New Date for Fiming

I have talked to the people who own the field and also to other people who I hope that will help me in my video. Both groups have said that the date I have pitched to them (3RD JANUARY) is available to most of them.

Because it is a bank holiday there is no school still and I am not working meaning that I can make the time a bit later for everyone. I'll therefore make the time 10.00 to 14.00(ish).

Let's hope the weather is good!

Saturday 18th

So I've had a very frustrating morning. Trying to find where the main character actually WAS was a big problem. He decided that he couldn't be bothered to turn up. In the end only two people actually did turn up. In the end we had to cancel. Very frustrating and annoying so we will have to re-organise it for another time...

Weather

So the weather is playing havoc once again and it may be that we may not be able to film tomorrow morning since the weather is due to be below freezing. I will make a decision about whether to go ahead with the filming tomorrow morning.

It also seems that the help that I have asked for may also not materialise. 4 people have already dropped out. I'm going to need to have at least 6 people (Including Dan - Main character) helping out with all the other stuff going on around the field.

We shall see how it goes...

Thanks Tesco

I have enough cardboard now!

Checklist for Saturday

EQUIPMENT

□ Signs

□ Diversion

□ Family, Work, School, Life, Friends

□ New, Coming through, Difference,

□ Home

□ Camera (Fully Charged)

□ Photo Camera (For Behind the Scenes)

□ Tripod (In Case)

□ Buckets

□ Map

□ Little Plastic Balls

□ Coat

□ Cardboard

□ Paddle (From Dan)

DOCUMENTATION:

□ Setting up Map

□ Script

□ This Page!

Other Design Ideas

Some more ideas for the digipak:

Reasoning for One Shot

I plan to do this video completely in one shot but why do I want to do this?

Well there are two reasons: It fits the mood of the song, and it is something unexpected

Mood:

The song flows nicely with the choral parts placed in the song and the way an acoustic guitar is used instead of an electric one. I think that with the way the song is set in it's mood would fit well with a one cut shot

Unexpected:

With the new technology that is available to me I can do so much more than just making a standard video with the cuts like I did last year. It is evident that with the music videos that are around today the good ones are the ones that push the boundaries and this is what I want to do in this case.

Date and Venue confirmed!

So I have spoken to the people from Ignite and the people who own the field and I can film in the field on the 18th of December at 8:00 in the morning. I will remind people at the next ignite meeting and then it will be time for me to do the filming!

Things left to organise:

Signs left to do: New, Coming through, Difference, change, and the diversion signs

Get buckets and small balls (From Andy Jones)

Get Map from in the study

I will create a checklist later so that when we get to the actual film day I can make sure that I bring everything with me and not have to keep going back and forth

Creating the signs

So with the placards that the people will be holding I got some scrap cardboard and ripped it up so it looked fairly raggedy. I then got some black poster paint and tried to not do it too carefully to again make it look like it is a bit like a homeless sign.

These will be used near the end for the parts of the man's life that are trying to grab his attention. This will also be used for the direction home signs within the video.

I still need to make the diversion signs and the new, coming through, difference and change.

Snow!

Update: (26/11/10)

Snow is set to be here for a predicted 2 weeks! So if the weather happens to be snowy on the day 0f the shoot a few things will need to be changed.

I will use snow balls to throw at the character instead of the little plastic ones that I have lined up. The man will possibly slip up instead of trip up and will be pushed over instead of tripped.

If there is snow and I can't get to the field because of the roads then I will consider another date for the filming

ACTION PLAN

HOPEFUL DATE FOR FILMING: 18TH DECEMBER

TIME: 8:00 - 12:00

Things to do before then:

ASK YOUTH GROUP FOR HELP (Facebook and in person)

Check if people can do this date

FOR FILM DAY

Equipment:

Cardboard (From Tesco)

Little Balls (From Hoppers)

Blow Up Boat

Buckets, Water Pistols

Map

Cardboard Wings

Signs:

Family, Friends, God, Work, Play, Life, Girlfriend, School

New, Coming through, Change, Difference

Home

Diversion signs

Setting Up The Field

(click on the picture to enlarge)

This is how I can imagine the field will be set up like. The bit with the crawling near the end may change if I can find a suitable hedge which could work in this video. This will essentially be the general set up though so it could be a useful document for me to have on me on the shoot.

