Nashey

Media TV/Film student at NWKC Darford !

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Constructing and interview

When it comes to constructing an interview you have several key things to think about. For example things to do with your shot, such as framing lighting and sound. For framing it is important to have a correctly framed shot, you have to think about eye level and positioning. If you have an off camera interviewer asking questions to the interviewee,then frame the shot so there is looking space either on the left or the right depending on where the interviewee would be standing off camera. This is for the sake of the viewer watching so they understand the positioning of the interview taking place.

Sound is a key thing as in an interview as what is most important to hear what is being said, so you can say it is the most important of all. Best choices of sound equipment would be either boom mic and poles or attachable mic's to get crisp clear sound. Sometimes if necessary it can be better to use both so you will definitely get at least one usable recorded sound. Lightning is also a big, big part of an interview. Bad lighting can ruin an interview and therefore the whole production. Take into consideration the subject of the interview is a light subject or is it a more serious ad gender set up lighting to reflect the mood of interview. For example you won’t have a nice brightly lite shot if the subject is to do with lost love one’s. You will also want to think about over exposure using too much lighting can ruin a shot always take to find the correct lighting when working in different surroundings.

Dealing with clients to interview can be tough especially if you get someone who is a little camera shy an never had no experience of being interviewed. So tips with dealing with this would be to just ask them to listen and not to answer but go through the questions before the actual interview just so the interviewee can get an idea of what to say when it comes to turning the camera on. Always make sure you ask open questions and follow up questions to keep an interview at a good flow. Its always a good idea to chat with your client to get them more comfortable with you. This will then make it more relaxed when it comes to the interview. If all these tips are followed correctly then you will be ready to make good interviews. Make sure things go smooth and calm,it should seem like the interview is just like two people having a conversation. The more casual things are, the most comfortable the interviewee will become therefore the better answers you will receive, you will then achieve the purpose you wanted from the interview.

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Editing essay

In this essay I will be talking about editing and why its important. Editing is easily the second most important things do with the filming, without someone to edit your footage is just a mishmash of shots that wont make any sense left as they are.Its the editors job to find the right shots to use so they can make the production come together.The skills they use to edit, cut and tweak to make the clips start too form some structure of purpose.

The key things that editors have to deal with is timing, movements, lighting and sound. Timing is a big part of editing as the editor has to think about when it is wise to cut to the next shot, weather it is because the shot not being correctly framed or if the camera operator cannot find a usable shot.Timing is also key for creatin smoother cuts, cutting at the right points with good timing makes for smoother nicer transitions to the next shot. Movement also links in with timing because a good editor will look for certain movements such as camera movements, like a quick pans for fast edits or movements by characters on screen. For example if an acted punch it would usually be followed up by a cut to a reaction shot of the actor reacting too the punch. Lighting can be a mager head ache for editors badly lit shots are hard to edit with and usually scraped. On the other hand lighting can help and editor for things like live shows that have there own lighting.The editor can use this to there advantage they can cut to the flashing of lights as the lighting will flash in time with the music. Sound is probably one of the most important things when it comes to editing. Choising a song that fits the edit that you are working on is a key skill, that can make the diffrence massive between a good edit and a great edit. Soundtracks and music are imporant for many diffrent reasons from cutting to the beat of the track. This technique is used helps give a better understanding for the viewer of the pace of the edit.

When it comes to starting an edit its all to do with organisation. The first thing you want to think about doing is creating some folders on your computer, one for the filmed footage and another transcoded footage.

For the fist folder you should create more folders within this folder for if you have multiple camera footage. Next step would be to use a card reader to transfer your footage too the computer, then to save it to the correct folders. From here you can begin your rushes and start to look through the footage, start to take note of the shots that are good and delete any unusable shots to save time for later. You are now ready to begin to transcode the footage. To start the transcoding proposes you need to add the files to the 'Mpeg' programme. This will the change the clips to the correct settings for editing on final cut pro. Once the files are added it you will be asked what settings you want. Correctly select the settings Apple pro ress 422, frame size 1020 x 1080, 25 FPS and 100% quality. Once you have selected these settings you are now ready to transcode.

