Friday 20 January 2017

Research into the actual order of titles

There is a special way in which titles are put in the opening title sequence. The special order is followed, so in is easier for viewer to get them and understand. I have do some research in this order and almost everywhere it is the same:




Tuesday 17 January 2017

Coursework: Shooting day-action

On that day we were left without our teacher Adam, Matt was helping us.
When we have finished all the preparations, we started to think about shots themselves. On this stage we made some big decisions as we changed the way we wanted to film. Now, there were less constant shots, no panning, we decided to take more close-ups then wanted and the work which we were doing later on was much better then we planned.
It was quite hard to keep everyone doing what we needed, however everyone made their best and it was nice to work with those people.
For every shot we were firstly moving the camera across the room, starting and ending the shot byblack object. Then we were placing the camera on the tripod, regulating the height, bubbling it and then making different shots of each character or move.
We started our filming with shots of Josh (the DJ) working when his friends are hanging around the room. After that we were changing the cast, costumes and background quickly to make as much as we could. We worked well as a group so that day we filmed a lot of shots.



Straight after a little break we made everyone except Josh free. We needed to make more close ups of him and also take some shots of all boards on which he was working on. We have also made some close ups of different surfaces in the room.
Also we filmed the beginning and the end: how he setting everything up for work and how he receives an email at the end. We decided to film the actual email afterwards.
The last thing before cleaning up was the sound. We needed to record the sound of opening and closing door, mouse, keyboard and switches.

In my opinion it was one of the most interesting day in media studies as we did our own thing. Basically, probably all practical work is entertaining and its a pity that we had just one day like this. I really enjoyed that working process and hope that we can make something really impressive in the end.

Coursework: Shooting day-preparation

Tuesday the 17th of January was our shooting day.
The final preparations started probably a week ago, when we have made our final decisions. one day before, on Monday we have visited the studio again, we decided that we have to move some furniture out as it was useless for us and put the one we need in. So we have placed 3 armchairs and the table instead of piano and one cupboard. Also, we left an old TV as it looked cool. 
There was an issue with the posters, so instead of actual posters in the Monday evening I was printing out and drawing this stuff.
To make the studio look more alive and naturalistic we decided to bring in different rubbish like cans, bottles, paper etc.
In the morning of the actual shooting day after small induction and planning we went back to the studio. We were not sure about the posters with which we end up, but we still decided to leave it. Then we started to mess up the room. The messiest place was on the table. We have put there cans, train tickets, energy drinks, fizzy drinks, cigarettes, lighters, cups, different colored medicines, vinyls and other stuff which looked cool.

I also really liked the light that we were using, it created the right atmosphere. We had 4 of them: 2 white, 1 blue and one red. 
We also decided to move everything around as we change shots to create the feeling of different time.