Movements Final Scripting

MOVEMENTS FINAL SCRIPTING

this video will be in one shot

Man is walking backwards with small person and a 'God' placard in their hands

Zoom in on their hands and they part the camera moves around to look at the small person standing still.

Move to focus on the main character with several other people jumping around him shouting at him with girlfriend, friends, work, play, life, family, written on them. The crowd parts to let the camera through the crowd and we are now in the circle looking out at the people in and spinning around.

The camera pans around onto the man looking around looking concerned

The crowd starts moving backwards out of the way and the man starts walking backwards away from them. The camera pans around so he it is behind him. It moves all the way around.

He stands still and dodges the punches being thrown at him by someone. He then moves backwards some more and falls over but gets back again. The same thing then happens.

Loads of balls gets thrown at him but he moves backwards through them

Walks backwards through the wall of cardboard. Camera pans around the wall as he goes through.

He gets water thrown at him and water pistols shot at him from all sides

Gets thrown a paddle and starts moving in a different direction. Rowing BACKWARDS. Looks really confused as he does this. Camera is on the side of the boat

Buckets of water thrown at him.

Crawls out. Moves backwards for a sec. Camera is still by the side of him and then pans around to the front

Gets out a map and looks at it and then throws it in the air.

Sees someone with a sign pointing to home and follows it. THE SIGN FOR HOME MUST BE POINTING THE OTHER WAY

Moves his way through some people that are standing in his way. Camera following him from the front. He is moving backwards

Sees a man with a diversion sign. And another. And another. Must be pointing in different directions. These people are beckoning him and smiling. Moves on backwards

Gets signs saying 'new' 'coming through' 'people' and 'friends' written on them

The camera looks at the signs on the floor before moving onwards

The man then crawls under a bush and the camera follows him through. **THIS MAY INVOLVE A CHANGE OF CAMERAMAN**

He then runs moves on backwards

He flaps his hands as he moves on

He then throws these away and carry's on running away. The camera spins around him several times. We see another sign for home. THIS AGAIN MUST BE POINTING THE OTHER WAY

The camera then stays put. We see the man move backwards and fall over and lie flat on the ground

A group of people then shuffle on to screen and sing 'Ah!' like at the start of the music.

The video ends. With an abrupt cut to black

Digipak Layout

From this I can see exactly what I need. The top layer would be folded over so it would be upside down. Once it's all folded up it should look a bit like this:

So this means I need 6 things on the digipak:

CD print

Front Cover - Main image, title, artist

Back Cover - Track details, Barcode, price

Fold in Panel - Another picture

Inside panels - Pictures, information, lyrics? credits,

Digipak Idea

This is the kind of thing that I maybe want to produce. I created this picture using several different photos so it does look a bit weird but I will actually try and set up this picture while we are filming and then take a general picture maybe using a slow shutter speed so that there is a bit of a blur on the person running.

Actors?

So next monday when I go to my youth group, called Ignite, I'll ask the people there if they could get involved with the video for me. I will ask my friend called Dan, who is my age, if he can be the main character in the music video. I think he should be fine with doing that. I will also ask some of the younger people in the group if they can take care of the throwing the water and setting up the boxes etc.
I'm hoping that these guys will be available on the date that I choose to film the music video. I'm yet to decide on a date but I know that it will need to be soon as the nights are drawing in very quickly.

CONFIRMED!

