Sunday, 28 March 2010
Friday, 8 January 2010
Call Sheets
Here are the call sheets to my production work. These will be used in conjunction with the filming and editing processes in filming along with also helping me time manage my equipment and actors. The call sheet below is of the student agreement form whilst the one above is of the of our filming location, actors and of times the filming will take place.
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
'SNS Local' Script
First Story
Anchor; Good afternoon and welcome to SNS Local News, I’m Luca Pellicci.
Anchor; Our main headline this afternoon revolves around the Building Schools For the Future project, as it begins to affect those teachers and students returning back to Stoke Newington School and Sixth Form, for a new year. With problems involving communication difficulties and confusing layouts, we have live coverage from the school from Mohammed Moossun.
Anchor; So what problems have the Building Schools for the Future project had on students and teachers in Stoke Newington School?
Reporter 1; Well, the BSF project has been seen by many students and teachers as problematic, with inconveniences including communication mishaps and students not being able to find their classes. Earlier I spoke to some Teachers and Students to find out about what they felt about the project and how it has affected them? Ask questions such as what were you expecting through the BSF Project and what problems have there been through the project.
Reporter 1; Well, the BSF project has been seen by many students and teachers as problematic, with inconveniences including communication mishaps and students not being able to find their classes. Earlier I spoke to some Teachers and Students to find out about what they felt about the project and how it has affected them? Ask questions such as what were you expecting through the BSF Project and what problems have there been through the project.
Second Story
Anchor; A level and GCSE results have been recently received with 90% of A level Students passing with A-C Grades and 80% of GCSE students receiving above C grades. We earlier sent a reporter to find out about how students and teachers felt about the results.
Reporter 2; Asks questions on the results such as do you feel the school achieved through these results, how could the school improve and what subjects achieved well. May interview Mr Hewitt and other students and teachers.
Anchor; A level and GCSE results have been recently received with 90% of A level Students passing with A-C Grades and 80% of GCSE students receiving above C grades. We earlier sent a reporter to find out about how students and teachers felt about the results.
Reporter 2; Asks questions on the results such as do you feel the school achieved through these results, how could the school improve and what subjects achieved well. May interview Mr Hewitt and other students and teachers.
Local News
Anchor; Now for a brief report on the local news, with Luca Pellicci.
Voiceover; Nearby junk food take away shops have been failing to keep business running as, students begin to choose healthier options from school canteens and begin to eat healthier packed lunches . Voiceover of a panning shot of junk food shops
Anchor; Now for a brief report on the local news, with Luca Pellicci.
Voiceover; Nearby junk food take away shops have been failing to keep business running as, students begin to choose healthier options from school canteens and begin to eat healthier packed lunches . Voiceover of a panning shot of junk food shops
Clissold Leisure Centre; New improvement works at Clissold Leisure Centre have been unveiled as the centre opts for a larger sports arena, which has angered the centres users and workers. Panning shot of leisure centre.
Sport
Anchor; After an exciting week of football, heres the results from the matches. Results screen appears displaying results.
Anchor; After an exciting week of football, heres the results from the matches. Results screen appears displaying results.
Weather; Weather report using images of weather icons and a voiceover accompanying these images.
Sunday, 1 November 2009
Focus group
Above is a link to my focus group in which I interviewed four students on what they thought and any ideas they may have about a local news programme. I was given many ideas from this focus group and will use them to help create a production that will reflect what students have asked for and have thought of. An idea that came up regularly in this interview was to include iconic images during the title sequence and to stick with the stories on the BSF project and the A level results, along with sticking closely to the conventions of local news programmes.
Student Agreement Form
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
5.8 Logistical and Technical Successes
January February and March 2010
Over these three months I was able to successfully edit evaluate and film my production to a high standard with little problems. The quality of the final
Monday 19th October
Today I was able to begin filming. After buying a tape, I had to film two pan shots of the local leisure centre, and also had to do my focus group. The focus group was a success as I was able to obtain four interviewees and ask them relevant questions about my production.
Thursday 22nd October 2009
After obtaining my equipment from the media technician I was able to begin filming the green screen parts of the news production rather quickly. This benefited me as I only had two days to complete filming and I was already running behind, a fraction.
Friday 23rd October 2009
As this was the final day to film I was in a hurry to finish filming as I still had to get most of the interviewees interviewed. However this did not take long and I was able to get these shots done rather quickly, and by the end of the day. I was unable to upload the production on to the school computers as I had ran out of time, but this was not essential, as this can be done after the half term.
Monday 3rd November 2009
Todays successes after our half term break were that I was able to begin working on my website design. I used my designs on paper from over the half term to begin work on my website. The programme we used was Adobe Dreamweaver as this is a main programme for designing websites. During a two lesson period I was able to begin my homepage and create a simplistic view to my page. I used conventions such as a search bar and news stories to the left of the screen and a conventional navigation bar.
Tuesday 4th November 2009
Today I was able to continue working on my homepage design whilst working on the colours that were going to be used. I was also able to add text to the website and also a navigation panel to the left of the screen.
