Today I finally uploaded my interview on mobile phones. I had a lot of trouble uploading the video to computers, and processing it, and exporting it. Yesterday, I spent 3 hours of my spare time, editing and adding things into the interview to make it look professional, however, I could not upload it due to a group members internet explorer being an old version. After exporting the video to an AVI file, I could save it on a pendrive and switch computers. I then uploaded my video to youtube, and then embed the code to put onto blogger.
My interview can now be seen below.
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Monday, 12 July 2010
Having trouble and overcoming problems.
After having trouble with the uploading of the interview,and the sound not working, I eventually uploaded the video as you can see in a previous post, and realised why the sound was not working. By the time this happend, it was the end of lesson, and I had free time to start editing our production. During this time, I edited the interview and imported cutaways throughout the interview, and also used transitions to cut back to the interview from the different cutaways.
I have uploaded screengrabs of my work throughout the editing process, and these can be seen below.
I have uploaded screengrabs of my work throughout the editing process, and these can be seen below.
Our interwiew
In this post, I have uploaded our group's interview that we have produced on mobile phones. We have edited out the interviewer asking the questions, so we are left with just the answers, and cutaways throughout the interview.
It is now the end of the lesson, and we have had technical issues uploading our video, as we have uploaded them 3-4 times, and the sound is not working on all of the ones we have tried to upload.
I am going to use my free time and see if i can still edit some of the interview and ad in cutaways.
In an earlier post, you can see we wanted to use a picture as our background during our interview. As plans changed throughout the production, and due to my group being absent, this could not be arranged, and also due to time and trouble with the equipment, we could not use this as our background.
Thursday, 8 July 2010
Preliminary- In the making
Over the past couple of days, we have been collecting our data for our documentary.
As I was absent for a few days, the rest of my group collected still pictures and video footage for our interview, however, when I came back into school, we had to collect our video footage again as we had some trouble with the first one.
So, we collected more still pictures, and more video footage on the day I came back, and we had more trouble uploading it as the school server disc was full.
A group friend decided to save the work on her memory stick, and is absent today and I can't collect screen grabs or edit the footage by myself, as its on her memory stick.
When we are all back in school, I will be able to collect screengrabs and upoload pictures and video footage to the blog.
As I was absent for a few days, the rest of my group collected still pictures and video footage for our interview, however, when I came back into school, we had to collect our video footage again as we had some trouble with the first one.
So, we collected more still pictures, and more video footage on the day I came back, and we had more trouble uploading it as the school server disc was full.
A group friend decided to save the work on her memory stick, and is absent today and I can't collect screen grabs or edit the footage by myself, as its on her memory stick.
When we are all back in school, I will be able to collect screengrabs and upoload pictures and video footage to the blog.
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Preliminary- Interview prep
Interview Prep
>Work in groups, your task is to conduct an interview about the subject of mobile phones.
>Cutaway shots will be used throughout the interview which will break it up.
>This will be edited in when we have finished filming the interview.
Title: My Mobile & Me.
Mise en scene: option 1- Picture of iphone as the background when the interviewee is answering questions.
Music bed: Call on me - Eric Prydz
Questions for the interview:
1. Tell me what life was like before you had the mobile phone.
2. When did you get your first mobile phone and why did you get it?
3. Tell me about all the mobile phones you have had.
4. Tell me about your current mobile phone.
5. Why did you choose this phone?
6. Tell me about the ringtone you have on your phone and why you chose it.
7. What do you use your mobile phone for?
8. How much does your mobile phone cost you each month?
9. How often do you send text messages?
10. What text 'language' do you use and how did oyou learn it?
11. What's the best thing about having a mobile phone?
12. What's the worst thing about having a mobile phone?
13. How important is your mobile phone to you?
14. How would you cope without your mobile phone?
>Work in groups, your task is to conduct an interview about the subject of mobile phones.
>Cutaway shots will be used throughout the interview which will break it up.
>This will be edited in when we have finished filming the interview.
Title: My Mobile & Me.
Mise en scene: option 1- Picture of iphone as the background when the interviewee is answering questions.
Music bed: Call on me - Eric Prydz
Questions for the interview:
1. Tell me what life was like before you had the mobile phone.
2. When did you get your first mobile phone and why did you get it?
3. Tell me about all the mobile phones you have had.
4. Tell me about your current mobile phone.
5. Why did you choose this phone?
6. Tell me about the ringtone you have on your phone and why you chose it.
7. What do you use your mobile phone for?
8. How much does your mobile phone cost you each month?
9. How often do you send text messages?
10. What text 'language' do you use and how did oyou learn it?
11. What's the best thing about having a mobile phone?
12. What's the worst thing about having a mobile phone?
13. How important is your mobile phone to you?
14. How would you cope without your mobile phone?
Monday, 21 June 2010
Codes and Conventions
>Every documentary has a Author, Producer, Directir, Screenwriter, Editor, Designer.
>When an interview takes place, the interviewee's eyeline is always in the middle, however they do not look directly at the camera. This shows that the interviwee is looking at the interviewer and not directly at the camera.
>Also when an interview takes place, if the interviewer is placed on the right, the interviewee will be placed on the left, and vice versa.
>They are filmed either in medium shot, medium close up or close up angles.
>The positioning of the interviewee is important, and also has to be as close to the camera as possible.
>The questions that are asked by the interviewer are edited out when watching the documentary.
>The mise en scene that is used such as the boards behind the interviee's, provides more information about occupation and the environment.
>If there is a light source coming from behind the interviewee, they choose to block this out so that the light source is always coming from the front.
>Cut away shots are used, whilst the interviewee is still talking and is showing maybe a part of the film, this breaks up the interview to avoid jump cuts.
>Cut away shots are either:
*Archive Material
*Suggested by something said in the interview and therefore filmed after the interview
*Aspects of the interviewee are filmed with another camera, such as extreme close up of eyes, mouth hands and used as cutaways
>Graphics are also used to anchor who the person on screen is and their relevance to the topic of the documentary.
To get this information, we looked at documentary extracts in class, these were:
>In The Teeth Of Jaws- Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42Zj8R0kumw
>The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special in 3D On Ice- Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orLGl7c5oHc
>When an interview takes place, the interviewee's eyeline is always in the middle, however they do not look directly at the camera. This shows that the interviwee is looking at the interviewer and not directly at the camera.
>Also when an interview takes place, if the interviewer is placed on the right, the interviewee will be placed on the left, and vice versa.
>They are filmed either in medium shot, medium close up or close up angles.
>The positioning of the interviewee is important, and also has to be as close to the camera as possible.
>The questions that are asked by the interviewer are edited out when watching the documentary.
>The mise en scene that is used such as the boards behind the interviee's, provides more information about occupation and the environment.
>If there is a light source coming from behind the interviewee, they choose to block this out so that the light source is always coming from the front.
>Cut away shots are used, whilst the interviewee is still talking and is showing maybe a part of the film, this breaks up the interview to avoid jump cuts.
>Cut away shots are either:
*Archive Material
*Suggested by something said in the interview and therefore filmed after the interview
*Aspects of the interviewee are filmed with another camera, such as extreme close up of eyes, mouth hands and used as cutaways
>Graphics are also used to anchor who the person on screen is and their relevance to the topic of the documentary.
To get this information, we looked at documentary extracts in class, these were:
>In The Teeth Of Jaws- Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42Zj8R0kumw
>The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special in 3D On Ice- Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orLGl7c5oHc
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