Digital News Production: Consent Forms

These are all the consent forms we have used over the course of our filming and of course I blurred the signatures so they can't be copy or pasted over the internet. 

This was a lucky one as we had the pleasure of interviewing Chetna Maken who is a small celebrity from Kent and was at the food festival. 

Jo Davies was the women in our video at the cupcake stand as she gives Cecily our reported a cupcake. 

Cecily is the reporter for the Live piece at the Broadstairs food festival. We thought we was quite lucky with her although she spoke a bit fast unfortunately. 

Jo Scott who is the organiser of the festival and was really excited and up for an interview and she was actually quite good, she didn't talk to fast.

Sheryll was our other reporter for the package piece on the Banksy, now we thought she did a better job than Cecily as she spoke more like a news piece even though Cecily was good. 

Fiction Adaptation: Research into Dracula Series

The series Dracula first aired on NBC in September 2013 and lasted for 10 episodes. This was created for American TV and starred Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Dracula/ Alexander Grayson.
This series was adapted from the book Bram Stokers Dracula and it contains the main characters from the book, such as Mina and Abraham Van Helsing.

The main plot of the series is Dracula comes to England and poses as an American entrepreneur and tries to bring modern science to victorian society but in actual fact he wants pay back on the people who ruined his life centuries before, only one thing disrupts his plan by falling hopelessly in love with a women who reminds him of his wife so long ago.

This drama is classes as a horror and is put in the restriction of 18 and aired at 9pm.

I found out some of this information form imdb, also that NBC has cancelled the second series.

Talk with Hannah form Kent Film Office

Hannah Lucey came to the studios to talk to us about the Kent Film Office and what they do, the talk was interesting as they can help out with any production  from small to big or student films. They don't charge anything as they are run by the council.
They do all the work for you, you tell them what you want to film and where and they go to all the places and ask for permission which would save us time plus they are professionals so more likely to get responses quicker and more likely to get permission.
This talk has really opened my mind and made me think about how I can get them to help me and maybe I might even consider doing work experience with them in the future.
Since I have now finished filming the Digital News they can't help out with that but I am just about to start wight Fiction Adaptation so will definitely ask their help.
This talk was definitely worth going to as I found out a lot as they can even help find us work experience.

Digital News Production: Edited Presenter Script

Presenter Script

Today we filmed with the presenter Jasmin, we feel it went well apart from a few things which we felt we should make tweaks to the script to make it better, also Jasmin pronounced Folkestone wrong as she pronounced the l when its silent but we corrected her nicely and we got it in the end, as Jasmin was reading from the script we just got rid of the l and she then read it better.
We did 2 takes on the script which Jasmin did sitting down at a news desk which looks a bit formal and a version standing as we can then have a choice as we don't want to look to formal and newsy when out channel is more light hearted.

Fiction Adaptation: Dracula Series

The series of Dracula is based on the book by Bram Stoker the same as the films, I wondered how they was going to make the series as its 10 episodes lasting 40 minutes and the films are just over an hour and a half each so I was thinking there wouldn't be enough of a storyline.
This is modernised but still set in victorian times and has the same storyline as the films but Dracula goes by a different name as everyone these days knows the name Dracula plus there is also the order of the dragon with is set up to kill vampires and they know of Dracula, so he goes by the name Alexander Grayson rather than Vlad Dracula.
In the series the difference is that Dracula wants to be good so that he serves Mina rather than just talking her which is what happens in the book so he with the help of Van Helsing, the doctor, tries to make him more human by letting him walk in the daylight, now in the book Van Helsing works against Dracula but he helps him in the series and he is the one who awakens him at the beginning.
Dracula still employs Jonathan and wins Mina, with all the twists like turning Lucy etc.
The order of the dragon find out who Dracula is they try and kill him but end up killing half the town and he survives and Mina falls for him by herself, plus Jonathan turns on Dracula by joining the order of the dragon because he steals his fiancé.

Fiction Adaptation: Dracula 1931

This is the whole film of Dracula, 1931 version on youtube, I watched this as its the first version adaptation from the book by Bram Stoker.