Great news! The field that I wanted to use that belongs to one of my church friends has been let out to me. This means that before christmas I can do the filming that I want to do! Now all we need to do is confirm the final script for the shoot and then I will ask to do a Saturday of filming in the field. This means that everything can go ahead as planned and seeing as I have had new ideas for the shoot I can go a bit more free knowing where the location is going to be.

TO DO:
Final Script
Confirm actors
Film

Reverse Music Video

So after I told my teacher what I had planned she advised me on another genuine reverse video that is on youtube. It is a music video from Coldplay for the song, The Scientist

What I can take from this video is that it is possible to do a reverse video like I want to do. Now obviously I am not going to have the lead singing backwards or a car going over a hill but I think that from here I can see that I should be able to create a good effect. I think that the music video works well in the way that it builds up to a climax in the opposite way to what we usually assume a music video to work. I think this could also work in my music video and as it will be coming together alongside the one shot that I will be doing then it should add to this idea of the climax being the wrong way around.

Location - My Friend's Field

So on this satellite picture you can see the area that I think it would be possible for me to get hold of. The area in red is their own house and the garden. The section in green is the section I think I could be able to use. This is the field that came with the house.


It would be nice too because there are some hedges in the field itself so should be able to use this for the 'crawling' part of the song. It also means there are no limits to how wet we could make the main character and how much of a mess we make as long as we don't do any permanent damage to the grass or trees.

If it turns out that I can not use this location then there should be another thing that I can use that might change the script slightly but should not be of too much concern and may create a nice effect of going in and out of a building from two different sides. It will mean I won't be able to do anything too messy unless it is outside because of the nature of the building. This is what we call The Hub. It is an independent charity that our church set up so that we can do community projects within the town.

The one benefit of doing it in this location is that it is literally 30 seconds away from the town and may be able to move the camera through the town although it might be a bit awkward if it was in reverse and in one cut so I may stick to The Hub itself.

I will confirm soon if we can use the first location and if not adapt the script accordingly

Rend Collective Engagement!

Rend Collective Experiment, the band that I am going to be using in my piece, have no real means of contact apart from on facebook and a bookings e-mail. So through facebook I sent a message to the band and managed to get a short reply from them! Here's the message:

Its very encouraging to know that the band support me in what I am doing and means that I can get even more confident that I can create a good music video that is true to their musical talent.

Digipak Ideas

While I am thinking about locations and actors I thought it would be a good idea to look at some ideas for what could eventually become my digipak:

So from these I can start to think what sort of photos I need to take maybe while we are on the shoot and also afterwards. For example I think that because the song is called movements and has the person moving throughout the song I could take a picture of my main character running along and then blur his arms and legs and then possibly his whole body as if he is streaking down the field. This is only an idea however.

I can see that a lot of covers show lots of editing and processing that have been done. I think that with my knowledge of Photoshop and editing photos I may also be able to have a go at this if I can come up with a solid idea that relates to the video. I may even trying cartoonifying the character as to maybe relate it back the the actual album cover which you can see is the second picture on this slideshow.

So just something for me to think about for the moment however something that will definitely be able to be developed.

Experimental With Reverse Videos

I did this experimental video to test out how well reversing the video would actually work. I wanted to especially find out if it would create a good effect if I walked backwards and then reversed that to make it seem like I was walking forwards. I am happy to report that this is good and as you can see on the video it is fairly convincing and should work well. Therefore I can do this on my video with the main character walking backwards when filming instead of him walking backwards once reversed.

I taught the class!

So recently, as I have been doing all these little videos on after effects, my teacher thought I had gotten so good that she thought that everybody else needed to know how to use the software and so got me to do it! I taught two classes over two days and for two hours each class. I gave them a very rough idea about how to make their way around the software and create a good little video by taking the colour out of it or putting some lightening onto the video.
I also showed them how to do motion tracking and video stabilisation so a graphic would follow something if it was moving in the video. I briefly also went on to 3D space within AE too however this was very quickly done and not explored properly.
I hope this will be useful for everyone else in the classes

Scripting V.2

I INTEND TO TRY AND DO THE VIDEO IN ONE CUT BUT FILM IT BACKWARDS AND REVERSE IT IN AFTER EFFECTS

This is how I will film the video. It is backwards and I will reverse it later.

