Tuesday 18 November 2008
up to date: safety forms camera action 13.11.08
Chase and I filled out the risk assessment forms and booked out the camera, Joe redrew the story board so we are now ready to start filming tomorow!
12.11.08 Proposal Presentation
We did our proposal presentation and i think it went quite well, there didnt seem to be many confusions in what we are trying to do with our documentary. We had a slight problem which was that when we went to photocopy our storyboard it didnt show up so we had to go over it again in ink so that it would show up. We also found out we had to do risk assesment forms before we are able to book out the cameras so we also had to do these.
11.11.08 Recce, Finished Proposal
Today we met up with Kid33 and went to see the studio where we will be filming the majority of our documentary. Here are some pictures that we took: 
We also filled out a recce form for this studio which i shall post shortly.
Chase and I spent the evening finishing typing up the proposal ready for the presentation the next day:
Warm and Easy Productions Presents:
“Urban Art: Kid33”
Proposal
“Urban Art” is a documentary about Nathan Bainbridge, aka Kid33, from the graffiti group Oxygen Thievez. In this film, we will be trying to find out how he began his role as a graffiti artist and his perception on the culture. The length of this character study will be approximately four minutes.”
We see Nathan as an artist expressing his individuality through a taboo art-form. The story will focus on the progression of his artwork and his views surrounding the area. This documentary will be presented through a voice recorded interview and various shots of Nathan painting a piece of which he sees himself artistically. Pictures of other “tags” and sketches by Kid33 will be shown throughout the film. “Urban Art” will use constant moving imagery from beginning to end to invoke the flowing feeling of an aerosol can painting a piece of graffiti.
Scene 1: We are going to have shots of Kid33’s work fading from one to another with the title and production name showing. We will use a hip- hop song named “Hell on Earth” for the duration of the introduction as it will set the film off with the urban feel that we intend to portray. The total duration of the introduction will be roughly 15 seconds.
Scene 2: We will ask Kid33 to paint a picture of how he sees himself. It will not necessarily be a the conventional way in which someone might portray themselves, but his own abstract interpretation of what represents him as a person i.e. personality, experiences etc. Through out the film the camera will focus on various areas of the piece of art such as parts of the face or body to help convey the relevant message Kid33 is trying to get across. This scene will contain rough background of Kid33s life and how he began his life as a graffiti artist. We do not intend to show Kid33’s face, however the questions he answers to through out the scene will be used as a voice over. This will give the viewer a sense of ambiguity around Kid33 as a character who seemingly has a hobby of which can have a criminal background. Other shots of his artwork will be edited into the scene. The duration of this scene will be roughly 45 seconds.
Scene 3: The second scene will flow into the third carrying on the theme of graffiti often being known as a criminal offence. We will be focusing on the legal issues regarding graffiti, his opinions on graffiti as a whole and if he has had any previous encounters with the police regarding his artwork. This camera will be focusing on the mouth of the painting that he creates and other images of work he has done that relates to this topic. This scene should last for roughly 45 seconds.
Scene 4: The fourth scene will focus on areas in which he may have helped the community such as work shops etc. Keeping the theme of focusing on a specific part of the painting he created, we will edit in shots of the representation of his hands. Shots of his artwork that he may have produced in projects to help the community will be edited in through out the scene. This scene will last for roughly 45 seconds.
Scene 5: Scene five will be his overview of the subject and what art means to him in which we will show still images of Kid33 and his graffiti group Oxygen Thievez’s artwork in public areas. The camera will also cut to the image of his eyes in his artistic interpretation of himself. This section of the film will last for roughly 20 seconds.
Scene 6: This will be our final shot of his finished art work where his portrait is revealed to the viewer. We will attach a piece of cellophane to the camera lens for Kid33 to sign as the credit roll across the screen. This section will take roughly 15 seconds.
