14/11/12
The brief for this specific video element is to produce a video relating to raising the profile not just within the school but externally as well, to create a video to support the website of the P.E department. This also aims to show the benefits of a healthy lifestyle and to fall in line with the deliverance of the Olympic legacy of using sport as tool to improve social and moral attitudes as well as being fun.
It is important to complete research for this project because without the usage of research we wouldn’t be able to fulfil the requirements of the website for example; the content of the website may be different to what the P.E department asked for, but on the other hand if you conduct the right amount of research than the website will become a success as you’ll know who the target market are what they want and why they want it this’ll help us to fulfil their needs. The type of research which is relevant is mainly secondary research, as we need the usage of previous websites, videos and contents within the websites which requires us to go on the Internet and search for existing information. We also need primary research as we will need to conduct questionnaire’s etc. to find out who and what our target market want and need this will help us on creating a successful and beneficial website for the P.E department. Mr Hutchinson gave a small list of websites which he wants the website to be based around.
One of the three stages of the pre-production is the understanding of the requirements of a specific media production, for example our task is to create a video which is related to everyone being involved in physical activity from all backgrounds but not just within school but also externally we have to consider quite a lot of things for example; locations where we will take the video, contributors who will be involved this will most likely be kids from main school and materials needed for example video materials to video the scene and possibly sport related materials what we will need to create this media is important because we wouldn’t want to waste money on something we don’t need. The second task is to document the specific media so for example in our case we will need to find out when the ‘contributors’ are available and fit our time scale, identifying resources available researching what we have got to work with. These are important because we will need to know what we will have available because we can’t plan something if certain things aren’t available. The last task is to actually apply all of these pre-production planning and putting them into action the more time and effort put in the planning the better the final video will turn out
21/11/2012
Today we did quite a lot of things, first we had a little 'recce' on locations of where our possible video could take place we explored different locations within the school but mainy where physical activity takes place for example the gym, fitness suite and basketball courts etc. After this we came back to class and uploaded the photos then we started to create our 'proposal' for our task which was sectioned down into the following sections; aesthetic, content, concept, purpose, client purpose, style, target audience and locations. the last task we did was the start of our 'gantt chart' which i was knew to as well as the software Microsoft project first we did a gantt chart on making a tea, then we did one on our task and the amount of time we should take on each of the 'small'tasks.
27/11/2012
Today we discussed the tasks we needed to complete for the next day which was to consider the things for the pre-production of this project which consists of;
Finance- this means the budget that's available for the renting/buying of equipment etc.
Timescale- in this specific section i talked about how we created a gantt chart to support our timescale of the whole project. i also talked about how its important that i meet deadlines and the consequences of deadlines not being met.
Personnel- In this section i talked about the people involved in the video and why they are involved with the message we are trying to get across to the target audience.
Facilities- In this section i talked about the possible facilities we could use to produce the video, why the specific facilities are good for our video, risks assesments etc.
Materials- The possible materials we would need when recording the video, in our case the materials are already provided for us by the school.
Contributors- The contribuitors links in with the personnel but we will most likely use students from school.
Locations- The locations of our video production.
Codes of practice- The possible infringements we may infringe.
Regulations- Same with the codes of practice, they are pretty much linked togeather.
on the 28/11/2012 we had our meeting with Mr. Hutchinson, we discussed a lot of things for example, for example the digital graphics side of the website itself for example the types of themes the buttons he wants them to be etc, he gave us a major feedback which will help us and give us a more clearer idea of what the p.e. faculty need and want. The feedback we got from our client on how proffessionalism within that meeting was positive, the room for improvement is our verbal communication/clarity from the feedback we have recieved is that we needed to be more relaxed as we were quite nervous. we will use this feedback improve on this certain aspect
04/12/2012
Today we discussed the coursework we did which was due in today it was about looking at all the aspects of pre-production considerations, we compared with our considerations to the others in our group which was good because we got different ideas from others which was added to ours. we worked in the following groups ; dieter, josh, edna and deniz and my group was ; nicole, sam, me and jessica.
