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A change of role, for this my final project I have decided that I am going to be taking upon the role of Director for my Final Major Project, the reason is I wanted to experience a different role and give my self the opportunity to see how I would approach and take to the role as director. Some of my favourite directors i have grown up with because I am drawn to their particular style of film-making are people like Martin Scorsese (Goodfella's & Casino), Oliver Stone(Wall Street & Talk Radio), Ron Howard( A beautiful Mind & Cinderella Man), Quentin Tarantino( Reservoir Dogs & Pulp Fiction) and on occasion Ridley Scott (The Gladiator and Life in A Day).

And thats a wrap guys......

Today was the date of the Live record of the aptly named 'Onesi' show and yesterday I was asked by Alice to present a segment but at this time i did not know what it would be on. I came in this morning and got the information on what I would be doing my piece about. It was about gym exercise vs. house work and what the average gym goer thought about this subject.

We were supposed to be meeting up with a chap to do an interview regarding the gym classes he taught and how his students felt about this issue, but this did not go to plan due to the mix up of arrival times and we did not get our interview.

To solve this issue James who was on Camera, Simona who was on Sound and my self resolved this issue really quickly and we found two girls who were working out in the gym and there and then we decided to interview them about this issue.

Alongside this I then had to be back in the gallery ready to roll the VT's for a the final rehearsal and live record. There were couple of hitches with regards to recorded VT's and few line fluffs in the studio, As far as my role as was concerned running the Turbo meant that I needed to record the entire show through the Turbo on to a P2 card and I was in control of playing out the VT as live that was then recorded.

This was a great experience to take part in I discovered that even though I like the idea of being a presenter its a lot harder than it looks, I found it difficult watching my self back awkward, the whole live TV experience was fantastic and a great insight to see how this aspect of TV production worked and what is needed to pull a live TV show together.

Dubbing the sound

I wanted to be the first one to garb dave for a tutorial because i knew once someone else from another project grabbed him I would not get a look in. I had been given the files I needed so i could sit down with dave and get the post-production process started.

Dave showed me how to drop my video and audio in to their separate scratch drives, how to prepare the different tracks for mixing and how to monitor the mix through the Phase monitor set to BBC and this will then mix the audio to a BBC broadcast standard.

The room was not free till 1 o'clock so i made sure that I booked it for that time to dub the mix for 'Stripping for a Living'.

when it came round to the mix it had taken me a couple of attempts but once I understood the faders on the mixing desk controlled all the levels and that I would need to click on the level I wanted to mix then it all fell in to place and I found really enjoyable mixing the tracks for this tantalising film.

The Mix went well and the entire crew on Stripping for living loved it......roll on the next project.

ALL FEMALE CONTENT...MUST BE OH WAIT INTERNATIONAL WOMANS MONTH

This was the reason for having an all female content list for our TV studio show, but today's main focus was to get jamie's segment recorded and this

Two Four Multi-Platform Pitch

I think Henry and myself deserve a big pat on the back, we did not win but we did not lose either we came second place and that is a big achievement a big thank you to Mel for setting up the opportunity for us to pitch out Multi-Platform ideas to Two industry pro's from the digital department from TWO FOUR.

WELL DONE JAMIE AND JAMES

One to one with Mike Bow

Today I was lucky to have the opportunity to have a one on one Avid edit craft situate with Mike Bow. Together we talked through in detail the cut's, pace and edit of my Three Minute wonder 'The Sea is Free' both cut 1 and 2 and this brought up a few issues of which were made clear to me at the time that I found invaluable.

It was decided that after watching both cuts back like the majority of people who had seen the 2nd and final cut that it was more colourful and fun and it told a story.

when working on different events with in a documentary then you should have several shots that you can cut too that will tease the audience to give them a taste.

When filming the footage for the raft race and inflatable dates Mike suggested that you should never move the camera on a close up and to give the viewer at home a chance to take in what your showing them start of with a mid-shot then a close up and then finish up with a wide shot.

one of the other elements that was picked up on was that the colour grading was all out and Mike gave me some really valuable advice that i plan to follow from now on and that is when colour grading you should focus on the skin tones first and foremost because following that the rest of the colour will fall in to place.

When syncing music and interviews always make sure that you lay the interview first level that and then lay and mix down the music.

all these elements that were discussed will now be there in the back of my mind for when approaching the edit of Young Single Dad's.

Pro Tools 101 sound mix down

Today was the gold from the mine, the holy from the grail, the cream from the crop, the oats from the grain and any other metaphor you can think of, to day we learnt how to bring sound in to export video from AVID and bring it in to pro-tools and then once in pro-tools how to mix the audio down. This was a heavy session that we only got to checking all the levels in pro-tools....the mix down happens next week.

WATCH THIS SPACE!!!!

