We have had a team meeting (me and Sophie) and discussed the logistics of filming this coming Friday. We both have free time slots where we would have a usual media lesson, our teacher has allowed us to leave the premises of school during our lesson because what we are doing is productive towards our blog. We are going to pick up the cameras from school for around half eleven, and then that leaves us until half two, which is when we need to be back in school. For these three hours, we plan to get two of our interviews with people done. We are using our friends Eleanor Freshwater and George Youel, and we will ask the ten questions for them. If some need to be reshot, we have a lot of time in order to look back over the footage on the camera and decide if it all sounds good. The microphone is built into the camera so we won't have to worry about having a separate microphone. So during this filming session we will get around half of the filming done for the interviews hopefully, and that leaves us with getting the other half of interviews done and our shots. For our places, we are going to go to Birmingham and Bicester village as well as Banbury, to provide us with a large range of shots such as luxury retail as well as general high street.
Three hours worth of preparation and footage should be adequate for half of our interviews. After this, we have the next lesson in school to review everything we have shot and we can decide what we want to reshoot and that means that we can set aside time next week so we are able to reshoot what we need to do again.
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
Equipment List
Here is a list of the equipment we will need for filming and editing out documentary- from the process of the start with filming raw footage and having a fully edited film.
-Camera
-Tripod
-Computer for editing
-Car (transport)
-Actors (interviewees)
-Ourselves (directors for filming and editing)
-Camera
-Tripod
-Computer for editing
-Car (transport)
-Actors (interviewees)
-Ourselves (directors for filming and editing)
Timeline Analysis
Here is my timeline analysis for a trailer for the documentary 'Blackfish'. This relates to my documentary because it is highly informative on a very particular topic, and I am going to analyse everything that happens in the first two and a half minutes of the trailer for this documentary, and this will hopefully allow me a larger insight into the way in which documentaries and their trailers are constructed.
0;00-0;07: Black screen, cut to mid shot of some whales swimming.
0:08-0:10: Non-diegetic whale noises, mid shot then cuts to black.
0:11-0:14: Non-diegetic voiceover, long shot of man and whale
0:15-0:17: Continued voiceover, and long shot of whales in their natural habitat
0:18-0:21: Continued voiceover, underwater shots of two people with whale, cuts to black screen.
0:22-0:25: Two titles on screen, non-diegetic sound on screen
0:26-0:30: Non-diegetic sound of things clashing together, cuts to another credit, to black screen.
0:31-0:38: Black cuts to another credit, non-diegetic, incidental music. Cuts to black screen.
0:40-0:50: Non-diegetic voiceovers, close-up of a whale, cuts to interview with diegetic sound
0:51-0:58: Close-up shot, diegetic sound of someone talking.
0:59-1:08: More interview shots, non-diegetic voiceovers, cuts to black.
1:09-1:20: Mix of long shots and title screen, and people being interviewed. Music is a mixture of diegetic and nondiegetic, people talking and background incidental music.
1:21-1:30: Showing medium shots and close-ups of whales, and non-diegetic voiceovers.
1:31-1:40: Long shot, cuts to medium shot of whales, and cuts to black then an interview shot with someone stating something in the background, voiceover from what sounds like the news.
1:41-1:45: Previous shots from own-footage, and people talking non-diegetic in background
1:46-1:55: More home footage cutting into another, smoothly fading into each other, building-up non-diegetic music and building tension
1:56-2:06: Lots of long shots and medium shots of whales and non-diegetic voiceover
2:07-2:15: Medium shots of whales swimming and voiceover explaining news cover pages, and long shots and close-ups of the animals and what the people do to them
2:16-2:24: End credits and end of incidental non-diegetic music, continued voiceover which is also non-diegetic.
0;00-0;07: Black screen, cut to mid shot of some whales swimming.
0:08-0:10: Non-diegetic whale noises, mid shot then cuts to black.
0:11-0:14: Non-diegetic voiceover, long shot of man and whale
0:15-0:17: Continued voiceover, and long shot of whales in their natural habitat
0:18-0:21: Continued voiceover, underwater shots of two people with whale, cuts to black screen.
0:22-0:25: Two titles on screen, non-diegetic sound on screen
0:26-0:30: Non-diegetic sound of things clashing together, cuts to another credit, to black screen.
0:31-0:38: Black cuts to another credit, non-diegetic, incidental music. Cuts to black screen.
0:40-0:50: Non-diegetic voiceovers, close-up of a whale, cuts to interview with diegetic sound
0:51-0:58: Close-up shot, diegetic sound of someone talking.
0:59-1:08: More interview shots, non-diegetic voiceovers, cuts to black.
1:09-1:20: Mix of long shots and title screen, and people being interviewed. Music is a mixture of diegetic and nondiegetic, people talking and background incidental music.
1:21-1:30: Showing medium shots and close-ups of whales, and non-diegetic voiceovers.
