Evaluation

During my time on set in the studio, i have to say i would of personally wanted to actually participate with doing work. Most of the time i could only sit down and stay out the way, the reason i say this is because i could actually see my role was sound it was actually a very crucial role for the show. I was in charge of the sound so, mics for the presenters. Mics for the guests as well, only if they were speaking with the presenter... I could only be there for half of the rehearsal seesion, but when i was there a lot of things were going on making me feel it could be a whole lot better, which is the organisation of people, and who's doing what. We all had to make 2 minutes insert so it would fit in with our short showcase, most of these video inserts where parodies of other musics videos. Others were about fashions...

The magazine show is called 'The Buzz', the rehearsals seemed to not be enough as there were some problems and altercations within batteries dying out. Everyone had to actually work together to get things done, the camera operators had to be listening to people who were in the gallery so everything runs smoothly. To me preparation is the key for everything to of worked, to absolute perfection.

Task 1 (1)

Soap Show : Coronation Street

This show is viewed on ITV1 or ITV2, this show has been shown for over 40 years and is made fictional. I personally believe it's just a copy of Eastenders as it basically shows problems everybody deals with everyday, but seen through families, disappointments, and elderly people. It always comes on ITV1 & ITV2, but when it comes on ITV2 it's repeat as ITV1 is the main channel for when it's shows. Coronation Street comes on every Monday, Wednesday & Friday.


Audience

Coronation street appeals to elder people as it shows situations that they deal with through everyday life, that's why it has such an affect on the elder. Nowadays i don't think the elderly have a point of view that shown as much as Coronation street.

Comedy : The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air

The fresh prince of bel air is a multi camera comedy, that started in 1990 and ended in 1996 but this show was basically about Will Smith who was raised in Philadelphia and got into a fight then his mother sent his to live with his uncle in Bel Air.

Plan (Task 1)

Planning

For my insert as a group I thought outside the box by making a location set inside and outside of college (Marble Arch) and another location chosen by Faisal. The reason for this was to get more people’s thoughts from college and elsewhere also. Because there was a time limit set for this insert, we could only ask two questions to these selected people.

Our theme was about music it was going to be a blend of other stuff too, but time was a real issue. So me, Fiasal & Jamal did what we could. Our script was well constructed, as when it came to recording we had everything ready and prepared to be shot and edited & finished for 2 minutes exactly.

For the first part of the insert Jamal is presenting what will be going on within it, then after I’m asking two girls who are from the college what they thought about the Chris Brown and Drake situation. After Faisal asked his friends view on artists pushing back their albums. When that was all said and done, Jamal (The Presenter) ends the insert.

We used a college camera, a Canon DLSR & an extended microphone also another camera within college as we weren’t able to record on the same day.

Personal Showcase

Artist i listen to...

Skepta is one artist i listen to, as his music inspires me to write music. As an artist its hard to maintain a certain standard of good music if other people don't produce good things as well. most of the time, i get people's instrumental and rap over it. But right about now Skepta is doing it for me.




Plan B is another artist i listen to, from this track i felt his anger. especially how i don't like the government. I believe even though this video condemn violence, he had his point strongly. Most people nowadays are scared at the response but he sure wasn't.

Purpose Of Music Videos

The purpose of music videos are to promote an artist, also to provide entertainment throughout the world we live in. A music video is a video showing imagery produced for promotional purposes, music videos have different styles of creation, by blending animation and live recording. But another purpose for music videos is for profit. Furthermore, by doing that the music video is more then likely to get shared because there are many styles of music people listen to and like. This also gets the artist more recognition and also gets the artist to send their message across, if they have one.

Around the time i was growing up, Michael Jackson was all over tv with (Billie Jean), (Thriller) & one of my greatest songs (Remember The Time) I didn't know much about him, but my mum liked him and his music so i was surrounded by Michael Jackson, he was the one that actually gave me a heart of determination to start following my dream. First it was dance, then soon after it was me making music... I personally believe Michael is a great artist, and he will always a inspiration to me and other that support him.
 


Later into my life i was introduced to a different genre of music, rap. This genre seemed to appeal to me a lot, which is also another reason why i started becoming an artist to make music with a message to send across the world. From the past i tried to make a way through with singing as well, especially how Michael Jackson was the one who inspired me to push, go further, and never stop what i'm doing, no matter what... A group called 'Outkast' also inspired me, as it has rap within the content of the song i used as an explain.

But there's a difference between these two videos, and it's the genre that divide both of them. Outkast started their group in 1992, and done all their music within the period i started showing interest to music. Michael Jackson on the otherhand started doing his music in 1964 being forced by his father forming a group called 'The Jackson 5' then that all changed when he went solo in 1971. So he's been doing his thing for a really long time...

