I
chose to do my filming a week and a half before the presentation date as this
gave me time to re shoot anything that had gone wrong. I knew that the entire
train journey shooting had to be done on the day due to only being able to
travel on that day due to costs, time and the SVR scheduled timetable. I also
had to make sure I had permission filming in certain places at the railway
Technical Problems
During filming I did encounter a few technical problems, the first being
my camera work was not steady enough. If I was to do it again I would definitely
use a tripod. However I do think using a tripod doing this film would have had
its own problems due to having to look after the dog while filming and holding
camera and tripod would of probably proved difficult.
Another technical problem I had was the my battery suddenly drain on the
outbound journey so the last few clips on the train I had to film on my iPhone,
as a result loosing quality and the amount of footage I wanted to get of Alfie
on the train. It also meant I could not really portray his return journey; this
is why his journey is only to Arley.
Thursday
Tuesday
Story Boarding and Planning Alfies Adventure
Today i planned out what shots and what i wanted to convey in my film heres my notes from this:
Monday
Change of Plan
I originally proposed to do a tour of where I live and use film and QR codes to
explain about each destination. After talking it through with lecturers it
didn’t really turn out as an approachable idea. I then went away and thought
about how I could adapt it.
My next idea was to do a historical tour through my granddads eyes and how he remembers Bridgnorth as he grew up there.
Finally this started me to think about the town’s tourist attractions and in particular the Severn Valley Railway, which is a unique steam train railway that is situated in Bridgnorth.I then had the idea of creating a narrative that portrayed my dog Alfred going for a day out by himself. Bridgnorth is based in rural Shropshire, its main industry is agriculture and tourism. For bridgnorth to grow economically it needs to concentrate on making the most of Its heritage, visional surroundings and tourism. I believe this idea of filming Alfred taking a trip by himself on the SVR could be used as a promotional film for the SVR. The film would give a different and fun visitor experience.
My next idea was to do a historical tour through my granddads eyes and how he remembers Bridgnorth as he grew up there.
Finally this started me to think about the town’s tourist attractions and in particular the Severn Valley Railway, which is a unique steam train railway that is situated in Bridgnorth.I then had the idea of creating a narrative that portrayed my dog Alfred going for a day out by himself. Bridgnorth is based in rural Shropshire, its main industry is agriculture and tourism. For bridgnorth to grow economically it needs to concentrate on making the most of Its heritage, visional surroundings and tourism. I believe this idea of filming Alfred taking a trip by himself on the SVR could be used as a promotional film for the SVR. The film would give a different and fun visitor experience.
Thursday
Proposal
Creative media
practice project proposal
For my creative media practice project im hoping to do short
video created with after affects with images and videos of the town I live in with QR
codes with extra information while you carry on watching the information on
screen.
young tourist information guide of bridgnorth(Where I Live)
-boutique clothes shops-cute cafes
-useful places
-unknown places
These are just a few examples of where i want to explore in my video tour guide.
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| Gin and Teacups Boutique and Tea Room |
My video would be aimed at a youngish audience who have moved to bridgnorth or dont really know the area and would not know where all the local gems are.
Youtube Annimation
Our final brief was to create a youtube interactive video. our idea was to do a lift that when you pressed the buttons to go to a floor it took you to different places instead of university (what you were expecting) As a group we thought through what we needed to film before putting our animation together
What we needed to film:
- Coming into university
- Going through university gates
- Getting to the lift
- Looking at the lift
- Pressing the Buttons in lift
- Doors in lift opening
We decided to source the videos that we were going to put in on the floors from the internet, by doing this we could go anywhere in the world with our lift. As a team we all picked a couple of videos to source and download to make our process and editing successful and quick.
The videos we wanted to source:
- New York
- Cows
- Boat
- Rain Forrest
- Mountain
- Volcano
- Desert
- Sky
- Taj Mahal
...Etc.
Our original idea was to have the lift take you somewhere different each time you pressed a floor, even though you had already been on that floor it took you somewhere different again. this is why we had such a long list of images and videos we wanted to source.
However when it came to editing and putting our film and sourced videos together we felt we were over complicating things for a mini brief so left it to 5 floors.
