Production Schedule

First drafting (This is the team thinking of a story line and writing down their first ideas) - 27/1/11


Storyboard to be completed by - 2/2/11


Anamtic to be completed by 4/2/11


Roles of the team to be decided and completed by - 14/2/11


Recce shots to be taken and completed by 17/2/11


Treatment to be drafted, written and uploaded by 19/2/11


Filming to be completed by 25/2/11


Editing and Sound to be completed by 3/3/11


Final edit to be uploaded to blog by - 10/3/11


Legal and ethical means to be uploaded onto the blog by - 12/3/11


Risk assessments to be finished by - 14/3/11


Upload all evidence of minute meetings by 15/3/11


Complete the final evaluation summering the whole production by - 20/3/11


Unfortunately the team didn't stick the production schedule as well as we thought we could. However we did use it as a main basis of when to upload our products, and complete things such as our filming and editing by. 

Homes Under the Hammer

Homes Under the Hammer is a morning television series shown on BBC One around 10am. The shows presenters are Lucy Alexander and Martin Roberts, however in previous series the alternated with two other presenters. The genre is factual and originally started being shown in May 2003. 

The format of the show is fairly simple, there are 3 properties from around England which are to go into auction for sale. Prior to going to auction Lucy or Martin show the audience around the property, and explain the pro's and con's of the property and what they think about it. The whole time they are doing this they are using direct address into the camera which helps the audience at home watching feel more involved with the program which is a great way at gaining an audience that will go back for more. 

Once this has been done there is then a scene at the actual auction where the property is being sold, then once we see it been auctioned off for the final price and we meet the buyer in the house with whoever introduced the house (Lucy or Martin). At this point Lucy or Martin interview the buyer and ask them why it is that they are buying the property and what their plans are to do with it. This then happens 2 more times with 2 different properties, and at the end of the show Lucy or Martin re-visit their original property to see what the buyer has done with it, how they have refurbished it, how much they spent, and weather is has been an investment or not.
The show is edited and scripted with images/videos of the property with a commentary from the presenters. The editing links this as the presenters are shown sometimes with the featured homeowners explaining their plans but also cracking informal and 'cheesey' jokes and puns, which is a great way of direct address to keep the audience interested and wanting to watch more of the show.
Shot types include such as panning shots and swift sliding shots to show a large amount of space in a small amount of time to give the audience a greater insight into the size of the property and amount of work that needs doing or has been done. 

Pulp Fiction Essay

Pulp fiction is a crime/thriller which was released in 1994 and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The film wasn't that big of budget to make but unexpectedly made more than it could ever imagine. The storyline can be rather complicated but is great if you watch it and get into it. Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega are two hit men who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, boss Marsellus Wallace. Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days later while he will be out of town himself. Butch Coolidge is a boxer who is aging quickly and who is paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled-for incidents. 

Throughout the film there is dark lighting and lots of smoke involved, this is to convey a dark thuggish image which can make the audiences watching feel on edge. Not only this but it's so cliche to create mise en scene like this thus meaning that the audience are tense as they know what will be coming. Clothing and make up used is very 70's throughout. The women seem to wear black tight leather a fair bit. This gives other women watching it the urge to want to look as sexy as they do and gives sex appeal to the men watching. The males in the film either wear suits and ties, looking smart as a rich gangster would, or if they are poor drug dealers, they seem to wear the cliche dirty white vest top and jeans.  

John Travolta as Vincent Vega: Tarantino cast Travolta in Pulp Fiction only because Michael Madsen, who had a major role—Vic Vega—in Reservoir Dogs, chose to appear in Kevin Costner's Wyatt Earp instead. ravolta accepted a bargain rate for his services—sources claim either $100,000 or $140,000—but the film's success and his Oscar nomination as Best Actor revitalized his career. Travolta was subsequently cast in several hits including Get Shorty, in which he played a similar character, and the John Woo blockbuster Face/Off. In 2004, Tarantino discussed an idea for a movie starring Travolta and Madsen as the Vega brothers; the concept remains unrealized. Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield: Tarantino had written the part with Jackson in mind, but the actor nearly lost it after his first audition was overshadowed by Paul Calderón's. Jackson assumed the audition was merely a reading.  No film score was composed for Pulp Fiction, with Quentin Tarantino instead using an eclectic assortment of surf music, rock and roll, soul, and pop songs. Dick Dale's rendition of "Misirlou" plays during the opening credits. Tarantino chose surf music as the basic musical style for the film, but not, he insists, because of its association with surfing culture. 

Robbie Williams 1998 Glastonbury Coverage

This extract of Glastonbury 1998 (26th - 28th June) is a performance of Robbie Williams' 'Angels'. Not just analyzing it in  terms of Camera work, sound, performance, setting and editing but the overall coverage of the event.

Firstly the use of the camera firstly is extremely simple, and calm in movement to emphasize the music, this is further complemented by the simple caption of Robbie's name and the famous song 'Angels'.
With an attendance of 100,500 people that year, it was only fitting to see the iconic lyrics being sung back to Robbie, heavily shown within the performance. Many shots used took full advantage of showing the manic crowd with equipment such as Crane's and Jimmy Jibs, also showing fully, the extent of the audience and the venue and stage itself.