The process of transcoding takes a good amount of time depending on how much footage you have, use this time to start to think about how you can go about your edit. Once the clips are finished transcoding you are now ready to start your edit. Firstly open up your software for editing, from my own editing experiences I use final cut pro. I start a new project create a new sequence and make sure that the sequence settings match the transcoded footage settings. If done correctly then you should have no problem when importing your clips into final cut. It is always wise to create a second save, this is for a rough cut. The rough cut is a basic cut of your edit something you can work on to get a rough idea of what you want for your final peace. You are now ready to edit and you have created your sequence with the matching settings, the next task will be to import your footage into the sequence. Going back to being organised now it is now a goo idea to spend some time renaming your shots, this then makes it easier to edit. Make sure you give them relevant names to the shots example: ( midshot,wide shot, close up). This will help massively when coming to being quick and sufficient in editing. While naming any shots you can also label them as good shots and best shots to also help you later on. You are now ready to add footage to the time line, as this is just the rough cut and depending on having recorded sound  its always a good idea to make sure you first  start syncing clips to their sound. If you do have sound make sure it is converted to a '.wav' file so it too will play nicely in your sequence. Syncing can be a hard task so its best to be done first. The best way I find to sync clips is to listen out for a distinctive sound on the video, that the camera has recorded then mark that point on your timeline. Next find your sound recordings and place it into the timeline. Listen through it until you again find the same sound that you originally marked and then place a marker on your  sound clip, to do this make sure you have the clip highlighted and press the mark tool. Its then just a case of moving your sound up or down the tineline until both markers are in line with each other. If do perfectly then your clip should now be in sync.

For the rough cut you want to start to give yourself something to work off of so start to edit sections of your production. Perhaps if you have an idea for the end then start from the end. After all it is the rough cut to theres no need to start from the beginning, just as long as it is still positioned correctly in the time line. Work your way through the rough cut testing and trying out ideas you had in mind. If you have a multiple camera show to edit then its always assntual to make sure you add enough tracks to your timeline to have match the amount of each different camera shot each camera shot. For example I was given the task to edit a multi camera dance show it that consistes of 5 different shot types, therefore I created 5 tracks for each shot. It was just a case of syncing and then I could simply begin my cut. Once you have spent some time on your rough cut editing, mainly sorting and syning clips and generally just sorting and odering your time line. You are now ready to move onto your final cut. Firstly you can create a spare file and name it ‘bin’ you can the put in any shots that you feel are unusable in this folder just so you are left with all the shots you need, the forder can obviously be re-accessed if need be. Now its time to start editing into detail where as an editor you need full concentration. It takes a good ear and good eye to make a great edit. For the final cut you need to start filling in the gaps from the rough cut. Start thinking about adding effects if need be, try getting your cuts and transitions more smooth,  think about cutting to the beat if you have music to deal with. Its important for editors to take breaks from time to time so they can keep concentration levels up which is key to creating the perfect smooth edit. Once you feel you are happy with your edit theres a few more things that can should be done.

One main thing to do is colour correcting. This is where the editor can tweak and change the look of the shot, this is important because helps make the edit look more up to a professional standard. To do this you double click a clip and got to effects and looks then click edit. This will then open up a page with a selection of different filters to choose from. Its the editors job to experiment with and change or correct the lighting in the shots by adding the filters or manually changing colours of each shot.

Once you are finished colour correcting and are 100% happy with the edit then you are now ready to export your edit. To export, you go to file then click export. ma you export it as a quick time file because it will then be viewable easly and can be uploaed to youtube aswell

  Over the years editing has developed and changed drastically. From the days of manually cutting film reels, to editing on a computer. With todays technology theres a high standard of quality of work made and its almost become an art in its own. When you look at effects and quality of films now, from about a decade ago there is a huge leap in editing techniques and styles,there is an ever increasing amount of skill editors can develop and  learn in the ever changing technology within the filming world. There is always more to pick up on, with so many new ways of doing things. after all the hard work of completing an edit in the end it can seem worth all the time an dedication of creating that perfect  master peace.That wouldn't  have been made if there was no such thing as editing. So I guess you can say that it players a big part in the production,of creating TV and films we all love and know today.

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Spiderman 2 tile sequence.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSDU2tu7rpk

Spiderman 2 title sequence is a very interesting and complex sequence starts off slow and gradually starts to build up speed. the style and colours used are made to be like a comic book page although it is not set out like one. There are two main colours through out the sequence, red and blue. These are used to represent the colour of spider man and his iconic colours. It has a good pace its with quick moment and fast. 

 The objective of the sequence is to have a quick catch up on the first film as it flicks through pictures of things that are important about the first film.The target audience I feel is for teenagers because of its style of fast pace and action style movement.

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Euro Trip

This is title sequence from the film euro trip.The animation starts slowly and gradually builds up to faster pace to match the pace of the song.  once it gets to a certain speed, it doesn't really change through out the sequence. The design and colours are used to make it look like a Air plane safety leaflet so the colours used are very basic mainly black and white with hints of red. 

The movement of the title sequence is shown in a way that someone is looking at the leaflet from a first person perspective. There is some cleaver animation for the sequence where all the pictures come to life and start moving, while the casts names are shown on screen.

The target audience of the animation is for young adults as the humour show in the sequence is not something that a kid would understand and older adults wouldn't really care for the jokes that are shown In the animation so you can tell from the jokes and humour shows the target audience.

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Animation Feedback

Some of my class colleges  watch my animation. This was my feedback.

Tom: It had some interesting effects and it goes well with the music.

Luke: It was fun and exiting and well made, No real problems other than it being hard to read at one point.