   


Rap started around the 1990's, and even though i wasn't around them times when i started making music that was the talent that stuck to me. It was something that seemed to grow with me up so i began to master it, and continue with this talent. The general thing would be to actually get other people's instrumental and just rap over them... But besides that i saw that music became a big part of my life, as well as the people around me. It wasn't an affect, but it just become something i was interested in, which also lead to me choosing this course.

Cover Letter for CV

Hi, my name's Tevin Jordan Vassell. I'm a very creative person, who makes music. Can sing, dance and act. During my time in secondary school i had the opportunity to undergo performance within school. And for 5 years, i did everyone single one. After that, i had another opportunity to sing, rap on  the stage. So for my time in school i progressed with my music. Also trying to keep grades up for my performing arts if i become an actor in the future. Now that i'm in college, i'm studying TV & Film. I wanted to study this course so i could get a further understanding about the filming industry. As i'm gonna be within that industry in a matter of time.

Evaluation feedback

In this evaluation i'll be talking about the feedback i got for my groups ident. I only got 3 people to give feedback to my groups ident, everyone which commented on the ident was positive. I believe that we could of used our time more effectively because we did our animation late. But was still able to complete it in the time manageable. My group worked quickly, and done the ident at such good speed. But as such great work. I believe my role in the group was justified ok. I was writing  my evaluation from something else when my group went to do the work.

I also believe that the ident answered the creative brief. Because animation was used within  the ident, especially how what was asked of us was being used within our work...

Channel Ident

Compositing

Pleasentville Excersize

Super 8 Vintage Colour Exercise

Film Noir

Video Pitch

Final CWC Ident

Storyboards for final animation

Mindmap - Ident Ideas

Pre production - Music Video

Script

Tevin (me) & Raymond are in the park singing lyrics from the song ‘Afroman - Because I got high’,  showing a sort of persona of me.

Sitiing down on a bench. Talking, which than turns around to talk about being high.

Roles

Editor – Raymond

Director – Aisha

Camera Operators – Raymond & Nada

People in the video – Eveyone

Assisting editor – Aisha

Production manager - Tevin

Schedule

Within the production sequence it will be around about 3 minutes and 45 seconds.

Cut out animation evaluation

This is my evaluation for my cut out animation, within me and my partners cut out animation what we did was cut out various characters or (things needed to make our animation) from magazines and together we just came with something funny. We didn't have a storyline which i thought to believe was bad cause a concept would make the story run more smoothly. So what we did was add random voices, and various sound effects to make something a bit different and unique from what everybody else was doing with their cut out animation. The software used to create our cut out animation was iStopMotion a software that takes pictures but can be used to create a cut out animation to create me and Jordan's idea. Personally i believe that iStopMotion made our animation very boring. This is my point of view only though, i don't know about my partner.

Evaluation of claymotion

Gumbasia

Gumbasia animation showed random shapes and sizes being expanded, rolling around, moving about and just being random, the shapes that are being produced are mostly, spheres, cubes, and other shapes.  My gumbasia was so different from the one that was shown to me, because it wasn't as constructed and planned as the gumbasia i saw. The gumbasia was so much more better than my one by far, all because the plan didn't go so well.

Aardman Animation 


Aardman animation is a british animation studio, known for stop motion clay animation. And making films also. Such as Wallace & Gromit, Flushed Away, and more...

Morph


Morph is an animated plasticine character that appeared with Tony Hart. I think that it was significant to the success of Aardman because Morph started Aardman and which made him famous, and soon evolving to - Wallace & Gromit. Chicken Run, and much more.

Strengths of clay animation


The strengths of clay animation are:


- Your able to make it into anything.
- Once cold it's also able to stay into shape that you want it.


What are the strengths and weaknesses from own experience? 

Strengths


- The clay got too a right temperature that it was able to move away about more easily.
- Also the clay was easy to make into anything that we needed as a group.

Weaknesses


- The one weakness of the clay is that it was getting soft when the room got hot.
- Another weakness is if the Morph ain't stable enough, it'l drop over.

Cut out animation

Analysis & evaluation for phone hacking questionnaire

The history of the phone hacking scandal

2003 – Murdered schoolgirl (Milly Dowler)

2005 – 2006 Prince William & Tom Bradby phone’s were hacked into.

2009 – 2011 News of the World bribed police.

2011 April – July (Eight people were identified as suspects to their phones being hacked)

Sienna Miller – Actress

Kelly Hoppen – Interior designer and Miller’s stepmother

Tessa Jowell – Member of Parliament and former cabinet minister

David Mills – Lawyer and Jowell’s former husband

Andy Gray – Sports pundit and former footballer

Joan Hammell - Aide to the former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott

Sky Andrew – Sports talent agent

Nicola Phillips – Assistant to the publicist Max Clifford

Analysis for questionnaire

The results I got from the questionnaire I sent around is good, it seems like everyone know what happen within the phone hacking itself, and everyone knows lots of information regarding certain facts basing itself around it. I actually love the results and I’m proud that the results are up to a good standard. 

