Today i spent the whole day in my own AVID suite, i experimented with all sorts of fades and effects you can achieve on Avid.
I also searched some more music, and once i found what i liked, i made sure it was copyrighted before i ingested it into my edits.
I learnt all the short cuts on the keyboard and i learnt how to fade the music at the end.
Overall today was a great success, i also digitised another load of tapes that were sent in, it just came so easily that i felt i had been doing it for ages.
EVALUATION
My experience has definitely benefited me, i feel more at one with our contemporary media technology and i most certainly can bring back all of my knowledge to the group in more ways then one...like with editing, importance of copyright, music ingesting, tape ingesting, digitizing, different equipments jobs and importance and also more advanced things such as digibetas and betas.
Thursday, 29 October 2009
Pilot focus group
Focus Groups:
This involves a small group of our target audience being analysed with the aim to produce data on the specific topic of our new TV soap that being with help on story lines and characters. They will be asked to express their opinions of elements of the soap which could affect them in some way. It allows the viewers to express what they feel is in need of improvement, after this our group can decide on whether or not these judgements are strong enough before we make a change.
We will be asking around 5-8 people aged 16-25 to be a part of the focus group, they will each be given an outline of our pitch and treatment. We will also have a few quesions discussed by the group in order to help us recieve the correct information we need to reach our best potential.
This involves a small group of our target audience being analysed with the aim to produce data on the specific topic of our new TV soap that being with help on story lines and characters. They will be asked to express their opinions of elements of the soap which could affect them in some way. It allows the viewers to express what they feel is in need of improvement, after this our group can decide on whether or not these judgements are strong enough before we make a change.
We will be asking around 5-8 people aged 16-25 to be a part of the focus group, they will each be given an outline of our pitch and treatment. We will also have a few quesions discussed by the group in order to help us recieve the correct information we need to reach our best potential.
Day 4: At My Work Experience
Today I digitised a few programmes that had just come in, I was also introduced to the producers and directors of a recent programme being aired, they ran through there responsibilities and pros and cons to their work.
I spoke to an Editor of the programme, he showed me some more affects that can be used on an AVID, and so I carried on editing my practice piece.
Written Storyboard for Trailer
We have drawn our storyboard for part of our first episode (names of characters still to be decided). It will go as follows:
Scene 1
Girl 1 in kitchen eating breakfast. She gets a text saying 'Are you in today? x'
Her mum appears in the doorway saying 'hurry up or you are going to be late'
Girl 1 walks out and slams the front door whilst her mum is still talking
Girl 1 walking down the road
Scene 2
Girlfriend and boyfriend walking down the street together talking
close up of the girlfriend looking uneasy whilst the boyfriend is still talking to her
close up of the boyfriend looking down at his girlfriend with a smile on his face
Scene 3
Boy 1 cooking his breakfast, his phone rings
He talks on the phone saying 'yeah I'm going to be late again'
Scene 4
Girl 1 smoking in the street
A group of girls walk past her, they say hi, one asks girl 1 for a cigarette
She passes her one
Girls say thanks and walk on
Close up of girl 1 smiling
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Day 3: At My Work Experience
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Today I began working on my practice piece I filmed last week, I digitised it first and loaded it onto an AVID, I was then taught the basics of editing on AVID and began experimenting with all sorts of effects and themes. I never completed the editing today but I am going to carry on tomorrow.
I also researched some music, and went through some copyright Cd's they had in the office, I have selected 3-4 tracks i like and I am going extracts specific sections from each track I like and attach them along with the video to create emotion and a real affect on the audience.
EVALUATION
Today i can almost be certain that today's skills I've learnt will benefit my group, the opportunity to edit on such a powerful and expensive programme was amazing, i learnt shortcuts and all sorts of technique. i feel i could definitely use this to my advantage during the editing stage of our coursework.
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Final draft of Treatment
Our soap opera will have a mixture of short and long term storylines which will all run concurrently with each other. This will allow the audience to get to know the variety of characters. Some of the less important storylines will be short term, only lasting for the period of one episode. The long-term storylines will run for perhaps two episodes with the effects of it lasting for the episodes to come. This will allow the audience to possibly connect to the characters that are having similar life events to them and may possible use the way the characters react to it to influence the way they deal with their own problems.
