The Futures of Media Technologies

5 Year Plan

Year 1 -

Hardware  - The new piece of hardware I think we should consider buying for the college is GoPros as we can catch much more exciting footage and we can tie them places you can't with a massive canon or sony. The specific GoPro I think we should invest in is the HERO3+ Black Edition

http://gopro.com/cameras/hd-hero3-black-edition?gclid=CjkKEQjwlIqdBRDy6JSK4Lmn1akBEiQAVa9dPYdwjlkxr89TElRohc0yTAXomwsInKdJ-VmPk4B6mwnw_wcB

 Price ; £359.99

Software - The new piece of software I think we should get is a pre production software called production minds, I feel as though students would benefit from this software as some students find it extremely hard to get pre production done. The software looks good and easy to get used too.

https://www.productionminds.com/landing/scheduling?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=movie_magic_alternative&gclid=CjkKEQjwlIqdBRDy6JSK4Lmn1akBEiQAVa9dPQPe2JdwBpOlASXqsqXosUJXBgwG7zyuJg0tz1hryQXw_wcB

 Price; you get a one month free trial and then costs 5.99 monthly.


Year 2 -

Hardware - I think the college should buy more tripods so that more students can use them when they are all booked out, this would benefit the students and the teachers as the shots we take on cameras without tripods when they are booked out are very shaky and with more tripods the work would be more steady and clear.

http://www.jessops.com/online.store/products/87317/Show.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=PLA&utm_term=DF-41%20Tripod&gclid=CjkKEQjwlIqdBRDy6JSK4Lmn1akBEiQAVa9dPWzCZ5OsiMfDunIwYwuA8pqZWoiSqS1lgJXq1KpzQ1jw_wcB

Price ; £19.99

Software -

Video CV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqPUq1uRyqk&feature=youtu.be

Linked In Link

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/madeleine-govier/96/562/aab

CV

Madeleine Govier

Date of Birth – 11/04/1997

National Insurance - PB950228A             

I am currently seeking part time work on Mondays, Tuesdays and Sundays as I am at college on the other days, I am currently studying Level 3 TV and Film Media at college and am hoping to find a job in that industry.

I’m a problem solver with a hand’s on attitude; I am a keen, young, energetic person and a good team member. In my last job I learnt good customer services skills and I have received positive feedback from customers. I'd like to further myself and I'm keen to learn more. I am very quick at picking up new skills and see myself to be a valuable employee

Education;

Thorpe Greenways 2001 – 2008

Futures Community College 2008 – 2013

South Essex College 2013 – Present

Qualifications;

Maths – C

English – Pass

Science – Pass

Drama – B

Statistics – C

Public Services – C

Maths and English Functional Skills – Pass

Work Experience;

I completed two weeks of work experience at Cockleshell Nursery when I was still at School, they found me to be keen punctual and helpful.

I previously worked at Adventure Island as Kitchen Staff and Customer service assistant. It was a temporary summer job for when I had left school.

I have also worked at Papa John’s Pizza where I worked on the phones to take orders and speaking to customers with all kinds of queries.

I also done voluntary work at Southend Film Festival where I used my customer service skills to greet people and ask them questions about the film, I also asked people to fill out a survey, I had great feedback from the director of the festival and they want me to work at the Horror on Sea Film festival and the zombie walk.

I am currently working at The Last Post in Southend I am looking for another job in a different industry.

Referees are available on request.

The Commissioning Process

The commissioning process;

Being a writer can be hard dealing with everything on your own so you might need an agent if you feel you need one and it would benefit in your writing, an agent is someone who acts on behalf of you helping you meet targets and organising meetings for you to tell your script, an agent can also protect you from all legal and ethical problems. If i was a writer I would consider an agent as they could benefit  me with meetings and legal obligations.

