Fiction Unit- Artist

jan svankmajer

I like this video because it mixes real life with stop motion animation and its just quite different that the girl in the film talks to the animated creature as if it was real which then breaks the barrier of real life and a child imagination.

Dresden Dolls,

I like this video cause i am keen on the idea of people looking like puppets, and this band also play highly on fantasy and their videos are all very interesting in the sense they play with real life in their fantasy world they created through their band.

Broadcast Media Year 2 Fiction (Adaptation)

Yesterday we received our first unit of second year broadcast media, the aim of this brief is to create a five min film that has been adapted from one of the following: - Poem, - Short story,- Graphic Novel/ Comic Strip, i have decided to do a short story my reason for this is because in a short story there will be lots of different details in there that i can play around with change slightly to create something that i can bring my skills form video arts into and make the video fun and different, The stories and authors I've been looking at are: Tim Burton, Brothers Grimm and Aesop, the reason for these authors was because their stories really stand out for me Tim Burton does cause he is dark and his short stories are lovely but they do have a dark meaning behind them and i can play around with making the video lighter and i can play with different elements of the story, Brothers Grimm was a good choice because their stories have already been adapted into fairy tales and made lovely and sweet but their true meaning are more dark and have that hit of reality and Aesop was chosen because his story The Ant and the Grasshopper has a moral to the story which can be my theme in the video. I have also been looking into Visual Artists to see if i can draw some inspiration from them seeing if they can teach me anything that will make my video striking and stand out which if i pick a Tim Burton film it will need that something that spark that will be unusual and that it also pushes my creative skills to their limit and to challenge myself.

                                     

Documentary Work shop.

Tomorrow Me, Lizzie and Sam are going to fortify Cafe to film are documentary workshop, we have been asked to film actuality shots but cause are last shoot wasnt very successful we decided to re-shoot the whole thing again, Me and Lizzie have been talking with the cafe and they asked us if we could also do them a video for their website they gave us a link for us to watch to give us an idea of what they are looking for.

Tomorrow's plan of action is, to go to the cafe for 10am where we will set up a camera and James ( our interviewee) up near a window so we can use natural light from the window, we will have the camera on a slant so we dont have people in shot from outside and this would make continuity easier to control. The cafe is very beautiful so it would be great to get lots of actuality shots where staff are making coffee, serving customers even adding flowers or something to tables.

The lighting I think that would work well would be a very soft lighting almost glowing like the music that would fit would be instrumental but quite soft and light almost like a nursery rhyme that kinda of soft gentle music.  

Documentary Work Shop: Helen.

Today we was asked to expand on the documentary we did a few weeks when we revisited our footage we decided as a group that this one we would re-do the whole thing just cause one we couldn't go back to guide dogs and also me and lizzie felt we could do it better and work harder on our project to make the brief. We have been in touch with fortify cafe in maidstone once we find out if they are happy for us to interview them, We asked in the email if we could meet up so we can talk to them in more detail and find out more about the company and how they survive against the fast food industry. We have noted down what kind of shots we want but until we get there and have a look at the layout of the cafe this is just a draft at the moment, I feel cause we are filming in a cafe using radio mics would be better to get less back ground noise from other people who will be in the cafe.


Problems we can come up against. 

The problems we have to think about are, noise- to get around this we can use radio mics so we can get a very clear voice and the background noise wont over power the facts we are trying to get from our interviewee. Continuity- we need to frame our shots so we don't get people in the back ground but also it will make it slightly easier to control the environment also it means if no one is in shot then we dont need lots of different peoples permission and it would make it easier so we dont have to blob out lots of different faces. Setup camera- cause we are not fully aware of our space at this moment we might find it being very crams and maybe compromising  shots to fit the space we are in. To avoid this we need to visit the cafe asap and do a location recce and mark out places we can place the camera without getting in too many peoples ways.

Documentary Commission Unit. Pitch.

Yesterday i came into the lesson to pitch my idea for the documentary i didn't have a slide to show any images but i felt confident in my idea to be able to talk about it and i had enough information so that my panel could create their own picture of what i was telling them.

Not having a slide show clearly didn't put off the panel as my idea was choosen to be commissioned meaning i have now to start talking to people getting them to fill in the consent forms and getting them all out of the way and i can concentrate more on my shooting script and also trying to do a picture version of some shots i would like in my interviews and also locations shots.

In the interviews Kathy will explain some of the scans i will be using in the film so in a way she will narrate her own life and her own world that she lives in and that way we have one voice that the audience can follow and it will run a lot smoother than having two voices especially when Kathy has such a strong irish accent. I feel the irish accent will create character for Kathy an give the documentary its own personality that we will be able to let the audience feel the emotions Kathy feels when she is feeling sad i want the audience to go through the same emotion to maybe help them understand Kathy a bit more than just an person on camera talking.

Documentary Unit Helen

Over the last few days me and Lizzie have been searching for people to interview but the same thing kept coming back to us, Sorry its too short notice or Sorry i need to ask head office. Yesterday Lizzie rang the guide dogs centre in Maidstone and we are lucky enough to get an interview today at 2:30 my job will to do the sound while Lizzie will be the interviewer and Sam creamer will be on camera. We also went into shops yesterday music matters and body shop both people who would be in today did not want to appear on camera so refused not to do the interview which means we only have one interview.

Documentary Commission unit Helen.

After trying to communicate with people that own a shop in Maidstone town centre is proving to be very difficult when we ask if they are available for an interview they simply respond saying they haven't enough time to get in touch with head office and to get back with us, this might have been a different story if we had longer than a few days  there would be a possibility we would of been more successful, i feel the next step for us is to ask the general public for their views in a voxpop style were we will have lots of short interviews where we will ask the public to say something positive about Maidstone and what they like about the town, there is a video online doing a simular thing asking questions using voxpops.

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