The characters in our soap are going to be mainly teenagers of both genders. We also hope to include the families of the teenagers and some of the teachers working at the school. The characters we are hoping to focus on include a “gossip”, a “dodgy geezer” who supplies drugs to others, a group who have parties and do not focus on school, “geeks” who focus on school work, “lower class” people who may be considered “chavs”, good-looking males who all the girls fancy and a mysterious new character who is known as an outcast to the others as they are new to the setting. They will be new only at the start but will not completely fit in as all the groups have already been formed between the characters that have been together for a longer period of time. This “new” character will be picked on and included into groups for particular reasons and then will be shut out. The main characters in the soap will change as the storyline does, one story will evolve around one group/character whilst in a different week it will change.
Our soap opera will be based in a school setting, including the classrooms, library, staff room and the playground. We will also include the homes of the characters and their local areas. The homes will be used so the audience can get an insight into the lives of the characters and the homes may also be used to hold parties. We will have a meeting place where all the characters go; this may possibly be a café. We may also include the park as many teenagers hang around in the park.
Our target audience is going to be teenagers and young adults of both genders as our characters are mainly of this age group too. By having teenagers as our target audience and as the main characters, we hope the audience will be able to connect with the characters and possibly relate their own lives to the characters. We also hope that our soap will appeal to an older group of people and that they will be attracted to the issues we will be dealing with.
As our soap is aimed at teenagers and we will have moral and educational content.
Our media product will follow the expected and unexpected elements of a soap opera. It will include all the necessary conventions of a soap opera such as narrative enigmas, a sense of realism, concurrent storylines, social representations, and a central meeting point and will deal with real life issues. Each episode will end with a big cliff-hanger and the storylines can sometimes end with smaller cliff-hangers. We will also challenge everyday conventions of soaps by having events such as a lesbian wedding, a teacher getting in trouble instead of a student and a person not fitting into a tight community.
We decided on the name I.V for our soap. This will stand for Independent Variable. We believe this fits into the nature of our soap as the definition of an independent variable is a variable that gets manipulated in order for the outcome to be different each time. The lives of the characters will get manipulated by other characters and by social factors in order for outcomes of the soap to be interesting and to keep audiences watching.
Group Effort: Written by Natalie Michael with contributions from Thegla Savvides and Elena Christodoulou
The characters in our soap are going to be mainly teenagers of both genders. We also hope to include the families of the teenagers and some of the teachers working at the school. The characters we are hoping to focus on include a “gossip”, a “dodgy geezer” who supplies drugs to others, a group who have parties and do not focus on school, “geeks” who focus on school work, “lower class” people who may be considered “chavs”, good-looking males who all the girls fancy and a mysterious new character who is known as an outcast to the others as they are new to the setting. They will be new only at the start but will not completely fit in as all the groups have already been formed between the characters that have been together for a longer period of time. This “new” character will be picked on and included into groups for particular reasons and then will be shut out. The main characters in the soap will change as the storyline does, one story will evolve around one group/character whilst in a different week it will change.
Our soap opera will be based in a school setting, including the classrooms, library, staff room and the playground. We will also include the homes of the characters and their local areas. The homes will be used so the audience can get an insight into the lives of the characters and the homes may also be used to hold parties. We will have a meeting place where all the characters go; this may possibly be a café. We may also include the park as many teenagers hang around in the park.
Our target audience is going to be teenagers and young adults of both genders as our characters are mainly of this age group too. By having teenagers as our target audience and as the main characters, we hope the audience will be able to connect with the characters and possibly relate their own lives to the characters. We also hope that our soap will appeal to an older group of people and that they will be attracted to the issues we will be dealing with.
As our soap is aimed at teenagers and we will have moral and educational content.
Our media product will follow the expected and unexpected elements of a soap opera. It will include all the necessary conventions of a soap opera such as narrative enigmas, a sense of realism, concurrent storylines, social representations, and a central meeting point and will deal with real life issues. Each episode will end with a big cliff-hanger and the storylines can sometimes end with smaller cliff-hangers. We will also challenge everyday conventions of soaps by having events such as a lesbian wedding, a teacher getting in trouble instead of a student and a person not fitting into a tight community.
We decided on the name I.V for our soap. This will stand for Independent Variable. We believe this fits into the nature of our soap as the definition of an independent variable is a variable that gets manipulated in order for the outcome to be different each time. The lives of the characters will get manipulated by other characters and by social factors in order for outcomes of the soap to be interesting and to keep audiences watching.
Group Effort: Written by Natalie Michael with contributions from Thegla Savvides and Elena Christodoulou
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