This helped me to realise all the aspects of this project and how important they are. the difficult part of this coursework was the finding out of the 'codes of practice and the regulations' of the project. i was intrigued by some of the regulations i found on the internet
05/12/2012
In today's task we started our visualisation of our video production. we created story boards for our video so we have an idea how it'll be set out. now we also understand the concept of the video and know what direction the video will be heading into. We considered all the aspects of the project for this specific stage. We put each step on a seperate piece of paper and tried to put as much detail as we can we also put the shot type in each of the scenes so we have an idea what it'll look like.
11/12/2012
In todays lesson we updated our learning logs, we needed to add more detail to our logs as we felt that we didnt have enough detail on our logs, i looked at other peoples logs and realised i wasnt analysing my problems and stregnths within my work enough if not at all, that was my main problem. so hopefully from now on i will view my stregnths and weaknesses of all of my work and possibly working on overcoming my weaknesses
12/12/2012
Todays lesson was all about doing our storyboards all over again but instead of using drawings, we were told to take pictures that matched each picture of our storyboard. This will help visualise our storyboards even better as it gives us a better idea on what we could possibly change in the actual video production. we took pictures from the p.e department to a conversation between two people. the main problem was probably the weather as we wanted a match being played on the grass, but cause of safety reasons as the pitch was frozen because of the ice cold weather. So instead we took various pictures of a group of year 9's playing football in the sports hall.
18/12/2012
Today we created the script for our video production, we included what will happen with the usage of screen shots this would help us to give us a visual of how we should set out our video and something to go along with, but we may have to tweak our actual videos because we may come across some `
19/12/2012
Today’s lesson we started with the
risk assessments based on our locations, we had to answer the following
questions on our blog
1. What is a risk assessment? Risk assessment
is a step to asses hazards within a specific locations, whether they are significant
and if so if you have taken satisfactory precautions.
2. How are risk assessments used in
media production industry? it consists of 5 steps; identifying the hazard,
decide who and how the person might be harmed, make an evaluation of the risk
and decide on a precaution, record your findings and implement the findings and
finally review the your assessment and update if necessary.
3. Find an example risk assessment
and comment on the appropriateness.
I have found a 'risk assessment'
template from the 'HSE' website; I personally feel that it is appropriate as it
covers most if not all the aspects of risk assessments for our media production.
It has the name of the person who is responsible and also has a section on what
has been done for the risk to be covered. It has a section where it states that
the risk assessment will be checked and revised every certain amount of time,
which I personally feel is important as the risk assessment may change
dependent on the task given. It covers the usage of equipment, machinery and
facilities as it covers training that will show if the staffs is fit to work in
this specific field. They also cover the implementation of emergency procedures.
07/01/2013
Today we had a practice of playing about with the video cameras so we know what types of angles we will be using in our actual video for the website. We based this video around another video which was about 'how to film techniques'. we had to complete all of the types of shots within a video and had to be creative about the way we conveyed the video, we didnt have any problems as everything was available it was down to our team in the efforts we put in which would show within the video as the video would be good enough to inform people from a neutral perspective on film techniques.
08/01/2013
Today we created our production schedule for our tasks for the project, we added a small paragraph on specific days for example we have a deadline for the video footage of our video, which is the 25th of january, this Friday we are going to record the footage of the year 11 cup match, we will be videoing the students playing and representing the school aswell as recording the other school competeing aswell therefore we will need to create consent forms for the students in case theres any problems etc. Since we have created a production schedule we have to stick to it as it is pointless if we don't it will make us look un-professional, the only problem we had was getting used to the software aswell as getting used to the new Mac's we have, because of the new softwares etc it was kinda difficult to get the hang of the softwares and hardwares, but in the end we got the hang of it and completed our tasks for the day.
