Unit 1, 2. Arts Practice : Supervised Arts Leadership

Supervised Arts Leadership Project:
I was given an assignment to create a short video, as a promotional piece about Middlesbrough College. I was in charge of editing a mix from the footage. There were two of us in the group and both helped with the actual filming and camera work.

However, I was in charge of editing. I had done some editing before from my Level 1 course, but this was using basic programmes like I Movie. I was now looking forward to the challenge of learning how to use Adobe Premiere, which is fast becoming the industry standard for video editing. We had to make out own edited version from the footage that both members of the group would shoot, and add some music to suit the footage.

 In this group there was Me and Daniel from my class. Dan took the role of camera man and directing, because even though we both filmed parts of the footage, Dan had final say over framing and composition for each shot.


Planning and Practical Issues:
Before we could start the actual filming, there were some practical issues and planning which was needed.

• We would need to think of what ideas we could use for a video about the college and a mind map would be good to do this.
• We would then look around college and do a recce to see which locations would be good to use.
• We would need to complete a risk assessment as although it was going to be filmed on college premises we would still need to identify and possible risks or hazards during production of the video.
• After deciding on suitable locations we need to discuss who would be taking part in the production and any dialogue, script or camera directions that would be needed.
• When we had agreed on this we will need to arrange to book out camera, tripod and batteries for the morning of filming that we are going to schedule.
• We will also need to schedule a further two hours or so for use of the editing suite to complete editing and add sound.
• I am going to look on you tube for a suitable sound to use in the final edit.

A further problem with planning was that we only had a short amount of time to film it since we had missed a few lessons. The software we wanted to use for editing our footage was Adobe Premiere. 

We agreed that the 4th floor corridor and right wing staircase would be the best places to film. They would not be too crowded; it would be easy to set up, and there was some interesting shots and angles that could be made.

After discussing different ways to make the video between Dan and myself, we decided not to use any people in the actual film production - this would leave out time needed for scripts, dialogue, model consent etc and allow us to concentrate on using buildings and backgrounds as the main content for the footage.

Evidence is included here to show the mind map that we made to help give us ideas:

Here is the booking out form for equipment:

Here is the risk assessment that we made

Production:
We got sent off for a week to think of some ideas to film a one scene video, we have thought of some shots to take for our video, we need a total of 21 shots to take. The next week we looked for more places to shoot and walked all along the 4^th floor looking for the right spots.We’ve thought of some ideas for our location and the shots we are taking.Dan was in charge of the equipment and the production of the video, we both decided where to film but he made the final decisions and said when we had enough footage to take back with us and to finish our final piece. We went around the college to film some certain spots, we mainly used the 4th floor right wing staircase to film the transporter bridge scene and background scenery. From this viewpoint, we also the filmed the Astro Turf across the road near to the Sixth Form Centre of MC6. This was a good choice of location as there was a group playing football. We filmed our locations with about a 10 minute worth of footage and we took the best 50 seconds we could find.We both thought that we had got the footage that we needed to edit ourselves and uploaded it to the computer in the edit suite ready to be edited with Adobe Premiere.

After uploading the footage we looked through what had been filmed and I deleted some footage that I felt was not a good take due to framing and lighting.  I changed the colours of the edited footage down to Black and White as I felt that this matched my choice of song from youtube. This was a depressing song called Mad World by Gary Jules.

We added all of our footage the Adobe Premier and i changed the colour into black and white, added in music and also added in a title and credits. Here is a screenshot of the control panel used in Adobe Premiere for editing:

Here is my edited footage, it is complete. This was a project and its the finished result.

How well did we work together as a team

There were no real issues with communication. Both team members were in the same class and we found it very easy to get on with each other. Dan had a tendency to make all the major decisions as to what shots would be used and had quite an eye for direction and composition in his shots. However, the edit shown here is my final take with the work I have done myself. Dan also said he was please with the result.

If we were to work together, we would ave liked more time to work on the production; less absence from lessons, and more time to plan shots, scenes and possibly even include chartacters to add dialogue.

I think it could have been good to show more time and detail; at the planning stage and work on storyboards, recce notes etc.