Clay animation

Production diary

My contribution to the team was being an actor, most of the time i left because my scene wasn't yet. So what i did individual was plan out what i was going to say if i was speaking, and i planned what i was gonna do if i was doing something else. I had to put my mind focused on my work, cause i didn't want anything to slip up within performing what i needed to do. 

At times when my group had meetings, things started to tumble down. As everybody wanted their point to be heard, and things started to get way out of hand at times. I felt upset by the things that turned out in the acting cause everyone kept changing things, and the more it changed the more aggravated i got at it. And this affected me dearly cause we was running out of time, and also i had the heart to leave the group and just do other bits of work. Just because things got that out of hand. But the group itself needed stabilization, that's why i noticed the action plan was so important. 

The film noir looks alright, but i personally think it would have been better if it just stuck with one idea instead of rolling around onto different peoples ideas. It was actually quite irritating. 

Pre production

What is pre production?

Pre production is all about planning, and the work, which is planned to make a good, positive, set back on the shoots, film and the work produced as a whole. My role within the film was being an actor, so what I had to put that on the action plan to symbolise that, that was my role throughout the film production. The action plan is something that shows what a person assigned them self to do. For example our director in the film noir was Sheniz.

There was certain times that when I had to act everybody was all over the place, but at the end everyone came to a conclusion to just get the work done, cause that’s all that was asked of us at the end of the day. The action plan was made the first time, than when things started to get out of control with roles. It was changed. So everything and everyone’s role was changed.

My role wasn’t changed as I was an actor beforehand, and so people’s roles had to be more constructed and choreographed. Whilst being a part of this team I noticed that everybody wanted their points and views to be heard over everyone else’s and it was quite annoying but that’s the point of the action plan as a confirmed clarification of work.

Eadwaerd Muybridge

10 facts about Eadwaerd Muybridge

• -       He was a photographer.
• -       He was born 9 April 1830 at – Kingston.
• -       He changed his name several times.
• -       He killed his wife’s lover.
• -       He died on May 8, 1904.
• -       Also was pioneering work for animal locomotion.
• -       He left the untied states to take photographs in Central America.
• -       He started to build his reputation in 1867 when taking pictures of Yosemite & San Francisco.
• -       Most of his photographer sequences had been published in artists reference books. (Filmmaker, Thom Andersen made a 1974 documentary titled Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer, describing his life and work).
• -       In 1991 the (Addison Gallery of American art at Philips academy in Andover, Massachusetts hosted a major exhibiton of Muybridge’s work).k

Tevin's Gif

Survey - Phone Hacking Scandal

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Zoetropes

What is the zoetrope & how does it work?

A zoetrope is a device that produces an illusion within the action that is being made. But this illusion is only made when it's spun. The zoetrope was made in 1834 by William Horner, William called the zoetrope 'daedalum' (meaning 'wheel of the devil'). The faster the rate the zoetrope is spun, the smoother the progression. But this is also only if you look through the slits in the zoetrope which than you'll be able to see the images moving. The reason why the zoetrope works is because of our vision, which was first noted down by Peter Mark Roget. The illusion breaks when the images we see are interrupted by moments of darkness. The zoetrope is a bit like a cinema, the slits in the side of the zoetrope act like a shutter on a cinema projector.

Comparing Two Idents

How does the ident grab the viewers attention and prevent the viewer from turning over?

This ident stops the viewers from changing over, as it has a voice over that starts almost immediately. Another point is cause this ident prevents the viewer from changing over because the congregation shows togetherness & calmness in the serenity of a warm home. Also this ident shows a point, in the thai tradition it is believed that the sky lanterns is the symbolic sign of worries and problems floating away. Also the colour match the (ITV) logo, this is seen to be colour recognition. Furthermore, the colour yellow brings, joy and triggers intelligence and organization. 

Explain who the target audience is for your channel?

This kind of ident is targetted at a older audience. This can be proven with the show that is being broadcasted. (Foyle's War) which was shown at around 9pm, and lasted 2 hours.  So because this programme is set around the night time, and is a drama i would state that the target audience set around night would be for adults. 

Channel Idents

Three physical characteristics that channel idents have:

One thing that TV idents have in common is their logos which invest in their brand, just to keep people engaged to the channel. But this will definitely engage people because an ident is a strong visual representation of a channel. Also brand recognition. For example - BBC Three, BBC One, Cartoon Network

Also, idents appeal to a particular audience. BBC1, this channel appeals to anybody & everybody, reason being is because in the morning time, the news will come on appealing to adults from 06:00am to roundabout 03:00 in the afternoon. Than after that children's programmes come on, for example - (Blue Peter, Newsround, Deadly Art).

