Film Fesival

We were required to research film festivals.
It began as "Gay's Own Pictures' in 1987.
Having been a two week festival for many years, the festival was shortened to a week in 2011, then 10 days in 2012.

Schedule for the Corporate Video

Business meetings must be had every week up until the deadline date, this is necessary in order to discuss what is happening with the project every week with no problems.

Plan to film every couple of weeks in order to get a variety of different styles of teaching and classes.
The hand-in date is the 15th February (week commencing) The plan is to film Wednesday (2 hours) edit a rough cut on Friday, film any extra filler shots when ever possible, and finally hand in.

A majority of the content will be based around interviews (which will be overlaid as narration on filler shots; cutting back to the actual interviewees every so often)

Those interviewed will consist of students and staff, the interview itself will consist of basic questions about the course and opinions. 

Specific Dates:

- Every week - Business meeting with client

- 24th January - complete questions for interviews

- 31st January - Shot list / storyboard

-31st January - Location report.

- 6th February - Filming 9am and 2pm

-12th February - filming if not enough footage is gathered.

- 7th February - first rough edit of video complete, send to client.

-7th - 14th February - changes to video if client requires any.

- 15th February - Hand in final edit on this date 

UPDATE 31/01/13:
Had a meeting with the clients today. Arranged filming dates and times; during the lessons of Jane and Sam I will shoot filler footage of students working/take students out of the lesson to interview them (once the appropriate paper work has been completed) In Jane's lesson the students will be making bottles and bathing babies. The students will be painting windows in their lesson with Sam. This will be ideal for me to get a variety shots of things that take place on the course.


Interviewees:
Students
Sam?

UPDATE 07/02/13:
Have been emailing my clients and have finally got round to filming. I plan to edit soon and do a rough cut/final version.

Formal Elements of Motion Graphics

Doctor Who - 50 years teaser trailer

2D elements - Multiple promotional images took during production of various eras of the show.
These elements were then put on the X, Y and Z axis and added into a montage of various characters from the shows current production and history moving onto then leaving the screen as the camera slowly zooms past.

3D elements - The advert finishes with the inclusion of 3D elements (i.e The sonic screwdriver, Matt Smith and the text at the end) In some cases 3D elements are blended with 2D elements by transitions so subtle they are almost unnoticeable (0.23) they were again on the X and Y axis but also the Z as the Tom Baker GCI model revolves as the camera pans by.

Alpha Channels - Information about colour in After Effects is stored within three channels: red, green and blue. An image can include an invisible fourth channel too, this is known as an alpha channel and it contains information on transparency. Sometimes, such an image is referred to as an RGBA image, indicating that it also has an alpha channel as well as the ordinary channels. An image with no alpha channel is simply called a RGB image. 

Mattes - When you look at an alpha channel in the composition panel of After Effects; white indicates complete opacity, black is complete transparecy and grey is a little transparency. Mattes would have been used for everything you see in this advertisement except in the background (that being completely CGI and/or stock footage) as Matt Smith would have been acting against a greenscreen and everything else was either images (the original background would be white on an alpha channel)

Keyframes - Within animation, keyframes are used to pin-point every single little bit of movement an object makes. The less keyframes, the less organised the movement is. However the more keyframes a composition has then the smoother the animation will be. Due to the sheer amount of animation in this advert, keyframes had to be used for every image featured. It is likely that the software used tracked the movements of the fake camera and generated keyframes to correspond with them.

Composite Modes - In the Modify menu there are many options that allow you to combine two (or more) images, this is what is known as a composite mode. 

Layers - Elements that make up a composition, any image, video or audio element in a composition is called a Layer. 

Stanley Kubrick Stuffs

Each one of Kubrick's movies had subtle visual elements that made the audience realise it was one of his. For example, it was known that Kubrick used one-point perspective meaning that the shot would be focused on something in the background while the scene happened in the foreground; it was this technique for which he became famous. He also used a POV (point of view) shot at least once every film.

Kubrick's films are almost always about humans and their gradual regression;

'The Killing' showed a character by the name of Johnny Clay, a man who planned to rob two-million dollars from the counting room at a race track but untimely ends up getting arrested. "The Shining" showed the character Jack Torrance who stays in a hotel, goes insane, attempts to murder his family but ends up freezing to death in the snow and lastly "A Clockwork Orange" is about Alex Delarge, a teen who loves murder and rape, goes through a curing process but it is heavily implied he regresses to his earlier stage of murder and rape at the end of the film.

Kubrick's most recurring cast member in all of his films was his own daughter Vivian Kubrick who made music scores for him, acted in the form of cameos and even directed her own documentary on the making of 'The Shining".

Overall Kubrick directed 16 movies from 1951 - 1999

Brief and Responce

Clients Brief:

Company: Destruction Production

Contact: Eve Isle

Name of project: Murder

Purpose: Training

Requirements:
Include bombs and weapons
go through Health and safety

Audience: Terrorists                                      

Distribution: Training room

Time: 1 minute


My Response:

Company: Destruction Production

Contact:  Eve Isle

Name of project: ACME

Purpose: Training

Requirements:
-Include various products which you sell
 -Go through Health and Safety

Audience: New recruits                              

Distribution: Training room

Time: 5 minutes