8 shot journey

For our introduction to filming we had to create an eight shot journey. We started off by planning and thinking about what we would like to do, this included brain-storming and story boarding our ideas until we thought of something we would fine easy to produce in the given time.
My final idea was to show someone sitting in a classroom and turning on an ipod, then dancing to the music whilst moving through the collage to the next lesson.

This is my story board






Within the story board i had to include what kind of sound would be used and what sort of camera angles would be included.
I have used all non-diagetic music, which means that the sounds source is neither visible on the screen nor has been implied to be present in the action, instead the music has been added over the top of the filming which reflects the style of dancing.
the camera shots i have included are the follwing:
Medium Shot-Contains a figure from the knees/waist up.
Close-Up -This shows very little background, and concentrates on either a face, or a specific detail of mise en scène. Everything else is just a blur in the background. This shot magnifies the object and shows the importance of things, in this case i have used it for the close up on the ipod being turned on and off as well as other shots.
Long Shot- This category includes the full shot showing the entire human body, with the head near the top of the frame and the feet near the bottom. While the focus is on characters, plenty of background detail still emerges.
Extreme Close-Up -As the name suggests, an extreme version of the close up, generally magnifying beyond what the human eye would experience in reality. An extreme close-up of a face, for instance, would show only the mouth or eyes, with no background detail whatsoever.




Striping the tape.
Before we could start filming we had to strip our tape black for 15mins.

Radio Jingles

During our first week we learnt how to compose radio jingles. Our task was to design three jingles for our 'SNC Live' radio station, these jingles has to be in the style of:
A Show Promo: A show promo should be an amusing way of premoting the radio station, using effects, music and voice overs.

A station Ident: this is alot shorter icluding only the information needed, for example the station name and frequency.

A news jingle: a news jingle should inform the listeners as to what they can be expecting coming up on the show.

The music software we used to create out jingles was called 'Soundbooth'. This ran over three days, day one we spend on prep work which included listening and reading up on already exsistant jingles such as Radio 1, to get a sence of different radio styles and genres.
Over the next two days we started and finished recording our jingles. Each jingle was different and although all of mine consisted of edited clips of songs and voice overs, using the software we were able to edit them to our own individual way.I chose to do a straight forward genre which was for a wide range of audiences.

Photography

A pinhole camera is a very simple camera with no lens and a single very small aperture. It is a light-proof box with a small hole in one side which light from the outside pases through onto photography paper.. We done this poking a small, pin hole in a box that we made light tight by painting the inside black and placing some photography paper inside, and sealing it tight. We put a small flap over the top of the pin hole, to prevent light entering the box when not needed.


This is a picture that shows the geomitry of a pin hole, we can see the f stop calculation.


After we had made the pinhole camera we worked out how long our exposure time was, and went out and shot what we thought would make a good photograph. We done this by exposing the photography paper to light for a certain amount of time (exposure time).

To calculate how long I needed to keep the flap of my camera open, I needed to calculate the Fstop.

Focal Length
------------- = Fstop
Aperture


90
------ = 112
0.8


This means that to take a picture on the inside of a building, depending on the light readings we took earlier on in the day I have to expose my photographic paper for 15 minutes

To take a picture on the inside I have to leave it out for 40 seconds.

After we had taken our photograph, we took our photographer paper into the dark room and put it through the developer and the stop. The Developer develops the picture and you have to leave it in there for around 1minuite, the stop stops the developing process and you leave it for around 30secs.


Evaluation.

The first few pictures i done came out all black, which means the photographic paper was exposed to light for too long.. after changing the exposure time i managed to get a couple of clear photographs. I think if i had time to do more shots they would of kept improving, and i would of been able to produce a wider range of pin hole camera photographs.