THE-MILL

Today I went to meet The-Mill and had a very nice talk with a lady called Amy and I was then shown around, I was told I will be working 10-4 that my travel is basically paid for me and that I get my lunch paid score! I was quite early so I wondered around and I found BBH which is another top company I want to work with so I went in and gave my CV in, I d love to get some work experience from them also! :D I am looking forward to starting my work experience with The-Mill in 3 weeks time, I was told I would be working with the runners, getting tea, coffee, lunches which does not sound amazing but I will be meeting so many people producers, directors, CEO's it is going to be an amazing experience and I have already seen different software being used that I have not been taught so hopefully I will learn much more about this!

WORK EXPERIENCE: THE-MILL!

I am really excited to be meeting The-Mill in London tomorrow, I am excited to meet everyone and be shown around and to be told what I will be doing in my week work experience in January! :D

General Feedback for Feel:

After a different group seeing our film this is what feedback we got:

• Title sequence- too simple, white on black
• Framing- cut off faces
• Handheld- shaky/messy
• Focus- in and out (unintentional)
• Continuity error 2.41 180degrees and at 3.39
• Slow
• Costume?
• Good lighting
• Music worked
• Good range of angles
• Nice Colour

After showing our film to everyone this is what we got back from everyone:

• Could not tell if the shakiness at the beginning was on purpose.
• Music was good
• Colour balance was good
• Day 4- the paste needs to be picked up
• The area where Max slept, the shoes and clothes do not need be to shot and the 2nd shot of him sleeping is not needed either
• Maybe with the titles for Day 1,2,3,4,5,6 maybe they could have be 1,2,5,10 or not even needed
• Good transition of night to day where Max runs off into the distance
• There was no music credits for Mike and Dave
• Nice edit
• Story is clear and it worked
• More tine in music, needed to be lifted a bit near the end

PRACTITIONER ESSAY IS DONE!!

PRESENTATION FOR FEEL IS COMPLETE!

Looking forward to Tuesday, presentation should go really well fingers crossed! Good Luck Team and everyone!

I HOPE EVERYONE HAS AN AMAZING CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS! SEE YOU ALL SOON! :D X

Feel

Today, everything was sorted with the group for Feel and the edit is basically finished and ready for tuesday!

Practitioner's Essay

I went over my Essay and I feel it is finished, I just mite double check it over the weekend, its taken me ages to get the words down though having too many !!

Lecture: Editing

Today in the Lecture with Jools about Editing, we had to come up with a plot and specific, shot, music I came up with a woman who was in a changing room, her friends come in with some bad news, so I thought you d have a mid shot of the woman in the changing room with her bag making noises as she pulls her clothes out, then you d see a long shot of the girls coming in the changing room, you d hear talking and a close up of the door opening and shutting, then a mid shot of the girls sitting down with her and a close up of her face when she receives the news.

• The Choices made in editing revolve around the idea of flexibility of viewpoint
• Editor can alter time.
• Most people don't speak in a constant monotone- they speed up or slow down, rhythm of a conversation back and forth.
• harmony: sound and vision simultaneously
• Counterpoint: 1 sound against another image usually for dramatic and emotional effect.
• Dissonance: counterpoint techniques typically used to exploit, highlight discrepancies of image sound.
• Sound trailing may work, instead of dissolving it.
• Elevator Pitch: we watched a clip from Moulin Rouge on pitching an idea to a customer to buy. Then we had to go off individually and do our own pitch on anything we liked and pitch it to the whole class.
• My product was a documentary on work experience for 16-25 year olds that would show on itv2 and be a 30 minute documentary based in my own home, showing people tips and ideas and an insight on how to use your work experience to your full advantage.
• My target audience would mainly be students and school pupils for educational, work experience purposes, to give them an idea of what is expected of them.
• I Intend to sell this by giving flyers out around universities as well as schools, to set up a website and a face book group, also to make a trailer to go onto the website giving an insight to what it is about.
• I would be running this with the help of my peers to give out flyers and give me opinions for my website.
• My competition is other documentary makers.
• My competitive advantages is being able to show techniques, to inspire people and to show real life footage of what goes on in a work experience environment.

I was really nervous when doing this but actually got some good feedback, a few people mentioned they thought my was the best including Jools, so I can't have been that bad lol!

FEEL

Over the past few days, lots of things have been done, I met up with my group for our project Feel, we have done a questionnaire, we have been filmed individual for our presentation and we sat down and did our peer assessment. So everything is basically done for our presentation on tuesday and I feel very prepared and ready for it. The only thing I need to do is an individual assessment which has not been put on the now and sort out what we will say about another groups project which I believe is Tea.

PRACTITIONER'S ESSAY

With the practitioner's essay I got my 2nd draft back from Deb and I have done all the things she has said, I also asked her what would have to do to get an A, I feel I have tried my hardest to do everything and I hope I get an A! I am going to go over my essay tomorrow and over the weekend to make sure everything is right and if theres anything more I can do to make it better, as I will be really busy over christmas working and doing work experience, so I wanted to work on it over the past 3 weeks really hard so that I can focus on other things, however I do not feel I have rushed it as I have been working nearly just as long as the Context 2 essay which was a good amount of time!

Today we had a LECTURE: DVD AUTHORING, where we were asked as film makers how should we use the DVD format and we came up in a group with

• Easily produced
• Cheap
• Storage
• Interactive Portfolio
• Allowing extra features- pictures
• Play back easy access
• Distributed

That a DVD can be a 2-1, depending on sizes a lot can go on them, that apparently Mac books require (-R) DVD disc's!!

We were asked what we would put on our DVD portfolio Show reel and I thought I would put:

• Rundance Footage
• Alley Cafe Footage
• Documentary from Visual Essay
• Feel: Trailer
• Malac Footage
• Documentary of my work experience with The-Mill maybe?
• Documentary we do next term for a project