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8 Shot journey Evaluation
8 Shot Evaluation
We had a week to plan and shoot our short journey; I found it fun as we had to find the perfect location and get a good shots. I am going to evaluate each of the 8 shots that I done.
Shot one I did a long shot off my actor (Alex Palmer) standing on stairs, I did this so you can get hold of where he is and she the movement he makes.(checks watch and looks at phone) this is to give impression that his waiting for someone or waiting for a call. I believe this worked really well.
Shot 2 was a BCU of the phone this was to give tension to the shot, this made you wonder who was calling and why. This works well as you think your looking over his shoulder, spying like.
Shot 3 I did a MCU to get the facial expression of his face to tell the story as it’s a silent film, so its says many things. He look very mysterious and crafty, which is what I was trying to achieve.
Shot 4 I did a MLS, LS and a VLS as I did Alex walking away from the camera. I had Alex looking over his shoulder to continue the craftiness through the journey I did take a few times to take this as too many people were walking through.
Shot 5 I did a LS of Alex walking across screen, checking around him I liked this shot as it had a nice background of (graffiti Wall) this went in well with my theme.
Shot 6 this was a moving shot, Alex moving towards the camera still had him checking around, shrugging on his jacket to make the action seem more effective. I liked this shot as the surroundings got lighter and more space made him seem as he got away from what he was doing.
Shot 7 CU of key going in to the door of the car, getting in then shutting. This scene is good as now he has mad it to where he was going safely.
Shot 8 LS of the car reversing this shows the end of the journey but leaves It open as the story could go on in the car.
Overall I think it went really well and was happy with the out come. Next time I think I would like to use more adventurous shots.
We had a week to plan and shoot our short journey; I found it fun as we had to find the perfect location and get a good shots. I am going to evaluate each of the 8 shots that I done.
Shot one I did a long shot off my actor (Alex Palmer) standing on stairs, I did this so you can get hold of where he is and she the movement he makes.(checks watch and looks at phone) this is to give impression that his waiting for someone or waiting for a call. I believe this worked really well.
Shot 2 was a BCU of the phone this was to give tension to the shot, this made you wonder who was calling and why. This works well as you think your looking over his shoulder, spying like.
Shot 3 I did a MCU to get the facial expression of his face to tell the story as it’s a silent film, so its says many things. He look very mysterious and crafty, which is what I was trying to achieve.
Shot 4 I did a MLS, LS and a VLS as I did Alex walking away from the camera. I had Alex looking over his shoulder to continue the craftiness through the journey I did take a few times to take this as too many people were walking through.
Shot 5 I did a LS of Alex walking across screen, checking around him I liked this shot as it had a nice background of (graffiti Wall) this went in well with my theme.
Shot 6 this was a moving shot, Alex moving towards the camera still had him checking around, shrugging on his jacket to make the action seem more effective. I liked this shot as the surroundings got lighter and more space made him seem as he got away from what he was doing.
Shot 7 CU of key going in to the door of the car, getting in then shutting. This scene is good as now he has mad it to where he was going safely.
Shot 8 LS of the car reversing this shows the end of the journey but leaves It open as the story could go on in the car.
Overall I think it went really well and was happy with the out come. Next time I think I would like to use more adventurous shots.
Wednesday 21 October 2009
Eight Shot Journey
We was given a task to make a silent eight shot journey video using the cameras provided to show a short story. Getting from one place to the next.
What is an Eight Shot Journey ?
An eight shot journey is made up of eight shots, put together to form a short story.
What is a Shot?
A shot is a period of action on screen, once the action has finished thats the end of the shot. A shot is made up of frames.
What is a Frame?
Frame is what makes up a shot, a frame is a single cell of film. A frame is a still image, but the camera takes loads of still at once to make it look like smooth and the action is one movement.
Evaluation of My Radio Jingles
This past week I have been producing jingles for a radio show. I made a promo, station Ident and a news jingle, the promo can be up to a minute long station Ident had to be 8-10 seconds long, and the news could be 15-30 seconds long. I used the programme sound booth which is on the Mac’s.
First I made the promo which took me a day as it was my first time using the programme and I was getting use to it. first I chose to base it on a morning show as I had songs in my head already that I could use and effects that I believe would work well. I used 4 songs which was kanye West – Good morning, John legend-Good Morning, Pink Floyd-Time and 50 Cent-Disco Inferno, but cut them down so I hand 10 seconds of each then added sound effects to merge the tracks together. Then record my voice and others on the Mac, then placed it over the instrumental. I was very happy how it turned out as it sounded really good and other people said it went well with the effects such as fading, I put in and the voices I used, I don’t believe I could have made it any better, it lasted 46 seconds.
Next I made my station Ident, this only took me half a day as I was use to using the programme I made this 15 seconds short and catchy, as this was used to advertise my show. I used 1 track and a couple effects and Loads of voices to get the name herd loud and clear and so it would be remembered. Again I felt this turned out really good as it went well and is very catchy. I believe it was the right amount of time as it was long enough to remember but not too long you got board with it.
The last one I made was the news jingle; this was the most fun to make as I made it more fun. I put many voices in it, different sounds, this was more of an experiment seeing what happens when I fiddle with the tempo, effects, volume levels and fading.
I was still very happy how it turned out. The only thing I was not happy with was the time it lasted, it lasted for 26 seconds which I believe was just a little too long and maybe a bit repetitive.
Overall I was very happy how they turned out and really enjoyed this project; I found the programme Sound Booth really easy to use and quickly new the ins and out of the programme.
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