Man is walking forward with small person and a 'God' placard in their hands

The man and the child part but we stay focused on the 'God' person

We then see the camera pan around to several other people shouting at the camera with other placards: 'Girlfriend' 'Friends' 'Work' 'Play' 'Life' 'Family' etc.

The camera pans around onto the man looking around looking concerned

The man walks away from the crowd and stops and looks around at the people. Camera moves behind him and then around the other side of him he turns again and walks away from the camera

He then starts running and the camera also goes a bit faster than him and pans infront. He jumps over some obstacles and moves around some people who are in the way

He barrels rolls across the field

He moves forward and gets tripped up by someone

Pulls himself up again and moves onwards

He gets water thrown at him and water pistols shot at him

Jumps into a rubber boat and gets pulled along out of sight

More water

Jumps out and leaps forward

Gets out a map and looks at it and then throws it to the ground

Sees someone with a sign pointing to home and follows it. THE SIGN FOR HOME MUST BE POINTING THE OTHER WAY

Moves his way through some more people

Little balls in buckets get thrown at him but still he moves onwards

Gets signs saying 'new' 'coming through' 'people' and 'friends' written on them

The camera looks at the signs on the floor before moving onwards

The man then crawls under a bush and the camera follows him through. **THIS MAY INVOLVE A CHANGE OF CAMERAMAN**

He then runs along with the camera behind him

Someone gives him some cardboard wings which he flaps

He then throws these away and carry's on running away. The camera spins around him several times. We see another sign for home. THIS AGAIN MUST BE POINTING THE OTHER WAY

The camera they stays put. We see the man fall over and lie flat on the ground

A group of people then come on screen and sings 'Ah!' like at the start of the music.

The video ends. With an abrupt cut to black.

THIS VIDEO WILL THEN BE REVERSED SO HOPEFULLY WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET A GOOD TAKE AND IT WILL ALL WORK TOGETHER QUITE WELL.

I will reverse the song and the cameraman will hold on to it as the video moves on

It will take a lot of organising but hopefully this should all work

I Think this video also works well with the music in the way that the man will start out being dirty from the tree and wet from the buckets of water and will be 'cleansed' as the video continues until he takes the hand of small person and he will be clean and as he should be. This is quite a nice image because of what we believe and God's ability to forgive sins etc.

I may try and experiment with maybe starting out the video with no colour and then gradually bringing the colour back into the video until it hits full colour as 'God' and the man take hands. This is also a nice image in the way that with God is the best place we can be so if the colour is not there at the start then it gives the impression that we're not meant to be without God

Audience Research Results!

So I've finally got my results from the questionnaires that I sent round to people at my church. I sent them round to a load of people I know with a range of ages from 14 - 48. This has helped to give me a wider view of what the people think about general music videos, new musical tastes and how much christian music videos they have seen. This is what I found:
The ratio of male to female people in this survey was 1:1
Here are the graphs:
So what can I take away from these results? Well it is easy to see from this that a huge majority of the people that took the survey do like listening to new music and the music that I will be using is pretty new so satisfies what the people want. I can see that even though a lot of people have seen quite a few music video not many people watch christian ones. This is good because it is exactly the problem that I am trying to address as I carry on through this work. It does seem though that a lot of people like to see a bit of fun in music videos as well as it being serious. This is what I am going to try and integrate into my music video. I think it may be a good idea to try and do something quite special too like trying to get the whole video done in one take. I could then also add some fun things into it.