1:31-1:40: Long shot, cuts to medium shot of whales, and cuts to black then an interview shot with someone stating something in the background, voiceover from what sounds like the news.
1:41-1:45: Previous shots from own-footage, and people talking non-diegetic in background
1:46-1:55: More home footage cutting into another, smoothly fading into each other, building-up non-diegetic music and building tension
1:56-2:06: Lots of long shots and medium shots of whales and non-diegetic voiceover
2:07-2:15: Medium shots of whales swimming and voiceover explaining news cover pages, and long shots and close-ups of the animals and what the people do to them
2:16-2:24: End credits and end of incidental non-diegetic music, continued voiceover which is also non-diegetic.
Monday, 16 November 2015
Tuesday, 10 November 2015
Inter-Titles Research
Inter-titles are essential during credits of any short film, documentary, trailer, teaser trailer or more. However, they are used for more than just credits; they can be used to inform audience on the statistics within a documentary, they can be used as subtitles in films such as Amelie which was originally made in French, and they can be used for more than just credits.
For example, within a trailer of a film, there are inter-titles which give off one liners, and these are designed to give away a small amount about the film/documentary. This is meant to attract the attention of the audience and entice them to continue watching. They are used throughout a film at any point that someone may need to be informed on something that isn't included in a non-diegetic voiceover. Inter titles used to be used for every single line before sound was brought into film.
For example, within a trailer of a film, there are inter-titles which give off one liners, and these are designed to give away a small amount about the film/documentary. This is meant to attract the attention of the audience and entice them to continue watching. They are used throughout a film at any point that someone may need to be informed on something that isn't included in a non-diegetic voiceover. Inter titles used to be used for every single line before sound was brought into film.
Group Meeting
We have had a group meeting that involved discussing the logistics of being able to transport to and from filming places and school, what camera we are going to use, and how we will get use of it. We have decided to use the cameras that are in school, and use them as either handheld or on a tripod. We will bring a tripod with us wherever we film so we always have the choice of if we want to reshoot and make things steadier. Another thing that will help with re-shooting will be when we have reviewed back over all the shots- we will estimate how much we need to reshoot and this will help with how much time we will have to allocate for reshooting.
We also organised the storyboards which are now on my blog, explaining which places we are going to film and what shots we intend on taking. This will help us with technical construction.
We also organised the storyboards which are now on my blog, explaining which places we are going to film and what shots we intend on taking. This will help us with technical construction.
Statistics For Film
After extensive research into statistics about shopping and spending habits of people around the age of our target audiences, we have narrowed it down to these statistics to include as text within our whole documentary. We will use some that were incorporated within our preliminary task and ahead are the ones used in the previous documentary and facts found that we will use in the full one:
-on average, the UK spend around £59 billion per year on clothes
-tablets are becoming more popular with 20 percent of online shoppers in the UK buying clothing via a tablet within the last year.
-Primark is the most popular fashion retailer in the UK, making around 2 billion per year.
-The forecast for the market remains strong with sales expected to reach £19 million in the UK by 2019.
-UK economy grew 2.8% in 2014 as exports pick up and rising disposable income drives recovery.
-64% of 25 to 34 year olds bought clothes online.
-Officials believe that by 2018 22% of stores will close down due to online shopping becoming increasingly prominent.
-on average, the UK spend around £59 billion per year on clothes
-tablets are becoming more popular with 20 percent of online shoppers in the UK buying clothing via a tablet within the last year.
-Primark is the most popular fashion retailer in the UK, making around 2 billion per year.
-The forecast for the market remains strong with sales expected to reach £19 million in the UK by 2019.
-UK economy grew 2.8% in 2014 as exports pick up and rising disposable income drives recovery.
-64% of 25 to 34 year olds bought clothes online.
-Officials believe that by 2018 22% of stores will close down due to online shopping becoming increasingly prominent.
Health and Safety
In order to safely film everything for our documentary, we will need to identify potential health and safety risks, and with this we will need to assess how we will address these issues and prevent them from happening.
Since we aren't doing much filming outdoors, most of the precautions we will need to do will be based indoors. Potential issues arising with health and safety could be around there being food containing nuts if there is anyone who is allergic to nuts in our interviews or in the places we are filming. In order to avoid this, we will advise everyone involved within our filming not to consume foods containing nuts when filming product. Another health risk to address is the risk of falling over when filming when outdoors because it may have rained and therefore we will need people to be cautious when filming, especially if carrying heavy camera equipment something bad could potentially happen. To avoid this, we will only walk outdoors where we deem it dry and safe, and we will balance out all the camera equipment between me and Sophie so neither of us will be carrying a lot to be strenuous.
Another potential health and safety hazard is wires when filming the interviews in Sophie's house because things may need charging or connecting up to other things. To avoid people tripping over these wires, we can push them away to the side and pre-warn any of our interviewees and make sure they are in the knowledge that there is a potential tripping hazard where people could hurt themselves.
