Monday, 22 March 2010
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Film: 8 Shot Journey
8 Shot Journey
Log sheet. 1 of 1.
Storyboard. 1 of 2.
Storyboard. 2 of 2.
Evaluation.
For this project we had to create a simple journey around the college grounds using only 8 shots, from start to finish, we also wern't able to use any camera movements, such as pans or tilts.
Whilst planning this project I planned to have my target going from a-b on a skateboard, however at the time of filming the college grounds we're far to busy so I had to think on my feet and change the whole storyboard as I believed the less people in each shot the easier the video would be to watch as there wouldn't be much going on.
I believe that although I had to change my storyboard I did quite well on this project. I enjoyed it and enjoyed learning how to use the editing software. However some of the shots I had used in my final peice we're quite shaky. If I had to re-do this project again I would make sure I used a tri-pod at all times, instead of using handheld for a couple of the shots, and I also would of planned the whole project alot more carefully.
Thursday, 15 October 2009
Radio: Jingles
Show Promo Script
voice1: Tinchy Stryder
voice2: Chipmunk
voice1: Dizzee Rascal
voice2: Your music, Your life
voice2: Your listening to DJ Hilary on SNC Live.
Evaluation of radio Jingles.
For this project we had to create three radio jingles that could potentially be played on the college radio, SNC Live. We could work together to record voices for each others work however individually we all had to have three jingles recorded and uploaded onto our blogs. A station ident, a show ident and a news jingle.
Each jingle had to be a different time length, these time lengths are the time lengths of jingles that are played on radio stations such as Kiss fm and Radio one. A station ident should be roughly 20-30 seconds long, a show ident should be 30-60 seconds long and a news jingle should be 10-15 seconds long – however a lot of stations have longer jingles than this. A jingle or ident is primarily a memorable slogan with background music, for example Kiss’ slogan is – Your music, your life and they have recorded many station ident’s but with different music played in the background. They are primarily used on Radio – however a lot of television adverts use these.
My intended target audience for this project was primarily 16-25 year olds, male and female, and I believe I achieved this.
To complete this project we had to get our heads round the new software, the Apple Mac’s and also the sound editing software – sound booth. For me I found the software simple and easy to use, because I had used a similar program before (Adobe Audition which is a sound editing programme designed for PC’s). It was just getting my head around the Mac that was the hard part. However once I figured the Mac’s out I found the task of editing my sounds easy. It was just choosing the music and script that was difficult as I had to choose music that flowed together.
Studio Ident
My studio ident was 20 seconds long; I uploaded this to my blog however when we went to play them in class none of the links to listen to the jingles would work. Also I couldn’t find the file on the Mac, so I may have to re-do this one in the review week and upload it and evaluate it then.
Show Ident
My show ident is 54 seconds long. This is the jingle I spent the most time on to perfect it. I found a sound effect on sound booth to act as a split between each track played as I couldn’t find songs that segued nicely together. I had my doubts about this, however I believe that it worked rather well. I had to line the tracks up perfectly with the effect as if it was slightly out of place you would be able to hear the skip where the track changed. For my voices I used Marc and Terri.After playing these back to the class I believe that the voices used we’re too low, or the music was to low, I think I should have dipped the levels when there was voices playing. The voices can still be heard, however you have to really concentrate to make out what they say, and jingles shouldn’t have to be like that. Although I am pleased with this jingle.
News Jingle
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9E5K64GW
My news jingle wouldn’t upload to supload, however I uploaded it to mega upload and is 16 seconds long and once again the music over rules the speech. I think the jingle could have also used a more variety of music and something more news like as it just sounds like a normal song with a tiny bit of speech over the top.
voice1: Tinchy Stryder
voice2: Chipmunk
voice1: Dizzee Rascal
voice2: Your music, Your life
voice2: Your listening to DJ Hilary on SNC Live.
Evaluation of radio Jingles.
For this project we had to create three radio jingles that could potentially be played on the college radio, SNC Live. We could work together to record voices for each others work however individually we all had to have three jingles recorded and uploaded onto our blogs. A station ident, a show ident and a news jingle.
Each jingle had to be a different time length, these time lengths are the time lengths of jingles that are played on radio stations such as Kiss fm and Radio one. A station ident should be roughly 20-30 seconds long, a show ident should be 30-60 seconds long and a news jingle should be 10-15 seconds long – however a lot of stations have longer jingles than this. A jingle or ident is primarily a memorable slogan with background music, for example Kiss’ slogan is – Your music, your life and they have recorded many station ident’s but with different music played in the background. They are primarily used on Radio – however a lot of television adverts use these.