To keep the viewer’s interest we are going to show the images and film with a variety of different effects on some shots we will have video noise and changing the saturation, brightness and contrast to give it a 9mm film look. This is to give it an urban feel. In contrast to show graffiti is still an art form we will intensify the brightness. We also are going to dissolve images of Kid33’s artwork into one another.
As a group, we share a common interest in art, specifically urban and underground art. Much of this style of art is not properly recognised. In particular, we believe that graffiti is looked upon with a negative view. This is due to its criminal associations and a misunderstanding of the culture. Therefore, we wish to present a character which will show the audience the artistic end of the graffiti spectrum and leave them feeling inspired. Through this character study of Nathan Bainbridge, we aim to answer underlying questions surrounding the controversy surrounding urban art and to give a voice to the underground art culture of graffiti.
Locations.
1. His studio
2. Locations where Kid33 and the Oxygen Thievez work is on display
3. His house
4. Skatepark
Script.
As a group we have put together a few questions of which we will choose the best edit in post production. The questions will spur him on to tell the story he intends to get across to the viewer. Although we have not got the exact answers from each question, we do have a rough idea of what answers we would like to get out of Kid33. Our questions will not be heard in the final edit, so therefore will ask him to repeat each question in the answer, as if he was telling a story.
1. What was your life like growing up and how has it made who you are?
2. Have you always been artistic?
3. When and why did you first get serious about art?
4. How did you start getting recognised and how did it make you feel?
5. What do your family and friends think about your work?
6. How do you feel about the whole image that graffiti brings? E.g. gangs, being socially unacceptable and it being a criminal activity?
7. Is the graffiti you create illegal?
8. How do you feel about the laws regarding graffiti?
9. How do you use your art to help the community and who are you trying to help?
10. How did you get involved with graffiti and what is your influence?
11. What’s your message in your graffiti and who are you sending it to?
12. What is your role in the Oxygen Thievez?
13. What opportunity’s has being in the Oxygen Thievez given you?
14. What does art mean to you?
15. Is your art an escape for you?
16. If you could tag anything in the world, what would it be and why?
We also filled out a recce form for this studio which i shall post shortly.
Chase and I spent the evening finishing typing up the proposal ready for the presentation the next day:
Warm and Easy Productions Presents:
“Urban Art: Kid33”
Proposal
“Urban Art” is a documentary about Nathan Bainbridge, aka Kid33, from the graffiti group Oxygen Thievez. In this film, we will be trying to find out how he began his role as a graffiti artist and his perception on the culture. The length of this character study will be approximately four minutes.”
We see Nathan as an artist expressing his individuality through a taboo art-form. The story will focus on the progression of his artwork and his views surrounding the area. This documentary will be presented through a voice recorded interview and various shots of Nathan painting a piece of which he sees himself artistically. Pictures of other “tags” and sketches by Kid33 will be shown throughout the film. “Urban Art” will use constant moving imagery from beginning to end to invoke the flowing feeling of an aerosol can painting a piece of graffiti.
Scene 1: We are going to have shots of Kid33’s work fading from one to another with the title and production name showing. We will use a hip- hop song named “Hell on Earth” for the duration of the introduction as it will set the film off with the urban feel that we intend to portray. The total duration of the introduction will be roughly 15 seconds.
Scene 2: We will ask Kid33 to paint a picture of how he sees himself. It will not necessarily be a the conventional way in which someone might portray themselves, but his own abstract interpretation of what represents him as a person i.e. personality, experiences etc. Through out the film the camera will focus on various areas of the piece of art such as parts of the face or body to help convey the relevant message Kid33 is trying to get across. This scene will contain rough background of Kid33s life and how he began his life as a graffiti artist. We do not intend to show Kid33’s face, however the questions he answers to through out the scene will be used as a voice over. This will give the viewer a sense of ambiguity around Kid33 as a character who seemingly has a hobby of which can have a criminal background. Other shots of his artwork will be edited into the scene. The duration of this scene will be roughly 45 seconds.
