Name: Ben Saunders Age:18
Location:Skelton
Job aims:Mechanic, Graphic designer, Games engineer
Likes: Gaming, Books, me (I wish)
Film likes: The Hobbit, sc-fi , fantasy
shops at?: Sainsbury's , asda, Amazon
Personality: Understanding, Opinionated, self some
Job/Education : In college
Weekends: Gaming, youtube, Internet browsing, Skype.
Websites used: Discord,Skype,Facebook,Rule 34, 4chan, Reddit. steam
Music: Classical,Techno, Dubstep
Hobbies: See Likes.
1. Where did i hear about Deadpool?
Friends and word of mouth
2.What do i like or dislike about cinema?
Like: Darkness, surround sound, optimal date experience.
Dislike: Prices of food, Overcrowded , and inability to pause on demmand
3.Where do i go to the cinema?
Anywhere i can.
4.Who with?
Dates
5.What makes me/stops me going to the cinema?
See answers to question 3
6.invent my ideal film?
Romance, intimacy, Human nature, Psychological ,macabre body art.
7.What is my favourite film ever?
Dont have one, but have a top 3
8.what am i doing this weekend?
Bleaching and dying my hair
9.What films interest me next year?
Ratchet and clank
10.What news story am interested in this week?
havent watched the news this week
In copyright law, there is a concept of fair use, also known as; free use, fair dealing, or fair practice.
Fair use sets out certain actions that may be carried out, but would not normally be regarded as an infringement of the work.
The idea behind this is that if copyright laws are too restrictive, it may stifle free speech, news reporting, or result in disproportionate penalties for inconsequential or accidental inclusion.
What does fair use allow?
Under fair use rules, it may be possible to use quotations or excerpts, where the work has been made available to the public, (i.e. published). Provided that:
The use is deemed acceptable under the terms of fair dealing.
That the quoted material is justified, and no more than is necessary is included.
That the source of the quoted material is mentioned, along with the name of the author.
Typical free uses of work include:
Inclusion for the purpose of news reporting.
Incidental inclusion.
National laws typically allow limited private and educational use.
What is incidental inclusion?
This is where part of a work is unintentionally included. A typical examples of this would be a case where holiday movie inadvertently captured part of a copyright work, such as some background music, or a poster that just happened to on a wall in the background.
Points to keep in mind...
The actual specifics of what is acceptable will be governed by national laws, and although broadly similar, actual provision will vary from country to country.
Cases dealing with fair dealing can be complex, as decisions are based on individual circumstances and judgements. This can be a very difficult area of copyright law.
To avoid problems, if you are in any doubt, you are advised to always get the permission of the owner, prior to use.
Well, Do you think you're ready? think you can jump headfirst in and make a masterpiece? Well hold your horses ,all great works took proper planning and time so here well walk you through what you need.
So what production are we going for?
So the main 3 forms we are going cover in this informational guide are Tv, Film and YouTube.
TV:
You'll need to create an equipment list, Time sheets, Backup Plans, Risk assessments, If non set based then location scouting. These would be fitting for tv as they meet the requirements needed to produce a comptent show :)
Film:
You'll need to create Asset log, Budget sheet, Call sheet, contract details , footage log, location permission forms, Release and consent Agreement, Story boarding Risk assessment, Research, Script, Script breakdown.
These would be used in both showing investors and when changing ideas based on restrictions ^..^.
YouTube:
Necessary:
Upload scheduled, Thumbnail ideas, Equipment list, Contact list, Editing time, Render allowance time
Optional:
Collaboration timetable, Social media links, Idea notebook, Sponsorship agreements, Copyright cheeks..
How will you Manage time?
TV:
Working on a tv set is like a nine till five job in the sense you have set hours you are meant to come in to record, This can change depending on what is needed to be reordered for example the news is live so would be filmed as such whereas a show like pointless can be recorded in bulk as it has no showing of timed live events.
For film you are usually provided with a call sheet of where and when to be along with contact detials of anyone else going there in case of assistance needed.
YouTube
As for YouTube, Unless you are under a network you are usually under your own time constraints. Despite this to gain an audience its usually best to create an upload schedule based on your country time zone and target demographic.
Idea One
Two Main characters guy with dog, girl on phone (Cutout) walking animation in park two bump into each other giggle heart pops up girl turns and walks with guy laughing with block squares to make it shown.
Environments:
Foreground 1: Path , grasss
Foreground 2 Tree
Background Permanent Blue based sky
Motion :
Man: Head Torso Legs x 2 Arms x 2 dog on leash
Girl Head Torso legs x 2 arms x 2 phone
Sun
Light clouds
Audio
Ambient park
Dog walking / panting
Footsteps on gravel
phone sounds light giggle
Idea Two:
Music video adaptation of creepy Doll Lyric breakdown animation Using the lyrics make visual cutouts of the doll house money ect and play out the song as a visual medium
Environments:
Foreground 1 : Doll close up
Foreground 2: Box close up
Foreground 3: Money bag up close
Disney was one of the first mainstream animation companies that popularised celluloid animation from the 1930s with their first major hit snow white the process is shown below.