As a lot of our filming is going to be inside shopping centres and in Sophie's house, we will need to be careful about the public and their unpredictability. To avoid upsetting anyone when filming, we will ask before including them in filming and this means we can include their filming without knowing people are unaware their faces are being used in a documentary.
Overall, there are not a lot of safety and health risks when filming and editing our documentary because a lot of places we are filming in are seen as what we view as safe places because they are warm and dry on the inside, and they are public so safe to film so we will have permission to film there. Outdoors places we will film such as Bicester Village, and we will just need to be careful that we film on a day that it isn't forecast to rain and it hasn't already rained so we don't fall over with expensive camera equipment and damage both ourselves and the camera equipment we are filming with because we are borrowing provisions from school.
Since we aren't doing much filming outdoors, most of the precautions we will need to do will be based indoors. Potential issues arising with health and safety could be around there being food containing nuts if there is anyone who is allergic to nuts in our interviews or in the places we are filming. In order to avoid this, we will advise everyone involved within our filming not to consume foods containing nuts when filming product. Another health risk to address is the risk of falling over when filming when outdoors because it may have rained and therefore we will need people to be cautious when filming, especially if carrying heavy camera equipment something bad could potentially happen. To avoid this, we will only walk outdoors where we deem it dry and safe, and we will balance out all the camera equipment between me and Sophie so neither of us will be carrying a lot to be strenuous.
Another potential health and safety hazard is wires when filming the interviews in Sophie's house because things may need charging or connecting up to other things. To avoid people tripping over these wires, we can push them away to the side and pre-warn any of our interviewees and make sure they are in the knowledge that there is a potential tripping hazard where people could hurt themselves.
As a lot of our filming is going to be inside shopping centres and in Sophie's house, we will need to be careful about the public and their unpredictability. To avoid upsetting anyone when filming, we will ask before including them in filming and this means we can include their filming without knowing people are unaware their faces are being used in a documentary.
Overall, there are not a lot of safety and health risks when filming and editing our documentary because a lot of places we are filming in are seen as what we view as safe places because they are warm and dry on the inside, and they are public so safe to film so we will have permission to film there. Outdoors places we will film such as Bicester Village, and we will just need to be careful that we film on a day that it isn't forecast to rain and it hasn't already rained so we don't fall over with expensive camera equipment and damage both ourselves and the camera equipment we are filming with because we are borrowing provisions from school.
Friday, 6 November 2015
Editing Research
Continuity editing- continuity editing smooths over the inherent discontinuity of the editing process, and helps to make logical sense between shots. It involves things such as cutting shots shorter to make sure things keep making sense.
Cross cutting- This is editing that alternates between shots occurring simultaneously in two or more different locations.
Dissolve- a gradual transition from one shot to another. These may incorporate the terms fade in and fade out, and are used to a colorful or blank image.
Eye-line match- this is a cut between two different shots, in which the first shot shows a person looking off in a certain direction, and the second shot shows either a space containing what he or she sees, or a person looking back in exactly the opposite direction.
Jump cut- this is where two sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary only slightly. This gives the effect of jumping forwards in time.
Montage- This is the process of selecting, editing, and piecing together different bits of film to form a continuous whole.
Matched cut- this is a cut in a film editing between two different objects, two different spaces or two different compositions in which two objects in the two shots graphically match. This is used to create a strong continuity of action.
Shot reverse shot- this is two shots that have been edited together between two characters, to demonstrate a conversation; and may involve one character looking to the right and one looking to the left to make it all smooth and make it look like the characters are actually looking at each other. However, shot reverse shot can be used in more circumstances than just a conversation between two people.
Cutting- A stop from one shot to another
Cross cutting- This is editing that alternates between shots occurring simultaneously in two or more different locations.
Dissolve- a gradual transition from one shot to another. These may incorporate the terms fade in and fade out, and are used to a colorful or blank image.
Eye-line match- this is a cut between two different shots, in which the first shot shows a person looking off in a certain direction, and the second shot shows either a space containing what he or she sees, or a person looking back in exactly the opposite direction.
Jump cut- this is where two sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary only slightly. This gives the effect of jumping forwards in time.
Montage- This is the process of selecting, editing, and piecing together different bits of film to form a continuous whole.
Matched cut- this is a cut in a film editing between two different objects, two different spaces or two different compositions in which two objects in the two shots graphically match. This is used to create a strong continuity of action.
Shot reverse shot- this is two shots that have been edited together between two characters, to demonstrate a conversation; and may involve one character looking to the right and one looking to the left to make it all smooth and make it look like the characters are actually looking at each other. However, shot reverse shot can be used in more circumstances than just a conversation between two people.
Cutting- A stop from one shot to another
Storyboard
Here is our initial storyboard for our shopping documentary. We have included the shots, angles, how they will cut into the next one, and what the shots will include and what sounds will be incorporated.
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