Lindsay Bradbury is a BBC commissioning editor, she has involvement in every stage of production including pre production and post production, they support the rest of the team and are the key element to a production. E- Commissioning is sending your initial ideas to a company for them to look at,  these ideas are not for the public as they are like a pilot show where it is only seen by the company and the company decides whether it will go any further for the public to see.

To get my single camera drama short film' The Untold' produced into a proper film with the warner brothers I would have to go through the producer and they would decide whether it adapted into a film or not. Things at warner brothers gets green lit by producers and agents working with them funding it, warner brothers would not buy it though, an independent film company would. 

Pat Higgins the writer of strippers vs werewolves had a one off payment from the company who bought the story off him, this means Pat Higgins has no involvement or say in what happens with that production now, he also has no ownership over the story after he had received the payment.

Errors and Omission Insurance - What is it?
A professional liability insurance that protects companies and individuals against claims made by clients for inadequate work or negligent actions. Errors and omissions insurance often covers both court costs and any settlements up to the amount specified on the insurance contract. You could hire a script doctor to polish up your script to ensure you will not have a lawsuit against you. You could need E&O Insurance as there could be mistakes in your script or characteristics as there could be someone like one of your characters and the real person could sue you for making them out to be someone else.

Alternate Genres

Golden Fleece - Has a road/path - signifies growth of characters has a team or friend represents things hero doesn't have, has a prize. 

Out of the bottle- Wishes for something granted by another, asked by hero, a spell which has rules, a lesson to be learned.

Fool triumphant -

Legally blonde

Forrest Gump

49 year old virgin 

- a fool whose innocence is their strength and whose a gentle man so this means they are likely to be ignored. 

- An Establishment the fool comes up against into which they don't fit.

- A transmution in which the fool becomes something new.

- monster in the house -

A monster which is evil at its core

An enclosed space (house) which could include family unit or town.

A sin some one is guilty of something. 

Monster in the house

Title - I'm back

Protagonist - Isabelle Fuhrman

Cast

Rachel McAdams

Ellen Page

Kaya Scodelania 

Synopsis

School, group of girls whom think they are better then the rest. Takes a toll on Isabellea when they push her to the limits of her life in jeopardy and gets put in a comma. Has she pushed to far? Time comes when she awakes. 

-> Dude with a problem -> Die hard

-> Rites of passage->Napoleon Dynamite

-> Buddy love -> Lethal Weapon

-> why dun it -> Blade Runner

-> Institutionalised -> Police Academy 

-> superhero -> Lion King

By Deanna Ricketts and I.

Devising and Planning a Soundtrack

Introduction

I will be devising and planning a soundtrack, I will be summarising the ways I might be asked to devise a soundtrack, which includes; who would work it out with me and what different input they might have, who else would be involved, I will be explaining the terms picture lock and spotting, and explaining the best practise in recording sound securely and what other plans they would have. I will also be establishing the sounds I want, where and how they will be sourced or recorded and what purpose they would have. I will be using links for my own pre production for the short film I made and providing explanations for downloading music from the internet and other relevant issues.

In the 'Real World'

- Who would work it out with you and what different input would they have?

The soundtrack would be worked out by many people, the Director, Producer, Sound Editor and the Editor, there would be many different impacts as the Director may want something different to the Producer but they know what they want so it would be easier to work out, some things could go wrong though, as some sound might not be greatly recorded so they might have to compromise and change the soundtrack around. I think the sound editor would know mostly what they were doing as they have worked on sound longer than the Director or Producer and this would be the biggest impact on the soundtrack.

- Who else would be involved?

As I said above the Director, Producer, Sound Editor and Editor would also be involved with the soundtrack planner and others would also be involved like the sound recorders and locations reporters because they could of recorded a sound at a location for the editors to add in.

- Explain terms such as Spotting and Picture Lock

• Spotting - The Spotting Session usually takes place after the filming and editing phases of a production have been completed. At the Spotting Session, the director and composer agree on what types of music will be used in a project and on where in the film (usually time code locations) specific musical cues will occur. The Music Editor documents these decisions and provides Spotting Notes to the composer and director for reference.
• Picture Lock - Picture lock is a stage in editing a film or editing a television production. It is the stage prior to on line editing when all changes to the film or television program cut have been done and approved. It is then sent to subsequent stages in the process, such as an line editing and audio mixing. Any last minute changes can force portions of subsequent work to be re-done.