Dirty Grandpa produced by lionsgate studios is planned to be released in early 2016 and is a comedy similar to the likes of:
1) Bad neighbours
2)American pie
3)Meet the Fockers
To edit at its base is to change something such as video, audio and writing.In our case Video/Film Editing it is used to create styles atmospheres and tell the audience what is happening visually through effect.
In 1985 the lumiere brothers had a screening of the first film "workers leaving the lumiere factory" of which the technology impressed audiences but George's saw potential and decided he wanted to amke films, he first attempted buy a cinematography off the lumiere brothers of which he was declined as they wanted a monopoly on the film industry and so Gorges went to the uk and purchased an animatograph of which he reversed engineered into his own form of camera. Whilst using his new camera he discovered one of ,if not the first editing technique was first discovered when gorges was recording a street of traffic and whilst recording a bus passing his camera jammed and when he fixed it another car was there , upon development he noticed the car mysteriously appeared where the bus was, this was the first instance of the now commonly know, jump cut.
Over time Gorges used this technique to create his new films and shows an developed more editing types such as fade in and outs, overlapping dissolves and Stop motion photography.
Edwin Porter - 1903
Unlike Mellies tablo style of filming whereas it was in the style of the theatre, Edwin porter, originally a vitoscope projectionist until around 1900 where he joined Eddison manufacturing company and became head of production for skylight studio in 1901. From 1901 until 1906 Edwin served as Eddisons go to director and cameraman. Having a background in film and a great interest in Mellies work Edwin porter decided to try creating his own piece with 1903's "life of a fireman" But apart form the norm of setting up a shot and making it he mixed it with sock footage with stages scenes to make a fictional narrative sadly Porter was stuck in the each shot has to be a complete scene mentality leading to time overlays where you would see the same shot from two angle which nowadays looks like bad time cutting in and out. and whilst to us it seems clunky to the viewers back then it was still the amazement of the technology that impressed them so they allowed such time overlap's to slip by. Eventually the freshness of the film industry would wear off and Porter had to push the film style forward with his most famous piece the great train robbery. in this porter is more decisive with his cutting and although each scene is still one master take. He cuts between each scene without fades or dissolves and most importantly not letting the scene reach its logical end. Edwin porter was one of the pioneers of compression of time, and was one of the first developers of continuity editing and based his work less on the scene,but on the shot. but this is as far as porter got taking editing forward in time.
David Wark Griifith - 1908
In 1908 Edwin Porter hired a young actor to be the lead part in rescued from an eagles nest this started the 40 year long career for David Wark Griffith. After having little to no success in any other career routes D.W Griffith took this opportunity and this gave him contact with Edwin porter. D.W Griffith always wanted to be a writer and worked under the production name Lawrence Griffith submitted many plays and scripts but were uninteresting under advice of a friend made senarios for films after submitting one to Edwin porter,which was rejected due to having to many scenes he hired Griffith to act in one of his films. After this D.W Griifith was picked up by bio-graph a failing production company that was looking for directors and after producing "The Adventures of Dollie " in 2 days he was hired and wen ton to produce 450 films from 1908 -1911 and pushed it out of the tablo mentality and into the multi shot style we would now recognize.
Editing the purpose?
The most powerful message in the world world is only powerful when directed to the right people through the right channels in the right way ,when projects dont have the impact the creator wants its usually because the message is misunderstood or not actively shaped. Through correct video editing Technics a messege can be passed on visually rather than through a narrative. for example if you wanted to demonstrate someone getting older through a visual medium you could ahve a left seep to them being older at the current moment. if you wanted time compression you could change the shot before the current one end to just after the beginning of another (see The great train robbery for examples of this)
So TL;DR We edit to tell a story in a more complex way and it invests the audience through them working out its message or meaning.
Editing Conventions/ Where we are today?
As film making went on the techniques evolved with it.Such as we noted before there were such conventions as the jump cute,the fade in,dissolves and the 180' rule . all of which we use today, all be it in more advanced ways, These techniques were transferred to our technological style of editing and are used in modern movies to create the effects mentioned in the previous section. and many more atmospheric reasons such as to create suspense, mystery, a sense of completeion.
Time-lapse is a method of condensing time using sped up content by taking images every other frame the more amount of frames between each shot the faster it goes.
Timelapse art
Another example of timelapse is in gaming to demonstrate a passing of an event that would take a while made faster
Devils sin lust is a short cut out animation style film. This was made using magazine cutouts and one small drawing of a heart. the method we used was a 90 degree camera pointing down taking individual frames as i moved the stills around giving the illusion of movement .The story consisted of the devil offering his heart to an angel getting rejected and then falling to lust by calling a sex line.
As we all know the media industry contains many opportunities in different areas such as games film tv radio image editing and much much more! in each of these industries they have there own business systems mostly revolving around conglomerates and subsidiaries.
