Wednesday, 19 May 2010

Evaluation of our Video

I recorded last video diary, but in fact that I get stressed I probably write it down for my own good.
As I written down long time ago I take place in team as sound technician and basically I use to record sounds to our documentary but depend on weather and shot which we made we decide to use appropriate music which is the most suitable for that kind of documentary.
Also I suppose to get some job from director, but I didn't have really anything to take or I just forgot, it was long time ago.
Finally we did and correct our documentary what make a good first impression for us, only few weaknesses are visible like Tripod controlling which is a bit dodgy, lightening which we cannot affect on caused by lack of appropriate staff

Strengths are locked in music, interviews, Facts, cutaways, gestures, pictures and credits.

In overall we are thinking that documentary is really done well, we are hoping that everybody else will like it as much as we do it.

Differentce between our Documentary and Other which we watched

In first place we avoid abuse of zoom in and out to get people bored to the death, we used suitable soundtrack. Also we add nice transition between nice looking cut aways and we did really interesting interview.
Whole documentary style is Participatory what make our documentary a lot modern and interesting.

Wednesday, 5 May 2010

What changes has been made from original plan

Our original plan has mainly be about ghosts, haunted places and possesed people, unless with not enough good sources and places where we could just hear about ghosts. That's push us to change those plans on documentary based on knowledge and sources about people living upstairs and downstairs. Also in stories told by national trust company which took over Blickling Hall under their wings of care, we heard few stories about ghosts, but we stay with Blibkling Hall history and people living there as main point of documentary.

Wednesday, 28 April 2010

Soundtracks - Why and from Where...

For further Soundtracks planning and I decide use some classic music like Antonion's Vivaldi - Spring or For Eliz by Ludwig van Beethoven. I picked these soundtracks because they are suitable for Old Blickling, and we can hear them in others Documentaries.

Source of these soundtracks is Youtube in real world it would be a copyright problem, but for school project it cause no harm :3
Also I recorded singing birds outside Blickling building ;)

Tuesday, 27 April 2010

Airwalk Campaign

I would like to ask everyone who just see that message to use 1 minute of their time to watch this Advertisment and use another 2mins to set a feedback.

What kind of feedback have to be you can found in Movie clip Description

many thanks

Wednesday, 10 March 2010

National Trust Documentary

National Trust documentary done since 4 years ago has to interest people to visit this old place, unless techniques used to interest potential watching people killing them with borring waves, it caused by old fashioned techniques. Director used loads of Zoom outs and voice over with sudden change from male voice over on female voice, as a informational documentary is deadly boring and most people want to go to the Blickling Hall and gather some knoledge by them selves with no risk to be bored to the death by documentary.

Evidence of Operations Done to our Documentary


Our proposal for has been done to split whole documentary work on each group member to set for everyone something to do.
Above and below I've put my own notes which are know now as evidence of our research, those two are my own individual research which has to be done by every single group member to use them later.



Two other piece of paper are representing my preparing for recording and how I will use the wild tracks in our documentary, and in which scene to get good effect.

Blickling Trip

We've been on two trip to the Blickling Hall. First time when we've been there we had to take loads notes, and look around wha we could record or what pictures we could take.
On second visit, we've done camera piece, I recorded few wild soundtracks and we took as I think mass number of pictures. All of it has linked to our planned documentary about live upstaris and downstairs also some links with ghosts living in house, as far as possible we know many things about Upstaris and Downstairs unless about ghost we know a lot less.
Now as a Sound Technician I thinking about montage and wildtracks which I will possibly use.

Wednesday, 13 January 2010

First Planning Meeting


Job Roles: Our group have splitted work for everyone, Our Team Purple Director will be leanne depned on her good orginising skills, Presenter Ines and Daniel be cause their ambitions and biggest experience in playing and showing on camera screen make them take this job, Paige will work as Camera Woman in fact she's got biggest experience to work with valuable, soft, electricial staff, also she know how record xD.
I decide to work as Sound Technician and Montage Crew be cause I've got lots of experience with montaging and adding sounds those skills can be seen on youtube by watching "TF2 Meet the =[Diabolic Team]=" or "Pump it" or if you understand polish "Meet the Spy PL"

Reason why we chose this positions in this documentary is depend on our personality in some way, I mean that I would not to be a presenter be cause in fact I'm horrible shy and I getting stressed as fast as possible in high pressure situation like "Acting" or "Presenting" other way I don't like it... Honestly Daniel chose to be presenter in fact he "don't care" who he will be but Ines want to be presenter depending on her enthusiasm, in other work she could die from boring work, Leanne reson to be scripter and Director is be cause she "loves writing" but in other role she could be as good as she is good now, but someone have to take Director and script job... don't?

As a Group we set ideas in different colours which represent 'Thinking Hats' Green as Initial Ideas - Primary ideas, Grey as Facts - Facts carring with ideas, Red as Feelings/Emotions - What we like or dislike, Blue as Organising - To set what we have, what we need, what need to take care of, Black as Problems - giving us sceptic view of situations which may happen, Orange as Positives - to think about Shiny side of work we plan to do.
Our decision is to work with Primary idea about Ghosts especialy be cause we like this idea but we need still think about additional sources to fill up the gaps in this project otherwise we gonna change idea on named PLAN B idea is about "Gardens and difference between Upstairs and Downstairs."

In our documentary we will include loads of shots, with establishing one, with suitable sounds, as profesional as possible crew teamwork, we expecting lots of cutaways, interviews if any will happen also with suitable techniques like "noddies" or "two shots" and others. We have to disscuss about this but we may be include some gags or outtake in same documentary to show how fun it was for us or in different movie clip.