On stage camera work shows the musical instruments being clearly played live which is accompanied by close ups of the artist. Medium shots are used to include nearly everything on the stage from an angle side on we can see the artist and guitarists but also the drummer in some shots. We also see the entire length of the stage on tracks. Handhelds are heavily used also upon the artist but also behind the drummer almost giving the audience at home the bands perspective.

The mise en scene is extremely focused on the 'music' and the clothes the band wear, the way the stage is set up and the lighting is of extreme simplicity, whether that reflects the budget for the stage is not known or whether the artists vision is to be one to focus on the performance itself. Little production is used as the artist and the band is definitely enough with the small use of colored lights, the crowd truly appreciates the music.

The Editing is again very simple however the vision mixing is very layered and complex the way in which one shot is of the artist then cross fades into a shot of the band which is then super imposed into the audience and then back to the artist, we see all aspects of the event and its effectiveness and make the audience at home feel as included as those at the festival.

Beyonce 2011 Glastonbury Analysis

The analysis that I'm doing for a new festival is the first 10 minutes of Beyoncé's headlining act. The start of the clip is a presenter introducing Beyoncé to the stage. This is a common feature used when showing a festival to an audience at home. It gives them an insight of whats happening and it keeps them involved with the festival. The target audience to this part of Glastonbury coverage I would say is more a teen/young adult audience as Beyoncé is very mainstream and she targets all her music to that target audience.
While the presenter is introducing Beyoncé to the stage, a caption with the latest Glastonbury logo appears at the bottom of the screen saying the presenters name "Jo Whiley."
Beyoncé's sequence starts off with a long shot from a camera placed in the middle of the crowd. This gives a great effect of making the audience at home feel as though they are in the audience at Glastonbury.

Glastonbury Analysis

Glastonbury Festival, was created in 1970, on the 19th September. This was the first year that Glastonbury ran and had a £1 entry fee. At this time, new crews were interested in the festival, but it wasn't until 1994 when it became a major feature of UK Television.

The festival in 1994 was broadcast live on Channel 4. On the Saturday night of the 1994 festival there was a shooting incident involving five people but no one was badly hurt. Although there was the first death in the Festivals history when a young man was found dead from a drugs overdose.

BBC Choice (now known as BBC Three) ran 6 hour long specials from 1994, 95, 97, 98, 99 and 2000. Glastonbury has had a number of media partners, you could watch or listen to BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 4, playlouder.com and also HTV. Since 2002 Glastonbury has been licensed to be aired outside of the UK in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and 9 other countries. 2002 was Glastonbury's busiest year so far with approximately 140,000.

Highlights from the festival have been shown internationally by NBDTV which have had a huge impact on the festivals fame. This year Glastonbury has been at its most populated with 175,000 attending, and it also made history with the first female headliner in quarter of a century.

Evaluation

In the process of creating a thriller opening originally created from all aspects including music and concepts. Reviewing the final product we have made observations and made room for improvement and complementary additions to make the product even better than it is.

The technical quality of our work was extremely well executed and carried out. We used a high quality camera and tripod to secure the high definition image and to make sure we were able to capture the correct footage we wanted. Some shots included movement or zoom of what of what the scene entailed such as the scene whereby we used a BlackBerry mobile to show texts and messages that were a reoccurring theme to let the audience be involved, but we wanted to do it in a way that was progressive through shots.

The camera work was especially still and not shaky. However to catch the tension and ridged attitude we could of used a handheld camera which gives the shaky effect, this was a desire of the group. Alex, Lily and I thought the best was to create the tension was to use a high standard and execution of lighting to add extra tension and produce a strong and technical piece.

Framing of the piece was one of the most difficult part of the production as it was extremely difficult trying to create the right proportions in the room whilst trying to make the girl in the film look isolated. Whilst doing so, we as a group gained huge amount of experience in using lighting to acquaintance the space we had and to frame the “action” perfectly. This was hugely effective as the use of all of these elements helped us create something quiet confined in the frame. Also the close ups worked well, and made the girl feel unbelievably isolated and alone through the use of long shots and close ups.

Through the editing process we were allowed to be as creative as we felt, by mixing images, ideas and concepts, creating certain sequences and effects the helped the complimented intended mood of the sequence. For example the clock face fading into the clip of the girls face signifying her lack of time left on alive.

Editing and creating very good quality was of a high standard as we used Final Cut. On Final Cut we used many effects, reoccurring sequences and transitions. We carefully chose our transitions and tried to make sure that they weren’t tacky, but have a quirky effect to the footage. First of  we collected all the footage we had recorded then 'cut up' the footage into what we was going to use, and what we wasn't. we then chronologically put the scenes in order and using Final Cuts effects, we manged to create a huge impact just on the opening of the video. For the opening of the sequence we used a plain black and white effect. We thought this would be a great way in creating not only a viable contrast but a contrast of mood for the audience. We did this in comparison to a video named 'He Dies At The End' on YouTube, This also has a black and white colour theme, and has the use of technology sending messages to the character. On that being the computer, and on ours being the TV and a phone. Unlike 'He dies at the end' we only use tense music at certain times, for example, when the girl looks directly into the camera. During the process of the making of the opening sequence I believe our team worked well. Not only we did come together and present strong ideas when working as a group, but individually we split the work load well and all respected our deadlines, which helped the creating of this a lot easier than we thought it would be. I feel as though my strongest point on the project was doing more work than what I should of. I felt happy to do 'overtime' in the classroom in order to meet the deadlines and create quality work, which I believe and we believe as a team has paid off.