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Film Production- 8 Shot Journey

Above you can see my 8 Shot Journey. An 8 Shot Journey is simply a subject (person) getting from point A (shot 1) to point B (shot 2). Throughout this blog entry I will explain to you how I captured, made and finalized my 8 Shot Journey as well as a full evaluation of my personal film.

We began our 8 Shot Journey by creating a storyboard and blacking our tapes, blacking or striping is the process of leaving a camera on record to go through all the film, this ensures time codes will be set. Whilst the tape was striping I began on my storyboard, I wanted to do something a little different and mysterious, the plot of the journey was someone who was very scared running away and finally escaping. To create tension I used strange camera angles such as high angle shots and close ups this makes the entire journey rather fast moving giving the impression the subject is in much panic. Once the tape was finished stripping i rewound it to time code 00:00:00:00 (the start of the tape) for all of my shots I had to leave 10 second handles to make editing easier on final cut pro. After filming all my shots i created a log sheet, a log sheet is where all the shots time codes are precise for the editing stage that way the editor knows where to crop the clips along with this ticks and crosses are added to show which clips are to be used, comments are another useful feature on the log sheet these highlight problems in the shot so that hopefully problems can be avoided in the future. Finally I edited my 8 Shot Journey in Final Cut Pro, I used a fire wire cable to link my camera to the apple mac and extract data from my tape to the computer. Once my 8 Shot Journey was loaded up I began logging and capturing the required shots. After gather all my shots i assembled them in the timeline and exported my video as a Quicktime.mov file.

So as you can see it is rather complex to create a short film let alone a feature length, however despite this i very much enjoyed the process of directing, filming and editing as it is a great feeling to see your video finally come together at the end. If i could change anything about my 8 Shot Journey I would most likely work on my camera skills i feel as though some of the shots could have been tweaked and improved. However this is my first film task and you only learn from your mistake my next video exercise i shall work harder on camera shots, angles and maneuvers. However all in all my 8 Shot Journey was a success and i very much look forward to working in film again in the near future.

Below you can veiw my Storyboard and Log Sheet. A storyboard makes it easier for the camera man by using a storyboard he will instantly know how to set up the camera in order for the best possible shot. Log Sheets on the other hand come in the editing process the editors can read through the log sheet so that they know what parts of the film to keep in editing and which to dipose of. So as you can see these two things are a very important element of the filming process without these creating a film would be even more complex and hectic.

Radio Production- My Jingles

Here are my three radio jingles I used samples of music from the following bands, Children Of Bodom, Dimmu Borgir, Iron Maiden, Arsonists Get All The Girls, We Came With Broken Teeth, Trivium, and The Devil Wears Prada. All of these bands fall into the metal genre as my target audience is teenagers who are interested in or are avid fans of the metal genre. I scripted all of the jingles before finally recording them using Soundbooth.

Here is the first Jingle the Station Introduction

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This Jingle uses samples from Children Of Bodom, The Devil Wears Prada, Iron Maiden and Arsonists Get All The Girls, there is also a thunderclap sample from the Adobe Soundbooth Server. On my voice i used a Distortion effect to give a raw/rough edge to my intro as it is a metal radio station, the process of fade is also here for example when I say "As well as all the classics" Iron Maidens- Run To The Hills fades in and then quickly out again. This gives listeners a taster of what is to come in my show.

This is my Station News Flash

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In the Station News Flash there are samples from We Came With Broken Teeth plus Trivium, I chose We Came With Broken Teeth's song as it sounds dramatic with the drum beat and operatic keyboard effect in the background. Overall the jingle sounds alot like a news jingle. On the vocals I applied a simple Dream Sequence effect as it flowed with the operatic vocal style giving a really dramatic disposition to the whole jingle.

Finally my Station Ident

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The Station Ident includes sample of Dimmu Borgir and Trivium. I chose the Dimmu Borgir Song Puritania as the chords are very heavy and give off an instant impression that the show is aimed at a metal audience. I once again used the thunderclap at the end as it bring the ident to a nice quick finish. I am extremely happy with all the samples I have produced, all of which reflect the metal genre, the samples make it obvious the show is a metal show aimed at teens.I enjoyed the project and am very much looking forward to working with radio production more in the future.

The Script for my Station Intro is as follows.

"Welcome To SNC Live. Bringing you all the latest from the metal scene, as well as all the classics, with your presenter George Caley Monday to Friday 8 til 5, 94.5FM"

Radio Production- Creating Radio Jingles

This week I was set the task of creating three radio jingles these where a show promo, station ident and news intro.

The program used for this specific task was Adobe Soundbooth, Soundbooth offers all the basics for making and creating radio shows, jingles and any other audio based mediums. To begin creating audio you must first open adobe soundbooth, then click file, new, multitrack file, once a new file has been opened it is a simple place of drag and drop.