During editing we first found it difficult to work out how we could open the doors of the lift to reveal the video behind, we kept having it the wrong way round. We finally worked it out and i felt it had a really good effect on our final film.
When it came to adding the animations on youtube we found it fairly simple as we had created one long video so it meant we didn't have to keep finding the links to other youtube videos. The animating process consisted of drawing boxes to create the link to the time in the video it will cut to, depending if it was a sourced video or the options menu.
When it came to presenting i think people liked our idea as it was quite original but creative and interesting. People especially liked the floor with the field of cows and the boat deck.
What we needed to film:
- Coming into university
- Going through university gates
- Getting to the lift
- Looking at the lift
- Pressing the Buttons in lift
- Doors in lift opening
We decided to source the videos that we were going to put in on the floors from the internet, by doing this we could go anywhere in the world with our lift. As a team we all picked a couple of videos to source and download to make our process and editing successful and quick.
The videos we wanted to source:
- New York
- Cows
- Boat
- Rain Forrest
- Mountain
- Volcano
- Desert
- Sky
- Taj Mahal
...Etc.
Our original idea was to have the lift take you somewhere different each time you pressed a floor, even though you had already been on that floor it took you somewhere different again. this is why we had such a long list of images and videos we wanted to source.
However when it came to editing and putting our film and sourced videos together we felt we were over complicating things for a mini brief so left it to 5 floors.
During editing we first found it difficult to work out how we could open the doors of the lift to reveal the video behind, we kept having it the wrong way round. We finally worked it out and i felt it had a really good effect on our final film.
When it came to adding the animations on youtube we found it fairly simple as we had created one long video so it meant we didn't have to keep finding the links to other youtube videos. The animating process consisted of drawing boxes to create the link to the time in the video it will cut to, depending if it was a sourced video or the options menu.
When it came to presenting i think people liked our idea as it was quite original but creative and interesting. People especially liked the floor with the field of cows and the boat deck.
Friday
Isadora
For this session on Isadora i knew i would not be able to attend due to being at my best friends wedding. I decided to research what it is so i could catch up in my next session. i found that Isadora was initially created to realize the performances of Troika Ranch, a media intensive dance company co-directed by Isadora's creator, composer and media-artist Mark Coniglio. Isadora allows userts to manipulate images in different ways to create 'Media Intensive Theoretical experiences' often in synchronisation to music shown in concerts and night clubs.
Filmmakers are also coming to embrace the narrative possibilities of
Isadora. Francis Ford Coppola used the software for his film project, TWIXT
"Because cinema is now electronic and digital, it is no longer a long strip of celluloid that has to go
the way it was determined... Because a film is made up of digital files it means the director, if he were there and wanted to take the time to go to each show, he could essentially change the
experience to suit the audience."
When i returned to uni the following week i shadowed a group while they carried on with their isodora project. i was told that we were given the theme of halloween so they were basing they project on the film Psycho. At first i didn't quite understand how the concept of Isadora worked but as the group did more i did get the hang of how to do somethings and realised it was about interacting with it.
Thursday
QR Codes
Our next task involved using QR Codes and how they can be used to tell a story. As a group we were set a brief to 'Concieve a plan and build a narrative using a minimum of 5 QR Codes that can be placed within a location and may link to a website, youtube clip, google maps location, twitter page, Facebook page, etc.
Within our group we decided to do a tour of Rodney Street and show the ghosts and part of their stories when you scanned the codes when you got to different points in the street. We thought our tour could be used on a ghost walk, by putting the QR codes up on where the tour guides would stop and talk about the ghosts. people would scan with their smart phones to reveal images and videos. To show where our QR codes we placed them onto google maps, instead of having people running round Rodney Street scanning them, We would of also had to gain permission to place QR code stencils on buildings if it was used.
We created a voice note that told people what our QR Codes were about a selection of images of the ghost and also scary video of Rodney Street that we had sourced from Youtube to create an idea of how QR codes could be incorporated into a ghost walk.
When creating our google maps tour we came across a few problems as we found that we were struggling to attach images as google maps had updated and changed since we had last used it. to over come this we decided to place the location marks on the maps and add the QR codes we had created later on.
When presenting our map i felt pleased with it as i could actually imagine it being used in a ghost tour even though we had problems attaching images through google maps i felt the idea was there. I understood that it could be improved by adding our own filmed content and we could of created a print out book of our QR codes so everyone could scan them.
