Sunday, 2 December 2012

Ferry Cross The Mersey

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. 




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. 


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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.

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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)

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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.
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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. 

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(Below Is a link to our film 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.