Scene 3: The second scene will flow into the third carrying on the theme of graffiti often being known as a criminal offence. We will be focusing on the legal issues regarding graffiti, his opinions on graffiti as a whole and if he has had any previous encounters with the police regarding his artwork. This camera will be focusing on the mouth of the painting that he creates and other images of work he has done that relates to this topic. This scene should last for roughly 45 seconds.
Scene 4: The fourth scene will focus on areas in which he may have helped the community such as work shops etc. Keeping the theme of focusing on a specific part of the painting he created, we will edit in shots of the representation of his hands. Shots of his artwork that he may have produced in projects to help the community will be edited in through out the scene. This scene will last for roughly 45 seconds.
Scene 5: Scene five will be his overview of the subject and what art means to him in which we will show still images of Kid33 and his graffiti group Oxygen Thievez’s artwork in public areas. The camera will also cut to the image of his eyes in his artistic interpretation of himself. This section of the film will last for roughly 20 seconds.
Scene 6: This will be our final shot of his finished art work where his portrait is revealed to the viewer. We will attach a piece of cellophane to the camera lens for Kid33 to sign as the credit roll across the screen. This section will take roughly 15 seconds.
To keep the viewer’s interest we are going to show the images and film with a variety of different effects on some shots we will have video noise and changing the saturation, brightness and contrast to give it a 9mm film look. This is to give it an urban feel. In contrast to show graffiti is still an art form we will intensify the brightness. We also are going to dissolve images of Kid33’s artwork into one another.
As a group, we share a common interest in art, specifically urban and underground art. Much of this style of art is not properly recognised. In particular, we believe that graffiti is looked upon with a negative view. This is due to its criminal associations and a misunderstanding of the culture. Therefore, we wish to present a character which will show the audience the artistic end of the graffiti spectrum and leave them feeling inspired. Through this character study of Nathan Bainbridge, we aim to answer underlying questions surrounding the controversy surrounding urban art and to give a voice to the underground art culture of graffiti.
Locations.
1. His studio
2. Locations where Kid33 and the Oxygen Thievez work is on display
3. His house
4. Skatepark
Script.
As a group we have put together a few questions of which we will choose the best edit in post production. The questions will spur him on to tell the story he intends to get across to the viewer. Although we have not got the exact answers from each question, we do have a rough idea of what answers we would like to get out of Kid33. Our questions will not be heard in the final edit, so therefore will ask him to repeat each question in the answer, as if he was telling a story.
1. What was your life like growing up and how has it made who you are?
2. Have you always been artistic?
3. When and why did you first get serious about art?
4. How did you start getting recognised and how did it make you feel?
5. What do your family and friends think about your work?
6. How do you feel about the whole image that graffiti brings? E.g. gangs, being socially unacceptable and it being a criminal activity?
7. Is the graffiti you create illegal?
8. How do you feel about the laws regarding graffiti?
9. How do you use your art to help the community and who are you trying to help?
10. How did you get involved with graffiti and what is your influence?
11. What’s your message in your graffiti and who are you sending it to?
12. What is your role in the Oxygen Thievez?
13. What opportunity’s has being in the Oxygen Thievez given you?
14. What does art mean to you?
15. Is your art an escape for you?
16. If you could tag anything in the world, what would it be and why?
Thursday 13 November 2008
10.11.08 Contact,Questions,Storyboard
Today we had another group meeting and got in contact with the guy we are doing our documentarary (kid33) and planed a meeting with him for the following day, to see the place we are going to be filming and go over our ideas in greater detail. He seemed quite enthousiastic about our idea though which was a gd sign.
We also drew out the storyboard today which i shall insert as soon as we scan it, and we wrote out some questions we will ask Kid33 in a voice recorded interview which will be in the proposal.
We also drew out the storyboard today which i shall insert as soon as we scan it, and we wrote out some questions we will ask Kid33 in a voice recorded interview which will be in the proposal.