Movements Scripting

THIS WAS MY INITIAL SCRIPTING FOR MY PIECE, HOWEVER, THE IDEA FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO HAS ALREADY CHANGED AS I NOW WANT TO TRY AND DO THIS PIECE IN ONE TAKE. I MAY BE ABLE TO USE MY FRIEND'S FIELD THEY HAVE NEXT TO THEIR HOUSE. I WILL ASK WHEN I NEXT SPEAK TO THEM. I SHOULD THEN ALSO BE ABLE TO GET MY YOUTH GROUP INVOLVED AS THERE WILL BE SEVERAL PARTS THAT NEED TO BE CAST IN THIS VIDEO.

HOWEVER, THIS WAS THE INITIAL SCRIPT:

See man in a field

Close up of eyes – open

Man gets up and looks around
Person holding a carboard sign (like a tramp) saying “Home →”

V.1

See a bird flying in the sky, move down to see the man running along

Running down the road

Crawling under a bush. Claustrophobic camera work, darkness, brush himself off as he is running

Stand firm as signs get thrown at him saying things like 'new' 'friends' 'people' 'coming through'

Signs on the floor as the man runs onwards

Little balls getting thrown in buckets but he still moves on through them (Andy Jones or Hoppers)

Chorus

Running down the road past some passer bys

Jumping over a hedge

??Car almost hitting the man and the driver getting annoyed??

Another person with a sign for 'Home'

Gets out a map and looks changes direction across the camera

Running towards the river

Jumping leaping slow motion

V.2

Splash into the water

Trying to move through the water stumbling getting back up again

Deeper, swimming through

Throw buckets of water at the man. See the people that are throwing the buckets of water.

Stepping out of the water and standing on the edge

About to be pushed in. Falling backwards – reverse and the pusher disappears

Tripped out effect. Twitchy video

Keep running

Chorus

Past the Abbey and into the town

Through the town. See what the other people's reaction is

Jumping over the middle of the market cross

Jumping over in slow motion

Bridge

Runs into a circle of people holding up the words, 'friends' 'school' 'girlfriend' 'sports' 'family' 'games' 'life' 'work'

Looking around all the people looking at him and shouting at him

Then he spots a smaller person and all the other people crowd right around the man

He pushes them out the way and the little guy is holding up 'God'

Takes hold of his hand and walks out into the sun

Screen fades out

SCRIPT NOT DESIGNED FOR ME TO KEEP TO

SITUATIONS WILL CHANGE AS I AM FILMING

Well Done Norfolk Schools Internet Providers!

Well... for the last week we have been fighting a battle against the schools internet provider. They decided that it was a good idea to block blogspot.com so have not been able to get on for the last week. But don't worry, it's fine now... thanks guys...

Online Internet Research

Before I went out to find actual locations I looked online to see if I could find some ideas for exactly what sort of scene I wanted to find dotted around. This is what I found for the settings I was looking for.

From this I have thought of some nice locations that may be suitable for the music video. For the river we have the river tiffey in Wymondham. There are plenty of country roads and fields around my house and it might be possible to borrow a caravan field that one of my friends from church owns. At this time there are no campers. I can use the back parts of the town for the darker kind of shots with the people with signs surrounding the main character

Character Ideas

This is what I think the typical main character in my music video could look like:

Now obviously my characters will probably not look like this at all. I think because theses pictures were found on the internet meaning that they have been set up to the inch and had their make up done a hundred times so my characters will definitely not be as clear cut as such.

Audience Research

As part of my audience research I have created a questionnaire to hand out at my church to see what the general view is on christian music videos. I included these questions:

How much contemporary christian music do you listen to?
Do you enjoy listening to new music?
How many music videos have you seen?
How many christian music videos have you seen?
If its not a lot, would you be interested in this sort of thing?
What kind of music video would you prefer?
If neither please state what you would prefer?
Do you prefer music videos to...
Have you heard of the band 'The Rend Collective Experiment' before?

I will hand these out at my church this week and hopefully collate all the information the week after

Mood Board

To help inspire me with my music video I went across the internet looking for things that I thought might relate to the music video that I want to create. Here is what I came up with:

Some of the stuff that I have found here may way have inspired me to try some different things out with this music video. I might attempt to try out a form of light painting and I think I may have the lead singer/guitarist singing and playing at the same time wherever the guy is running.

