In The Third

During this process I noticed a lot of differences between first and third perspectives. I think that it was a lot harder to shoot in first person than it was to shoot in third. The main difference I think that there is, is the fact that in third person it's coming from an outsiders perspective instead of the person the scene involves. In the third person perspective you don't feel as connected because it is as though you are just watching and doesn't involve the audience in any way. As the audience isn't aware of an additional feelings.

I think the biggest difference from first person to third person in our video, is the fact that in the first person perspective, the interviewer has to take control of the interview as it is from their perspective. While in the third person perspective nobody takes control as that is the point of third person, there is no lead. In some respects I think that this made it harder for me as the interviewer as we had to make it flow so it was more like a conversation than a structured interview.

We didn't actually change a lot, we had to change the location because it was impossible to do where we did it before. Although I think that the location affected the quality of the video a lot. For our third person perspective interview we filmed in the ceramics room which made the sound echo therefore we had to use the sound from the camera and not the video recorder like we originally planned. Also we weren't the only ones using the ceramics room, with there being other people in the room it meant we could hear people in the background. I felt like this was very inconvenient because of the amount of noise they were making as we asked for silent while we filmed.

I don't think that we had to change our story that differently, we had to ask some different questions and got different responses. The reason for this was because the environment that we were filming in was different. this is because in this interview it was more of a friendlier atmosphere than the last where it was structured and I had to follow the questions to make it look like this. Although in our second one there wasn't any plan to follow because of the changing perspective.

In The Third

We used similar types of shots they were mainly medium shots, close ups, extreme close ups, long shots and two shots. The reason why we used these types of shots was because these are the types of shots that are usually used therefore we thought that it was important. Although in this perspective my colleague Lauren Walke used a lot more extreme close ups on my other colleague Olivia Searle because in this type of interview the 'celebrity' is more important therefore we filmed more of her. I think that these shots were the correct ones to use and I'm happy how the filming came out because all the shots worked well together.

This was our shot list. 

I think that in this video the way that I edited it was a lot different to the way I edited the first video. In this video I left on the actual sound from the camera, while in the first perspective I took the sound from the voice recorder. However for this video the sound was very poor therefore I had to use the original sound as though it wasn't 100% clear it was a lot better than had I taken the sound from recorder. Editing the actual footage was a lot different as well, the reason for this is because we had videoed from two different angles asking the same questions therefore I cut both of the shots to make it look as though I put the shots together and there was more than one camera, the way that I did this was through video transition. I feel that this worked well with the third person perspective as it made it look as though there were two cameras.

Storyboard for in the third. 

When people looked at my work they could tell the difference between the first and third perspective, saying which one was which. They felt as though the camera angels were good and the the video transitions on the editing worked well. However the thing that is to be improved is the audio. I agree with this as the audio was my least favourite part of our video.

Script Writing master class.

On Wednesday I walked into college for a script writing master class.

Tim started typing, not saying a word to us. We had to watch what he was typing. He made a script up on the spot. He just did a funny script involving most of us. It was in idea that involved a magic button.

He said to us to either follow his idea and reword it or come up with something on our own. I decided that I would come up with something different but with similar circumstances. To start with I spoke about what would happened when I walked into the classroom this morning and then I decided to adapt it.

I added the ideas of teenagers coming into the classroom and singing and dancing on the table as I thought that it would be funny. I also added that we had a dance off in the middle of the classroom.

I thought that this script was really fun to write as it was something that I hadn't had much experience with before hand. Next time I would like to write a more in depth script but I think to start with that this script was good just as a one off. I think this script would be good if it was adapted.

Mise En Scene

The half-a-day challenge was to look at four different images and understand the scene. The Mise En Scene is important when understanding what is happening in the film and during the current scene. I think that their expressions, actions as well as what is in a scene tell a very important story, one in which the audience may have not looked into until carefully studying it. There are ten aspects to Mise En Scene there is set design, lightning, space, composition, costume, makeup and hair styles, acting, film stock, aspect ratio and character placement.