13.11.08 My favorite shot
I choose shot 4 where there are the two guys sitting at a table, as i thought it interested me the most. This was because of the mystery of the shot as we dont really know where they are or who they are. With the other shots we presume that the shirtless guy is from the prison but the other character we dont know but again would presume that its sum sort of visitor. The face they are smoking possibly shows that the attmosphere is a bit tence.
Tuesday 11 November 2008
Proposal / Story Board 9.11.2008
We decided to give our documentary a new look and decided to take out what we were going to do at the start of it. This was the shots of peoples faces explaining their oppinions on the graffiti, but to keep the artist doing a graffiti for us. The Graffiti we want him to do fo us is a character that will be representive of his personality, we shall then focus the film around differnt parts of the character as he is painting it. This will tell his story and answer what his oppinion is to whether graffiti is art or a crime. As the parts come together the audience will then be able to see the artists charachter revealed.
Our group started to discuss the proposal and firstly looked at some similar documentarys, here are two that we found:
Atlas Graffiti documentary
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ux0s5hkYWbY
FOX News L.A. Taggers
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tPJIYfAMgHw&feature=related
The first one on the Atlas Graffiti group kind of had the same feel to how we wanted ours to flow. It also showed graffiti artist going to extreme lenghts to put up their tags.
The second documentary wasnt very usefull as it was more about a gang that tagged things rather than a smaller graffiti group. We thought this one coulde have been usefull as it would have showed graffiti more as a crime.
We came up with a story board of how we wanted it to look which was as follows:
Scene 1: We are going to have shots of Kid33’s work fading from one to another with the title and production name showing. We will use a hip- hop song named “Hell on Earth” for the duration of the introduction as it will set the film off with the urban feel that we intend to portray. The total duration of the introduction will be roughly 15 seconds.
Scene 2: We will ask Kid33 to paint a picture of how he sees himself. It will not necessarily be a the conventional way in which someone might portray themselves, but his own abstract interpretation of what represents him as a person i.e. personality, experiences etc. Through out the film the camera will focus on various areas of the piece of art such as parts of the face or body to help convey the relevant message Kid33 is trying to get across. This scene will contain rough background of Kid33s life and how he began his life as a graffiti artist. We do not intend to show Kid33’s face, however the questions he answers to through out the scene will be used as a voice over. This will give the viewer a sense of ambiguity around Kid33 as a character who seemingly has a hobby of which can have a criminal background. Other shots of his artwork will be edited into the scene. The duration of this scene will be roughly 45 seconds.
Scene 3: The second scene will flow into the third carrying on the theme of graffiti often being known as a criminal offence. We will be focusing on the legal issues regarding graffiti, his opinions on graffiti as a whole and if he has had any previous encounters with the police regarding his artwork. This camera will be focusing on the mouth of the painting that he creates and other images of work he has done that relates to this topic. This scene should last for roughly 45 seconds.
Scene 4: The fourth scene will focus on areas in which he may have helped the community such as work shops etc. Keeping the theme of focusing on a specific part of the painting he created, we will edit in shots of the representation of his hands. Shots of his artwork that he may have produced in projects to help the community will be edited in through out the scene. This scene will last for roughly 45 seconds.
Scene 5: Scene five will be our overview in which we will show still images of Kid33 and his graffiti group Oxygen Thievez’s artwork in public areas. The camera will also cut to the image of his eyes in his artistic interpretation of himself. This section of the film will last for roughly 20 seconds.
Scene 6: This will be our final shot of his finished art work where his portrait is revealed to the viewer. We will attach a piece of cellophane to the camera lens for Kid33 to sign as the credit roll across the screen. This section will take roughly 15 seconds.
Our group finished discussing what we were planing to put in it and after the group meeting Chase and I started to write out the proposal.
Our group started to discuss the proposal and firstly looked at some similar documentarys, here are two that we found:
Atlas Graffiti documentary
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ux0s5hkYWbY
FOX News L.A. Taggers
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tPJIYfAMgHw&feature=related
The first one on the Atlas Graffiti group kind of had the same feel to how we wanted ours to flow. It also showed graffiti artist going to extreme lenghts to put up their tags.
