Re-designing

I chose to re-design this CV mainly becuase it looks unprofessional and has no sense of layout or allignmet. It is quite difficult for the naked eye to actually tell what is going on which is mainly due to the scattered information. To improve this, the information should be clearly attatched to the heading. Another aspect of the CV that can be changed is the fact that there is a spelling mistake in the word 'Graphic'; the 'P' is missing.












This is a re-desgin of the CV just seen. I believe this has a more professional look due to the clear headings which are then followed by the important and meaninful words that should be involved opposed to irrelevant information.

A neat and exciting text has been used with some little alterations to make it stand out. For example the deep bold black headings and the fish-eyed effect 'job title'. This gives the page a funky feel.

Here is another design i altered....

The problem with the front cover to the 'Band of Brothers' DVD cover is the fact that there is a divide between the top and bottom half of it. There is very little going on at the top in contrast to the bottom where there is too much going on mainly due to the overcrowding of words. Therefore i intend to create a more even layout.

This is my re-design of the cover for 'Band of Brothers'. The main difference is the fact that the layout is simpler and i believe more effective as there are two pieces of text on either side of the soldiers. In terms of the allignment, i went for a centered one. My reasons being that it matches well with the soldiers on the front creating an even balance between them and the text.

Sequence two!

              Ted didn't like being defeated in squash today. Let the punishments begin!

                                                       Let's toast him...

                                                      Or grill him...

                                                    Perhaps boil him...

                                 That's enough torture, back to where he belongs!

Sequence!

                                                                           Tiny...

                                                                         To small...

                                                                        To quite big...

                                                                        To large...

                                                                          To huge!!!

One shot group edit + rationale

This is our final one shot video. It was fun making it and looks effective with the projection which makes one it appear unique. This was our group edit.

The one shot project was the one i enjoyed the most. I felt more in my comfort zone as i love anything to do with film and cameras etc. In terms of the various ideas we thought of as a group, we decided to experiment and make the idea as original as we could make it. We came to a conclusion that we would film someones thoughts. An idea of thought bubbles was discussed and was developed further so that thought bubbles would be projected onto a screen. We were originally going to have moving images in the thought bubbles but due to timing restrictions we used still images instead. The thoughts were pre recorded and were projected onto a screen on the day of the shoot.

Our first shoot established many problems and scenarios we struggled to resolve. It was a day of trial and error mainly because it was the first time we had worked together. It was difficult to establish who was doing what as everyone had a go at everything instead of having set jobs. In addition, there were flaws with the actually composition, for example there were objects and other distractions that were hard to avoid. Therefore we booked a different room knowing what to expect and filmed a few days later.

Our second shoot was more successful; the composition was good and had no distractions from fixings/objects. However as a team we found it hard to master the technique of lighting. We kept having trouble with shadows and spent quite some time trying to conquer and achieve the best lighting. Despite this, it was a lot of fun and achieved a good one shot in terms of the composition and narrative.

North by Northwest; playing around with sequencing shots.

Visual storytelling!! EXAMPLE!!

First lesson on interactive space which seems alright so far!! We need to come up with a sequence of photographs(no more than five) and tell a story from them. Above is an example taken from flickr just to show you what i mean and how a story can be told from five images. My sequence will be up asap!! :D

Testing the oneshot, Ali G & Ashley Cole Spoof(lighting) and inspiration

This was our initial take at our oneshot video. It was just a test to see whether the concept worked and whether we could take the pros and cons to come up with something better in our second take. On the whole i thought the thought bubble worked well however the camera angle and composition could be improved on dramatically.




This interview based scenario was mainly to play around with lighting and to create different moods. In order to do this, we had to use a 3 point lighting system. By using three separate positions, the cameraman can illuminate the shot's subject (such as a person) however desired, while also controlling (or eliminating entirely) the shading and shadows produced by direct lighting. The effect created in this interview isn't perfect but creates an interesting mood.

 

This music video by 'Two Door Cinmea Club' attracts my attention mainly due to the fixed environment and background allowing for manipulation when editing. The change in colour i think would be great to experiment when editing later on.

bush push nottingham trent 2010 & Idea for our oneshot

This is our groups first attempt at a one shot film. As we didn't have a long time to think of ideas for a narrative, we decided on a simple but hopefully effective film which provides the audience with humour.

I've always loved working with cameras so i stepped up to be the cameraman which was an enjoyable experience to say the least!

As we managed to film this video fairly rapidly, we added some music onto the top and a sound effect to make it more interesting.

A likely plan for our one shot video. Based on a guy whos thoughts are projected onto a screen. Possible introdcution for a girl who is being thought about from the guy.