My New Video Camera

I have recently purchased a new Full HD video camera from Amazon. I got this for my home video work but also as the video camera we used last year in school just weren't very high quality. The camera is a Sanyo G320 and goes up to full 1080p HD quality at 60 frames per second. I did some quick videos in the common room at school on all the different settings and created a video with all videos on so that I could see the quality difference of the videos. See below (You will need a HD screen to see the video in HD):


Video Camera Research from Adam Latham on Vimeo.

After this I have decided to choose the 30 fps in FULL HD. This means that it won't take as long to process the video when it comes down to it and will also DOUBLE the amount of video that I can take in one go. With this camera it also means I can use it at home and when I wish to without having to book it out with school

My Video Objectives This Year

I WILL:

• Get my youth group involved
• Range of locations
• Plan as much as the production
• Use a range of camera shots
• Use new better editing styles

I WILL NOT:

• Put myself in the video
• Leave it all to the last second
• Forget about the song itself
• Be afraid to try out new things
• Only do work in school

Music Video Research

Underneath are several chrisitan music videos that I have looked at to get ideas for creating my piece of work. All videos are from YouTube.

This is the original video












So what I have seen from these videos is that a lot of them just generally have the band members just playing their music in different locations. The kind of music videos that I want to be creating is the kind of thing that is shown in slow fade where the video is going backwards and there is the slow motion of the things reversing into form like with the picture frame etc. This is the kind of ingenuity that new music videos should contain and what I want to see more of in christian music videos. I think I want to do something amazing and unexpected in my video. I think I may try to do everything in one take if I can work around the logistics.

I want to challenge the things that people expect to see from christians like with the organ music and sitting on pews on a sunday morning with our suits on etc. Its something which is not true for all of us and its time now that technologies have advanced and become so much more accessible for the smaller companies to create amazing effects like huge bands and video companies make everyday. I think now is probably the best time of all

Digital Technology

• How has digital technology helped you to capture your ideas for media production?
I used iMovie to edit my video and my video was uploaded to Vimeo afterwards so that the whole world can see my video. I also used wordpress to put all of my notes and production sections on the internet to save paper

• What benefits do digital technologies offer? Are there any disadvantages?
There are several issues to do with secrecy and secure files. It is a real worry that if you save some files and later find out that they have disappeared you could be really set back and lose a lot of work

• How did digital technology influence your work in post-production – for example in the creation of video effects, or the manipulation of images.
The use of technology was limited as we didn't have the software that we have this year. Really the only bit of post production that I did was slow down the footage and add a vignette and slightly changed the colour

• How have your skills with digital technology developed, and how has this influenced your productions?
Since last year we have new better software and I have been slowly trying to train myself up with the software by looking at tutorials, videos and making things of my own to go on youtube

• What role might digital technology play in the distribution of work such as yours?
I will be using YouTube to help distribute my video this year. I can use all sorts of extra things like Facebook and Twitter etc. There are also loads of extra things all around on the internet and through the school that will help too

Coursework Action Plan

There are many things that I need to look through before I even get anywhere near actually filming and editing the footage for my piece. I have decided that the song I have chosen is MOVEMENTS - REND COLLECTIVE EXPERIMENT. This song is a christian song so there are many different things I need to research for this video.


