HOME WORK: light painting -

over the weekend i took the camera and tripod home to do some more shots of light painting at night in my room when it was pitch black to get a really good clear image of the word "Trapped" so it was about 12am - 1am when i would do this because i would get no interruptions from family and its complete darkness in my room so i knew it would be the perfect opportunity to do it, and as i found out i was right the writing was really clear and big writing, but the only downside of light painting i found was a had to do 15-20 shots to get a good one because the time is limited to do as self timer is about 10 seconds, remembering to write backwards without messing it up was really difficult, but this is the best image i could get without editing and this will be used somewhere in the film either beginning or end. I know the writing is bad but it's readable witch is all that really matters.

PRODUCTION DAY 6:

this lesson we edited the opening sequence that we re-filmed, using close ups, mid shots, over the shoulder, mirror reflection, long shots and tracking shots we had to re-film the opening sequence because the idea's i have will not work with only 1 shot through the whole opening, this way with different shots will allow me to use different effects in the opening

PRODUCTION DAY 5:

cassie was not in this morning so i got on with editing the film even more and put the photo's onto flicker for the rest of the group, being the editer i have all the work on my laptop, in the afternoon we will be re-filming the opening sequence with different shots because at the moment is all mid-shot, when re-filming i will be putting different ones in like close up, over the shoulder mid and long shots of cassie in the toilets then editing the film into the already edited movie... if that makes sense?

PRODUCTION DAY 4

We started filming today in the woods but we didnt have the right props so we had to start from the middle of the film where cassie wakes up after passing out on alcohol and drugs, we were all really motivated and got a lot of good shots, but the weather was so cold we come in and started to edit the film, in editing i got the film up on final cut and photoshop, cut the parts of the film where it went wrong, edited the colour and put the music onto the film.

PRODUCTION DAY 3:

Today we went to go light painting in the woods because we thought it would be a good idea to do it where the filming is taken place, but after a few tries of the light painting we realised it was to light outside and the picture was too over exposed so we knew from then it would have to be in a dark room.

PRODUCTION DAY 2: light painting - 2nd

after a few go's of light painting it become easier but they still looked a little weird because my writing with my right hand is really terrible, but with everyone in my groups input and all having a go we got a pretty decent last go of light painting, after i uploaded the photo's onto flicker then opened photoshop and edited the contrast, colour and size of the image to give a multi tonal image.

PRODUCTION DAY 1: light painting sessions

my idea for the opening sequence in our short film is to use light painting the word "Trapped" with the light from my lighter using a Nikon digital camera. The first time i tried to do the light painting didn't go very well because me the room was too light so this was the out-come of the first attempt, for a first attempt i think we done pretty well, the most challenging part of light painting is remembering to write backwards with my right hand, this was difficult because im left handed :)

light painting tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IS-DBZEXcA

this video is a tutorial of how to do light painting witch is what we are using in the opening sequence for a short movie, it explains what you need, how to do it, what setting you need your camera and more, this video helped me and cassie to get the right settings for us to achieve the perfect opening sequence for our film.
light painting is opening the shutter long enough to use a light source, first you need to get a camera, with the exposure settings to 10-15 seconds, you also need a tripod to keep your camera still  and lastly a light source either a flash light or a strobe light, the camera you use has to have a manual mode, this allows us to adjust the shutter speed

film making: opening sequence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-nVfx7Rvrc

this video uses istop motion, the light painting on this video at about 2minutes in is the type of effects in our film, this idea is unique and me and cassie are going to make this effect this lesson.

find your tribe!

when i saw my "find your tribe" results, I wasn't actually surprised because i do have my hair different colours all the time, i listen the stereotypical scene/indie music and i am pretty much everything it says. i'm happy with this result and i wouldnt want to re-do it because i dont want it to say im a street rat or something :D

trapped mood board

in this lessson i made my "trapped" moodboard, these photo's represent the things that happen and the setting of our film in process,  used the letters in light to show the istop motion im going to use in the opening sequence to start with, then the spit pathway because in our film me and cassie are stuck between the road we know and miss the party we were going to or the pathway through the woood witch is the way we aren't really sure of. each one of these pictures tell the story of our film in process.

horror stills mood board

this mood board represents the concept of our genre witch is horror thriller each one of these pictures got us thinking and that's how we got the initial idea of the film we our now doing. this was made on photoshop using a different layer each photo.

target audience

For this task we picked a particular target audience member and searched for the different TV Shows, music, brands and games that would associate with them.

I think this target audience member would listen too music from the charts of today, watch shows comedies like skins, misfits or something made for teenagers such as The Inbetweeners. I would think that this target audience member would watch either a horror films like the hills run red or the last house on the left. Its most likely that this target audience member would use the internet for Facebook, and YouTube.

rosie ball games artist

rosie is a games artist and she recently entered a competition to design a game in 10weeks with a group of people, her role was to design the game and that it does and the characters. in her talk she explained to us her experiences at univercity and college, told us about what she had done since college and how the competition has changed her life sinse winning it, next march she will be attending the BAFA awards and there is a 1 in 3 chances she will win, she also told us how shes signed a contract to work with Disney for a year and will be working on new games with them.

final new york titles session

in this session we had to put the names of known film editors, producers, actors etc onto finial cut and getting the hang of how to put the names onto it the way we were shown was really frustraiting but once one had been done, all i had to do was copy into attributes and it pasted it correstly to the others

new york garageband soundtrack session

i really enjoyed putting the music to this finished new york video, my favourite part of media is making soundtracks, its just fun and pretty easy, i found putting the finished music and then the video onto photoshop th hardest part, because i always forget to "export" and then "import" but im sure in time i'll get used to it.

new york final cut editing session

in this final cut session for the new york project i found that i had a lot of pressure to finish mine and also make it look good at the same time, i found that putting different effects in was hard because i didnt want to repeat myself, and always having to render it annoyed me because it was killin time, when I finished it and re watched my movie it wasnt too bad, but i could of done better but pleased with what i achieved.

garageband demo

this is the track i created in garade band, I don't really know what style this is, i think its a kind of rock and dubstep thing but together, i like it :D

Logo Ident Production Session

Friday's lesson was to put our idea designs of logo for the production onto photo shop, using 4 or 5 different layers that contain the background of my choice, my logo design, and any other things i have added onto it like effects of brushes I've used then saving them onto save devices 1 layer at a time, so then when finished saving all the layers i can upload them onto the final cut and add each layer back onto it for then it plays like a little clip of my design.

Media Production Company Logo Planning Session

I had to plan a few different designs for my own personal logo production using different effects and styles on photoshop for the next lesson of putting my idea's onto it, tbc

logo research session

In the logo research session we had to come up with 2 different types of logo's of our choice and research about them, like where they come from and where they orriginated from, qhat their purpose was, after we had found out this information we had to write it all down in our blue booklet/folder then take some time drawing these logo's and discribing what there purose of the design was. I chose my logo's on the same type of base witch was "peace"  and fair trade.

club flyer task

in this media lesson we learnt how to make a club flyer by using photoshop, but first off i had to do some planning on the details of my club such as; the name, the dates and times it opens, the location of the club, ticket prices, and activities there are, after this i started by opening up a new A5 sheet and turning it 90* cw to make it landscape, then setting a background witch we had to browse through the flicker website in the search box to find an image to fit out theme of club, then layering them and editing the photo's, after this i had to write the information on the page, using an appropriate colour so it's visible to see and doesn't clash with my background, then i used the design and changed the font of the writing and colour so make it stand out.