- Best practise in recording sound securely

This is just making sure you have a back up plan in case the sound you have fails to record, like having extra sound sources like more boom microphones but also making sure you have a clapper board to sync the sound and the image later in the editing process.

Establishing the sounds I want

The sounds I want in my film are mostly ambience sounds to give the film a better thriller feel to it as the images do that but the sounds do it more, I also want music throughout my whole film, a scary, eerie, uncomfortable track to make the audience scared, I will also add sound effects to the end of it like police sirens and a heartbeat, I want those sound effects to be when the tension is running high in the last shot, some of these sounds will be off of freesound.org and some of the dialogue will be recorded when filming the production and some will be location recorded at the same location of filming but just with a clearer sound as I am not expecting it to be perfect the whole way through. I will be using foley, ADR and location recorded sound throughout my whole production.

Pre Production Links

http://50172071.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/shot-list-and-sountrack.html

http://50172071.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/list-resources-and-budget.html

http://50172071.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/production-schedule.html

http://50172071.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/the-untold_30.html

http://50172071.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/proposal-for-untold.html

http://50172071.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/the-treatment.html

- Potential Equipment to choose from

The sound equipment to choose from varies from clip microphones to shot guns to built in microphones on the camera. We initially used the boom pole and shot gun to record sound for our short film and it worked nicely as it picked up sound from further away and it was clear and vivid. This enabled us to speak how we wanted to speak and not have to exaggerate our voices to much so it seemed more real and didnt seem too much.

We wanted clip microphones as a back up source in case the boom pole and shot gun failed but they were not in a working order and are not as good as the shot gun, if we had used the clip mics it would not have been that good in sound because they do not pick up a lot of sound around them and they tend to not work when batteries need replacing every ten minutes, also you would of had to spend more time on hiding the wire on the actors/actresses and this would of wasted valued production time.

In the last part of our filming we tried to book out another shot gun and boom pole as the sound was clear and good with our film but our technicians office did not have any left and we did not have anyy clip microphones either our only other back up source was to use the built in microphone in the camera which surprisingly worked well as the shots we had left to create were not too far away from the camera and if they were we just recorded the sound on to the camera and made sure it was close enough for the camera microphone to pick it up and then added it over on to the image, luckily the sound that needed to be recorded again did not have to be synced as my head was buried in my knees and you don't see my face.

Another sound recording device we could of used is the BOOM sound recorder, this is good for recording a script over a presentation if you are holding it or sitting down next to it, we decided not to use it as the actresses were fully in the shot and we could not have got it close enough to hear the sound clearly without getting the recorder in the view of the camera.

Overall I think our choice of sound recording was a good idea and I would use the boom pole and shot gun again, they made a good impact on the images in my film and the sound was bold and clear, I would also use the built in microphone again as it surprisingly worked really well with the shots we created.

- What software do you intend to use and why?
I intend to use Final Cut Pro and Soundtrack as these are the editing and soundtrack software I am most used to, I will probably use final cut pro more than soundtrack as I know how to use it better than soundtrack and I feel more comfortable using it. We also used freesound.org as we didn't want to get into legal or ethical problems and freesound.org  is copyright free and has no legal considerations to think of.

- Provide explanations of MP3, AIFF and WAVE files? What are the benefits and drawbacks of each?

• MP3 - a means of compressing a sound sequence into a very small file, to enable digital storage and transmission.
• AIFF - Audio Interchange File Format is an audio file format standard used for storing sound data for personal computers and other electronic audio devices.
• WAVE - a format for storing uncompressed audio files.

- Provide explanations of the following and relevant issues connected with them:

• Public domain materials;