RDWWA project

1.       What were you asked to do?

I had to go into a group and I got a task to research a charity called ‘RDWWA’ and interview them to find out:

      What they do in the organisation

      Why they started the organisation

      How long has the organisation been about

      Who does it benefit

      What kind of session do they do

      How many people attend the sessions

      What days does the session run

Then once we have interviewed them we had to edit the video and make it more interesting.

2.        Who/what were you making a video about?

I was making a video about the charity that we researched and interviewed (RDWWA) and their work that they have done to get the organisation to where it is now.

3.       What was the purpose of the video?

The purpose for the video was to show/teach other people about the charity, show them what they do and why they do it. Also to show people that this charity does need supports from everyone even if you’re not a part of the organisation they still need people spreading the word and telling others about the group because I didn’t know about the charity until I had to do it for this project so I defiantly learnt something about RDWWA which is a good thing because now I can tell other people about it and also let them know about this charity.

4.       What did you do in each production stage?

Pre-production: We had to watch the old video that another group did of the charity RDWWA and see which scenes we liked and could use for our video. Once we chose the ones that we could use, we transferred them onto our computer/disk and we kept just watching it over and trimming parts off that weren’t useful for us.

After all that was done we had to then plan out different questions that wanted to ask the charity when we interviewed them to make sure that we got as much information from them as we possibly could. We had to send out an email to the woman that is in charge of the organisation to find out whether we could come and interview them one day during the October half term, and then when we did get a reply from them telling us that we could come over we made sure that we was all ready for the interview.

Production: When we was interviewing the people in charge of RDWWA we set up the camera onto the tripod and got out all the questions that we had to ask them and started the interview with just asking them about the organisation. There was times where we had a little difficulty when turning the camera to face the other person who was talking because we had to keep the camera on the tripod and try to make sure the camera doesn’t move quickly and so that the video don’t look jumpy. We got good mid shots, close ups and shot reverse shot.

Post production: Once we had the entire interview completed we had to edit the video from start to finish and cut away any scenes that we didn’t want to use. While change quite a lot of the video which is a good thing because now it flows whereas before the video would cut out or there would be a scene where everything was silent which wasn’t helpful.

We did shot reverse shot with the interviewer and the interviewee while they were both talking and we also did the same technique when the interviewee was talking about the dancing and the big groups that they have at the sessions. We also included voice overs for example, while the interviewee was explaining the session’s talk we had the clip of the talk playing while her voice was still playing over the clip. We added some graphics into the video of some of the questions that we asked would appear on the screen either before or while the interviewee was speaking.

5.       What problems did you encounter and how did you solve them?  There were a few problems that we came across while filming and editing.

While we were filming we had a small problem with using the tripod and getting the camera at the right shot (mid shot, long shot etc.) but we managed to sort it out after a few minutes. Also while we were editing, we had different opinions with deciding which cut away we should do and which scenes we need to use and the type of music that we added to the video, but we did manage to sort that problem out in the end and the video looks really good.

6.       What were your strength and weaknesses in each stage?

Pre- production: Our strengths were working as a team when we was structuring and planning our set of questions and the shots that we were going to take. Our weaknesses were when we had to plan when we was all able to be free to go out and do the interview.

Production: Our strengths were taken turns with interviewing and adding our inputs in the interview. Also with filming the interview and getting the right shots at the right angle. Our weaknesses was trying to find more questions that we could’ve asked the interviewee but we was able to find a way out of that awkwardness because we just went back to some of the questions that we already talked about but this time we talked about it in more depth.

Post production: Our strengths were getting a lot of ideas on how we could make the video look presentable and interesting, but at the same time that was also a weakness because we all had different ideas for this one video.

7.       What is your opinion of the finished product?

 Overall I am quite proud with the end result of the video; we put all our ideas into this video and did all we could to get a good, interesting and resourceful video. 

Camera work

Colour Mode

With colour mode you can change the images colour to 'sepia, black and white or even negative'.
For example: sepia
                       



  Black and white:

Negative:

 

When using any of these 3 different colour modes it makes the image much more interesting because you wouldnt be able to get that type of shade with the camera set to 'normal' mode.

 

l had a go and trying to use the colour mode 'sepia and black and white' and these are some of the images that I took of the outside.

 

 This image is an example of a black and white picture that I took of outside (sky and trees) using the horizon rule. I think that the colour mode that was used makes the image look quite interesting because at first you can't tell what the image is until you look really close.

This image is the 'sepia' mode that was used. With using the sepia on the image it hasn't come out very well as I would have liked it to but you can see what I was trying to do and you can see more of the objects in the image whereas with using 'black and white' you couldn't.

 

 

 

 AF Mode

 

AF Mode means Auto Focus. Basically whe taking a picture with using AF Mode the image would usually come out much more sharper than when taking a picture with normal mode.

 

 

 

 These images are a extreme close up of a fire place. This first image is taken with the AF Mode on the highest number, you can tell that this image is much sharper than the other two images

 This image is with the AF Mode but the numbers has been turned down a little bit and you can see that the image is starting to get blurry.