Gallery Rolling, Stand By Studio, Take 1

This was the first of three session for group B to get there studio show off the ground, and today was an introduction to the gallery, a chance to see the show from last weeks studio group A.

we were given a tour of the TV Studio and Gallery being introduced to the different roles and what there place was in a live TV shoot the roles comprise of

Gallery

- Director

- PA

- Vision Mixer

- Lighting

- sound Mixer

- Auto Cue

Studio Roles

- Set Dressing

- Camera 1

- Camera 2

- Camera 3

- Sound

- Floor Manager

We watched the show and discussed how the pace and feel felt to us as a group and we came to the conclusion that is felt really odd that there was no format or style and that they had just chosen content to fill the show.

After we had watched the show, Mike set us a task of setting up a two way interview, with a three camera set-up and I was camera two, This was not a very exciting experience as I found out that Camera Two was static and they were only cutting away to camera two for a mid shot.

We completed this task and were encouraged to go away and think about the roles we wanted to undertake when we re-turn next week plus some ideas for VT's and Show content.

I thought out of the whole documentary of Table Dancing Diaries the interview with DEE was the most poignant section of the film one for the insight it gave to what its like trying to balance life, friends and work but also it has its own narrative arch where we see the mini joinery she takes from life and work and how it helps her get to where she wants to get to in life.

But my focus with piece is the sound, the most noticeable way that sound is used in music form to lift certain sections in this clip but under that is up-sync of DEE introducing to us why and how long she has been dancing.

and then when we meet her flat mates the audio disappears and there is no sound just the discussion between friends with guidance from a off camera voice.

after the interview with the flatmates that section and the new sequence of DEE dancing in the club is linked by some heavy bass music distinguishing the change of scene and situation with an faint up-sync of club scene voice talking, glasses clinking to represent the change of scene.

NAME THAT DOC

Today was a brilliant session where many a laugh was had by all, today was exploring how to develop titles for your documentary’s and drama’s. The way that this done is to explore in your mind all the elements of emotions, thoughts and feelings that are linked with your documentary idea and then using these plus the titles you would find on stations such as BBC 3 and Channel 4 try in the most creative way possible to come up with list of 10 titles and then its case of just narrowing it down to the most commercial name on that list.

SHOW NO SIGNS OF WEAKNESS

I had a phone discussion today with my Director to update me on where they were going and for him to check up on me to see if I was progression well with the audio mixing training. This is where my downfall came and caused me to loose my role as soundman on the ‘ Young Widowers’ film. I mentioned that Jamie had offered his help with the workings on Pro-Tools and this caused a feel on uncertainty in my Directors mind After the phone conversation.

Amy my body for bucks, a profile film of a single mum, stripping for a living, to put her self through university and raise her kid.

I looked at this because its a profile film, it was broadcasted on BBC Three and It contained some of the elements mike wanted to for his young dad's documentary and also it was a bounce off clip when i was searching for table dancing diaries. I have only seen three minutes of this film and this because i can't find the full version of the film on the web.

It was a good example for understanding an narrative arch and singular moments that you could bring out in the edit for the introduction of the film.

RESEARCH, STYLES, FEEL'S, SOUNDS AND LOOK'S

DAVE SMITHERS - BOOMING SOUND FROM UFC

The sun is out, the sky is blue, there’s not a cloud to spoil the view, and were working outside…..life does not get better than this. The topic in discussion is recording location sound and how to mic up for both documentary and drama’s. A headache was caused through discussion of the Fostex Mixer and how to set it up for location sound.

I think that it will take a case of practice to make it perfect, I think some seriouse session at the gym are need to become the most ripped guy on set incase I am ever called up to record location sound.

Dave Smithers – The sound of silence

This week I have been attending practical workshops that have been organized to introduce Pro-Tools in relation to mixing down sound from recorded dialogue and music for our 5 minute films.

So far the sessions have been covering an introduction to pro-tools from a sequence of Silent Witness which Dave worked on, with in this he discussed the organization of pro-tools i.e. colour coding files and with in this a break down of the individual sounds levels that needed to be captured to build the soundscape for the sequence.

LATER THAT DAY.....YOULL NEVER GUESS!!!

I recently found out that ‘Addiction’ the drama has been pulled out of the running, as there was not interest in people wanting to audition for the film.

Therefore the crew from addiction have been allocated roles on other projects and some because of their roles have just one project to work on instead of the original two.

I am now working as Post Production editor and Post Production sound on director Mike Halls ‘Widowed Males’ and Post production sound for Director James Harwood’s ‘Stripping for the kids’.

I was originally very keen on these projects and am glad in a way that I am not working on addiction. I know that Mike and James have a very good crew attached to their projects and this will inspire and push me to do the best job I can in my role’s.

HUNGRY FOR SAILORS AND SECOND SCREEN

We arrived by coach at Denham Productions at 13:30 and got to look around the production offices had a chat with the head of Denham, The Development producer Jill and seeing the edit facilities which were very different to the size and of Envy’s but the job is very different because of the size of the production company.

We left Denham at 3:30 and moved on to Two Four Plymouth for a talk about a new digital platform called Second Screen which is an interface that allows users who own a Connect TV to interact with there favorite television shows on whole different level via there smart phone, tablet and laptop.

This talk had an assessment attached to it and that was to write a 1 page proposal to develop a fresh exciting concept for second screen for 1 program selected by Two Four to then be pitched on the 14th March.

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