Fiction Adaptation: Critical Reflections

In this project I found that it has been a lot of ups and downs with problems after problems but I have over come them all with the help of supportive people close to me. I was organised to begin with but with the transition from Digital News to Fiction it was a bit confusing and I was not as prepared as I should have been, as I should have been recording quicker than was planned.
I had my idea quite quickly and the script was quite clear, everything was set up to film 3 weeks before hand-in I had the locations I had the adverts out their for actors and composers.
Everything was set but no one applied for my main character which is a 45 year old man, this meant that with 2 weeks to go I had no one to appear without their face being seen in my film.
I then I spoke to my dad and he had an idea to ask my uncle if he would help out and I could then move my shoot home to Essex, I never thought about using my Uncle so I phoned him and because he doesn't have a job he was willing to help out, but as a back up my dads friend could have done it. So I then went home and me and my mum looked for a new church location for me to film at and contact them, I was lucky as my mum suggested St. Margaret's church which had a field leading up to it and I knew it had a graveyard as I used to walk past it everyday to school.
I got in contact with them and we sorted a date, but then my mum came up with an idea that if you don't see the characters face then why not use my brother as I could put my dads coat on him and just cut his head out as he has bright ginger hair.
I also asks my mums friends son who is 10 to helps out as the little boy in the graveyard and he really wanted to star in his first film which was great, he actually did very well and looked sad even though he did not cry, he even helped me out on the shoot being my runner when switching between the tripod and the shoulder rig.
Overall that day went well except that the reverent for the church kept asking us how long we was going to be, so we felt rushed and so we did all the inside of the church first, she also kept watching us which was a little of putting but it all got done and I like the video.
I haven't actually done much to the video with effects and fancy writing as I wanted a natural emotional video with sound so I editing it roughly and sent it to the composer, he then 2 days before hand-in says he won't finish in time leaving me with a edited video that is silent, now I was hoping that the music he created was going to make the video flow as it was to be made to fit the film but I then had a day to find royalty free music online, luckily I managed it and the music wasn't too bad I just wish I would have got more than one composer to make a piece and I would have back ups and some to chose from.
Now that my video is finished it is not what I actually had in my mind when I came up with the idea and the script as I completely got rid of the town scene and a lot of the POV and yet the video is nearly 5 minutes, but I am happy with the result but I know that I could have done better with the music, playing around with the poem on the screen more and even though I didn't rush towards the end I feel I should have done my work quicker leaving time for mistakes.
I am also proud that I was the one to create the intro as I have never done something like that before and I didn't spend to long on it and with a little help form Lex everyone liked and agreed on it, my second attempt, if I had more time I would have played with it more making some more movement on screen.

Fiction Adaptation: Film

Here is my finished film with all the music and poem done, I am proud of it even with the hiccups and all the ups and downs, I don't really like all the camera shakes for the POV and following the actor but if it was still it would look wrong.

Fiction Adaptation: Final Essay

Fiction Essay 2

This is my final Essay, I managed to write the minimum words of 2000, I am proud that I managed to write 2100 words and I feel this is my best essay yet as what I wrote about I am passionate about and is a very good topic as I had loads of information about Dracula plus I enjoyed watching the films and series as I love the genre of vampires and talking about adaptations I found easier than I thought as I liked both the adaptations of Dracula from the book and thought they kept the integrity, so I wrote down all this in the essay, which i feel is a big improvement from my first attempt and this has loads of references.

Fiction Adaptation: Music

These two songs are what I have used in my Fiction film, I had to used royalty free music as m composer dropped out the day before he was suppose to hand it to me so I had to look of music which was stressful as I wanted it to be made to fit my film and so my film would flow and the music would go up and down with the film but I had to work with what I had.
I chose these two as they are slow and emotional but one is slightly more happier which I feel suited the sunset of my film and the other was not quite long enough to fit the whole film which is why I found 2, plus I think i made the best and they worked as they are beautiful pieces and I would have wanted my track to sound a bit like these anyways so I think I was lucky to find these on youtube, I even think I was lucky that they are loyalty free too.