PLAN:
Background Research on Song

• Find Lyrics
• Look at original video
• Contact Band
• Look at inconventional videos shots/editing

Mood Board

• Look at other chrisitan music videos
• Find ideas that fit the lyrics

Audience Research (At my church)

• Ask if they've seen any music video
• What christian music they listen to
• How many times they've seen music videos

Scripting/plan

• Location ideas
• Character ideas
• Relate videos to lyrics

Storyboard

• Draw out shots
• Finalise script

Location Research

• Rivers
• Roads
• Wymondham centre

Choosing the Song

I have decided that the best way to go is to look at MUSIC VIDEOS
Because I think christian music can create great pictures that I think is what I want to do. Also, it seems that some christian music videos are very typical and its exactly what you'd expect to see and I want to change that.
My next task is to look at some christian artists and songs and see what it is that I want to produce. I will list the songs and artists I have looked at underneath:

Casting Crowns - Until the whole world hears, Lifesong,
Mercyme - This life, The generous Mr. Lovewell
Matt Redman - The glory of our king
Hillsong - Your name high
David Crowder Band - ...neverending... , foreverandever etc...
Rend Collective Experiment - Movements, Come on my soul
Switchfoot - Gone, Hello Hurricane
Tenth Avenue North - Hold my heart
Tobymac - City on our knees, Showstopper
Phil Wickham - You're Beautiful
Simon Brading - Let the rain come
Kristian Stanfill - Say Say
Hawk Nelson - Live life loud

I have decided to choose the one in bold. I am hoping to send them a letter explaining what I wish to do with their song as I think they might be interested

G324 - Ideas For Briefs

TV Documentary

Last year, me and a couple of friends tried to make a documentary that very quickly turned into a 'mockumentary.' If I were to do a documentary this time I would do it seriously

Ideas:

The modernisation of the Church - This is something that is quite close to my heart actually. I think a lot of people still believe that the church is somewhere that you go to read off a scripted service and listen to an organ. This is not so however.

Teenage Reputations - Teenagers are getting bad press all the time with people being killed and teenage pregnancy number going through the roof but is this a harsh generalisation of the youth in this country

Local Newspaper

I used to write a load of fake newspaper stories so this could be a great idea to get me going.

Ideas:

Jazzed up and modernised parish church newspaper - Go about modernising the local news and the way people get up to date

Short Film

I did try making a short film once but never got to the editing stage. I might go and finish it one day

Ideas:

Post apocalypse disaster - Man appears in a field in Norfolk in an post apocalypse world with only a phone and a few instructions in how to survive.

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Questions asked by Ideas Partner

Where will the films be set?

How will you keep the watchers/readers focused?

A2 Media Portfolio Brief

There are five options which from which we have the correct facilities to create. These are as follows:

1) Music Video

2) Original Children's Drama

3) TV documentary

4) Local Newspaper

5) Short film

ORIGINAL CHILDREN'S DRAMA

Ref. Wikipedia - 100 Greatest Tv Shows

Top 4 - All animated/puppets: Simpsons, Muppets, Danger Mouse, Bagpuss

Wide range of programmes from Dr. Who to Grange Hill to Blue Peter to Wallace and Gromit. Seems some of the most popular are from the 70s and 80s like the muppets, bagpuss, the clangers and the wombles

Ref. Wikipedia - Children's television series

Children's tv is almost as old as TV. Most programmes from the UK involved a heavy educational plug. Shows started to become more entertaining like looney tunes and scooby doo etc.

I think that I don't want to make anything really stereotpical and not very interesting or too patronising so I don't think I want to do this one

MUSIC VIDEO

This is the one I am particularly interested in. I am a christian and I think that there is a lot of christian music that can paint pictures in your head and I they are many great songs that don't have music videos. I have found a band called 'Rend Collective Experiment.' I think the video that they have made for 'movements' isn't one of their best however the lyrics and music of the song is very cool and I think this is definitely something I can do.

I will look at several christian bands to see what others are doing and what I can incorporate into my video. I will list videos I have looked at underneath:

AS Course Reflection

Research

Audience Research:

Looking at other film openings
Online, other examples of action films

Planning

Challenge Post

New Year, New Blog

This is Adam Latham.

I am a video maker and student from Wymondham. This is where all the stuff for my A2 media course will appear over time.

Meanwhile, check out my Youtube channel and all the cool videos that I am making :)

http://www.youtube.com/user/adslatham101