Within our group we decided to do a tour of Rodney Street and show the ghosts and part of their stories when you scanned the codes when you got to different points in the street. We thought our tour could be used on a ghost walk, by putting the QR codes up on where the tour guides would stop and talk about the ghosts. people would scan with their smart phones to reveal images and videos. To show where our QR codes we placed them onto google maps, instead of having people running round Rodney Street scanning them, We would of also had to gain permission to place QR code stencils on buildings if it was used.
We created a voice note that told people what our QR Codes were about a selection of images of the ghost and also scary video of Rodney Street that we had sourced from Youtube to create an idea of how QR codes could be incorporated into a ghost walk.
When creating our google maps tour we came across a few problems as we found that we were struggling to attach images as google maps had updated and changed since we had last used it. to over come this we decided to place the location marks on the maps and add the QR codes we had created later on.
When presenting our map i felt pleased with it as i could actually imagine it being used in a ghost tour even though we had problems attaching images through google maps i felt the idea was there. I understood that it could be improved by adding our own filmed content and we could of created a print out book of our QR codes so everyone could scan them.
Friday
Editing and Presenting our Triptych
This morning we met and began editing our Triptych film. We began by sorting out all our clips deciding which ones we would need and the order we were going to use them in. This helped us loads when it came to importing our files onto After Effects. After we had been shown how to create the multiscreen effect we got on with editing successfully and managed to complete our film.
However the thing we were missing was sound, we had sourced a file of a instrumental version of Daniel Powter -Bad day (very cliche) but due to having to leave enough time to upload onto youtube before our presentation time we had to leave putting the sound onto our film.
When it came to presenting i think our film was received well but it was definitely noted that our video lacked sound and this was apparent compared to other groups. I do like the concept of Triptych though and its something i would defiantly like to use again, hopefully in my final project.
However the thing we were missing was sound, we had sourced a file of a instrumental version of Daniel Powter -Bad day (very cliche) but due to having to leave enough time to upload onto youtube before our presentation time we had to leave putting the sound onto our film.
When it came to presenting i think our film was received well but it was definitely noted that our video lacked sound and this was apparent compared to other groups. I do like the concept of Triptych though and its something i would defiantly like to use again, hopefully in my final project.
Thursday
Creative Media Practice
Today was our first lecture of Creative Media Practice, in this module we are having workshops that are introducing us to a variety of technologies and techniques, concerning interaction with and delivery of media artefacts that will allow us to engage in a number of themes..
Such as:
- Narrative
- Multi-screen/spatial
- Performance
- Locative Technology
- Mobile Technology
- Interactivity
- Play
In teams will will explore through a series of mini briefs, as selection of creative media technologies
Triptych
Our first lecture we was introduced to the notion of Triptych, this is best described as a 'Window Montage'. Its a form of two or more moving images or still images shown on screen. By doing this it allows audience to focus on different parts of narrative while still having a good idea what the whole concept is about.
In a group we were set a mini brief of creating our own Triptych. After talking through all our ideas we decided to do a short film about someone who wakes up late and ends up having a bad day. I thought that portraying someone having a bad day through Triptych was a good idea as it could show the idea of a lot of things going on at once and the urgency of time.
When we had finishing story boarding our ideas we went off to film, we then planned to meet the next morning to edit our Triptych.
Such as:
- Narrative
- Multi-screen/spatial
- Performance
- Locative Technology
- Mobile Technology
- Interactivity
- Play
In teams will will explore through a series of mini briefs, as selection of creative media technologies
Triptych
Our first lecture we was introduced to the notion of Triptych, this is best described as a 'Window Montage'. Its a form of two or more moving images or still images shown on screen. By doing this it allows audience to focus on different parts of narrative while still having a good idea what the whole concept is about.
In a group we were set a mini brief of creating our own Triptych. After talking through all our ideas we decided to do a short film about someone who wakes up late and ends up having a bad day. I thought that portraying someone having a bad day through Triptych was a good idea as it could show the idea of a lot of things going on at once and the urgency of time.
When we had finishing story boarding our ideas we went off to film, we then planned to meet the next morning to edit our Triptych.
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