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