The second documentary wasnt very usefull as it was more about a gang that tagged things rather than a smaller graffiti group. We thought this one coulde have been usefull as it would have showed graffiti more as a crime.
We came up with a story board of how we wanted it to look which was as follows:
Scene 1: We are going to have shots of Kid33’s work fading from one to another with the title and production name showing. We will use a hip- hop song named “Hell on Earth” for the duration of the introduction as it will set the film off with the urban feel that we intend to portray. The total duration of the introduction will be roughly 15 seconds.
Scene 2: We will ask Kid33 to paint a picture of how he sees himself. It will not necessarily be a the conventional way in which someone might portray themselves, but his own abstract interpretation of what represents him as a person i.e. personality, experiences etc. Through out the film the camera will focus on various areas of the piece of art such as parts of the face or body to help convey the relevant message Kid33 is trying to get across. This scene will contain rough background of Kid33s life and how he began his life as a graffiti artist. We do not intend to show Kid33’s face, however the questions he answers to through out the scene will be used as a voice over. This will give the viewer a sense of ambiguity around Kid33 as a character who seemingly has a hobby of which can have a criminal background. Other shots of his artwork will be edited into the scene. The duration of this scene will be roughly 45 seconds.
Scene 3: The second scene will flow into the third carrying on the theme of graffiti often being known as a criminal offence. We will be focusing on the legal issues regarding graffiti, his opinions on graffiti as a whole and if he has had any previous encounters with the police regarding his artwork. This camera will be focusing on the mouth of the painting that he creates and other images of work he has done that relates to this topic. This scene should last for roughly 45 seconds.
Scene 4: The fourth scene will focus on areas in which he may have helped the community such as work shops etc. Keeping the theme of focusing on a specific part of the painting he created, we will edit in shots of the representation of his hands. Shots of his artwork that he may have produced in projects to help the community will be edited in through out the scene. This scene will last for roughly 45 seconds.
Scene 5: Scene five will be our overview in which we will show still images of Kid33 and his graffiti group Oxygen Thievez’s artwork in public areas. The camera will also cut to the image of his eyes in his artistic interpretation of himself. This section of the film will last for roughly 20 seconds.
Scene 6: This will be our final shot of his finished art work where his portrait is revealed to the viewer. We will attach a piece of cellophane to the camera lens for Kid33 to sign as the credit roll across the screen. This section will take roughly 15 seconds.
Our group finished discussing what we were planing to put in it and after the group meeting Chase and I started to write out the proposal.
Oxygen Theivz 5.11.2008
so we started outlining of what we could do with this as we thought this would be a much more interesting to a wider audience.
We came up with a working title very quickly of "Urban Art" and with the concept of whether or not graffiti is art or a crime. We chose to do it on this for a few reasons, firstly we all find graffiti interesting and also what's behind graffiti in the scence that you dont usually see them being done there is a blank wall one day and the next there can be something on it. So we think it would be interesting to find out the charachter behind this.
we then thought of some aspects we would like to look into such as:
- How he got into it
- How he got recognised
- Why they see it as an art
- Has he ever been caught
- What message he sends from his graffiti
The visual side of it we planned to start with short videos of people saying there opinion on a graffiti but not show or say what it is then show the graffiti and have the title fade into the picture. The following scene we would film the artist doing a graffiti onto a canvas but speed it up and have a VO from the artist speaking about his work and answering our questions. We would also fade in other pictures of art his done that correspond to what hes talking about.
