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Jib Testing

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Mini Jib Test Shoot: On the 15th of November, we went out to shoot autumn colours on a piece of equipment called a jib. The jib allows the camera to move from Worm’s-eye view to Bird’s-eye view and vice versa. We went down by the river to shoot some footage so that we would get the morning sunlight reflecting off of the water. At first, it was tricky getting the balance right on the equipment because the camera weighed more than the handle bar. We figured out eventually that it would look better if we lowered the camera very slowly due to the fact that it would be easier to keep the camera stable, if we wanted the footage to have a fast transition, we would speed it up in post-production. If I were to shoot this project again I would want there to be a clearer storyline so that editing all the pieces together wouldn’t be as confusing. I would also like to get more shots of the sunlight bouncing off the water because the Lumetri colour palette would look far better over the top of...
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Understanding a Project

How to get a better understanding of a project: The main purpose of a research project is to gain a wide range of information that can lead to further comers of a field of your thesis. Doing extensive research during a project can be very difficult, especially doing both Primary and Secondary research. "A research paper presents an original thesis, or purpose statement, about a topic and develops that thesis with information gathered from a variety of sources". Primary: 'Research that you conduct yourself' Secondary: 'Research that you find from another source' Because there a lot of different types of primary and secondary research, a way to get a lot of useful research done will be to do four of each. For example; Primary: Film analysis Vox Pop Interview  Survey  Secondary: Books Newspapers Websites Online sources For a project like finding out what a group of people think about a certain product, opt for something such as a Vox...
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Logos

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The point of having a good logo is to get a point across to the target audience. The reason that I have picked these particular logos is because the company has used illusion. They are also going to be more memorable. As you can see, the one on the right is for beats headphones, from a normal point of view the logo looks like a "B". But from another perspective it looks like someone wearing the beats.  The second logo I have chosen is for LG phone company, again they have used the letters "L" and "G" which is the name of their brand yet if you look closer you see a face. They have used a deep red for the colour because it doesn't stand out to much that it would seem like an eye saw but it actually makes it more pleasing to the eye. The logo for Amazon really stood out to me because it looks very basic and not that pleasing to the eye, but as you can see, the only thing in colour is the arrow going from "A" to "Z". This...
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Future Suki, I hope that you are now comfortable in your body and that you have been going to the gym regularly. I know that you will still be wanting to get out of bath but just stick it out for another month or so, I hope that you are still wanting to be an actress, I know that you will be amazing at it. Watch a lot more foreign films. I BEG YOU!  I really hope that you really worked hard at this last year and I hope that you have a chance to go to Camberwell UAL.  I hope your style has improved even though its dank already. I wish you well. Godspeed,  Past Suki. 
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Practical skills blog

Throughout this entire assignment I worked on my script, treatment, call sheet, concept art etc. I research concept art as part of my primary research, and edited a still from the film to make it look like a promotion poster. For my script I only needed to create lines for the scenes where there is talking heads and for he scenes without dialogue, I added stage directions. 
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Context Blog

During the first 2 weeks of this project I have been focusing on the context. In the first week I focused on completing the presentation for my pitch and the feedback. I pitched the main idea for my film, I then wrote a a feedback blog listing the things that i'm going to need to work on before starting my FMP. I also storyboarded my ideas on paper then scanned them in and annotated them, I prioritised my production plan so that I knew what I was doing each week, unfortunately I didn't manage to stick to it towards the end due to a equipment fault. I also made sure that I did the statement of intent in the first four weeks of my project so that I knew what path I was going down. I also talked about the three project ideas n a blog in the first week.   
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Why didn't my audio record?

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As I was shooting the talking head scene, the microphone was plugged into the camera and the camera was on. It has recently come to my attention that my audio didn't record and the sound over all of the scenes was white noise. The on-cam mic that I used was called "RODE VideoMic Pro-R Microphone". Me and my assistant director (Lily James)couldn't pin point what had gone wrong.  We first: Looked through the audio settings on the camera Booked out exact copy of the microphone, recorded  another video and played it back. It turns out that the Mic that we booked out in the first place was  broken due to damage or breakage. We first knew that it had broke due to the fact that the "ON" button was missing even though when we plugged it in it was green.  What am I going to do about it? I will have to re-record my footage with the same actors. I was initially thinking about dubbing the audio, but I couldn't do that due to it looking slightly un...
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