Nearly Done !!!

Currently Exporting the Master at the moment to make sure least i have a good quality copy.

also exporting my web video.

and using a compressor to be able to view my film onto my phone.

Evaluation

Evaluation

When looking back though all what we have done and what we have filmed, I will be honest and say that we have done alright, we could done better with this to be honest but our organisation was horrible and that was due to my fault since I was the producer and should of done it right. Apart from all of that I am quite happy what we have manage to produce. Josh really did well with his idea and everyone in the group was happy with the idea.  We were asking to make a mini film about World War I to help GCSE Students. We started off by brain storming on what to do, we were thinking of making a film to do with the impact women had in the war. We were about to go for that idea, but then josh had an idea of doing a letter from a solider writing a letter from the war to his mum at home. What we did with the letter was take the most important parts out of it because it has to be 3 minutes or less. Picking an idea took longer then it should and that cost us a bit of time. We had to get a costume for the shoot, which we got but going to a costume shop. The college helped us out with that to pay for the costume to rent. We then did a minutes meet were you have a meeting a record the minutes of the idea and what stuff was spoken about during the time and what time.  We filmed at a place called the natgarw fireworks, which was nice of the people there to let us, film some our war film it helped us a lot. I’d like to say thanks to holly for showing us the place. Filming went well that day we got everything done for the indoor scenes, we had Dan writing on a desk like he was in his dorm at a training camp with a lit candle to give it a good lighting which was good since we didn’t use any lights on it which when that was done it got us on our way to start the beginning of editing. Again I would like to thank Dan Rich for helping us all through the filming we did and everyone in the group really appreciates it.  Once that was done we needed to make sure we could fined      an out door scene. This took ages to find since josh wanted to find the right location, this took long so we had to find somewhere to do it and fast. So we shot one the scene at treforest estate with Dan smoking and writing the letter outside the training camp which was good because we needed this footage for the letter. We got Dan to dress up in a shirt and brown trousers like they would do in the war. We try to make it as real as possible. It went well and got all the clips, which will allow me to edit more.  There was a disagreement since for some reason Matthew kept trying to pan everything we shot and it got a bit annoying. Then we have left it late to film the last bit because we were waiting for josh to get a tent but he took ages to get it so we had to improvise on what the tent should look like and used a bed sheet to make it look like one. This was a quick and easy shoot and it annoys me that my group took long to get it sorted because it took us longer to set up the tent then it did to shoot the footage what we needed. We then started to get the voice over which again Dan Rich helped us out. We book the recording studio and used the facilities to help us produce the best sound we could. Rory and Matthew really helped me with this and showed me what I needed to do and gave me more interest on the sound and how it was. The lessons we had with Rory before helped me in the understanding of the sound and what we needed to do and how goo the quality should be. We gave Dan the script then we recording him speaking each part of the script and make sure the quality of the recording was good and we had the best one. When Dan was doing some the retakes I felt like I had the power when I was be hide the mixing desk  , which I found quite funny. Once that was done we could finally finish the edit and that was hard to do, you would think that 2-3 minute video would not take long at all but it does and I have found my self trying to make everything perfect and maybe because it’s a small video so I don’t want to make a mess of it. Finding all the sounds was harder then usual because I couldn’t find the right sound I wanted and that took me ages to do. When looking back at the editing I did and the way I did it, I am happy on the out come that happened and I’m glad we were able to get it done and hopefully our poor organisation did not cost us as much.

Interactive Media,Legal Worries, Formats

Interactive Media

Interactive Media is usually when a product or services are on a digital computer based system which response to the users actions by presenting content as video, text, graphic, animation and games.you could say that any form of interface between the user and a digital service would be interactive but not the only source of interaction media, there is something called printed interactive media which would be board games and pop-up games. so in my case in making my World War film and how people can learn from it, is that they can interact with it and hopefully get into the short film. A example of interactive media would be social networking sites because they let you interact with using games and lets people share photos and videos. Video games are also a source of interactive media because the people who play them uses a controller to respond the visual and sound cues on the screen. Really your sky boxes and recorders are interactive media. Adverts on T.V or on the web are interactive because they are trying to get you to buy the products they are selling. Also Vloging is a new way of interacting with people mostly used by you tubers to do q and a stuff.



Archive Footage Worry ,Legal Worries
When using archive footage, i need to make sure that all the videos are the right war clips to go with the film and making sure that the footage is clear, i will need to make sure that nothing is copyrighted and make sure it is only used for education purposes only. i will need to credit the people at the end. need to make sure i have the footage is right. the ethical issues i have to look out for is that what if i can not use the archive footage for copy right reasons, i will have to find videos that are free to use and will not get me into trouble. same with the music, i got to make sure that it will not affect my work and it is the right type of music to go with the video.