Conglomerates#
Conglomerates are the overarching company that has access or flat out own the companies this could be seen as a form of contracting as it has the same basic principals, conglomerates are usually the companies who hold all the money and get the majority of the credit at the end of a production.An Example of a conglomerate is BBC.
Subsidiary
Subsidiaries are the hired or owned companies by the conglomerates ,they usually specialize in individual talents such as production,audio,distribution etc. They do the physical work provided to a production based on their specialty, an example of a subsidiary is Chun soft.as a subsidiary of Nintendo.
Ownership
The ownership of companies is a system set up to gain maximum value for the main production companies and also develops bonds between companies making a larger amount of money for the companies in the chains a negative of this is that its hard for beginner companies to get noticed and become a subsidiary of established companies
There are many purposes to making a music video one of the most commonly thought of is for the money, this financial gain of any music video is based off sales of the track views and monetization and TV broadcast. The problem with this standpoint is that not all music videos earn a lot of profit or in some cases directors earn none as they may make it for free , you may ask, "Hey Zak why make a music video for free that's pointless!?" Well I'm sorry to burst your bubble but there are more reasons, such as...
Creative Indulgence
One of the many reasons directors and band makes music videos is simply because they want to, they hear a track and want to make a vision a reality and with even with limited funding t
he right director will do everything in there power to make that idea into a full fledged music video.
Reputation
Another reason to create a music video is to gain reputation in the industry by demonstr4ighting your cinematography, creative ideas and editing skills this can then lead to more hiring's or other jobs meaning more money and fame/popularity in the industry.
Promotional
Yet another reason to produce a music video is for promotional reasons such a s to sell a product, brand or event the reason it works is because it builds up hype surrounding that event based or either the style of video/music , the demographic it appeals to or how referential it is a good example of a promotional music video is Imagine Dragons Warriors as a promotional music video for the league of legends world championships 2014. The reason it is a good example of a promotional music video is that it not only represents the journey from a basic player to professional it also shares demographic with Imagine dragons music demographic.
Synergy
As seen before music videos dont have to be an isolated production they can link to outside sources and on a most basic level TV adverts (as shown below) , well at least alot of them can class as music videos following the basis of Music played to a video logic. But it can also incorporate into the games industry as shown above.
(p.s dont judge me i just remembered this one when it came to advertising)
Distribution
There are 2 main places music videos are watched and they are Tv through channels such as kerrang and online through mediums such as YouTube and vimeo. They both have there benefits as for example tv can gain more money for the producers of the music videos although online you get more name recognition as usually you have to search directly for the piece you want.
Conventions
Focus on one
One convention often seen in music videos is to focus on one major word or beat in the track and base the whole video on it such as the wordplay in Royal Republics song addictive.
Showing off the Band
In most to all music videos a Convention si to see the band Playing the song , zoomed in on the loudest/most powerful parts, such as the neck of the guitar the vocalists chest neck lips. An example of this is in Area 11s Heaven Piercing giga drill
Styles
Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana
Originally When Miley Cyrus came on the scene she was presented as Disney's poster girl good music for the family but over time as her contract ran out with Disney her managed and her made the controversial decision to 180 her public personality from the family friendly style to the hyper sexualised Idol first seen in the song/video Wrecking Ball.
Techniques
The one Shot.
The one shot is a technique used in music video where only one camera is used and not turned off until the song is done this may sound boring but it has been used with many creative direction and other techniques to make interesting piece's such as when it was used in Axewellingrossos Something New:
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Typography
Another technique used in some music videos is to incorporate the words into the song or make the whole video the lyrics stylised to fit the themes such as in Hollywood Undead's Bullet
These are the series of images we gathered form cutouts in an old magazine to portray a stroy of the devils lost love to the angel and how ti lead to him sinning agian.
When we are doing colour correction we talk about colour in terms of temperature. The Reason we talk about in terms of temperature is due to it being measured in kelvin
To first access the colour correction area you first need to got to wind>workspace>Colour Correction.
this will change the view and access the feature you'll need to colour correct.
To correct colour there are two main method the fast corrector tool and the RBG Parade
these can be accessed through the effects tab and dragged onto the clip before editing.
A Clean colour correction will have the colour levels fairly even as shown below.
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There are many purposes to making a music video one of the most commonly thought of is for the money, this financial gain of any music video is based off sales of the track views and monetization and TV broadcast. The problem with this standpoint is that not all music videos earn a lot of profit or in some cases directors earn none as they may make it for free , you may ask, "Hey Zak why make a music video for free that's pointless!?" Well I'm sorry to burst your bubble but there are more reasons, such as...
One of the many reasons directors and band makes music videos is simply because they want to, they hear a track and want to make a vision a reality and with even with limited funding t
Another reason to create a music video is to gain reputation in the industry by demonstr4ighting your cinematography, creative ideas and editing skills this can then lead to more hiring's or other jobs meaning more money and fame/popularity in the industry.