This I found as in black and white a little bit hard to watch and get into at first but once I understood who the characters are and what was happening I found it to be a good adaptation on the book as it is only 40 years after the book and made at that time to be modern but simple as it is not as long as the 1992 version.

The storyline stays the same where Dracula travels to London to win the heart of his financial advisers finance who looks like his wife from his previous life, Dracula travels to London but on arrival people are aware that someone bad is about to happen and that there is a presences around but no one has herd or know about vampires except Van Helsing, so once things start to happen and Mina's friend gets bitten he is called and he tries to save Lucy but fails and with that fails to stop Mina falling for Dracula and in which Jonathan loses the fight and his fiancé.

Fiction Adaptation: Bram Stoker Dracula 1992

This is the trailer for the 1992 version of Bram Stokers Dracula

This is based no the book by Bram Stoker but is an adaptation 100 years after the book was written, it has the same storyline as the book as Jonathan travels to Dracula's castle to help him with buying a place in London where he finds out his fiancé looks like Dracula's long lost wife so he entraps Jonathan and travels to London to win Mina, but un the process he turns Mina's best friend, Lucy and causes havoc so Va Helsing, the doctor, is called where he learns about Dracula and tries to protect Mina but in the end Dracula win's.
This film is set in 1992 so this version is in colour which the first version from 1931 is not making this an easier film to watch plus is has been modernised for the audience.

Digital News Production: People's Roles

In our group we have 4 of us which means we can spread out the roles more;

We have me; my role is Producer which means I am in charge of most things that need doing up to the shoot. I organise everyone making sure everyone is free for when we need to film and who they will get to the shoot. I make sure we have everything we need to film so camera is booked with all the equipment, everyone knows their roles and what they are doing. First I have to find the story and get people to agree to let us film and get volunteers if we need interviews, then I need to plan the shoot with the people so when and what time plus what we will be allowed to do. We don't want to step any marks.

Next is Lex;
Lex is the main editor who will be editing the "LIVE OB" this is the Broadstairs Food Festival footage. Even though editing does not take place until after the shoot Lex will also be on sound or directing during the 2 shoots and doing research and blogging. Lex will help out with the idea's for the news pieces and help write the scripts as he is good at script writing.

Michael;
Mike's main role is camera man which is only during the shoots. Mike is also doing all the graphics for us, this includes the green screen effect, the intro and anything else we want to create. Graphics are a bit time consuming sometimes so these are Mike's main 2 jobs but he will also be helping with idea's and script so that will be a group contribution. So far Mike was the one who came up with the idea for the intro.

Sophie;
Sophie was originally suppose to be researcher but this was not a big role so Sophie will be helping out with things like script, blog and if I need any help until shoot day which she will then will be either sound or director, then she will be another editor and edit the package (the Banksy footage)..

This pretty much sums up our whole project as we have things planned and then the shoot people and are editors.

Fiction Adaptation: Essay Idea Decided

I was told that I could not do Alice in Wonderland as this has to been a series on TV in either England or America and we need to compare a book and a TV series and not so much the film so I have to change my idea.
This took some work and I had no idea until I had my essay support meeting with Lucy who gave me a couple idea's as I was going to go with Blade but it was a comic first and I wasn't sure I good use it, as I was on the idea of vampires Lucy suggested I do Dracula as he is the oldest and first vampire to date and the origins to all the vampire talks and stories we have these days.
Seen as most people know stuff about Dracula already and I love the genre of vampires I thought this could be a good idea, I just needed to fins out if there was a series of Dracula which turns out there was last year, this means its current and so could be a lot different to the book or a similar modern take on it.
So my first course of action is to read the book and watch the series and if i have time the original Bram Stoker's film in 1931, as this would give me a lot of insight into how different adaptations can be and if people have adapted the series and film in a good way keeping together the structure and characters in a way they should be portrayed or if they are in it at all.

Digital News Production: Contacting Folkestone Triennal

This screen shot shows the Folkestone Triennial website and how exactly we contacted them by using the screen shot below you can see there address and phone number plus email which is what i then did so we could try and get an interview with an artist. 

