For our location profile we filmed on the Ferry, here is an edited version of my footage and we are currently editing the finished two minute piece of all our footage.
Sunday, 2 December 2012
CCTV
Outside university I have continued my passion for film by creating both music
video’s for numerous local musician’s, including Liverpool’s Male artist of the
year Ali Ingle. I also have set up a YouTube channel called “CCTV” also know as
“Culture City Television”. CCTV gives new musicians a chance to get their music
out there on the online platform giving them a wider audience. This has allowed
me to merge my passion for music and my passion for film together whilst giving
me the chance to work in team and organizing a team of individuals that I feel
would help create the best final product.
Saturday, 1 December 2012
Articles About The Film Award
After winning the film award earlier mentioned I have recently featured in a few different newspapers, websites magazines. Below are a few images of the interviews and articles.
Complications When Filming On Location
As apart of my groups location project we chose to do it on the Ferry. The day we were set the location module we when down to the docks to speak to someone about getting permission. We spoke to a very helpful lady who gave me an email to contact about getting permission. After emailing three times I decided to ring Mersey travel. Mersey travel initially said it wasn't possible to get permission to film on the ferry, after explaining the reasons for filming and how we would be showing the city and ferry in a good light they allowed us to film.
They day before filming I received a phone call from the head of the mersey transport stating that we no longer had permission to film on the ferry, after yet again stressing the importance of this module to our course they allowed us to film again but we all needed to sign a few forms and email them back to her at the end of the day.
Although this process was very annoying and time consuming it has prepared me for the difficulties when filming on location at both university and industry level.
(Below show the emails sent from Mersey transport and forms we had to fill in)
Stop Frame Animation
After numerous different idea's my group decided to make a stop motion of a piece of paper in some way coming to life as the artist leaves the room. We used to the song "Somebody That I Used TO Know- Gotye" as we felt it worked well with the piece and the video of the song itself has slight references to what we wanted our stop frame to represent. Below the stop motion is shown.
Marshall Mcluhan Wiki Prezi
When presenting our Wiki to the class we also included a Prezi of, what we thought as a group, was the hardest sections of the book. Below are a few screenshots of the wiki and the prezi.
http://themediumisthemassage.wetpaint.com
People On The Move
After completing our People On The Move film, I came across copyright problem for the first time. As a main part of our film was the sound and the fact we chose the music track "Gotta Get Up" by Asher Roth caused a problem. As it property of Universal records the video is instantly blocked worldwide.
Although I found this very annoying at first, it's a lesson I've now learnt and has prepared me for this problem in the future.
(Below Is a link to our film on Vimeo)
Gotta Get Up from Rion Holland on Vimeo.
What Makes A Reliable Media Source?
Continuing with the Marshall Mcluhan Wiki, and after surveying ten people in the questionnaire it was clear the results varied and I established that even though people use certain forms of media more than others they don't necessarily find them the most reliable source. I concluded the questionnaire with the open-ended question of " What Makes A Reliable Media Source?"due to numerous different answers this prompted me to create a short film (shown below) showing a variety of different opinions.
Friday, 2 November 2012
Marshall Mcluhan Questionnaire
For my contribution to the Marshall Mcluhan Wiki page I wanted to explore different forms of media as Mcluhan states in the book " The medium, or process of our time-electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of personal life... its forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every though... Everything is changing".
To test parts of Mcluhan's theory I created a questionnaire and surveyed ten different people. ( The results are shown below)
Thursday, 1 November 2012
I Won!!!
A few weeks ago I received an email from my college tutor telling me that one of my films had been shortlisted for five of the "Young Liverpool Film Awards"! and my film would be screened in FACT on the 23rd of October as part of the Liverpool biennial ! When I found out I was over the moon. I attended the night and to my shock my film won "The Audience Choice Award" this was voted by everyone who attended the event. I thoroughly enjoyed the event and seeing my film on the "big screen" has gave me more ambition to full-fill my dream of becoming a director ! I was also thrilled to find out I won numerous prizes including a year membership at FACT and film studies books to help with my course! (Here are some images from the night and my film is also shown below.)
Marshall Mcluhan
Today my group was given the task to create a wiki about Marshall Mcluhan's book - The Media Is The Massage. We chose to use the wiki site "Wet Paint" because after trying a few different sites we found this professional but still pretty simple and easy to use.
Sequential Imagery
Today me and my team's task for Digital Media Tools was to create a story in six shots. The three of us me, Gina Horner and Rion Holland had there was three themes to pick from, A Day in the Life, A Big Surprise or Running Late. we chose "A Day in the Life", The story is about a girl going to visit a grave.
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Filming And Editing People On The Move
Today we started filming and editing our first project for the Production practice module 'People on the move' so far its going great and hopefully we'll have a great final product!
Charles Leadbetter - We Think
Today we looked at Charles Leadbetter and specifically his book "We Think"
"More people than ever can pariticpate in culture, contributing their ideas, views, information.
The web allows them not just to publish but to share and connect, to collaborate and when the conditions are right, to create, together, at scale.
That is why the web is a platform for mass creativity and innovation.
We Think published in March 2008 is an exploration of what that will mean for our culture, the way we work, government, science and business."
A Three Minute Film About Culture In Liverpool
In todays exam we used Edward De Bono's Lateral thinking tool concept extraction (which I have blogged about at an earlier date.) The main topic was to create idea's based around a three minute film about culture in Liverpool. My final three idea's where "More to music than the Beatles", "The rivalry between Liverpool and Everton" and " The Reason's for Liverpool's Diversity ".
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Philip W. Garrett
Today after class I decided to go round liverpool and take a few pictures to start off my idea's for my new project. When I stumbled upon a street artist called Philip W. Garrett. As I introduced myself, explained what course I'm doing and expressed how fascinated I was with his work, the idea of using stop motion to show how he creates his artwork came to me and he was more than happy for me to try it.
Below shows a link to his website and some Images I took while speaking to Philip.
Monday, 8 October 2012
Editing Workshop
Today I used the editing software Avid for the first time, I found it pretty easy as I've used Final Cut Pro numerous times and the software is very similar.
Camera Workshop
Today I used the Camera's I will be using throughout my time in uni, the Sony Z1's. I found the camera pretty simple to use and made me very excited about using them in the future. I also found the camera similar to other camera's I've used in both college and throughout my own filming.
Edward De Bono/Concept Extraction
Today we looked at Edward De Bono's lateral thinking tool concept extraction. The task I was initially given was to write down anything I could think for designing my own learning space. Initially between me and my partner in the task we could think of 14 ideas and concepts but by the time we had used concept extraction we came up with over 50 ideas and concepts. I was amazed and shocked that we came up with so many more as initially I was sceptical about the process but in the end found it very useful.
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