I think the theory behind this image is very interesting because there is a number of different scenarios that could be happening. However my theory of this scene is that they are in a relationship/secret relationship because she isn't wearing a ring. He is a rich business man and she is a housewife. I think that he has done something wrong such as saying that he would leave his wife but hasn't. I think that he then tries to shower her with gifts, for example. the jewellery that is on the table. However she rejects the jewellery because she doesn't want his money or material goods. I think all of this happens while she has prepared this evening with drink and food - the empty bottle of wine. However he doesn't seem to bothered because he is just reading the paper. This is why their expressions are anxious and stressed, she looks more stressed than he does therefore she is the one which is more anxious. 

However this is my theory I realise that there are many different scenarios that it could be such as he could be having an affair, or they are having a romantic meal and he is just coping her actions. I think that it is important to realise that there will be different theories due to others imaginations. 

This shot is split into three, there is the man, the women and then the props in the middle with the bottle of wine and the jewellery which is placed on this table. I think that in this shot the positioning of the props is very important. 

In this scene the characters are breaking the fourth wall this is because she is looking straight at the camera and therefore connecting with the audience. I think that in this image that she is talking to someone which is why she is looking straight into the camera, I think that maybe she is talking to the man of the house because she looks scared. She is wearing what it looks to be nightclothes and the man has told her to do something. She doesn't look particularly happy which suggests what she is being told doesn't make her too happy. I think by the condition that the clothing is in that she doesn't have much money and she might be a housewife or maid. The way that she holds her hands suggests that me that she is anxious and needs something to do with her hands and therefore she needs to somehow do something with them so it makes her looked less worried. Behind her there is a young boy cleaning this could be a young servant, I think this because he doesn't have very nice clothes on either which suggests that he works to earn his money. 

In the background of this shot you see a women sat down I think that the purpose of this is that she is women of the house and therefore is relaxing, compared to the other two in the scene she doesn't look as though she is doing anything. I think this is probably because she is rich and therefore doesn't work as she owns this house. She is dressed and is wearing a skirt I think that this suggests by her clothing that she is well off. I also think that her hair looks as though it has been styled compared to the women in the front who has nothing done. 

I think that the positioning of the characters in this shot is very important because this way you are able to see what each of the characters are doing, although in this scene they are probably only seen as backing characters they are still very important because it shows what they are doing when they are not the main character in the scene. 

This shot is split into three with three different scenarios happening the first one being the women at the front. the second being the boy in the middle tidying up the desk and finally in the back is the old women relaxing in the chair with her feet up. 

I think that this shot is interesting because there is only one character in it. The positioning of this character is very important because as she is the only person in this scene. The women is dressed in night clothing but by the look of it, it looks as though it could be silk because of the type of material it looks like. This suggests that she has quite a bit of money. Another reason why I think her/her family has quite a bit of money is because of the size of this room, it also looks white which suggests that they have a lot of money with the amount of accessories in the room, the big light, the massive mirror on the wall and the tall clock. 

I think that in this scene she has seen something that she doesn't like on the bed. This is because she is looking at it with a disgusting look and because the bed covers are pulled she doesn't want to touch it. Her hands are crossed therefore I think this could be where her father died, this was the bed that he died in. Therefore this is why her arms are crossed because she doesn't want to go anywhere near it. 

The reason why I think that this was her fathers bed is because of the amount there is a picture of a man and then of a women. I think that this suggests that this room holds some sort of memory. Therefore she is too scared to go near it as the bed hasn't actually been made, it looks as though someone left it or got removed from it and nobody decided to make it back. I think that this is surprising for the type of room that this is. I think that this bed would usually have been made as it looks as though it belongs to a rich family. 

This scene is again split into three, with the first part being the bed which is unmade. The second part of this scene is the women who is stood therefore with her arms crossed looking sad and upset. Finally the third part of this scene is the images and positioning of the props in the background. 

In this scene there is a man and a women. The women is in bed while the man is dressed up in a nice suit while holding a cigarette. I think that the man is just about to go to work and is leaving the women there. I don't necessarily think that this women is he wife and he could be having an affair with her. This is why she has made no effort to get out of bed because she has no children to attend to etc. Neither of them looking particularly happy therefore this could be because they are anxious about something. I think that maybe his wife could have found out about his affair and that is what they are talking about therefore they are stressed about whether what they are going to do. I think that the man doesn't know whether to leave his wife or not. 