This image is with the AF Mode turned down to the lowest number and you can see that the image is very blurry and quite un-recognisable.

 

 

 

 

ISO

ISO is how much light that your camera needs to take a good photo. I took a few pictures of outside when its light and the ISO is high and when its low, and also in the dark when its high and low.

 

 



 This image is in the light with the ISO turned onThis image is when it was light outside and the ISO was on a low number. Because there was quite a lot of light outside there was no need to have the ISO on a high number.

The image is a picture in the light with the ISO turned up ton the highest so that more light will be in the picture

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In this image it taken in the dark with the ISO on the lowest number

 

 

 

 

In this image it's taken in the dark but with the ISO on the highest number.

 

 

Photo Story

I have taken pictures of some of the daily after school routine. for example when I am on the bus on my way home.

 

My journey starts off from Mcdonald's where I was with a couple of my mates and this is the leftover of our catch up.




 

 

This image is when I was on the bus to take me home.

In this image im near my house






In this image im in the hallway of my house, it was quite dark so I had to make the ISO higher to add more light in the

In this image I am now back outside, but at the back of my house to put a bag in the bin.

Corporate/Promotional Videos

Corporate video is a production  which is used by mainly companies, corporations and even organizations (charities).

Corporate videos are used for specific reasons (explains something in depth) for example: Give money to charities, £2 a month advert they are trying to get the message across to people in a deep meaning way like showing the person that’s not wealthy or well in the video and also gives you a lot of information about what they want to achieve in their organisation. Also with a company/business they will produce a corporate video explaining about the company and what they do.

Promotional video is like a short video clip which quickly/ easily promotes their product or company. They wouldn't usually put a lot of infomation on the video because they want you to go on their website to find out more information. For example samsung galaxy s III, game console etc.

With promotional videos theres much more images and music that is included whereas a corporate video is mainly text and someone talking.

These two videos are quite good promotioal and corporate videos, the promotional video (phone) explains exactly what they are advertising, shows images and theres music playing throughtout the clip. The corporate video is explaining the company/organisation

These two videos are poor corporate and promotional videos because the promotional video had too much talking involved which already isnt what should be a promotional video.



This corporate video is poor, it's too long, theres hardly any talking about the product, it just doesnt make sense.

Photography Composition

I took some quick shots of different objects showing the various rules ( rule of third, symmetry, diagnol, landscape, portrait, horizon line and unbalanced elements).

This shot is an example of a Horizon line rule.

The Horizon line rule is where the sky and land meet.



This shot is an example of a landscape rule.

This is shot is an example of a Rule of third. 

The rule of this is where the eyes should be on the top line on the camera, this allows all the surroundings come into place of the image.

These shots is taken to show an example of the diagnol rule, when using the diagnol rule it makes the images look much more interesting because it is on a slant.

This shot is showing the symmetry rule, (its not exactly symmetrical as you can see I used two different type of style of bins but you can see what I was trying to do).

Using this technique (Symmetry) it can make an  interesting and eye grabbing composition because sometimes it's not even expected.

In this shot I am showing the unbalanced elements rule. In this shot I am trying to show that the 'bin' is the main focus in the shot and that it is larger than the field.  Using this type of rule makes the image look quite interesting because you wouldn't expect to think that an original small object could overtake the size of a larger object.

Edit script (story board)

Edit workshop Evaluation

In the edit workshop I kept the 180 degreee rule by not crossing/going over the line and I stayed on the same side of the person shoulder to film. There was some parts where I had to cut bits out because there was too much showing on the scene which didn't need to be there. I also tried to make sure I kept the rule of third showing but at times it wasn't possible to show because I accidently cut off some parts of the person body which then ruined the shot at times.

The match on action was most probably the only rule that was done really well, I had to cut away just a few seconds on the clip of the 'door opening and closing' to make sure that it flowed properly so then it was precise.
There were a few challenges that I had to face when we was filming, especially because we had to keep the 180 degree rule and show the shot reverse shot, so at times the clip didn't look right but in the edit workshop I was able to change the shot and make it look much better.

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reverse

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 If I did get the chance to change the film I would most probably change the room that we used so that we could've had much bigger space so then we could've added more into the film and I would also add more close up to show the person emotions on their face.

 During the post production there were some challenges that I had to face, mainly when I was trimming a clip I was getting confused all the time on how to make flow onto the next clip. If I was able to do the editting again I would make the begining shorter because at the moment the begining of the clip drags out.


 Overall the strengths of my work were when I was adding in the fade in and out when editing to cut out some of the scenes that didn't make much sense. The planning (story board) of the film was quite good, we had good ideas down and everything was clear enough for anyone to understand exactly what was going to happen.

The digital technology (editing, video camera)was quite complex to use especially because I only started to use the equipment. The editing equipment was the hardest thing to use out of all the equipment. The overall weaknesses of my work was post production because it was all too much technical things to use and understand for a short time. The overall improvments that I would make to my work is cutting away more scenes so that it is shorter.

match on action

Continuity exercise