My intended target audience for this project was primarily 16-25 year olds, male and female, and I believe I achieved this.
To complete this project we had to get our heads round the new software, the Apple Mac’s and also the sound editing software – sound booth. For me I found the software simple and easy to use, because I had used a similar program before (Adobe Audition which is a sound editing programme designed for PC’s). It was just getting my head around the Mac that was the hard part. However once I figured the Mac’s out I found the task of editing my sounds easy. It was just choosing the music and script that was difficult as I had to choose music that flowed together.
Studio Ident
My studio ident was 20 seconds long; I uploaded this to my blog however when we went to play them in class none of the links to listen to the jingles would work. Also I couldn’t find the file on the Mac, so I may have to re-do this one in the review week and upload it and evaluate it then.
Show Ident
My show ident is 54 seconds long. This is the jingle I spent the most time on to perfect it. I found a sound effect on sound booth to act as a split between each track played as I couldn’t find songs that segued nicely together. I had my doubts about this, however I believe that it worked rather well. I had to line the tracks up perfectly with the effect as if it was slightly out of place you would be able to hear the skip where the track changed. For my voices I used Marc and Terri.After playing these back to the class I believe that the voices used we’re too low, or the music was to low, I think I should have dipped the levels when there was voices playing. The voices can still be heard, however you have to really concentrate to make out what they say, and jingles shouldn’t have to be like that. Although I am pleased with this jingle.
News Jingle
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9E5K64GW
My news jingle wouldn’t upload to supload, however I uploaded it to mega upload and is 16 seconds long and once again the music over rules the speech. I think the jingle could have also used a more variety of music and something more news like as it just sounds like a normal song with a tiny bit of speech over the top.
Monday, 12 October 2009
Friday, 9 October 2009
Photography: Pinhole Photography
Pinhole Photography
Pinhole photography is lens less photography, in which a tiny hole (pinhole) replaces the lens of your typical camera. Pinhole cameras can be however big or small you want them; however need to be designed with great care. Pinhole camera’s can be made out of almost anything – as long as they are made light-tight. An examples of a pinhole camera is shown on the left.
When you make your pinhole camera you need to make sure no light is getting into the device – otherwise this will mean that your photo’s will come out over-exposed. To help stop this paint the inside of your object black and secure the lid with gaffa tape.
The photo’s made by using pinhole cameras are more softer than pictures made with a lens. Exposures are a lot longer than exposures made with camera’s with a lens, however the exposure vary’s depending on the f-stop. How you measure the f-stop requires a little maths. First of all you need to measure the focal length – which is the distance from the pin
hole to where the photographic paper will lie divided by the width of the pinhole. So:
The further the light travels inside a pinhole camera the weaker the light will become.
Pinhole Photographers
Eric Renner
Eric Renner has worked in pinhole photography for 32 years, and in his recent work he collaborates with this wife Nancy, he has his photographs in exibition collections across the world including in The Museum of Modern Art, The National Gallery of Canada and is also the author of Pinhole Photograpy: Rediscovering a historic technique.
My Pinhole Photography
After making my pinhole camera out of a celebrations tin, I worked out the focal length, which was 140, then Tim told us what the diameter of the pinhole was (0.8) and I divided these giving me the answer of 175 - this number being my F-stop. After finding the F-stop I had to work out what my exposure time would be, I came up with:
1 Minute - Outside
10 Minutes - Inside.
So after finding this I decided to go out with my pinhole camera and start taking some photo's.
The first photo I took was meant to be of some grass and a car, and I exposed it outside for one minute - Like my exposure time said, however once I took it back to the dark room the Image was black.
Meaning it was over-exposed. So I decided to change my outside exposure time to 20 seconds. So I followed the same routine of taking the camera outside and leaving it for 20 seconds and took it back to the dark room - however the photographic paper still came out black. So we decided that light must of been getting into the camera somehow, so I put gaffa tape over the opening of my camera, hoping that this is where the light was getting in.
I reloaded my camera with photographic paper and went onto the balcony, many people had had problems with thei
r exposure times so I decided that I wou
ld cut my 10minute exposure time for indoors down by half - 5minutes. And this is the Image I got. This is the negative of the image, and was taking from the balcony overlooking the atrium of the college. Once we had scanned our negatives into photoshop we managed to invert them into positives. The left hand picture is the Negative and The right hand picture is the positive. I was pleased with the outcome of this picture. As it looked visually interesting how the picture looks like it had been swirled - although the photographic paper was flat - Although the reason that their might be a swirl on it is from where the camera may of moved whilst taking the picture.