Digital News Production: Banksy Documentary

As we have chosen to do our news package on the art piece Banksy has left in Folkestone I thought I would watch the documentary 'Exit Though the Gift Shop' which is about Banksy. This is the documentary unfortunately this is the only one i could find on youtube and its English most the way through but has French subtitles:



From watching this I have found out that Banksy is like just everyone else he has something he is passion about in life and he just wants to share that with the world, this documentary shows that Banksy goes to any state possible to reach his ambitions and goals by climbing building and facing heights just to get people to see his art works. What Banksy does is highly illegal and he has never been caught, plus no one knows the identity of this illusive artist but he carries on doing what he loves and makes him happy.
This documentary is not really about Banksy but a French man who takes a video camera everywhere he goes, his cousin is a street artist named space invader and he follows him around meeting new artist until one day he gets the change to meet the illusive Banksy and he gets to film it.

Fiction Adaptation: Essay idea

My idea for the essay is to write and compare Alice in Wonderland, the book and the newest film directed by Tim Burton.
As I have already seen the movie I was thinking because Alice in wonderland by Tim Burton is such a weird and different version compared to he rest it might also be a lot different to the book so I would be able to write lots, even though it has similar characters to the other film version it has a different storyline to it.
The only thing is I would have to read the book quickly, but its not a dry big book so shouldn't take to long even though I am a slow reader.
I feel the character, mad hatter, played by Johnny Deep is mad just for him in this movie as it would be hard to cast someone else in a role like this as Johnny Depp is known for his weird and wonderful roles and because he is Tim Burton's best friend he is first choice in all his movies.
Things i feel could be different is the real world part at the beginning and end as you get to see what her life is like and how people say she is weird, also the poem jabberwocky is spoken to alice by Johnny Depp's character speaking about the queen of hearts (played by Helena Bohnam Carter, Tim Burton's wife) two animals that she has for killing people, the bandersnatch which helps Alice later in the film and the jabberwocky which is the weapon to destroy the good queen(Anne Hathaway).

Digital News Production: Green Screen Test

Last friday we got Fergus to teach our group how to set up a green screen, this only took 45 mins as we used a lot of daylight and the daylight lights in the boardroom which helped out our set, we got lex to sit in front of the camera and say a couple words just to test the green screen. Mike put this into After Effects and changed the free screen and this is what we got;




I am pleased with this result and I feel that this is a good green screen as Lex does not look fake and it looks fairly 3D which is what we wanted, we did this by put some depth of field in and making space between Lex and the green screen, if this was out final image I would be happy to hand this in so I am confident that are studio piece next week should go smoothly.

Digital News Production: Intro

This is the Intro we created by splashing paint on a piece of paper and taking lots of photos of it, Mike then put the paint into our News title and made it expand to create the intro we wanted. This was done using after effects but with the moving we made with the paint.

Digital News Production: Contacting Paranoid Pictures

Here I took a screen shot of this email as I am emailing a production company, Paranoid Pictures, who produced the Banksy film exit Through the Gift Shop. We emailed them to ask permission to use a short clip from the documentary which is about 30 seconds long and consists of 10 images Banksy has created over the world. We are just join to wait for a reply thats if they actually reply.

Digital News Production: Package Script

Banksy Script

This script is for our package piece on the artwork Banksy has just created in Folkestone, we had a couple of weeks to plan a script and it took us a while as we could not decide which angle we wanted this story to be, my idea was 'is Banksy mocking art or adding to it' but Helen thought we should focus more on the regeneration and the triennial and only mention that Banksy is contributing.
This script was slightly hard to create compared to our food festival as we could have many options for a story. I was the one that started the basis on this script as i am not that good at english Lex and Sophie finished it and made it more suitable for TV.

Digital News Production: Package Practice

We was given a task to practice doing a news package ready for doing our own work. We was given the task in our groups and told to film what Maidstone has to offer this was suppose to be about 1.30 minutes long and have either interviews, walk talkies or V.O's this is what we created:

Digital News Production: Script Practice

Maidstone News Script

The top image is of the script we made as a practice for the LIVE piece, we was given the task to produce a short 1.30 minute piece on what Maidstone has to offer for tourists. This could include interviews, cutaways, walk talky's etc. We decided to keep it simple and just have a presenter and lots of cutaways showing rather than just telling. 