For the target audience we thought of people that are to do with art such as art students and other artists
We came up with a working title very quickly of "Urban Art" and with the concept of whether or not graffiti is art or a crime. We chose to do it on this for a few reasons, firstly we all find graffiti interesting and also what's behind graffiti in the scence that you dont usually see them being done there is a blank wall one day and the next there can be something on it. So we think it would be interesting to find out the charachter behind this.
we then thought of some aspects we would like to look into such as:
- How he got into it
- How he got recognised
- Why they see it as an art
- Has he ever been caught
- What message he sends from his graffiti
The visual side of it we planned to start with short videos of people saying there opinion on a graffiti but not show or say what it is then show the graffiti and have the title fade into the picture. The following scene we would film the artist doing a graffiti onto a canvas but speed it up and have a VO from the artist speaking about his work and answering our questions. We would also fade in other pictures of art his done that correspond to what hes talking about.
For the target audience we thought of people that are to do with art such as art students and other artists
Group Meeting New Project 5.11.2008
In the morning we met up before our lecture and went to the YMCA and the police station to find if they knew anyone that we could use. The YMCA said that they couldnt help us at all, but the police gave us some names of institues and their phone numbers. We then went back to one of our groups houses and tried calling the numbers we had been given and searched the internet for other simmilar institutes that could help us find someone.
After a while we decided that we should think of a whole new project we came up with four ideas of who to do it on which were:
- A Community Support Officer
why: We thought of this as everyone sees them around town all the time but not many people know exactly what they do. You also hear alot of people saying they dont do much so to show their side of the story
- A Big Issue handout
why:Tell the story of people that are unheard, everyone knows who you mean when you talk about people selling the big issue but no one knows why they do it or what life style they have, and this is to show this.
- A Community Centre
why:To find some one that is helping the community in someway. This was to find someone that is helping the community and we would look for someone with an interesting background.
- A Prostitute Help Centre
why: Whilst browsing for drug rehabilitation programs we came across a prostitute help centre and thought of doing it on the founder of this organisation for a variety of reasons and we made a short outile:
what: Why the organisation was started and what it means to them?
where: at the POW institute in nottingham
Why: Around where we live in nottingham there are alot of prostitutes about at night and so we see them all the time. We also found it interesting as it is not trying to stop them do it it is mainly aiming on making it safer although they do also teach skills.
Target Audience: People that know prostitutes, for POW as a Promotion for their organisation and for school as educational purposes.
Half way through this we got a call, saying that we could do a the documentrary on a graffiti artist that is part of the "Oxygen Theivz" graffiti crew.
After a while we decided that we should think of a whole new project we came up with four ideas of who to do it on which were:
- A Community Support Officer
why: We thought of this as everyone sees them around town all the time but not many people know exactly what they do. You also hear alot of people saying they dont do much so to show their side of the story
- A Big Issue handout
why:Tell the story of people that are unheard, everyone knows who you mean when you talk about people selling the big issue but no one knows why they do it or what life style they have, and this is to show this.
- A Community Centre
why:To find some one that is helping the community in someway. This was to find someone that is helping the community and we would look for someone with an interesting background.
- A Prostitute Help Centre
why: Whilst browsing for drug rehabilitation programs we came across a prostitute help centre and thought of doing it on the founder of this organisation for a variety of reasons and we made a short outile:
what: Why the organisation was started and what it means to them?
where: at the POW institute in nottingham
Why: Around where we live in nottingham there are alot of prostitutes about at night and so we see them all the time. We also found it interesting as it is not trying to stop them do it it is mainly aiming on making it safer although they do also teach skills.
Target Audience: People that know prostitutes, for POW as a Promotion for their organisation and for school as educational purposes.
Half way through this we got a call, saying that we could do a the documentrary on a graffiti artist that is part of the "Oxygen Theivz" graffiti crew.
Group Meeting: pictures and who can we do it on? 4.11.2008
During the day me and chase went to take some photos of possible location of where to film, We walked around town looking for places we could shoot an interview, and also other photos that we could use in the project. Here are a few of the pictures we took:
In the evening our group then met up and we discussed who we could do the documentary on and where abouts we could go to find someone. We decided that we would go to the YMCA and the Police to ask if they knew any rehabilatated drug addicts that are doing talks to current addicts.