The third
picture I took was outside, and had an exposure time of 25 seconds, As you c
an see the negative came out really dark - suggesting that I may of over exposed it. The photo was rather blurry and you could only just make out that it was a building. This is also down to where I placed the camera. Once the negative was scanned into photoshop I changed it into a positive and the points I had noticed as it was a negative we're backed up whilst looking at the positive. (Negative-Left, Positive-Right)
The la
st picture I took was taken outside and had an exposure time of 15 seconds, and was of some trees. This negative looked a bit better than the one before it however still looked a touch over exposed and a bit blurry. I scanned the negative into photoshop and once it was a positive the picture was a touch blurry but clear to see.
Overall I was pleased with my pinhole photography - however I believe that with more time I would of been able too produce better pictures and managed to find out my actual exposure time.
Pinhole photography is lens less photography, in which a tiny hole (pinhole) replaces the lens of your typical camera. Pinhole cameras can be however big or small you want them; however need to be designed with great care. Pinhole camera’s can be made out of almost anything – as long as they are made light-tight. An examples of a pinhole camera is shown on the left.
When you make your pinhole camera you need to make sure no light is getting into the device – otherwise this will mean that your photo’s will come out over-exposed. To help stop this paint the inside of your object black and secure the lid with gaffa tape.
The photo’s made by using pinhole cameras are more softer than pictures made with a lens. Exposures are a lot longer than exposures made with camera’s with a lens, however the exposure vary’s depending on the f-stop. How you measure the f-stop requires a little maths. First of all you need to measure the focal length – which is the distance from the pin
hole to where the photographic paper will lie divided by the width of the pinhole. So:The further the light travels inside a pinhole camera the weaker the light will become.
Pinhole Photographers
Eric Renner
Eric Renner has worked in pinhole photography for 32 years, and in his recent work he collaborates with this wife Nancy, he has his photographs in exibition collections across the world including in The Museum of Modern Art, The National Gallery of Canada and is also the author of Pinhole Photograpy: Rediscovering a historic technique.
My Pinhole Photography
After making my pinhole camera out of a celebrations tin, I worked out the focal length, which was 140, then Tim told us what the diameter of the pinhole was (0.8) and I divided these giving me the answer of 175 - this number being my F-stop. After finding the F-stop I had to work out what my exposure time would be, I came up with:
1 Minute - Outside
10 Minutes - Inside.
So after finding this I decided to go out with my pinhole camera and start taking some photo's.
The first photo I took was meant to be of some grass and a car, and I exposed it outside for one minute - Like my exposure time said, however once I took it back to the dark room the Image was black.
Meaning it was over-exposed. So I decided to change my outside exposure time to 20 seconds. So I followed the same routine of taking the camera outside and leaving it for 20 seconds and took it back to the dark room - however the photographic paper still came out black. So we decided that light must of been getting into the camera somehow, so I put gaffa tape over the opening of my camera, hoping that this is where the light was getting in.I reloaded my camera with photographic paper and went onto the balcony, many people had had problems with thei
r exposure times so I decided that I wou
ld cut my 10minute exposure time for indoors down by half - 5minutes. And this is the Image I got. This is the negative of the image, and was taking from the balcony overlooking the atrium of the college. Once we had scanned our negatives into photoshop we managed to invert them into positives. The left hand picture is the Negative and The right hand picture is the positive. I was pleased with the outcome of this picture. As it looked visually interesting how the picture looks like it had been swirled - although the photographic paper was flat - Although the reason that their might be a swirl on it is from where the camera may of moved whilst taking the picture. The third
picture I took was outside, and had an exposure time of 25 seconds, As you c
an see the negative came out really dark - suggesting that I may of over exposed it. The photo was rather blurry and you could only just make out that it was a building. This is also down to where I placed the camera. Once the negative was scanned into photoshop I changed it into a positive and the points I had noticed as it was a negative we're backed up whilst looking at the positive. (Negative-Left, Positive-Right)
The la
st picture I took was taken outside and had an exposure time of 15 seconds, and was of some trees. This negative looked a bit better than the one before it however still looked a touch over exposed and a bit blurry. I scanned the negative into photoshop and once it was a positive the picture was a touch blurry but clear to see.Overall I was pleased with my pinhole photography - however I believe that with more time I would of been able too produce better pictures and managed to find out my actual exposure time.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