Formats

We are making the finish video and we got to format it for the web and one for a mobile phone, we are doing this because we need the video to show on the web so people can watch it so people can watch it to revise and the same with the mobile phone which would allow to watch it on the go and it be portable to use. it is a great way to format the videos to. i will make a master video which will be the full HQ video. The mobile format will be in mp4 so i will compress the file so it will fit on to a film and work well. I will also be exporting the master file to make it work on the web. I will try to put my work up on youtube to see if it will work on the web, i'v tried the film on my phone and it has worked fine.I am going to talk little about file sizes, which makes the data in the file smaller. One of them is called Lossy which is a way of compressing a video or picture. Lossy is a high compression which means the picture or video will have a lower quality and a smaller file size which would help when putting it on a phone. The other one is Lossless which is a low compression so the video or picture is at a higher quality but the file size is very big. Containers which is the file it's self, wraps up the video and audio in to a file which is called .mov file or . aiff.

aiff files

 mov files

Filming Today

We have done some filming today for our WWI film, it was a good thing to do since it will help us finish the film off. The scene we were filming was the actor Dan was out side sitting down on a wall or a tree and writing the letter, this is part of the letter is when he gets the fag on tuesday. we have a shot were the actor is looking at the photo of his family and saying he sends his love to them and how he is missing. we are again happy with the take and how Dan has helped us out during the filming. we filmed by an area in treforest industrial estate and it was a good location to pick out by Josh it went well with the rest of the film.

i think we need to get one more scene to film which we will do on monday and hopefully we will get everything done and then we can finish off editing which has to be done really next friday but i'm positive it will be down by then.

Recording Studio/Filming Monday!!

Like i said in the last post we recorded a voice over with our actor Dan, which went really well and it was really good to make and i enjoyed it. in my opinion Dan voice sounds like a solider and really goes with the film. We are filming the last little part we need on monday which is the part where the actor Dan will be having a fag outside his tent and also where he has a photo with his two war friends. this should not take long but you never know with filming! but we are hoping it will take a few hours and thats it. we are still waiting for josh to get the tent but if all fails we will have to use a bed sheet to make it out as a tent.

We are filming this scene at Llantrisant common, which the director josh pick because he said it will look good and would be the right location and when looking at pictures i have to agree with him.

it has got to the point where we will film this in any condition of weather because this is a really important scene and will be a great one to shoot.  we also need to get achieved footage to put in our film and we got to make sure we its below 3 mins but i'm sure this will be.

Editing Time

We have done half of the filming so now we have decided to start editing the film and see if it looks good. The wednesday just gone, we go the actor Dan to do the voice over in the recording studio, this was good because we could get all the scenes done there and then. i really enjoyed it since i learnt how to use the mixing desk properly and that is what i would like to do in the future. we got Dan to say some the lines over again so we have back up to use and then we have a choice to pick, which was good and i learnt a lot about what to do with sound. we had a problem though, in the recording studio there is air condition which we can't turn off since if we turn that off it turns the whole side of the buildings off, so it was a struggle to get rid of it, but we found a way around it, we did this by setting the mic in a corridor and small spaced and the audio sounded much better and you could not hear any background noise. So the group is very happy with the results that we go during the recording. hope it will all work out. i'd like to thank Dan again for helping us out!

Start on editing is on the way and it will allow us to get moving and get our work done.

in my opinion, that is a great shot of Dan and the candle, just want to put it put there ! hoping to finish this by next friday.

Looking back on Filming Friday/Saturday

We filmed down the Nantgarw Chinaworks, Matthew booked the camera, tripod and the wheel, that's all he needed and what the director needed. 

our only light was a candle which gave a good light on the scene where he is writing the diary. The costume was perfect fit, we were worried that the costume wouldn't fit and be the actors size but it was a perfect fit. Dan (our actor) was great, he did so well with the demands and took everything on board. everything seems to go smooth when we started filming. we did take longer then we should so we had to try and shoot on the saturday but josh forgot to important thing we needed in that shoot, and that was the tent. so we now need to make sure we can film soon to get the final parts of the film so we can start editing properly.  but least we got all the footage we needed to do a bit of editing. we will now do the voice over in the recording studio today using the actors dan voice to go over our clips. 

(not actual college recording studio, i wish though)