Unit 4 Development of ideas individual

Charity Feature

• The people I have always wanted to make a difference for in terms of charity are the people who live local but do not have a home. 
• I want to make a video promoting a homeless charity group in victoria called The Passage. The main point of my video is to show that not all homeless people have a drinking problem or drug problem and also the possible ways people can become homeless and mentally affected.
• This is a link to their website: http://www.passage.org.uk/

Here is a video promoting The Passage charity:
The Passage run a day centre next to Victoria Station which is used by up to 200 people a day. As well as providing the basics - food, showers, laundry facilities and clothing - the centre's main aim is to move people on by offering them help with mental health or drug and alcohol services, benefit claims, accommodation, training and employment. StreetSmart's grant helps fund the costs of food provision at the centre.

Location: Victoria
Contact: Andrew Hollingsworth
Tel: 020 7592 1850
Email: info@passage.org.uk

Comady Item

• For my comedy item I plan to get a few people to dress up in funny costumes and make a mini film.The theme of the mini film will be two groups of people wearing costumes compeating together to win money for a charity.
•  The group will play football, basketball and finish by a race. The winner then gets to announce that they will be bring the money in to the colleges rednose day event to donate it. During the competition there will be sections where each character will do a small interview talking about their motivations and who the want to benefit with the money.

Live item

• For the live item the people in costumes should appear at the show and do a mini quiz show about charities around the world testing peoples knowledge on things that happen around the world and charities that help. 
• We could also have a game activity where 6 people of the audience or public have an egg and spoon race and a three legged race to win something like a red nose or T-shirt.

Recourses

• As you already would have expected we would need to have costumes for the video item and live item. 
• We would probably need to make a title banner for our live section and get horns for the quiz part of the show. 
• Also we will need to get some eggs, spoons and rope for the activity part of the show.

Presentation

• There will be a comedic and wacky theme through out the video item and live item to keep a pleasant mood and atmosphere for people taking part and the people watching. The only time hosts wont be joking around will be when they are promoting a charity or explaining about a charity and what it can help.

Potential constraints and ways around them

• One of the main potential constraints of the show will be time and whether or no we will over run our given time or not. In order to avoid over running we will have to do our best to stick to a schedule once we make one and not go on to long on an activity in the live section.

Portraits

These photos are all portrait shots. I used the portrait setting on the dial to take these pictures. Lights were used in all the pictures you see above to brighten the look of the subjects face or  to create soft or hard lighting on the subject. Also the make up on her face is less notice able and more blended with the face as a result of using the light.

Most times reflectors are used on a studio photo shot set and also out side. A reflector is something that is used to bounce light on to someones face. It could be a white, silver or gold  circle shaped material.

In one of the shots you'll notice most of the subjects face is lit up and brighter than the other pictures and this is because we used a technique called clam lighting . Clam shell lighting/Clam shell shot is the name given to a picture where the photographer has used a reflector above and below the subjects face.

Aperture is a space, opening, gap or hole that light usually passes through. The light is usually measured in F numbers or F stops.

Unit 5 Evaluation for working for a client

Evaluation

Recently we organised and recorded the staff awards turning it from a boring routined gathering to a lively Tv styled celebration for our working for a client project. In this case a woman called Pat Squires (The vice Principal) was our client asking for us to record the college Staff award ceremony. This gave us an opportunity to change things up a bit in order to make the staff awards more interesting for everyone and also for some of us to show off our media and organization skills while allowing others in the class to build upon them.

The first thing we did before we started planning was research. I personally watch a few award show from Tv soap opera awards to music awards to familiarise my self with how award shows generally work. I also wanted to check out the shots that were coming from the cameras and the visual mixing that was happening in order to co-ordinate all the cameras.

Before the actual show day we had to arrange meetings with certain teachers and students to interview them in relation to the teachers who won an award. During the interviewing process I chose to record sound with a boom mic which wasn't pleasant as my arms would often get achy and tired.  That whole process wasn't easy as we weren't in all week and the person with the Classes email address often came to college late or didn't come in at all at times which slowed us down a lot. Despite the flaws in our group we managed to record the interviews with most of the people we needed and had enough footage for the class editor to work with.

After the interviewing process we had to prepare for the live show. When it came to picking job roles I offered to be a hand held camera man which I eventually got. My next task was to work out where I would be on the actual day and what my camera would be focused on for the majority of the show. I was then later on told it would be best for me to focus on the award winners when they went to get their awards.

On the day of the show we were delayed a bit because of some technical difficulties that our class had no control over so we left it to the technicians to handle it. After 15 minutes of waiting, we begun the show. Things went well and although not everything was perfect, only one mistake was noticed by the audience which wasn't bad for our first show.   