In the evening our group then met up and we discussed who we could do the documentary on and where abouts we could go to find someone. We decided that we would go to the YMCA and the Police to ask if they knew any rehabilatated drug addicts that are doing talks to current addicts.
Semminar and Group Meeting 3.11.2008
Between now and the 23rd we have been waiting for the guy we were planning on doing our documentary on to email back but as we hadnt heard from him we decided that we had to change our project. this is the outline of what we came up with for our new project:
- Change focus away from the personal asspect of addiction to the community
- Not a grime/urban feel anymore
- More uplifting/ light music
- To shoot it where the new person we choose works
what: A personal insight that shows you can still live your life afer addiction
where: Where the person works, around the YMCA possibly and his home
Why: To show a story of someone overcoming a devil to give hope and inspiration to people that struggle after or during addiction, and to help the community.
how: With using voice over from the person we use teaching or working, Film of him at his work place, photos of projects he is working on, a relaxed editing atmosphere.
music: light hearted uplifting; classical/ electronic/ instromental
Reasons:
Heart - sympathys with the audience, his passion for what he is doing, wants to use his own experience to help others. hits the audience with a heart warming story.
Mind - Informing people of rehabilitaion programs
- Change focus away from the personal asspect of addiction to the community
- Not a grime/urban feel anymore
- More uplifting/ light music
- To shoot it where the new person we choose works
what: A personal insight that shows you can still live your life afer addiction
where: Where the person works, around the YMCA possibly and his home
Why: To show a story of someone overcoming a devil to give hope and inspiration to people that struggle after or during addiction, and to help the community.
how: With using voice over from the person we use teaching or working, Film of him at his work place, photos of projects he is working on, a relaxed editing atmosphere.
music: light hearted uplifting; classical/ electronic/ instromental
Reasons:
Heart - sympathys with the audience, his passion for what he is doing, wants to use his own experience to help others. hits the audience with a heart warming story.
Mind - Informing people of rehabilitaion programs
Me My Mum and Heroin 23.10.2008
Today our group met up at my house and watched a documentary on channel 4 called Me My Mum and Heroin. This was about a girl and her boyfreind who were both addicted to heroin, the mum was also part of it who was just trying to help her daughter and the boyfreind out. (more to come)
Recall
I haven't writen on my blog for a while but i have kept a written journal of what we have done as a group and so i shall say what we did and when in the following posts.
Wednesday 5 November 2008
Video Journalism Workshop 29.10.08
A Video journalist came from the bbc to talk to us. I found this quite usefull from the camera techniques that he was telling us.
This first thing i learnt about was what the minimum shots should be used within one sequence, these were a close up of the hands so you can see what they are doing, a close up of the face so that you are able to identify who it is, a wide shot to give the audience a idea of where the person you are filming is, a shot over the shoulder so you can see as the subject sees and the final shot is a creative shot to make it a bit more interesting.
The second bit of valuable information i got out of this workshop were 4 tips on our documentarys. These were that you must hit the audiences Mind in the sence of teaching them something new, secondly the Heart by making the viewers feel for what you are filming and touch them, thirdly money because when you bring money into it for instance the credit crunch it will get alot of people interested and finlly it was a technique of keeping all the eyes together, being the eyes of the people and the eye of the camera (although this is for interviews)
This first thing i learnt about was what the minimum shots should be used within one sequence, these were a close up of the hands so you can see what they are doing, a close up of the face so that you are able to identify who it is, a wide shot to give the audience a idea of where the person you are filming is, a shot over the shoulder so you can see as the subject sees and the final shot is a creative shot to make it a bit more interesting.
The second bit of valuable information i got out of this workshop were 4 tips on our documentarys. These were that you must hit the audiences Mind in the sence of teaching them something new, secondly the Heart by making the viewers feel for what you are filming and touch them, thirdly money because when you bring money into it for instance the credit crunch it will get alot of people interested and finlly it was a technique of keeping all the eyes together, being the eyes of the people and the eye of the camera (although this is for interviews)
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