Next simply open your desired document and drag the audio files you wish to use into Adobe Soundbooth.

Soundbooth offers a wide range of effects the two most simple effects being fade and crop. To perform a fade select edit on your desired audio track, following this you will notice two small squares on the top left and right hand sides of the audio track simply drag these squares to create a yellow line which will be the section that fades in or out.

Cropping is just as simple once again open your audio track in edit this time drag the grey bars either side of the track to shorten it in length (crop) this means you can take select samples of audio as appose to an entire song or track.

Vocals are another addition that Soundbooth holds to record vocals select file, record from here change the device used to record to Built in Microphone/ Built in Output after selecting your device you need to click the red circle button t the bottom of the window (record button) this will instantly begin the recording process.

When your vocals have been record they will open automatically, effects can then be applied to vocals to make then sound more dramatic, exciting, distorted, creepy almost anything is possible.

You can also mute and play select audio on the multitrack screen by pressing S to play the audio track and M to mute the track. all section of audio can be moved so that they intersect with other section of audio.

Volume is another issue most radio is broadcast at -0.3 therefore when you are happy with the audio produced then change all the tracks to -0.3 to keep them from touching the peaks (stop the audio bleeding).

When all your audio is complete select file, export, multitrack mixdown and change the file to to .mp3 finally select save and everything will be save and can be uploaded on site or used as a select radio jingle if you wish to create your own show. Although all jingle must reflect the show therefore don't use hip hop for a classical show or rock for a rap show.

Pinhole Photography- My Photographs

This is my first and only successful interior pinhole photograph. The image depicts the atrium of the college, all the images come out in a negative format as appose to positive.

Personally I am very happy with this picture I think that all the features of the atrium are easy to identify, also seeing as how i used a pringle tube for my camera the photo paper was curved making this and all my other pictures rather distorted and strange.

I uploaded all my images to Photoshop and switched then to positive to see what the effects where. Below the first image is a positive version of my interior photo.

My total exposure time for this image was 5 minutes which as you can see working perfectly. Out of the two images I would say that I prefer the negative as it looks more distorted, obscure and overall strange.

Here is one of my many exterior shots. Unfortunately it was very difficult to find the right exposure time for the exterior. I took numerous outdoor photos as my predicted exposure time was 30 seconds. but this image was taken with an exposure time of only 10 seconds which seemed to work alot better.

Here is an inverted positive image in this you really can see all the cars and details this exterior image really was a total success. i was surprised to see how this came out in positive form.









This is

my final image of me, a portrait shot. I was fairly impressed with how this came out in negative but i could not really see my facial

features which wasn't very good.

Although on the positive this image is almost perfect all features of the photo are perfect which is a big plus the curved photo paper gave this image a good effect it was very interesting to see how this image turned out.

Pinhole Photography- How to make and use a Pinhole Camera

A Pinhole Camera is a camera made using a light tight object and light sensitive Photo paper.
Firstly a hole is made in the object (i.e. tin or box) using a drill, then a square of foil is placed in front of the hole and sealed using gaffa tape, gaffa tape being a thick tape making the camera more light tight.

Next an aperture is made in the foil with a pin hence the name Pinhole Camera, A shutter should then be created to cover the aperture, a suitable shutter would be made from card and gaffa tape, as long as the shutter covers the hole it is suitable.
When loading up a Pinhole Camera you must use a safe light and ensure all doors are locked with no lights on else the light sensitive paper will be permanently ruined.
Tape needs to be place in the camera to make sure the photo paper does not shift once the photo paper is loaded in the light tight box or tin and it is sealed then it is safe to move away from the safe light. An F-stop then needs to be calculate for this you will need the focal distance (the distance from the aperture to the photo paper in mm) and the diameter of the pinhole which should be about 0.8mm.

Once you have gathered these two measurements a basic calculation is needed which is the focal distance divided by the diameter of the pinhole (i.e. 70 divided by 0.8= 87.5) this is your F-stop.
We then use the F-stop and light readings to calculate the exposure time (how long the shutter is left open) in my case the exposure times where 30 seconds outside and 5 minutes inside, the reason the exposure time is more inside is because there is less light.
Once the photo has been taken the camera needs to be taken to the dark room and unloaded.
When the camera has been unloaded the photo paper needs to be doused in developer for 1 and a half minutes then moved to fixer for a similar amount of time, after all of this the photo needs to be quickly washed and finally dried giving you the final product.
If your photo is very white it means the photo has be under exposed and if the photo is very dark it means it has been over exposed.

Indroduction

Hi
I'm George Caley, welcome to my blog.
I will be posting my work on here regularly for Media Studies ND1.
This work will include, Video, Photography and Audio Production.