On the bed there is a pot, I think that maybe that this pot is to put he used cigarettes in. Although I'm not sure as to why it is actually on the bed. I think that he put it on the bed as he was leaving. I think that this shows that he hasn't actually been in the bed with her all night and just came to see her in the morning. I think that the women looks a lot younger than the man this suggests that they probably aren't married. 

I think that the positioning of the props in the background is very important because this is definitely not the main bedroom because there are tables and records behind them, therefore this is why I think that he is having an affair. These are in the room because this is in the spare room and she is the maid. I think that this women is living with them as the maid but actually the man is having an affair with her. 

Finally, the scene like the others is split into three with it being, the man holding the cigarette and sitting on the bed looking concerned and worried, the women who is sitting up in the bed looking anxious and the props in the background which play a very important part in this. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise_en_sc%C3%A8ne - 20th November 

In The First

Having scenes in the first person is very common in films. I think that one of the most famous ones is the scene in Spider Man 3 where Peter Parker 'Thinks He's Cool'. This scene makes his super powers to be made out to be rather idiotic. He is walking down the high street thinking that he looks cool and but instead he is getting getting odd and rather offended looks from every women he passes. This affects the audiences view point because it makes the audience feel as though they are actually that character. I think in this particular scene the audience feels embarrassed to be him because they realise it is ridiculous what he is doing. 

I think that in these scenes it gets the audiences heart racing because it feels strange to be in the position where it feels like you are actually involved in the film and not just watching it. The audience is viewing it as though it is them walking down the street. The impact this has is that in first person feels like they are being involved in something that they shouldn't be because it feels a bit intimate. I think it is a bit strange that we feel intimate with the other characters as all they are doing is walking down the street. 

This type of scene gives us an insight into the character as it feels as though we know more than we should. I think this is interesting because then we feel as though it's no longer about the character in the film, it's about somebody we know. This is the reason why we care so much for this character, it is as though we have a relationship with this character which is why we continue to watch because we have an attachment to them. This is why we want to see what the outcome to them is. I think that this is the way that the director captivates the audience. 

In The First

Our production was slightly different to what we normally do, this is because for this task we decided to do it as an interview. We decided on doing an interview as we thought that it would be something a little different and fun. The idea was that I would interview my colleague Olivia who would be the celebrity. The way in which the audience would be transported into our heads was through the thoughts of them. This is because the interviewer would be forceful and Olivia thinking 'it's none of your business' while actually smiling and pretending that everything is alright. Without this dialogue I think that the audience would get a more friendlier perspective of her than they actually get. This is the same at the end with me as I say 'that was interesting' which also shows a different and more sarcastic perceptive that the audience wouldn't have gotten without it.

                      

  

I think that filming in first person is a lot harder than people think because we need to make sure that the perspective is always in the first. The way we did this was through my other colleague Lauren changing between mine and Olivia's perspective to make sure that we got it. I think by changing this it took a very long time but I think that it worked well as we achieved what we wanted to, the first perspective. I think that it is a lot harder purely because you are limited as to what you can see, this is a big reason why our filming took us quite a long time as we had to check that everything was right and nothing looked out of place. I think that when watching it back the audience would get the true feelings of both the interviewer and the interviewee, this is because of the monologue in our heads, this is because without this the audience wouldn't get any inside thought they would just get what we would be saying.

  

Therefore I think for this particular task it was good to do an interview because the audience does feel involved in the situation. This wouldn't feel as personal in third person because we wouldn't get any actual feelings.

http://m.totalfilm.com/features/10-coolest-first-person-movie-scenes-sponsored-by-call-of-duty-ghosts#next - 20th November 2013

More Soon - Evaluation

Describe your two filmed shots. What emotions did you try to convey, and if you
used an object, explain what significance it had?

The two ideas that I shot were terror and worry. The reason why I used the first emotion terror was because I thought that it would be fun to film, I think that this expression was more fun to shoot than a cheesy smile. I also used it because a lot of people were doing something similar so by using terror it was something that was a little bit different. In my second shot I decided to use worry the reason for this was because I was using my object which was my notebook which I had got given from my friends when I left school  I decided to look worried which is ironic because that was kind of how I was feeling when I read it back made it look very serious and real.

