WORKING TITLE OF DOUMENTARY: The Creation of Animation!
SUBJECT – What is the production about, and what does the audience need to know beforehand?
Our production is about novices putting together their first, drawn, animation and the processes that need to be gone through to achieve the final outcome. The audience isn’t required to have any existing knowledge surrounding animation, just an interest in the art.
SYNOPSIS – what happens in your video?
The production will follow the stages and processes involved in the making of an animation. It will involve ourselves creating an animation and the troubles that we shall face. Also, included in our documentary will be several interviews with individuals from the animation ‘industry’ and an interview with an animation student.
WHAT DO YOU WANT YOUR DOCUMENTARY TO ACHIEVE? – What are you setting out to do, and how do you hope the audience will ‘read’ it.
The aim of our documentary is to educate the audience about the struggles and rewards of creating an animation. We hope the audience will read our documentary as informative.
2.Remember that a debate is taking place, and that you are involved in the discussion
3.Prepare Properly, as a team
4.Conduct Research... Lots of it!
5.Organise the roles between the team members (e.g. Who’s tackling each question)
6.Listening to and responding to the other debate teams points and arguments
7.Being capable of judging and having an open mind to both sides of the debate
8.Having an longer time for open floor discussionon the points made by the debate speakers
9.Have factual informational research untaken, and prepared... ready for battle
10.Give the other side a chance to voice their opinions
11.Be smart... not immature
12.Have fun! Not...
Completed... Your debate was very successful... Congratulations :P
Our argument for BBC – against ITV
Popular BBC programs:
·Never mind the buzzcocks
·Family guy
·Eastenders
·Panorama
·The apprentice
·Doctor who
·Football focus
·Football matches
·Match of the day
·Have I got news for you
·QI
Add all these programs to specialist programs like natural world, masterchief, andeven some which are a one off, such as Stepen fry and the great American oil spill, you will find that BBC has catered for everybody with artistic, factual and fun programs. BBC allows people to think for themselves and watch programs which they are personally interested in rather than being herded like sheep to watch mega-audience bringer programs that humiliate for entertainment. Such as the x-factor and spin-off ‘reality’ shows like ‘The only way is Essex’.
·Take me out – degrading to women as they compete over a man just because he’s ‘hot’.
·The only evidence that I have seen on the ITV programs of a specialist minority program would be ‘Freddie flintoff versus the world’
1.X factor – Gamu. Finalists never get far.
2.£145 for your TV licence, 50% off for the death or blind, £50 for a black and white TV
Allows BBC to give viewers more value for money with no adverts
1.Sets up shots according to the wishes of the director.
2.It allows them to express their creativity, whilst taking orders from the director, so that their shot benefits the whole film or production.
3.All major film, TV production Companies would employ a cinematographer, they hold quite an important role.
4.New Cinematographers would earn about £137 - £205 per 10/12 hour days. Established Cinematographers earn around £350 - £550 on a multiple day shoot, and up to £1030 on a hard working single day.
5.The cinematographer would work closely with the director and assistant director. And with the producer, camera operator, lighting team, set designer, colourist, arts director, costume designer.
6.How would you be good for this role: I am creative so I would be able to interpret the director’s commands, in my own creative and successful way. I am good with connecting with other members on the work team, with good communicational skills, so that I would be able to discuss the best ways in which to complete tasks. I am very artistic and motivated; I would be able to achieve the best out of the situation.
Grindin' is a song released by the Dutch electro group 'Nobody Beats The Drum' to which a stop-motion video was created by one of the group’s visual artist, Rogier Van Der Zwaag. The video consisted of a series of painted wooden blocks bouncing, sliding, disappearing and appearing in time with the beat and changes of pitch in the song.
The video was set out in a square symmetrical pattern. It is suggested that the team built a small section of the overall image such as a vertical straight or corner. The actions and movements of the blocks would have been performed in this area and they ‘mirrored’ the production by using editing software such as Premier.
The video was created from 4085 photos and they were taken from the different positions of over 400 blocks that were being used. They were positioned on a plain black background, which enhanced the colours of the blocks and created a good base colour to fill the screen when the music and visual action paused in-between bars.
Towards the end of the song, it started to speed up and there was a sequence in the video where it repeated all of the previously used movements in a series of quick breakdown flashes.
Colourful Life - Music Video
Russell Weeks created the music video of Colourful Life, a song released by ‘Cajun Dance Party’.
It consisted of a long scene of watching a car drive along a series of busy roads. The camera was positioned so that the backlights of the car were the main focus of the frame throughout the video. The element that made the video interesting was the fact that there were heart shaped auras positioned around each light that came into the frame on the cars journey.
It is suggested that Russell used some sought of filter on the camera he used, to create the heart around the lights. Otherwise he may have used a tracking effect to position the hearts during the editing stage.
The video didn’t exactly match the song in the same way that ‘Grindin’ had done, such as the stop-motion in time with the score. However it matched in the way of the feeling that the sound and the visual both gave the audience. The colours of the hearts were ‘mellow’ pastels such as yellows, oranges and blues. The gentle colours matched the gentle rhythm and lyrics of the song.
The video took the boring everyday occurrence of driving and turned it into a slightly more interesting activity from the help of the effects on the lights.
Starry Eyed - Music Video Production
The main object of our Buttonberg assignment was to create a short animation that reflected the music score of a song of our choice. We had one afternoon to plan, one day to produce the animation AVI files and then one morning to edit it all in time with the song and make a cool music video.
I teamed up with Michelle to complete the animation with, and later on Claire also joined or group. However, she was only working with us for 4 hours of the animation day, and was ill for the rest of the rest of the time.
We started by just experimenting with how to use the kit and tried to work out ways in which we could animate our chosen song, a remix of Ellie Goulding's Starry Eyed. We produced a few test fireworks to get to grips with the set up and they actually ended up being quite cool.
We chose Starry Eyed as it had a really strong score which represented plenty of opportunity for an animation to be created. After listening to the song a few times through we selected the first 10s to create our animation to as it represented the best score. We decided to create a few animations containing stars that we could edit to the appropriate lyrics as obviously they would match the song. We also thought it could work quite well to include some better fireworks that we could edit to explode at the same time as high notes or beats.
To create the animations, we used a rostrum camera set up to record the movements of beads, matchsticks and lolly pop sticks.
Pockets is a short documentary directed by James Lees in 2008 that contains the exploration of individual’s pockets. Whether after being asked at random on the street or being friends/associates of the documentary maker, the pockets of individuals where emptied of a single item which the owners were then asked to explain the background to.
The documentary used several different shot types.. It used a different angle/camera height in each person’s clip. For example, it shot from a high, side angle on one lady’s clip so that the camera was almost positioned so it shot right down the end of the trumpet, horn thing that she was holding in her hands. It is unclear exactly what the object is as the camera is focused on the objects owner rather than the object itself, but as the film moves onto the next clip we hear the sound made by the object and this subconsciously makes the audience realise that the object was what they expected it to be.
Another common shot type used was the way that they positioned some of the individuals so that only half of their faces were in the frame. For example, in one of the scenes only the chest and chin area of the man in the shot. However in another scene, the frame only showed half of the woman's face lengthways (1 eye, 1 cheek, half a nose, half a mouth etc.) This way of filming was effective as it was just something different to the usually way of framing the interviewees. It just managed to make the film slightly more interesting and different to if it had been just filled with ordinary framing.
This documentary tells the audience stories through the way that they individuals in the documentary tell their stories about their personal objects. The fact that the stories told were personal made them more interesting as they included life experiences and were therefore easier to relate to.
