shutter is open depends on the size of the focal length, if the focal length is short, than the time the shutter is open will be a lower time, but the time also varies depending on if you’re inside or outside.





When researching different genres of photography and different artists, it inspired me and gave me some ideas for shots I could take. I wanted my images to be as interesting as they could so I had to take in to consideration the angle of the shot, for example, 1 of my shots were looking diagonally at the roof.

I never knew how everything in the dark room worked, so before we went in individually and processed our shots we were taught how to use all the chemicals and all the names for them. Three of my shots didn’t process properly in the dark room as unfortunately I had too much exposure in my shot, which resorted in the shot being black.

I decided to try my last 2 shots inside to see if this would make a difference and it did, the shots were a lot clearer and you could see detail in the shot. After developing the images, I scanned them onto the computer and edited them on Photoshop; I inverted all the shots and really enjoyed doing this. I enjoy using Photoshop and love the way you can get a completely different feel of your pictures once they’ve been edited, for example my first image wasn’t to great as it was very dark, but once I inverted it into negative, it looked spooky and you could actually make out one of the objects, which was a tree.

Overall I know a lot more than what I started with, as I had a very low understanding on how pinhole cameras work. Photography has never been my favourite element of media production as I’ve never really had an understanding on it all works. But after the research we done and using the dark room, my views have changed as I really enjoyed the task. I preferred being in the dark room and developing the images rather than being out shooting the images, but I think this was because my camera wasn’t the greatest as wasn’t working to well. My favourite part of the whole task was definitely being able to use Photoshop and have a play around on there, as I enjoy editing and using the different computer software’s. If I were to do this task again I would definitely consider my shots more, I would take in the angle of my shots, for example, make sure the camera isn’t facing the sun, as I think this may be why not all my shots worked. I feel I could have done better with this task, but overall I enjoyed going out and taking the pictures as well as developing them in the dark room.