09/01/2013
Today we carried on with our schedule planning on the celtx software, which had a 'production schedule' which is perfect for our tasks. we have a deadline to meet for the completion of the recording of all the footage, as after we will have a deadline for the editing of the video, today we started the recording of a P.E. lesson we recorded a year 9 P.E lesson they were playing football we knew this was only a bit of practice but we took it serious to the amount where we wouldn't struggle when we are recording the actual thing. we tried different types of shots and angles as well as adding a creative cutting edge to the shots we were doing, the only problem we came across was the students being
10/01/2013
Today we had a free day because we didn't have a scheduled day for recording today, so instead we looked to put more input in other parts of the project so we could be up to date. other parts such as the updating of our pre-production planning which consists of the following the tasks on celtX; script, storyboard, recce, production lists etc. Also the gantt chart. There there was a lot to get on with without realising but on the other hand we did finish most of the tasks but i feel i could add more details etc.
11/01/2013
Today we was meant to record the year 11's cup match but the opposition cancelled the game because they didnt have enough players, so we didnt do any recording therefore we e-mailed the P.E. teachers to ask if theres any games going on before our deadline. we are curently waiting on our response, this is a big problem as we havent got no footage of a football match at the moment which is the main part of our video.
14/01/2013 - 15/01/2013
Today we updated our schedule as we had some cancellations to our recording slots, But on the 16th we recorded this is a problem because a football match is the main part of our video as we are trying to promote the successful work the P.E. faculty are doing through football, if we don't get a recording of a football match we may have to tweak our approach in the video. today we recorded another P.E. lesson, we recorded the bottom set of P.E. they were in year 8 we tried to use different types of shots within our recording, we also switched roles in the directing and the person on the camera, so we both have the fair share of experience.
16/01/2013
Today we were scheduled for recording for most of the day, we booked the cameras the day before and took them home because we needed them in the morning to record students coming into school this will be part of our video as we will record students talking about the upcoming football match. We also e-mailed Mr.Trowbridge about the fixtures for football so we can try and record a match before the deadline.
we also started recording another P.E. lesson but this time we asked the students of the P.E. lesson to walk over the camera so it gives it a creative effect on the video. we also recorded the students playing football, we did various different shots etc. We took shots from different parts of the building to help us out so we get the best possible footage. The problem we had to overcome was the students being camera shy in the beginning but we explained to them that we actually weren't zooming
17/01/2013-18/01/2013
These couple days we didn't have a scheduled shoot for these days so, we just updated our blogs, storyboards etc. Today we decided to review the footage we have recorded so far which in the end was a good idea as we didn't record certain aspects of the video which was needed from this we decided to address these aspects with the next scheduled shooting.
21/01/2013
We sent an e-mail to Mr. Trowbridge, about the fixtures of football matches and he replied with an instant, stating that there will not be any matches before our deadline for the recording of all footage, therefore we will have to do recording after the deadline another time this will be inconvenient to our progress of work but it has to be done as its the main part of our video. Therefore we will just have to hold out until the weather which is the main cause of the cancellations of the football matches gets better, until then we will need to get everything we need and make sure we prepare well until then.
The reply of the E-mail;
With the current weather situation, it is highly unlikely that we will be playing any football fixtures before 25th January. Mr. Hutchinson has a game penciled in for next week and it may be worth asking him if this is still scheduled to go ahead.
Mr. Trowbridge
22/01/2013
Today we didn't have a scheduled as were scheduled for the next day so theres much that i could write about, but we were asked to look at videos softwares related to our future task which is the editing of videos, so i looked at premier pro and adobe softwares, as they are complicated softwares so it'll take time and practice to get the hang of the softwares which will be a problem if we cant get the hang of the softwares but to overcome this problem we will need to have a lot of practice with the softwares.