The bottom image is the script we used while on shoot and as you can see we made changes as we went which we feel made it better, as sometimes you can't tell if things don't sound right until you say them out loud. We also got ride of the section about the studio's as we felt that everyone will probably talk about the studios so we just did everything else instead.

Digital News Production: Contacting Folkestone Tourist Centre

This is a screen shot of the Folkestone Tourist centre website as i wanted to email them to ask is someone could be on camera and we interview them so we could get another opinion on the Banksy art work. The website has a contact us button which i pressed and it opened up in my emails so i couldn't call them. 

Digital News Production: Intro Tests

This is the tests we did on paper with pen and paints the other day, the photos have been put together and now look like an actual moving image, by using time lapse instead of filming we managed to create something without having to edit it plus this is quicker that filming. This whole process was originally Mike's idea and we all had fun doing it plus we are pleased with the results, I think the fingerprints are best but maybe because that was my idea, we are thinking we will go with the paint splatters (the last one).

Digital News Production: Intro Designs

Our idea was to make our intro with paints using Pollock's art as are basis idea. We wanted to have paint splatters that would appear slowly inside our title, Kentertainment. First we had to decide on how exactly we was going to do this, but Mike had tried this with pen and it looked good so we next we had to go out and buy paints and felt pens as we decided to try it with both, we had already chosen the colours as our channel is going to consist of our favourite colours; Blue, Green, Red and Yellow. This is us setting up so we don't get paint everywhere and testing the paint.

Next we had to make sure the camera was ready and in the right setting to take multiple picture continuously until stooped, Mike set up his Cannon on to of a table so we could get up high for a good angle. We joined 2 tables together so we could set up the camera and the paints. 

We thought we should celotape the paper down just in case one of us moves it while drawing, if the paper would have been over we would of had to start again as the camera was set up to just see the whole paper. We tested the pens first so we each had our pens and when the camera was started we each took it in turns to draw on the paper swirls. 

These are both examples of what we created for the intro, the first one was better as this one does not read h the edges plus there is not a lot of blue or green as the main colour you see is red, plus its very swirly. 

This is our first attempt at using the paints, this we felt was a good first attempt but it wasn't good enough to use as the paint is not all over the page just in the middle and we need it to fill the page, but  the paint went well just need bait more of each colour spread out like blue at the top of the images and more green too. 

We had a second go with the paint and this time it was a lot better, it filled the page and we each got an even amount of paint on, the only thing with this painting was that Mike forgot to put a card in the camera so this one did not have any footage to it. 

So we had to try again and this one was good and we think we will use this for our intro and have this fit into out title. This one could have filled the bottom up a bit better and a bit more yellow just to brighten up all the colours as it looks a bit dark. 

Me and Sophie was messing around with paints as we got a little bit on each other and so we camera up with the idea of doing fingerprints instead of paint splatters, plus this would then make the intro a little longer as it would take longer to film, the others were a bit quick. We did this and it was fun even though it wasn't our original idea it worked out well and we all liked it, so it will definitely be considered as our intro instead of the paint splatters. 

Digital News Production: Practice Package Script

We was given a task to create a sort package to help us prepare to film our own news package next week. We was given a week to film this short 1.30 minute package about what Maidstone has to offer. 

This can be done by using interviews, cutaways, V/O, walk talkies with the presenter.

We sat down as a group and decided what we feel Maidstone has to offer and what we want to film, obviously we thought about the studios but we thought that everyone else would think of that too so Mike talked about Mote park and all that happens there, the big thing would be the town centre so we would have to film there too but may need permission. 

As you can see on the shoot we did end up changing the words slightly as they did not sound right when I said them. We did not end up recording the studios paragraph as we didn't want to be like everyone else and film the studio's so we concentrated on the rest of Maidstone instead. 