Fiction Adaptation: Intro 2

Not everyone liked the first intro so everyone suggested ways to improve and shorten the intro, that suggested a mosaic effect so that everyones images from their film is on the screen at the same time which means it could be 10 seconds or shorter, this gave me more work to do to create the new intro as I wasn't that sure how to create this effect so with a little help from Lex I created this:
This does not have music as I dint want to add some in case it didn't fit someones film so I thought I would let it either be silent or people can add the music from their own films.
This is quite short but I feel it doesn't need to be longer as it is only still images not he screen but I am proud of this as it only took me and Lex a couple of hours to create it plus it was a good learning experience for me.
I showed everyone and they all like it so I am happy plus I still have time to do my own work which is good. No one came up with anything they want to change or add so I am happy as it would take a while to change things and I would rather work on my own work so I am not rushing around before deadline.

Fiction Adaptation: Intro

This is the Intro that I have created for the class, I had everyone send me clips and images of their film, I then imported them into final cut pro and into a timeline where I cut down each to be a second long and the person's name the clip belonged to in the bottom right corner, which was an Idea of Chris's which I found a better idea than mine which was to put the letters from the word fiction adaptation one by one come up in the bottom left corner. This I liked but where people have given me me both moving clips and still images I feel it looks a bit weird as some of the stills I feel should be moving, also either all the clips should be moving or stills would work better. So I showed the class and they liked it but just felt something was missing or wrong so they came up with the idea to try mosaic so all the images are on the screen at the same time with the names still on them and this would make the intro slightly shorter as people are worried about it being to long to fit their video.

I feel that this hasn't really been that difficult as its like editing my own video as not much has been done as what can you really do with the clips as people asked for the clips to be put together and fastened up, I'm not sure I like this video as I feel it looks a bit weird with still clips and moving clips, I am not very good with effects as I haven't had much experience so I thought I would have ago and see what intro I could come up with without many effects just natural clips smoothly edited together without a template.

Fiction Adaptation: Intro Making

In a day I have been given 9 clips including my own so I decided to give the intro a try and see what I can come up with, I know it sort of needs to be quick as it shouldn't be too long but slow enough to see some of it too, rather than just having the images and very short clips on the screen I have put the names of who's film it belongs to and I will then end with the words Fiction Adaptation on the screen but at this time I don't have everyones clips so the clips are slightly longer and this last 10 seconds so far but will change over the next couple of days.

Fiction Adaptation: Intro Idea

The group decided on the intro idea being that we each submit a small clip or still from each of our films to be put together and made fast to make a small intro that is unique and we all have a part in, also it will not be a template then. We all got together on Monday after hand in for digital news and Andre originally volunteered to make the piece but he did not have a hard drive to put the clips on to so I said I would do it as I have spare time as my project is well on its way to being finished, so I put some peoples clips on my hard drive and the others who didn't have theirs with them said they would send them to me.
Now I am not technical and good at effects but I am willing to have ago and really try but also there isn't much you can do to clips, I just have to do something with the title (Fiction Adaptation) but I want to keep it simple as if I put any emotion to it, it may not fit someones so I will make it as neutral as possible, lets try this new task for me.

Fiction Adaptation: Final Script

Fiction Script 2

This is the new version of my script based on what I film on my shoot but this is a lot shorter than my original script so I feel like I have left stuff out plus when writing this I felt like because I have no text and is all silent it was hard to write what was going on, on screen and was starting to read like a book so I had to go over it to make sure, I still feel like its not finished but I spent more time on my video and my essay rather than perfecting this, but I feel like it is a better script as it fits my video better now.