How did you approach the editing of this video? Did you have any aims, either
creatively, or simply to get to grips with the editing process?

I feel as though I did a very creatively. I measured all of the clips and made sure that all of them lasted at least 10 seconds. This is because in the Drugs video each of the clips also lasted for 10 seconds. The reasons why I wanted it to be similar is because it was a homage to the previous video.

How did you select the clips you ultimately used? Was it favoritism, or did you think
about what were the ‘right’ clips to use? Did you use every clip? In all points explain
why.

I cut out a lot of the clips and the clips that I did use I used to a certain reason. I wanted to have a mix of serious and cheesy shoots. I think that this was important in order for it not all to be the same. The order of the shoots was important because I had to make sure that there weren't too many cheesy ones after another.

Did you attempt to place the clips into any kind or order, or position them in
specific places? Can you give examples of specific decisions you made?

I had to make sure that two of the people same people weren't in a row.an example of this was for their first shot I had Katie and then Lauren and for the second shot it was the same, therefore for their second shot I had to make sure that their shots weren't next to each other. I felt like the clips that I used were the right ones because it made sure that the video had the correct amount of cheese and terror.

Did you attempt to make the video footage ‘work’ with the music? If so, how? Did
you edit to the ‘beat’ of the music, or was it looser? Again provide examples?

I don't think that I edited it that well with the music and if I were to do it again then I would make sure that I look through all of the clips to see if there were anymore that would go better and more in time with the music. I think that it was mostly to the beat but not to the beat as much as I could of done it. In the future I think that I would spend more time making sure that it fits not to the beat in order for it to be improved.

Having watched someone else’s edit, what are over overall opinions of it? Both
positive and/or negative.

My colleague Darren thought that it was good because I was able to catch the different emotion to go well with the music. This is because I used a variety of different emotions and didn't just speak to the same ones throughout.

Highlight a ‘best bit’ that you think was edited particularly well. (Either it was in the
right place, or worked well with the music, or simply has ‘impact’.) Explain why you
chose this.

The highlight of it that he said was with Seth at the end where he puts his head in his hands to cover his face, he then tips his head down. This shows that it is ending because it's not showing the face like the rest of the video, this shows that this is the end, as it then slows down and dissolves into darkness.

Is there anything you would do differently, if you had edited it? Can you explain
your reasons for this?

Darren said that he didn't think that there was much to edit but if he were to do it again he would do it so a couple of the shoots go better with the music and move them so that they are more in time. But other than that he said that he wouldn't do anything differently because he liked the way that I edited it.

My edit of the video

More Soon

More Soon also known as London film maker and designer Carl Burgess. He started up the name in 2005 as a way of showing his developments and experiments. Although after a year or so of doing that he included more complete work and focused on creating more finished pieces. His name 'More Soon' is quite acceptable to start with because after he releases his first piece of work which isn't quite finished, it is very obvious that there is more to come from him.

Through his work he combines the digital, hi-tech, and modern world with human emotions and humour. He uses old videos and photography which to everyone else has no use but to him they are important because he loves the idea of  transformation and changing them into crazy music videos. Carl has a habitat for collecting archival photos which in the past have got him in quite a bit of trouble. Although very successful not all of his projects have gone to plan as he likes to experiment with different ideas such as flooding a photography studio.

He worked with Kenzo in their Fall 2012 video. Kenzo was born in Japan but moved to Paris in 1964. Kenzo is now a fashion house started in 1970 as Jungle Jap. Throughout this video you can see where his ideas shine through. The ultra high tech and modern emotions are shown throughout. This is the one factor that is seen in all of his work. I think that this is important because he has a constant theme which is used in all of his videos. This work was made with a lot of stock footage which Carl had collected and edited over the years. This way it meant that he was able to use actors without having a budget.I think that one of his most famous works is his Olympic piece this is because of how effect the audio is in it. The audio is very dark and has a low beat Carl likes the sound as it. 

 'Audio is a really important part of the finished piece it’s like the icing on the cake but I find the process of making music quite challenging so it is always something that I avoid until the rest of the project is done.'