Digital News Production: Package Idea

The news piece we have found to do our package on is Banksy, as he has just created a piece of work on a wall in the town Folkestone. This piece is of a old women looking at a piece of art on a pedestal, this is considered to have a meaning of how we interpret art. We thought this went with you genre/style we chose, entertainment, as this is art and culture plus Banksy is well known and people find what he does interesting. We decided this would be the package instead of the live as notice is going on in Folkestone or this story to report live plus with the package we can cut and put lots of cutaways as its not filmed live.

We have decided as the triennial is also happening at the same time, which is an art exhibition to promote the area we should also mention this in our story, also Banksy has joked and said he did this art piece to contribute to the triennial so we feel we should make our story more of the art that is trying to bring Folkestone back to life and a tourist beach destination.
We also found out that Folkestone is trying to regenerate the town to make it more like Margate and a modern tourist place, they are doing this with the help of the art work which could be another take on our story.

Digital News Production: Presenter/Reporters

This screen shot is of the website i used to try and get presenters for our films. I decided to use the university for Kent as it is based in Medway so its not far from us plus it wouldn't take as long to try and get people in and filming as Starnow last year took ages, plus they are at uni and appreciate work more and of course will work for nothing.

Digital News Production: A PTC from the Food Festival Footage

This is a PTC of Cecily from the Broadstairs Food Festival. This is the final shot and the last piece to camera(PTC) this is not edited its just the full shot we took, we wanted Cecily the reporter to do more of a hands on finish by eating the cake once she finishes her tag line but she found it hard to memorise it all the words and eat the cake so she did her tag line and thats it.
The bad thing about this piece is Cecily spoke way to fast thats is distracting and hard to keep up with what she is saying, also it would have been good if she ate the cake too. When this goes to edit we will cut up the clip slightly but you can't do much with it and talking way to fast has really made a mess for us as there is not much we can do except put cutaways over everything apart from her name.  This is not what we was hoping for but we are going to have to work with what we have unfortunately but Lex is a good editor and can fix this for us.

Digital News Production: Folkestone Triennial

While we was in Folkestone we found out there was a triennial happening which goes on for 2 months every 3 years to get students to produce art to improve the town. Here are the images we got to do with the artworks and the triennial. 

This is made of Bamboo and is a look out over the harbour and the English channel.

This is the leaflet we picked up about the triennial this year. 

There is 21 pieces of art over the town and this is inside the leaflet to show a picture of them and describe them.

This is the leaflet fully opened to show where in the town the artworks are numbered so you know where your going for which thing you want to see. 

This is a web image of one of the artworks as this is hard to get a picture of because the water goes in and out during the day and hide it. 

This is a web image of a artwork that was done the time before to show a range of things over different years. This is just a giant bell hanging over the old seaside where the fishermen huts used to sit.

As we explored we saw this road and i thought it would make good research and a possible filming place for my fiction as it is about war and remembrance.

People leave poppies on the railing of this road all year and people just add to it, it is there so people remember all year and can admire. 

Digital News Production: Folkestone Trip

We went to Folkestone to have a look around and familiarise ourselves with the area before we film as this is important as we can't just turn up and expect to have the perfect film quickly. We went to photography and take archive footage for the Package piece. 

We took photos and footage of the Banksy piece before is would get a chance to be defaced and graffitied. This image I took so you could see the graffiti next to it. 

I took this one to show people how popular the art is becoming and soon will bring in tourism for Folkestone. 

This image is to show where the Banksy piece is just in case people want to go and see it, the artwork is in this piece but it is hidden by the lamp post unfortunately. 

This image is to show what Folkestone's high street looks like, this is just full of independent stores and is looking a bit run down and in need of some tourism and money into this sea side town. 

This image is of other art work around the town but this is just part of the features and not the triennial.

We thought we would get a photo of other pieces of graffiti in the town but this was the only thing we could find other than the original writing on random walls.

We took a few images of the harbour to show what it looks like, also you can tell how much money has been put into it but the expenses of boats and how it looks/kept up to date. 

This one shows the shops/houses etc on the harbour front and what kind they are, like the old beach hoses but in darker colours.