During the planning and recording process there were people putting a lot of effort in to the project but also a few people who didn't and also we missed 2 interviews due to the lac of concentration we all suffered for the layed back atmosphere created from the ones who weren't really focused. I Think things would have gone better over all if everyone dedicated them self's to the staff award show.

Over all I would say our strengths was the pre recorded video inserts and our intro be cause we were able to capture everyone's attention. Also the fact that we only made one visible mistake was also good providing our coms stopped working. The best thing about the award show is that everyone left happy and ready for the after celebration and also the client gave us good feed back as soon as the show finished which was a very good sign of success.

Notes from what Pat/the client had to say about the show

• The opening ident gave the audience confidents for the rest of the show
• There was a good atmosphere
• It was slightly formal with a bit of humor which was good

The Rule of thirds

The Rule of Thirds 

The rule of thirds is a shooting technique every advanced or professional photographer and camera operator should be familiar with. When camera operators or photographers use the rule of thirds they can either imagine a grid on their camera whiles looking at what they are about to take or have a grid display showing them the rule of thirds on the camera.

The rule of thirds grid will look like this:

Or sometimes this:

Here are some pictures I took withe the rule of thirds techniques: 

Reporting on the process of working to a brief

Unit 5: Working to a brief

Introduction

This Report will explain a bit about working to a brief. Working to a brief is something many people do if not everyone in this modern day and age. A brief is something that makes you aware or your task and how to go about accomplishing it and is usually given to an employee or student from a boss or teacher. In other words a brief is a guide to inform people of a task and maybe some directions on how to complete the given task.

1.1 Structure of a Brief

A brief can be structured in lots of ways but usually it depends on who the brief is aimed at and what the actual task is. Most of the time a brief will start of with an introduction to the subject or event to familiarise the reader with the topic. The next part of a brief, would be the mission or accomplishment section showing the reader what their goal is and a usually an idea on how to achieve it followed by the date of the deadline. Sometimes it is left up to the reader to come up with way to achieve the goal.

2.1 Reading a brief

Reading a brief is a bit like reading detailed instructions or a mini manual for doing something and trying to achieve a possible outcome. People who read a brief usually pay the most attention to the times and deadlines stated in a brief so that they can be aware of how long they have to complete the main task or mission it is informing them of and the goal. The main things to look out for when reading a brief would be the task and dead line.



Here is an example of a competition brief     http://competition.sundance-london.com/

As you can see there are sections for certain things where it informs you of things like the entries date and closing date and also a section to explain what the competition is about and what to do.

3.1 Negotiating

When a brief has been read there often is some kind of negotiation going on especially for students. Usually students will talk with their pairs to further understand the brief if it is unclear or they will negotiate ways of achieving their goals. If employees were to negotiate something it might either be because they don't understand something or there is some kind of problem and the boss and employee is trying to come to an agreement.

4.1 Opportunities created by a brief

Briefs create lots of opportunities when working to achieve something especially if you haven’t tried a certain topic, subject or job before. Sometimes you have the opportunity to win a prize depending on if the brief is for a competition but with work you have the oppertunity to get paid and also gain new experiances.

5.1 Different types of briefs

There are different types of briefs for different types of jobs and purposes. Here is a list of diffenet briefs.



Competition brief: This brief mainly provides details of what you have to do and the deadline.



Contractual brief: This kind of brief requires a contract between the commissioner and the producer or employee.



Negotiated brief: A negotiated brief is a brief thats negotiated between the commitioner and the producer about the task and fees for acomplishing the task.



Formal brief: A formal brief is a brief that is payed a lot of attention to while being written and also written to strict legal guidelines.



Informal brief: An informal brief is a brief that isn't formal. Usually the dress code for an informal brief is casual if its in the form of a meeting rather than a letter.



 

Conclusion

In conclusion briefs are very important when it comes to working towards completing an assignment or competition or anything with tasks and dead also very helpful.

Photography project

 Blurred motion 

I achieved these shots by setting the cameras ISO to 200 so that the picture wasn't to exposed however I wanted the shutter speed to stay open for a few seconds so I set the shutter speed to 3"2. For this image I stayed stationary and focused on the lamp post.

Panning

I achieved these shots by setting the cameras ISO to 200 and my shutter speed to 1/20 to have the shutter open for a second and a half to catch the car and create a slight blur as I pan. I then took pictures of moving cars moving the camera with the cars at the same speed in a panning motion. As a result I got a blur behind the car as it moved.


                                                                    Shutter Zoom

I achieved these shots by setting the cameras ISO to 200 and shutter speed to 1/20. As I took the picture I zoomed out from the statue to have the centre of the image focused and a blur around it.