Today i had a workshop with Anthony Batchler from cityeye. He talked about developing are video ideas, teaching us the software, showing us his own videos and how they were made.
To start of i talked through each idea i had come up with him and how i plan to do it. He gave me advice on how to do each one and said he most liked the music video. He said he would like to see my age in a msuic video and he liked the message. I was happy because he gave me positive feedback.
After everyone and I had presented are ideas, he showed us a video he had not long made about the traffic at brookfield school. He explained each step and how he made it. He talked about how camera angles are very affective wich gave me a lot of help and ideas. Anthony then gave us a task to get in to groups and create are own short film. It could be on anything to do with in the school.
I was in a group with Sophie and Kia. We had to create a mind map on differnt ideas. The final idea we agreed on was vertical tutors. We created notes on teachers we wanted to interview and students from each year.Though some teachers we wanted were not available what was a let down but we had other teachers fill in.
We wrote down the questions on a piece of paper and gave them to the interviewe befor we started filming so they new what to say. We had two lots of questions one for students and one for the teachers. We filmed are teachers first then the students. The purpose of having the same questions is so they can go in order and we can cut us out talking. This makes it seem more like a discussion/conversation then just question, answer.
Also we filmed cutaways of the school so it was more interesting and more to look at.
I had to take in to consideration that we needed a nice backdrop so when people watched no one would get distracted with something in the background. So we located the students and teachers where we wanted them.
Also i had to take in to consideration when filiming that the person being niteviewed should not be looking direct at the camera. So we had to focus on camera angles and have them looking at whoever is interviewing in are case Sophie or Kia.
Next we had to start editing the video together. This was tricky and quite scary as we had limioted time and none of us had used the software before. We chose one person out the group to be incharge of the editing, and i was picked. So when we needed extra filiming Sophie and kia would go of and get the footage. I picked the software up quite quick but wasnt to comftable with it still.
Finally when we had edited and shortened everything down we had to add titles and credits. After we were complete we had to present are piece to the group. We got positive feed back but we also got told make sure the sound is all at the same level. As in are film we had some people talking really loud and others talking quiter.
Today i think i have worked well as a group and we managed are time as we got everything complete in the limited time we got given.
A weakness of today is work out how to use transisitions as some clips just jumped from one another.
Though i am proud and pleased with how i worked today.