Kap Bambino - Obsess is a very popular music video by More Soon. Kap Bambino is an electronic musical duo from Bordeaux, France. I like the concept of this video because it's very dark and serious. During this video we see a plain background which is either black. The people in the video are making some kind of emotion. They are either using scared, terror or happy emotion. There is either one or a couple of people in the shot. There is a number of different shots for each of the different people. I think that this video is a very simple idea that works really well because of all the different emotions that come together. In this music video everything seems real because it looks as though they are actually feeling their emotions instead of it just being on camera. The reason behind this video was that he wanted it to have 'no buildup, all the best bits straight away.' This shows the type of director that More Soon is because he was going against what is considered the norm in the directing world. The subject of this video was the people - the extras because they were the main focus. He left the actors in their own clothes to make it seem more genuine. 

Print Screen's from the video - Obsess. 

For Ratatat - Drugs the same music is used as for the Obsess music video, however this time the music video is a lot different. I think that this video has been Americanized the reason I think this is because of the people, they are either all dressed up smart or in suits. This shows that this is America because it's similar to the way they act. The background is white with a smoke effect in the background, the reason for this is to make it seem darker than it originally should be. This video is slightly more 'in your face' than the previous video because it doesn't feel as real because these people are posing for the camera. Also in this video their emotions don't feel as real as their faces look strange and fake as they smile. I think the reason that this is done is because it symbolizes America, they fact that they put on an act and in this case the act of the 'fake smiles'.

 Fast Company: The video is funny but at the same time almost painful to watch---was that the original intent?

Carl Burgess: Yeah, I edited it that way on purpose. A lot of my work mainly focuses on one subject and more often than not has some kind of humor.
At first I edited it like you would a normal music video, fast cuts, everything on the beat but I quickly realized that they lost impact when shown in this way. It's the long cuts, the drawn out smiles and the obvious direction that's the interesting bit.

Ratatat - Drugs Music Video. 

http://vimeo.com/13177086 -13th November

http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/carl-burgess-for-kenzo -13th November
https://www.kenzo.com/en/blog/carl-burgess-thomas-traum-marble-punch_5962/ -13th November
http://motionographer.com/2008/03/26/more-soon-now/ -13th November
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/2628-more-soon -13th November
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/nicer-tuesdays-write-up -13th November
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/carl-burgess-obsess -13th November
http://www.eatcake.co.uk/Kap-Bambino-Obsess -13th November
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662128/carl-burgess-director-of-the-years-creepiest-coolest-music-video -13th November 

Technicolour Yawn

I really enjoyed doing Technicolour Yawn I think that this was because it was something different to what we usually do. Technicolour Yawn is an euphemistic expression for an uncommonly colourful and forceful bout of projectile vomit. We did this by working in groups with one person in the group making it look like they were about to be sick, we had to take footage from their front and side view.

To edit it we had to use Photoshop which to begin with I found quite difficult because before this I had never used Photoshop before. We used a cool function called 'Onion Skinning' which basically gave us the outline of what we did in the previous clip so that we knew we were still doing similar things. I used the paint tool to get different colours and patterns to make it look like 'colourful vomit.' I started off with smaller lines and colours as I wanted to eventually build it up to make sure it looked ok.

The 'Onion Skinning' function. 

It took a very long time because one clip of footage worked out to only be about 0.25 seconds therefore we had to spend a few hours to get any sort of 'vomit.' This was hard because we had to work out what we were going to do in each of the clip because they had to be similar but not exactly the same. I found this fun because it was a chance to experiment with Photoshop and try out different things and see if they worked.

I did it in three different parts with it starting off being really small, then getting slightly bigger and finally in the last couple of clips the 'vomit' took up the entire screen. Coming up with different ideas was fun, I had to make sure that the colours were bright so that they could be seen on the screen as Jade has very dark hair and some of the colours would have gone unnoticed against her hair else.

My video

After I edited it on Photoshop I went back onto Premiere Pro and slowed it down, the reason for this was so that it would have lasted longer as it was only about 7 seconds long but I slowed it down by 30% to make sure that it lasted for just over 30 seconds. Also on Premiere Pro I kept the same backing noises that we had the reason I did this was so that the sounds sounded real and not too animated. I think that this worked well and I liked the way in which it turned out.

This shows her front and side profile.