A few weeks ago I attended lectures and seminars lead by Rob Glass from the BBC. He spoke about the use of PDP as a way of working with factual news/documentaries. Basically, instead of showing a story as you would see on the news, you go deeper and spend more time with the subjects to actually capture what they are doing rather than have them just talking about it afterwards. This way you can capture the moment and create a more interesting piece of work that is more accurate. Working this way also gives the subjects more of a chance to be themselves and show the viewers their personality more. The video below is a fake news clip that we made.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Monday, November 27, 2006
Shoot
Last thursday Something Productions, ventured forth to Bulwell, a bit of a hole, but it was to be our location for the first shoot of our " Ghosts of Nottingham" documentary. We arrived at the Lion Revivied with half an hour to spare, this provided us with more time to set up before we began filming the interviews. in my opinion the set up looked pro. We began to interview our subjects one by one, and they seemed pretty nervous. We must have looked professional. we then interviewed them as a group and by this time they were very relaxed about the whole idea of being on camera infront of lots of lighting and crew. We got a great response from the interviewees, with some enthusiastic and emotional stories from all five of them. A great shoot for all.
Noddy
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Reading and passports
Today i went in to find my seminars cancelled, i should have read my emails. so i decided to sort out my sound studio passport. This enables me to book out the recording studio in my own time to practice and record music :)
I returned home to a nice warm flat, and began the second chapter of my new direction book by Michael Rabiger. It seems very arty, but i am going to keep an open mind about it. It is quite interesting. I especially like a quote he gave by Heraclitus "A mans character is his fate". I am currently reading about identifying themes as a director.
cheers
NODDY
I returned home to a nice warm flat, and began the second chapter of my new direction book by Michael Rabiger. It seems very arty, but i am going to keep an open mind about it. It is quite interesting. I especially like a quote he gave by Heraclitus "A mans character is his fate". I am currently reading about identifying themes as a director.
cheers
NODDY
An introduction...
Just to let you all know what i am studying and my current projects.
Modules: AudioVisual Production, Direction/Production for Camera & Sound Engineering. Also Sucessful Practice as most people who read this will know.
Current Projects:
AV - 4 minute documentary - we are basing this documentary on paranormal activity in nottingham. we are currently in email contact with a group called " Ghosts in Nottingham" and we plan to meet with a group of the members on thursday evening (9th nov 06). From this we will arrange dates on which to film our footage which includes interviews and nightime film from one of thier allegidly haunted locations. more updates soon....
Direction - I have chosen one of five short film scripts, and i am to adapt this script, organising everything which the project entails. Inlcduing casting, filming and post production. I am currently turning adapting the script into the final draft. When i have produced this final draft i will be able to start the practical side of things. Realistically i will be filming this over the christmas period. more updates soon....
Sound - up to now i have been learning the basics of a sound program called Pro Tools. I have learnt the basic set up to recording many tracks on this program, including setting the microphones up for each intrument required, setting levels, D.Iing guitars directly into the system, and adding plug ins (effects) to the sound we produce and much more. I have also learnt that i am not too good on piano :)
SPP: i have been lectured on two particulary interesting subjects so far. The first being Personal Digital Production (PDP), in which, Rob Glass a BBC news reporter came in to teach us about two different techniques on how to film a VT for the news.
The second lectures and seminars, i had today. We went through a script with guest "geeza" lecturer Ian (a sound desinger) and he took us thorugh this script, and explained how he would approach it in a professional situation. In the second hour of the lecture Brian (another guest lecturer & theatre sound desinger) showed us the lord of the rings behind the scenes, sound desing section. I have seen this before, but watching it with a professional, who pointed out alot of informative things, really helped us understand what happens in a professional situation.
That lot took me a REALLY long time to write for a blog, but its all in the name of education.
Laters
OLI
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Modules: AudioVisual Production, Direction/Production for Camera & Sound Engineering. Also Sucessful Practice as most people who read this will know.
Current Projects:
AV - 4 minute documentary - we are basing this documentary on paranormal activity in nottingham. we are currently in email contact with a group called " Ghosts in Nottingham" and we plan to meet with a group of the members on thursday evening (9th nov 06). From this we will arrange dates on which to film our footage which includes interviews and nightime film from one of thier allegidly haunted locations. more updates soon....
Direction - I have chosen one of five short film scripts, and i am to adapt this script, organising everything which the project entails. Inlcduing casting, filming and post production. I am currently turning adapting the script into the final draft. When i have produced this final draft i will be able to start the practical side of things. Realistically i will be filming this over the christmas period. more updates soon....
Sound - up to now i have been learning the basics of a sound program called Pro Tools. I have learnt the basic set up to recording many tracks on this program, including setting the microphones up for each intrument required, setting levels, D.Iing guitars directly into the system, and adding plug ins (effects) to the sound we produce and much more. I have also learnt that i am not too good on piano :)
SPP: i have been lectured on two particulary interesting subjects so far. The first being Personal Digital Production (PDP), in which, Rob Glass a BBC news reporter came in to teach us about two different techniques on how to film a VT for the news.
The second lectures and seminars, i had today. We went through a script with guest "geeza" lecturer Ian (a sound desinger) and he took us thorugh this script, and explained how he would approach it in a professional situation. In the second hour of the lecture Brian (another guest lecturer & theatre sound desinger) showed us the lord of the rings behind the scenes, sound desing section. I have seen this before, but watching it with a professional, who pointed out alot of informative things, really helped us understand what happens in a professional situation.
That lot took me a REALLY long time to write for a blog, but its all in the name of education.
Laters
OLI
X
le premier post
Hello all,
this is my second blog profile because i updated to "beta". i also couldnt figure the last one out. i wasnt able to delete any posts.
anyway....
Today I created a new myspace profile, branching out my brothers gig promotion based in Leeds, which is a promo company called British Wildlife. Now British Wildlife Nottingham ( www.myspace.com/britishwildlifenottingham), i hope to begin gigs in january. So if anyone is part of or in any bands let me know, i will hopefully be putting gigs on at the old angel and junktion 7. They're the only places i know of that have gig rooms at the moment but i'm sure theres many more.
anyway
cheers for reading post number one of many to come.
Noddy
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this is my second blog profile because i updated to "beta". i also couldnt figure the last one out. i wasnt able to delete any posts.
anyway....
Today I created a new myspace profile, branching out my brothers gig promotion based in Leeds, which is a promo company called British Wildlife. Now British Wildlife Nottingham ( www.myspace.com/britishwildlifenottingham), i hope to begin gigs in january. So if anyone is part of or in any bands let me know, i will hopefully be putting gigs on at the old angel and junktion 7. They're the only places i know of that have gig rooms at the moment but i'm sure theres many more.
anyway
cheers for reading post number one of many to come.
Noddy
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