The beach isn't very big but it looks like most beaches but just not a very big popular tourist destination as there is no ice cream shops or fish and chip shops or even the souvenir places.

We took this shot to show that they are starting to do Folkestone up but this is just a small thing compared to Margate who have done the whole beach and sea front but Folkestone could be next with the help of Banksy's art work. 

Digital New Production: Risk Assessment

Risk assessment forms: 

Part A- Me and Sophie filled in the forms, we found it slightly hard as things we didn't know or understand what we need to write in some boxes, we wrote our numbers on the sheet but to put it up on the blog we needed to blur it first.  

We ticked everything we though applied to the risks around, but I felt we didn't have much risks as we was in a field/gardens surrounded by people so our biggest danger would be people. 

The only real dangers was we was surrounded by lots of people so had to make sure we stayed together, we was also right by the sea side so seaguls swooping by and stalls which could fall over and possible crutch us. 

Digital News Production: Script for "OB Live"

Digital News Script "LIVE"

This is our second attempt and final at writing this script, we did not find it easy but we also did not have very long to have this finished as we are filming this week too.
Lex, Mike and me all wrote this script together as I am not interested in script writing plus i find it harder to write for TV/News compared to film, but Lex wants to be a script writer so he wrote this as me and Mike told him what stuff we feel should be included in the script.

Digital News Production: Contacting Presenters

I got a few people interested in being presenters for our pieces; the first one is from Sean who cannot travel far and so wanted to help with green screening. We asked for him to send us a portfolio of something so we could see what he is like on camera, we are waiting to hear back. 

This one is from 2 girls interested in our Live piece but only Cecily can get to Broadstairs and so we chose to use her. After i sent thing i forgot to ask for a portfolio so we will have to cross our fingers she will fit our piece. 

Digital News Production: Interview Questions

These are the interview questions we are thinking of asking a person in charge of any stall that will know about the festival and what it does, the would preferable be Thanet earth as they are the biggest supporter and fundraisers for the festival. 

      These are the questions we want to ask someone with a interesting personality that will shine and people will want to see, we thought we should ask a visitor as it gives an outside view of the festival rather than just the organisers and people involved as that could be biased. 

This is the main interview we want and that is with the co-ordinator, we will be interviewing Jo as our main piece which we are allowing up to 30 seconds of answers for the 2 minute live, we have come up with 5 questions but will probably only use 2 depending on how long her answers are, we have chosen the 2 most impotent question to ask her first then we will ask the rest but we can cut it. 

The 2 main questions we want to ask are; what makes this festival so popular? and what makes this festival different from the others? This however might change slightly.

Digital News Production: Bansky Photo's

These pictures are of our trip to Folkestone to see the painting that Banksy created a few days before. I took all the pictures and Mike took video's. We travelled to Folkestone so we could get the pictures and video's of the artwork before it could be defaced or graffitied, as we are not planning on filming this story for a little while and just incase we want to make sure we have material. 

This is a picture of the artwork on the back of an amusement building in the centre of the town, next to a piece of graffiti originally, I thought this was an appropriate shot as some people consider what Banksy does is graffiti itself, plus this piece is suppose to represent artwork on a pedestal. 

This shot is to show that the artwork is bringing people and even tourism to the area to see the piece plus this might even help put Folkestone back on the map along with the triennial which is also happening till 2nd November. 

This is a low angle of the piece by itself, unfortunately with the protective cover it cause reflections so you can see Mike and Lex's reflections in the corner, this won't be used in our film but just for blog to show the artwork.  

Here we are standing in the car park to show a wide shot of the area and how close people can park and quickly admire the painting, plus I got Mike in shot showing what he is filming. 

This is a shot of the artwork too but it is hidden slightly behind the lamp post, I thought I would get a shot of the road name incase anyone wants to take a look and a trip themselves, I would like to know why Banksy chose this place/and the back of the amusement building, I wonder if it can be seen from a distance. 

This picture is of the front of the building where the Banksy is, the amusements owner was lucky to have an artwork left behind but as so many people were visiting the artwork the owner employed a security guard during the day to protect from vandalism, as this is now brining in tourism.