Monday 9th November 2009
Today I was able to begin work on my second page of the website as I referred to the story on the leisure centre improvements. I had already designed a text for this section and I was able to just copy the text straight into the text box, whilst adding a few figures and key personnel. I also added text and hyperlinks to the pages such as the Home icon and the title of the news programme.
Tuesday 10th November 2009
As we had a cover teacher today I was able to carry on working on my webpages and added a search bar to the top of the page. This search bar involved a variety of different scripts and settings and took a long while to complete. I also carried on work on my second web page where I added more text and look to add images in the near future.
Friday 13th November 2009
Today I was able to upload my footage from my tape onto the computer and Final Cut Pro. This took extremely long to do as I had a lot of footage on the tape. There were no problems on this unlucky day!
Monday 16th November
As from the previous lesson I had uploaded my footage from my tape, I continued in editing the clips and cutting parts in and out of the clips. Today I was aable to apply a green screen effect in that I had a black background where the green screen was. I am looking to adjust the background for the anchor to have an image behind the anchor, perhaps of the school or of a certain part of the school or a news room. I was able to order the clips into their correct places and was able to begin tightening the clips so that the cuts seem more professional, which was one of my targets along with using Final Cut Pro.
Tuesday 24th November
Today I was able to carry on working on my editing process of the production. A success today was that I was able to create a title bar for each of the clips. This title bar was created to match the logos colour of blue and I used white font on the blue title bar to relate to the genre and conventions of my show.
Also today I was able to add a title sequence to the beginning of the program, which looks modern and matches the conventions and hopefully the logo of the program, as I have yet to create a final logo. I was also able to capture footage from the camera to Final Cut Pro, of the panning shot of the Clissold leisure centre.
Sunday 19th November
Today I was able to create a logo for my production using adobe illustrator as I used a variety of colour schemes and techniques to provide a more eye pleasing logo. I made a transparent version to sit on the screen and I was able to follow the conventions of many news programs via having the transparent logo in the top left hand of the corner of the screen
Thursday 3rd December
Todays success was that I was able to acquire a very good background image that I had earlier photographed during the day and it seems to look of a high quality. I was also able to crop the image to a size that suited the production on screen more and I added the logo made earlier in the week to the image on screen.
Friday 4th December
Today I was able to film the very last needed parts for my news production and get them edited in Final Cut Pro. I filmed the interviews with the schools head teacher and I also manage to record the voiceovers for certain parts of the production.
Over these three months I was able to successfully edit evaluate and film my production to a high standard with little problems. The quality of the final
Monday 19th October
Today I was able to begin filming. After buying a tape, I had to film two pan shots of the local leisure centre, and also had to do my focus group. The focus group was a success as I was able to obtain four interviewees and ask them relevant questions about my production.
Thursday 22nd October 2009
After obtaining my equipment from the media technician I was able to begin filming the green screen parts of the news production rather quickly. This benefited me as I only had two days to complete filming and I was already running behind, a fraction.
Friday 23rd October 2009
As this was the final day to film I was in a hurry to finish filming as I still had to get most of the interviewees interviewed. However this did not take long and I was able to get these shots done rather quickly, and by the end of the day. I was unable to upload the production on to the school computers as I had ran out of time, but this was not essential, as this can be done after the half term.
Monday 3rd November 2009
Todays successes after our half term break were that I was able to begin working on my website design. I used my designs on paper from over the half term to begin work on my website. The programme we used was Adobe Dreamweaver as this is a main programme for designing websites. During a two lesson period I was able to begin my homepage and create a simplistic view to my page. I used conventions such as a search bar and news stories to the left of the screen and a conventional navigation bar.
Tuesday 4th November 2009
Today I was able to continue working on my homepage design whilst working on the colours that were going to be used. I was also able to add text to the website and also a navigation panel to the left of the screen.
Monday 9th November 2009
Today I was able to begin work on my second page of the website as I referred to the story on the leisure centre improvements. I had already designed a text for this section and I was able to just copy the text straight into the text box, whilst adding a few figures and key personnel. I also added text and hyperlinks to the pages such as the Home icon and the title of the news programme.
Tuesday 10th November 2009
As we had a cover teacher today I was able to carry on working on my webpages and added a search bar to the top of the page. This search bar involved a variety of different scripts and settings and took a long while to complete. I also carried on work on my second web page where I added more text and look to add images in the near future.
Friday 13th November 2009
Today I was able to upload my footage from my tape onto the computer and Final Cut Pro. This took extremely long to do as I had a lot of footage on the tape. There were no problems on this unlucky day!
Monday 16th November
As from the previous lesson I had uploaded my footage from my tape, I continued in editing the clips and cutting parts in and out of the clips. Today I was aable to apply a green screen effect in that I had a black background where the green screen was. I am looking to adjust the background for the anchor to have an image behind the anchor, perhaps of the school or of a certain part of the school or a news room. I was able to order the clips into their correct places and was able to begin tightening the clips so that the cuts seem more professional, which was one of my targets along with using Final Cut Pro.
