Start of Year 2

As we have all completed the projects from last year, we are starting completely new ones.



Documentary

• So far in documentary, we have studied the codes and conventions of what makes a documentary, and I am currently working on a presentation for this at home.


• We have watched two documentarys so far, incuding "Supersize Me" and "Bowling for Columbine".


• We are working on our own ideas for a documentary, and so far I am working in a group in which we are focusing on alcohol and why it is legal.

Idents

• We have looked at many different idents, including ones for BBC and ITV.


• We are currently researching how idents have changed over time.


• We will be creating our own ident for our production company that we will be developing over the course of this assignment.

Scriptwriting

• In scriptwriting, we have looked at a number of scripts and we are evaluating them, and assessing how they would work as screen plays. I am currently looking at the short story called "The Method", and how it could adapt to be a film.


• We have also looked at how people speak, and the differences in their pronounciations etc.

Web Design

• We have started the basics of web design, and have learned how to set up a webpage in Dreamweaver.
• We will be creating at least two sites, one as a portfolio and one to tie in with the idents assignment - a website for our "production company".

End of Year One

Multi Camera Project (Unit 22)

• In my group, we made the promotional video for the Festival of Colours (Catwalk designers) and edited it/uploaded it to Youtube. We filmed it at Southampton Solent University using the green screen, and then edited at college. Here is the final product.

• We then filmed and edited the live event, and I was the team leader in my group. I mostly used the industry standard cameras, filming the event from the floor and from the seating area, which I found really fun. We used walkie - talkies to communicate. We then edited the show in group. I worked in a group of three.

Special Effects

• As we finished Critical Approaches, we started another small project - cloning. I worked with Jasmine on two different cloning videos, presented here.

We are happier with the second one, as there was not a lot of movement in the first.

Totton College Awards

• At the end of term, we had to create a nominee video for the "Toscars". I was assigned to create one for "Best Director". I used clips from the nominees, and I also filmed extra footage for the introduction of the video.

48 Hour Film Challenge

• Finally, at the end of the year, we were set a 48 hour film challenge to do. This meant that we were given a genre and title for a film, and we had 2 days to completely film and edit it. I worked with Jasmine, and we were given Hammer Horror, with the title "Terror of the Deep".
• We decided to film the intro in a science lab, where we were "creating" the monster. We then used my brother as the creature, and filmed by a river.
• We managed to complete the project on time and submitted.