TV idents also have voice overs, these voice overs come either before the programme starts, or when the credits are being shown at the end of the show, keeping the viewers attracted from changing the channel. Channel 4, always advise the viewers to see their other channels such as - E4, Film4, 4Music. As a voice over tells them what programmes are gonna be shown on these channels. Many other channels do the same thing, such as - Cartoon Network, BBC Three, BBC Two and so on.

Task 2

Green Screen

How to set up a scratch disk

1) Firstly, you open up 'Final Cut Pro', if there's a another project that is up like this one...

2) Than what you do is click 'File' and press 'New Project' opening a new project leaving another person work alone.

3) Now that i've opened a new project, click 'Final Cut Pro' than click 'System Settings'

4) This is what should appear when you click 'System Settings'

5) Now you've got to set where you want your work to go.

6) I've made a new folder as that's where i want all my work to go. Now that all my work goes there. I've successfully shown how to set a scratch disk.

7) Now that we've established about making a new project, when i've finished. I'm going to close this project.

Mr Emotionz - Cloning Effect

Mini Documentary - Alfred Hitchcock.mov

Evaluation about the editor job role

Editor Job Role: The editors job is to be head of bigger production within the filming industry, the editor has to be able to grab the attention of the audience as this is one of the biggest key facts into making a film a success. Also this is done, to ensure that the film flows in a way that the audience can connect with the film. This is the job that the editor has to do, but at the same time, it’s the most challenging and creative job for the editor. Editors have to have a close connection with the director,  making things run smoothly, when problems arise within the filmmaking prosess.

Skills needed to be an editor


- Being able to be creative under pressure
- Able to work as a team
- Sense of timing in story telling

Evaluation - Playing With Time

This is an evaluation about the film 'Playing With Time'. In this evaluation, i'll be explaining about the editing used in this film, and detailed examples from the film using the terminology that i've learn today in the lesson.

It first starts of with a woman by herself, alone and defenceless. But the shot used for this is a face shot to show us as a viewer to see how she's feeling. After, the next shot used is a cutaway shot of the water. This shot shows makes us feel like we're in the water. There was alot more shots used, but none of them had a huge impact to the film.

Later in the film, there was non diagetic sound, giving us a suspenseful feeling. Making us feel how the woman, who's alone feels. But the thing that i really obtained about the whole sequence was that, there is alot of more things to learn.

The Gloaming

What is editing?

Editing is a process of selecting different shots, joined together to make a story, which is also known as art storytelling.

What is Elliptical Editing?

Elliptical editing allows us to fill the gaps, and also it allows the story to move on quickly.

Why are long shots used?

Long shots are used to create effects, just like how the elliptical edit does.

What is a non-diagetic sound?

Is the music that isn't playing next to the person, but played so that only the viewer can hear it, giving a suspenseful feeling.

How do we know that she is bending down to pick up the ring?

We know this because the previous shot before shows her looking down, and now she's bent all the way down and making us fill the gaps.

Hustle

What is an overhead establishing shot and what does it achieve?

An overhead establishing shot is a shot that shows space around the room, and the characters position within the whole room.

What is a shot-reverse-shot?

This is a shot that shows cutting backwards and forwards showing a conversation between the two, and the other persons reaction.

What is eye line matching?

This is a shot showing co-oridination between two characters, one guy within 'Hustle' is standing and looking down to another person. Whilst the other person who is sitting down, is looking up connecting vision with the other person.

Why do we cut to the other members of the group?

The reason why he does that because he wanted to see the reaction of the group, also he wanted to just see their faces.

What is a wipe?

A wipe is a transition that is used to show a different location and timezone.

What is the effect of using cuts?

The use of quick cuts creates a fast rhythm also to keep the story moving. And furthermore, to keep the audience engaged.

The Invisible Ark

How does editing build tension and pace?

It does this by showing the shots are shorter and frequent.

What is crosscutting?

Cross-cutting is an editing technique most often used in films to establish action occurring at the same time in two different locations.

What are reaction shots?

Reaction shot is a term used in motion picture production referring to a basic unit of film grammar.

What is seamless editing? 

Seamless editing is where you seem to know what you are doing with your editing, but the more and more you get deeply involved with the project you get less aware of what is happening.

What is a jump cut?

A jump cut is a cut in film editing in which two sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary only slightly.

What is a flashback and what does it achieve?

A flashback is something that is used within alot of modern films to show whats happened to that person to get to the point where they are now. Flashbacks take the viewer back, just to keep them, engaged either adding drama, tension or interest to the film.

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