23/01/2013-28/01/2013
Today we had a scheduled day to record some footage of p.e. student , we had a deadline to meet for the finishing of all the footage which was the 25th but we finished all the video footage couple days before the deadline and evaluated all the video footage we took which was quite positive. as we completed all the footage apart from one which was the main part and that was down to the weather but we will have to record the video at a later date. That was the only problem we came across. When we didn't have a scheduled day of recording we just carried on with the theory side of the project so this consisted of the whole pre-production planning so scripts schedules etc.
29/01/2013
Today we had a task to do for the next two weeks, we has three tasks to do which were to carrying on with the updating of the blog by adding
each day in a post reflecting on my progress so far, adding in screen shots reflecting on the editing process. The second task was to use adobe premiere to edit our final video together whilst considering the editing techniques used in the task description which leads on to the next task which was to create another post named; 'post-production considerations' we had to research and type up all the definitions and words/phrases these are listed in our task description. all three of these tasks weren't group work so we had to do it on our own but we was allowed to speak to each other about the tasks.
30/01/2013
We continued with our 3 tasks we started on the 29th but we had an extra task, mrs gave us a technique from the adobe premier software, we had to present the chosen technique to the rest of the class as it'll help the rest of the class to learn different techniques. my technique was the 'trimming' technique, this technique is vital as it allows the user to cut a certain
01/02/2013
Today i made major progress in the editing of my video with the help of classmates, as well as staying to do that bit extra during lunch which was worth the efforts, on this day i managed to gather all the clips together as well as trimming the clips before slotting them in the timeline using the 3 point editing on the timeline so i stay in line with time limits of the video so it doesn't become too long to bore the audience, there was quite a few complications when using the 3 point editing i was struggling to insert the clip for it to match the length of the 3 point editing i overcame this by extending the 3rd point a bit more.
04/02/2013
I continued with major progression of the editing of my video, today i used the different types of titles there are three different types of title feature; still title, roll title and crawl title in between the clips so it helps the audience to understand the concept of the video and conveys the message across With the addition of transitions from one title to another clip.
05/02/2013
My video was nearly done or done so i felt anyway, we were going to present our videos tomorrow period 4 as we have creative media all day, we are going to present our videos to each other aswell as recieve some feedback from everyone in the class on what could be improved etc. so i made sure that it was up to a high standard by asking my partner to watch my video and ask for feedback which helped a lot because he gave me major feedback, after my alterations to my video i continued with the updating of the 'post-production considerations
06/02/2013
Today i replaced some of the converted clip to the original because the converted clip lacked quite a lot of quality and was blurring from the start to the end of the clip. The process of replacing the clip consists of the following;
1. first you search for the clip in the bin
2. After you have fount the clip from the bin right click on the clip and click on 'replace footage...'
3. Click on the original clip and it'll automatically replace the converted video to the original
07/02/2013
Today we continued with the watching of each other videos within the class, we had a few more people left, overall i felt that it was a brilliant idea that we watched each others videos because we recieved and gave major feedback, which helped us to improve our videos even more, my feedback was to; fade Mr. Hutchinson's voice when switching from the previous clip aswell as the formatting of the video etc.
08/02/2013
Today was the deadline of the project, but unfortunately i didnt attend 6th form because of my state of health. i finished my video so the only thing left for me is thepost-production considerations and my reflective blog, so there was no problem as i didnt mind doing the rest at home.
11/02/2013
Today we started our market research based on the video we created, i decided to create a questionnaire on survey monkey and send it to teachers, students as well as people outside of school. My questions will be based around the audio, visuals purpose etc. I also exported my final video and uploaded it to my youtube channel.
13/02/2013-15/02/2013
Today i carried on with my market research by sending out my survey link and youtube link of my video and sent it out to students, teachers aswell as to locals in my area, my plan is to get my market research and create charts so it helps me to review my video on what i could've improved on etc.
The link for my video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6XUVVciM58
on the 15th i got 9 responses from the survey of my video this is really worrying for me as i had a minimum target of 15 responses and its coming up to the half term holidays and i doubt ill get anymore but if i don't im going to have to work with what I've got
