My Street – Tintagel, final film

My Street – Release forms

Here are the release forms for the interviewees in our film. Only one of them, Mr Daniel, was not used in the final film due to unusable audio.

Risk Assessment

My Street Project – Production Diaries

Here is my production diary:

So I went to Tintagel with Connor on the first day of filming. I got a bus there at about 10am and got one home at about 5pm. We interviewed three different shop owners, asking them questions about their life and why they moved to Tintagel. Connor worked the camera and I took the audio. I’m also the editor.

I’m half way through editing it at the moment, and have noticed problems with the footage. The Canon 7D that we borrowed from college is faulty. In low light shots, intrusive scan lines are seen slowly moving down the screen. These weren’t visible during filming. Another issue I found was that parts of the external audio had mobile phone interference in the background, so the cameras audio had to be used instead. And finally the third interview could not be used, the background noise is far too loud. The interviewee who runs a café had the sounds of the kitchen as well as what sounds like someone using a blender in the background, making the interviewee inaudible. We didn’t think that these sounds would pick up so intrusively.

Besides that, I have plenty of cut-aways to work with that Connor recorded for me on his own. A slight error was that the white balance was totally off, making all the footage very blue. This was easily fixed with a few clicks during post.

I have some effect templates on my other laptop that I made a while ago that I plan to use as a filter over some of the footage. It will perk some low light shots up a bit and bring colour and brightness to dull footage.

 

Here is Connor’s production diary:

Production diary

On the first day of production having already come up with a very vague idea of what to do for the My Streets project, we decided to flesh out the ideas finally coming up with the plan to focus on the small village of Tintagel and why people come there are reasoning for this was that it’s a big tourist destination so it’s mostly obviously why they come there but what attracts the residents?

The next day I walked to Tintagel and started going into shops trying to gain interest and seeing who would be willing to although most where rude about not wanting to be on film a lot agreed but with some they were unwilling the be on film so I went with the approach of just recording their audio and using only the cut always that would have been used and not showing the person but they were also unwilling to do that.

My Street Project: Initial Project Proposal Form

 

Crewing Arrangements:

Connor will be on camera and in charge of interviewing people while I will be sound operator along with producer and editor.

Initial Film Ideas:

Showing a simple street to be more than what meets the eye going through the small town of Tintagel, a seaside town noted for its links to King Arthur, and asking the shop owners, visitors, and residents notable times there. We will be trying to get people interested with showing a town that normally people would only see for a week or two before they returned from their holiday. We will be going into each shop across the road and asking each shop owner about their lives and daily life. We’ll also ask them if they have any interesting stories about their life or Tintagel.

Shooting Style Ideas

Steady cam and shoulder rigs to achieve the cut a ways and establishing shots of the street and surrounding area. Also single tripod camera and zoom when shooting interviews. Shots will be long and mid shots for cut a ways and mid portrait for interviews with the camera op asking the questions.

Resources Required & Timescale:

Tripod, DSLR, 18-55mm lens, shoulder rig, Zoom, top mounted DSLR mic During the project we will schedule 3 days for shooting a Thursday, Friday and Saturday to ensire store owners will be around and then schedule 3 days for editing 2 days to actually edit and a day incase of delays.

 

Poster

This is the wordless poster I made for my campaign project. It highlights the fact that unhealthy food is so much easier and cheaper to buy than healthy food; thus resulting in a fatter nation.

Location Scouting

Location: The bombed church

This empty bombed church from WW2 is situated in the middle of a roundabout. The noise of traffic would have to be taken into account. The church is slightly lower than the road.

It would be a great set for a number of films; Medieval, WW2, or the place to camp out in a zombie apocalypse

 

CREATIVITY AND CHANGE

Painting: Portraits of Royal Academicians by Johan Zoffany, 1770-2

 

It shows the 34 founding members. There are no women in the room, only around the walls on paintings. Realistically there is a naked man in the room and women were not allowed around such indecencies.

The inner message could have been intended to show a mans world where woman aren’t needed any more than to look pretty, as hinted by the paintings on the wall.

If it was painted today, people might question why a room entirely full of men is present with one being completely naked.

Political Remix Video

http://vimeo.com/57983235

Here is a pro Obama advert that Connor and I created. It shows Mitt Romney making stupid egocentric points that people won’t like. We used clips from youtube of Romneys campaigns for presidency. We watched them through a few times and chose out key words that could potentially be used for amusing purposes.

Documentary

Dan P gave a lecture on documentaries. We spoke about how the viewer immediately takes anything of the genre as fact without questioning it’s authority to inform, and the power they possess to make the viewer accept all ‘facts’.

So, for example audience seem to take documentary as fact when actually they can be biased and politically steered. For example we were shown an 11 minute documentary with mainly audio. The point was that it made you focus on exactly what they wanted you too. So because there was just audio of people chatting you could not make out anything apart from the stress in peoples voices. There was only around 40 seconds of visuals.

It did not seem like a documentary because it didn’t inform, it’s purpose seemed to be to just evoke emotion. Because of the massive media attention to 9/11, Dan said that we as an audience are almost desensitized to the event.

I think that the event of 9/11 was blown up in comparison to Hiroshima. When the devastation occurred in Japan it seemed a lot less composure than that of 9/11. Probably because the Americans didn’t want any attention towards their killing of over 150,000 innocent people.

I believe in Attenborough. I don’t watch many documentaries but have made one about video games. Ultimately I think that if you can back up your footage/claims with facts, then you can take it as fact. However, it’s all in the edit and to a certain extent documentary is manipulated to be whatever the filmmaker wants it to be!