Evaluation: 

The edited video has been posted in my blog and shared with others. Feedback from one of my peers is included in the comments section at the bottom of this post.

I think that this project went well, we did everything we needed to, the editing wasn't hard to do and the location that we needed to film was hard to get to because it was just outside of our classroom. The software that we needed to edit our footage was easily available to us and we new what we needed to do and how to edit it the way we wanted to. We new how to add the music and effects that we needed and also adding in a title and credits the the beginning and end.

If i was to do this again i would be more patient with the editing and the recording of the footage, i would get a better shot and add more to the editing of the title and credits but since i only had a little time to do this in i just added a plain black background and added in white text to both the title and credits, but considering the amount of time i had left to produce this i think that the overall project went will even though i rushed some bits i still got it up and completed.

I think in terms of achieving what I wanted from this project, I did have the opportunity to get experience on Adobe Premiere. I found it quite ok to get to grips with and manage to edit a result I was please with quite quickly. However, it is quite a complicated programme and there is a lot more that could be done with it, in terms of image and sound editing and adding extra effects etc.

Review

All of the work I have produced for my challenge has been put up onto my blog so that it can be shared with others.

Here is a link to feedback from my challenge, shown as comments at the bottom of this post
http://silverartawardsblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/review.html#comment-form

Review: I think that the project went well in the time i had to do it, i started with a black band canvas, i added in all the planets, stars, flares and the colour to each and every individual peace. The colors worked well with each other and it all looks right and nothing was out of place.

Looking at what I have done throughout this project and looking at my old work that I have done in the last year i was here with my digital imaging work. Somewhere on my blog i can safely post my work and what I have done every week in my lessons, I can update my work and make new posts updating them, I have mixed a few different images within this project, added in the different color's in the space and mixed them with each other, overlaid them in each layer and added in color and effect. This really didn't take me that long to get the background and i have learned how to add more color in to separate layers, also on how every single layer makes a difference with each individual peace, placing everything in the right places and getting the colors and lighting correct.

If i was to do this again i would work on putting more time and effort into placing the images and adding each effect to the separate layers, i would also not put as much effects on and i have here, i would lower the amount of layers i had and not to add too much colour within each one.

Film Review

BTEC Level 2 Media

Arts Award (Silver)

Unit 1 Part C: review arts events

As an essential part of your Arts Award, you are required to attend and review an Arts Event.

This will be the Media Film Club on Tuesday 11^th February.

You need to attend the event, take photographs and ask questions of the presenters.

All media information will be uploaded to your blog as part of the review.

The film selected for Film Club on Tuesday 11^th February is the Big Lebowski.

Storyline:

When "The Dude" Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, two thugs ruin his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to gain recompense for the ruined rug from his wealthy counterpart, he accepts a one-time job with high pay-off. He enlists the help of his bowling buddy, Walter, a gun-toting Jewish-convert with anger issues. Deception leads to more trouble, and it soon seems that everyone from porn empire tycoons to nihilists want something from The Dude.

(storyline written by Written by J. Lake at  www.imdb.com)

Before the screening:

1.     What kinds of film do you look for when choosing a film for film club?

h    He said the history of the film and films that we havent seen before.

2.     Why did you choose to select this particular film for film club?

h    He said that he looked into the characters of the movie and seen what films they were in before.

During the screening:

1.     What is the genre for the film?

      The genre for the film was a Comedy, and also the parody with the acting within this film.

2.     What is the age rating for the film? Why?
      The age rating of this film was 18 because it included nudity, a lot of drug scenes and it was not putting people of drugs, it showed people liking drugs so it made the age rating higher.

3.     How does the film tell its story?

      The film doesn't really tell a story because its a parody, now and then it kept going to scenes and we didn't know what was going on.

4.     What are the names of the main characters?

      

After the film:

Write a short review of the film (this can be made immediately after the film or in your own time before your next Arts Award lesson on February 25^th).

Don’t forget to give your reasons for each of the answers below.

1
  .     How well do you think the film told its story?

      The film didn't really tell a story, it was all over the place, I didn't even know what was going on.

2.     Did it keep your interest throughout? What were the best parts of the film?

      The film did not keep me interested because the film was all over the place. There was no best parts of this film because it was absolutely awful.