Digital News Theory: Critical Reflections

This video I feel is my best work so far on the course and I am proud of my team and what we have achieved, I can find a few small things wrong which could have been edited out except the small high pitched noise which is barely noticeable over the presenter in studio, it is from the hoover which when filming thought we re-recorded another version but obviously it was still present, This i feel is a small mistake and with more time could have been fixed.
When filming with Jasmin for the green screen I thought we was going to have the presenter sat at a desk but at last minute I decided to film them standing too just in case it looked better, which was a good call for when designing the green screen Mike came out with a simple but I feel amazing green screen effect as he had not used after effects before and chose a simple design plus we hadn't given him suggestions on the look yet, once I saw this I loved it as it is simple and looks like an art exhibition which suits our theme plus Kentertainment is not a distraction as its not moving but yet looks like a piece of art on the wall.
The intro was also Mike's idea and we all chipped in and helped out also trying other ways rather than just paint splats but also finger prints and pens, but in the end I feel the paint splats worked well as we also fitted them in with our name tags on everyone during the film which is creative and links the film together.
The way in which each film is edited is good and Lex did a good job despite being tricky with the live piece and the reporter talking so fast, so we re-recorded and made her more of a voice over making it easier for lex and with lots of food footage it could have been boring but it was smooth editing just a few minor errors and one of the shots in the food festival is a shot of a women on the right side which would have been fine if she didn't turn around and be holding a camera bag which turns out to be me, I feel if this shot was to be used to either cut before we notice the bag or maybe try cropping or another shot, but overall the food festival turned out good considering we planned and filming it within 4 days.
The Folkstone piece was easier and smoother as we had more time to plan and organise plus our reporter didn't talk as fast as our food festival one which was out big problem wight that one, the reporter we felt made that piece and went better except the fact she didn't pronounce Folkstone right and pronounced the L rather than making it silent, even though we did get her to say it right in one of the takes that one was not the best and so we decided to keep her saying it even though its slightly wrong as its not a big deal as she was not from the area.
Overall I am pleased with the film and I hope the team is too as we all worked hard and put in a lot of effort and some stress to get it all done in time but this I feel is my best piece of work yet and the best people I have worked with and I hope that I can have the pleasure of working him them again as they got on with their work without complaint and we all contributed with everything and worked well as a team to create the best piece of work we could, it can only get better.

Digital News Theory: Film

This is our final film which now includes the teaser which is a voice over with images to come up in the show, we now have the Kentertainment intro and fully edited videos. The green screen has been added and we now have credits which we didn't have any of in the rough cut, now this has all come together and is ready for viewing.

Digital New Theory: Music

 The website is just one I googled for royalty free music and this came up, I typed in entertainment as that is our genre and listened to the list below, after liking one I downloaded it ready to show to my group, If they didn't like it I had a couple of back ups if necessary as I felt that this might not fit.

This is the screen shots of the website in which I found to use for music in our Digital News intro, I liked the Bitter Days after 50 seconds and so I suggested to our group who liked it but wasn't sure if it would fit our video, we added it in and because we are only using it for a couple seconds it worked quite well and filled the missing gap where silence was.

Digital News Theory: Essay

Digital News Critical Case Study

This is my final essay/critical case study for Digital news. This is the comparison between the news channels BBC and Channel 4 on Thursday 13th November, This essay is just under the word count of 1500 words by 52 words and I used 1 book for my quotes and references as I felt as this is not an essay I didn't need to use as much backing up of my work but just to compare what each news channel for that day did and why they are different and similar. I am quite happy with this essay and I showed it to Lucy my learning support tutor and she only found a few things wrong with it which I have corrected and for a first and only attempt I am happy to hand this in and hopefully not sway my grade and bring down the video grade.

Fiction Adaptation: Consent Forms

These are the consent forms for my two actors in my film the top form is for my main character which you don't really see, and the bottom one for the little boy crying over the graveyard. I didn't get them to fill in the whole form as then I would then need to blur it anyways, I decided not to blur the signature as they aren't really proper signatures.