Pre Production Part 1

All of the work below was done by both Jade Petchey and Alice taylor. 

Schedule

Wednesday 29^th January

Shooting- Interview class room shots and Filler shots

Interviews with: Students and Possibly 1 tutor.

Friday 31^ST January

Edit Rough Cut

(Logo, Music)

Wednesday 5^th February

Finish final Edit and Create music or Download Music for video.

Friday 8^th February

Hand in Completed Production work. Finished edit with music and logo.

Questions for students.

(Answer in full sentences)

What do you enjoy most about your course?

What particular aspects of art do study?

What made you choose Southend College?

What do you feel you gain from the course?

What are your future aspirations and how does it tie in with this course?

Questions for Tutors.

(Answer in full sentences)

What does the course offer?

Where can students go from here? (What job opportunities are there or higher education prospects)

What consists in the day of an art student?

Any fun stories?

StoryBoard 

We did a few test shots for the interviews. These were taken on a phone and the illusion of a shallow depth of field was added by using lens blur in photoshop.

 We did this first test shot and decided that we liked the look of the interviewee on the left hand side of the shot and we decided to do a medium shot.

To keep it interesting we are going to flick in-between the side shot and a front facing shot

However in this side on shot, we decided it looked better if the interviewee faces their head toward the part of the shot that is open (e.g. like in the first side on shot and not the one above)

Research Company.

South Essex College 

Southend Campus

Located in the heart of Southend town centre and right next to Southend Central Station, our Southend Campus is where we offer our A-level courses and an impressive range of vocational subjects, backed up by realistic work environments and cutting-edge technology.

Media students get access to a High-Definition (HD) television studio, a radio studio, a fully-equipped photographic studio with digital SLR cameras, dedicated art and design work spaces, performing arts studios and a journalism newsroom. Sound and music production students have access to Xtreme, our well-equipped off-site recording and rehearsal studio, which includes mixing, recording, rehearsal and sequencing facilities.

Southend Campus also has science labs, an animal management centre, a sports lab and a 250-seat Performance Pod. There are over 2,000 PCs and plenty of Apple Mac computers to do everything from graphic design to film editing. We even have our own restaurant and coffee shop staffed by our catering students!

Our Beauty Academy in Queens Road is a short walk away and offers reasonably priced treatments to the general public. Sports students will spend time at our Wellstead Gardens sports facility which features a gym and playing fields.

Students based at the Southend Campus have access to Scoff and the Atrium Café, and with the campus located just off Southend High Street, a wide range of shops, restaurants, pubs and clubs are right on your doorstep.

http://www.southessex.ac.uk/about-us/campuses/southend-campus 

Art and design Course. 

Art And design (Fine art) Level 3 diploma

Course options:

Route A:

Southend Campus

Starts Sept 8^th 2014

Full time

1 year

Course code: 5028-A

Description: Free for 16-18 year olds.

Route B:

Southend Campus

Starts: Sept 8^th 2014

Full time

2 years

Course code: 5028-B

Free to 16-18 year olds.

Why should I do this course? 

This course is designed for students wishing to embrace an exciting and challenging broadly based fine art education which introduces students to a range of disciplines, encourages intellectual, creative and cognitive advancement and thereby enables students to progress either into employment or Higher Education.

What's covered? 

Some areas of study included are:

•  painting and drawing

•  sculpture

•  print

•  graphics and design

•  3D design

You will study a nine-unit Diploma in Year 1 and upon successful completion of the first year you will progress to Year 2 where you will complete a further four larger units to gain the full Extended Diploma.

How will my work be assessed? 

Your work will be assessed through a mixture of practical tasks and supporting written material. Your progress will be supported by regular ongoing feedback throughout the course.

What can I do after this? 

Successful completion of the full Extended Diploma will give you the opportunity to progress to higher education in a relevant subject, such as the College’s BA (Hons) Fine Art degree.

Careers 

Arts, crafts and design

What else 

To enhance your education an enrichment program that may include cultural trips both nationally and internationally will be embedded into the course.  You will experience working on live projects and towards the end of your course you will be contributing towards a final major exhibition hosted by the college.

Entry requirements 

• Four GCSEs at grade C or above, including Maths, English and an art related subject, or• UAL Art and Design Level 2 Diploma (or equivalent)• If you don’t have a GCSE in maths or English at grade A*-C, you will be expected to study a Functional Skill alongside your main qualification• You may be asked to provide evidence of your ability in the subject which could be in the form of a portfolio• Successful attendance of interview event and satisfactory references

This information Was all found on the South essex college website. This is all valuable information we will need for our video. Until we have Conformed our brief for this project. 

Steven Spielberg and Autor Theory.

Steven Spielberg is classed as an author director, We can see this through him having a favour of shots.

Spielberg is a huge fan of tracking shots. He uses these in many films.

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He uses this style of tracking to show a significant moment in a characters story. 

He also uses Side tracking a lot in his films too! 

This shot creates a lot of visual texture in the film creating a more interesting moment in the film.

Spielberg also frames objects through strange foreground images for example: 

Using this shot creates avery intimate feel to the audience as if spying on the character. Continuing the framing spielberg also likes to frame things in circles. 

Another thing Spielberg uses is the power of mirrors to create the power of a character for example: 

Recurring Themes 

A recurring theme for Spielberg is family and the destruction. Because his mother and father got divorced when he was young his mother and 2 sisters moved away while he went to high school. 

He also always recurses something back to world war 2 

On screen performers usually stare at something off screen

He often uses images of the sun.

He often references to disney films, music and theme parks.

http://entertainment.time.com/2012/01/03/the-five-ways-to-know-youre-watching-a-spielberg-movie/

Recurring cast and crew.

Spielberg has produced 138 films and directed 50! 

He frequently casts: Tom Hanks, Harrison Ford, Tom Cruise, Frank Welker and Richard Dreyfus. 

His films are almost always edited by Michael Kahn

And he frequently uses music by John Williams 

After Effects Castles

Today we created set extensions, We firstly imported the film of the man walking and then the other elements i.e.: the castles we then created a new composition based on the settings of the clips. We then switched the worskapce to tracker. We used to tracking points they where set up so the first fell off the screen and the second one could take over. We set both tracks to null layers. We then made a new null layer and parented it to the first. 

We moved forward to frame 178 which is as far as the man walks forward. we then exported a still frame and imported into photoshop. We scaled the photo down we removed the castle background by using the colour range option. We then duplicated the grass and feathering the edges to make it look more natural. we then duplicated the castles and made them get smaller with perspective. 

We precomposed the elements and blended them into the scene using the hue, saturation and curves. We finished it off with an adjustment layer and added a photo filter so it looked all the same colour.

sample brief and response.

Company name: The Flower Pot Men

Contact: Bill Benson

Name of project: Project flower power.

Purpose of project: 

Requirements:
Upbeat music
Company Logo


Audience:
Trainee's
Distribution:

Running time:

Summery Of The College Brief…DO

Corporate promo checklist.

Things to do for corporate stuff:

1. sample brief and response
2. research-Codes and Conventions
3.Research- Company
4.Research- Market Audience
5. Legal Policies
6. Over view of client Breif
7. Written response to brief 
8. Pre-production including sound
9. Meetings
10. Meetings
11. Production
12. Evaluation
13. College breif

I Jade petchey promise to complete all this work on my blog…:)