Jess: Loved the pace of the animation. I really like the ending too. 

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Arcs

An arc in animation to brings realistic movment to the sequence. This is because as in real life really moves in staight line,for example when people walk the dont walk all robotic or stiff so thats why animators use arcs to create smooth and right looking movments.

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Rendering

Rendering is used in After effects to make things run correctly after some animation has been completed. On after effects when you press the play button it will automatically render  the sequence if any chances have been made. Once you have finished and completed your animation you have to add it to render que. This will then fully render the sequence making it ready for exporting. Your work will be then saved as a viewable clip that can be replayed perfectly in the file type you choose to save it as.

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Evaluation of my Animation project

For my animation I originally wanted to rota scope over so footage from our film trailer, In my first lessons of animation is spent it attempting to rota scope over this scene. It was had for me to do this because the system was reconising our footage to have been filmed in 50 frames per second. Although we knew we hadn't filmed on this setting, it still coised problems for me to rota scope over. This was because every time the clip was paused it was very blurred therefore the rota scope was struggling to pick up on the background and foreground.

My original idea was to have a Casino Royal style acton scene being rota scoped thought with tiles pop up. The main problem I incounterd came halfway through one of my lessons. I have finished my rota scoping to the best that it would allow me to and i moved onto staring animating some texts and titles and i wanted to animation some text so it looked like its up against the wall. To do this I have to use motion tracking. This is used to track The points of where texts can be added..

The problem started when I used this technique after it attempted to go through the process of finding the points it messed up all the rota scoping i had spent a lot of time making look. I then had to make a choice between re rota scoping that would consume a lot of time or just delete the hole thing and try it with know rota scope technique.

I eventually decided to delete the rota scoping as it was messed up and would take to long to fix. I moved on quickly as knew i was running out of time. I moved on to animating text and I thought up a new idea for the video to pause to make it drag out for longer to hit the time limit.

I feel my end product turned out well for one of first ever attempts of using the after effects program. It took me while to get the hang of things and understand the system. Once i got the hang of it i started to get things done quickly and efficiently. I felt it was necessary to add some more sound effects to the finale product to give it that extra spark. I was happy with my finale product i feel its well paced and smooth and works well.   

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Staright ahead and pose to pose

The technique straight ahead is used in drawing. The animator will draw out each Shot frame by frame until the animation is complete. It is a long process but is very detailed. Pose to pose is a similar to the last technique but the animator will draw out all the key moments of mos important unit they the end of sequence. They will the fill in the rest of the frames in after using the the ones already drawn as a guide line.

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Key Framing

Key framing is used in After effects to create a start and ending to transition. For example if you want t animate an object to move along from one end to another all you do is mark a key-frame on the timeline and drag the object to its start point, its then a case of simply moving the timeline up and the dragging and placing the object to where you want it to end. once you place it where you want it the end key-frame will be made in the timeline. If done correctly you should be able to click back to the start of your key-frame and press play and watch your animated object move to its end key-frame. This also works for every available movement and change, like scale or rotation. It is still the same simple and easy technique for basic animation. 

It is possible to add more transitions to one object if you want it to move again after one key-frame. To do this you can simply copy the last key-frame of your last movement and paste it at the point in the time line where you want the object to start another movement exct. This will then make it not move until it hits the start of the copied frame so you start to make objects have more complex movements.

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TItle Sequence Animation

This is my tile sequence of animation. I made it for a trailer work.

http://youtu.be/me2x-9_FRVc

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Animation Production Log 02/03/14

In todays lesson i started on my final project. i worked on rota scoping over some footage from our film trailer. I spent most of the lesson carefully rota scoping the acton scene. I still want to get onto adding the  title sequence that i will work on in my own time. I have the  idea of adding blood splatters too the sequence and have the letters fly in spelling out the name of actors

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My Rotoscope for animation.

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Production Logs Animation 05/03/14

In todays lesson we was shown how to rotoscope over a video in after effects. We was each given a choise of three videos to choose from. I used a clip of some pelicans the task was a long time consuming task because of the tools that you have to use. We had to select the brush tool and paint on the frame for it to find the shape of the animal. We then had to make sure the outline was right frame by frame for 10 seconds. The problems that I had incounted was the rotoscope picked up on other parts of the pictures so it was the case of deleting the mistakes. 

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Here’s the brief for your autocue project, which will be developed towards production over the next few weeks. You should take note of what you’ll need to do and raise any related issues with myself or Andy by the next session.

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Production log 12th of February 2014

In today's lesson we was in the studio recording for our TV show. The segment we did was Luke's and Stafains Movie Review.  I was assigned as camera operator, I had the job of framing up a close up of Stefain who was sitting to the right. As a team we filmed a run through of there review so the presenters could have a practice of there script. Then we went for a few takes, we started by filming the introduction were Stefain introduced himself and his co presenter Luke. After a few more run through's we eventually got the whole segment filmed successfully.