3.     Do you think this film was a good choice for film club? 
      I do not think this film was a good choice for film club.

My Own Work

I used photoshop the create this image, i used a psd file to get some images and little bits of detail to add to it. I started with a black background and added in the circle to the center, used an effect from the psd to file stretch over the screen from left to right, I then dimmed down and made the left and ride side darker and let the center brighter.

BBC Review

As you can Davith behind the desk, this table is where they report all of the heavy news and stories. This is where they report all of the heavy stories and news, underneath the table there is a computer with a screen with all of the news thats happened today so they know what they're talking about and all of the times of them and such, there is also a foot peddle to control the speed of the teleprompter that is infront of them, so when they have read enough of whats on the screen they use there foot to control it and it will go down at their own speed.

This is where they broadcast the light news, this is where they broadcast the light stories the one's that arent really as big as the heavy stories and reports. This is just the light stories, the screening behind the tables are really thin so you chave to be careful when you're near them because even the slightest brush past them can damage them.

These are the lights that are lighting up the studio where they do the News. The walls around the studio are sound proof so it lets in no sound to interrupt the broadcast.  There is up to 80 lights around the area lighting it up and they are very hot, they are equal to electric heater.

BBC Newcastle Job Opportunities

There are plenty of jobs at the BBC including

Radio Presenter: Different show needs a different presenter

Tv Presenter: Different show needs a different presenter

News Reporter: For news bulletins if the show is being presented

Journalist: information for the shows or the news

Sales and marketing manager: finding out information for the stations or the shows

System engineer: to fix equipment or any problems that happen

Work conditions vary enormously, depending on the broadcast medium and type of programme involved. For example, the working conditions for a presenter on a small local radio station with a show in the middle of the night will be vastly different from conditions for a high-profile celebrity with a prime-time television show.

Most presenters, particularly those on national radio and television, employ an agent to negotiate working terms and conditions on their behalf.

Starting salaries vary enormously, depending on whether the broadcaster is working full time for a channel/radio station or working freelance, on an ad-hoc basis. Experience is a significant help in negotiating fees upwards. In broadcasting, starting salaries can be as a low as £14,000, rising to £100,000+ with significant experience.

Research on this part of the Arts Award has been covered in more depth in a separate blog. Here is the link:

http://rbmediaaudiences.blogspot.co.uk/

Summary:

From this research I have found that i might want to look further into other jobs of the industry, seeing , reading and researching about the other types of jobs has intrigued me into possibly wanting to do a different type of job in the Media Industry. For instance, I originally thought that working in Digital Imaging might have been my dream job, but having seen what the work actually entails, I am also becoming interested in video production and editing.

Digital Imaging - My Own Work Updated

I have added individual layers for every single peace of image, every different color moon, sky and lighting are on separate layers, the colors on the top and the left individually but on the right, i used that all on one layer so it had the same color.

I created new layers and added the little tiny bits of effects like the rockets, the rocks and the light particles in the background.

Digitial Imaging : Final Project

Digital imaging:

In this post i will be showing different types of images that I think that look good and how the picture has been used digitally and created, these images will be edited from start and the colour and effects that have been added into them. I will be explaining why I like these images.


I like this First image because of the way it is designed,
the colour's and effects within the image.
Stratzeh has used the pen tool over the Stratz
text to get that purple line effect. The colour's he has used with this image is that he's gone with a green, yellow, brown and blue. The gradient to split the brown and the blue with the green in the middle.


In this second image I like how he's mixed the colours together with the beige and the purple/ brown on the outside of the triangle, he's copied the triangle and make them 2 separate layers so he can overlay them on top of each other. He's darkened out the edge of this image to lighten up and brighten up the colours in the center. This image is very creative and I like how to colour's match.

In this image he has made the sunset in the center of
the image and with the light lighting up the flower's and the colour shade coming from behind the tree's on the left side. The sunset brings out the flowers more and makes the shading and the positioning more creative.                                                                                                                                                      







In this 4th image he has used the tree's to split off the water and the sky, i like how the colour is added into this image when it splits off. I like how the biggest tree's are placed in the center and gradually get smaller along the big tree's and then bigger at the edges.