Tuesday 24th November
Today I was able to carry on working on my editing process of the production. A success today was that I was able to create a title bar for each of the clips. This title bar was created to match the logos colour of blue and I used white font on the blue title bar to relate to the genre and conventions of my show.
Also today I was able to add a title sequence to the beginning of the program, which looks modern and matches the conventions and hopefully the logo of the program, as I have yet to create a final logo. I was also able to capture footage from the camera to Final Cut Pro, of the panning shot of the Clissold leisure centre.
Sunday 19th November
Today I was able to create a logo for my production using adobe illustrator as I used a variety of colour schemes and techniques to provide a more eye pleasing logo. I made a transparent version to sit on the screen and I was able to follow the conventions of many news programs via having the transparent logo in the top left hand of the corner of the screen
Thursday 3rd December
Todays success was that I was able to acquire a very good background image that I had earlier photographed during the day and it seems to look of a high quality. I was also able to crop the image to a size that suited the production on screen more and I added the logo made earlier in the week to the image on screen.
Friday 4th December
Today I was able to film the very last needed parts for my news production and get them edited in Final Cut Pro. I filmed the interviews with the schools head teacher and I also manage to record the voiceovers for certain parts of the production.
Monday 7th December
I was finally able to upload my focus group to the video server website YouTube after handing in my production work earlier in the day.
5.7 Logistical and Technical Problems
Thursday 22nd October 2009
On this day I arrived to school at 8:40 to begin my final production piece, however filming was delayed as the media technician arrived late to school and did not arrive until 10:00am. This meant that acquiring equipment and facilities were delayed and so was the time that I had to film.
During the filming process, the scene of a reporter reporting from outside the school was delayed also, as a lorry parked in front of the school gates in which we were about to film. However this problem resolved as the lorry parked in the school.
Another problem from this day would be that during filming in the green screen room, sun light shone through the windows on the green screen canvas behind the anchor of the news. This delayed us further as we were unable to film whilst the sun shone through the window as Final Cut Pro would pick up this as white during the editing process, which would mean that we would have to film again if we were to film during the sunlight hitting the green canvas.
To overcome this problem we had to wait for the sun to move behind a cloud for us to begin filming.
Friday 23rd October 2009
This day was the day that I had used to spend most of my time doing most of the interviewing aspects of the production. As I already had a list of interviewees the matter of finding/filming these interviewees was made easier. After filling out the student and teacher agreement forms, I was able to film these interviewees on questions based around a particular news story. However during trying to obtain a main interviewee, I was unable to find them as they were very busy. This was however a minor setback and I was able to easily replace the interviewee.
On this day I arrived to school at 8:40 to begin my final production piece, however filming was delayed as the media technician arrived late to school and did not arrive until 10:00am. This meant that acquiring equipment and facilities were delayed and so was the time that I had to film.
During the filming process, the scene of a reporter reporting from outside the school was delayed also, as a lorry parked in front of the school gates in which we were about to film. However this problem resolved as the lorry parked in the school.
Another problem from this day would be that during filming in the green screen room, sun light shone through the windows on the green screen canvas behind the anchor of the news. This delayed us further as we were unable to film whilst the sun shone through the window as Final Cut Pro would pick up this as white during the editing process, which would mean that we would have to film again if we were to film during the sunlight hitting the green canvas.
To overcome this problem we had to wait for the sun to move behind a cloud for us to begin filming.
Friday 23rd October 2009
This day was the day that I had used to spend most of my time doing most of the interviewing aspects of the production. As I already had a list of interviewees the matter of finding/filming these interviewees was made easier. After filling out the student and teacher agreement forms, I was able to film these interviewees on questions based around a particular news story. However during trying to obtain a main interviewee, I was unable to find them as they were very busy. This was however a minor setback and I was able to easily replace the interviewee.
A major problem from today was that we were unable to film due to the immense drilling noise which disrupted us whilst filming. We overcame this problem via calling our teacher for her to email the workers to stop the drilling, as they should not have been doing this during school time.
Monday 24th November
Today I was told that I had to add more footage to the production, as I had only had footage from interviews, and I needed a story to go with these interviews. However I believe that I will be able overcome this problem as it is not as major as first thought.
I will also need to record a voiceover over my clips of certain areas, as these are still missing.
Friday 4th December
As there were no earlier problems during much of this production I encountered one today as I was not able to finish the editing voiceover parts to my production. This was due to the fact that the school closed earlier today and I thought I had enough time left to do them.
Today I was told that I had to add more footage to the production, as I had only had footage from interviews, and I needed a story to go with these interviews. However I believe that I will be able overcome this problem as it is not as major as first thought.
I will also need to record a voiceover over my clips of certain areas, as these are still missing.
Friday 4th December
As there were no earlier problems during much of this production I encountered one today as I was not able to finish the editing voiceover parts to my production. This was due to the fact that the school closed earlier today and I thought I had enough time left to do them.
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