For my photo essay i photographed images that made me think of the build up to christmas and christmas day. I shot the photo's from all different angles on my fujifilm finepix s2950HD camera to make them look better; close up shots, mid shots and a few long shots. I wanted to photograph things that remind me of the build up of christmas and how its getting more exciting the more near christmas comes. With my idea i started to think of places that reminded me of christmas and i ended up taking pictures in burton shopping centre of santa's grotto and things around my house that were up ready for christmas e.g. the decorations and advent calendars up ready. I also noticed that Costa had christmas themed cups so i took a photo of that.
In class i decided that i didn't want still images even though it was a photo essay. I didn't want people to loose interest in the video half way through so i made the images zoom in as they were playing. I also wanted to make the video fade out at the end so i did that. As soon as i knew what i was going to do my film about i knew what song i was going to use in the background while the pictures were running through; "its beginning to look a lot like christmas" by Michael Buble. Purely because the images are about how the season's changing and with all the decorations getting put up, it beginning to look a lot like christmas!
At the end i realised that the video finished just as the lyrics went back to the chorus so i added the words 'its beginning to look a lot like christmas' just as the song said it. I then made the video fade out and then added my name at the end of the video followed by another cross fade. I like the way i edited it and it all went to plan, overall i am very impressed by my video and i learned how to do a selection of things for the next time i do a photo essay.
The reason i did a christmas video was because i don't think many people realise how quick christmas is over and i wanted the audience to be excited for christmas and realise how many days away it is. I edited my video on final cut pro.
The feedback i got from my video were very positive and i got the reactions i wanted. I also think people enjoyed it and it made them realise how quick christmas comes without realising which is what i wanted people to notice.
Thursday, 15 December 2011
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
proposal for film 6
my proposal for my photo essay is that i want all the pictures to be christmassy and the music to be aswell. i want some of the photo's to zoom in on the shot when it goes onto that part of the film. i would like the words of the song to come up on the screen aswell when the song plays.
haiuku camera log sheet.
Camera Log Sheet
Production:_______________________________
Date:________________________Tape:_______
| In Point | Out Point | Scene | Take | Type of Shot, Details, Description | Quality |
| 00.00 | 00.05 | 1 | 1 | Long shot, shot of the autumn leaves on the floor. | good |
| 00.05 | 00.10 | 2 | 1 | Medium shot of ducks by the water then the camera moves across the water | Medium quality. |
| 00.10 | 00.15 | 3 | 1 | Long shot of a Christmas decoration hanging in coopers square. | Medium quality. |
| |
Emilie Newbold hauiku
Autumn in the woods.
ducks all busy playing.
christmas time is coming.
with this video i am not very pleased with it because i dont think the shots were very well thought out and i uploaded the wrong one with the words in the wrong places.
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
in todays lesson i edited a few of my photo's and also put them all into a video to make people realise how soon christmas is. i put them all into order and then at the end have the last picture telling you how many days it is untill christmas. i only wanted my pictures to be on for a short amount of time so i shortened the length of time they were showing. i also got a song off youtube to play in the background and converted it so i could use it in final cut pro. i also made the music fade out in the end for a good effect.
Wednesday, 23 November 2011
22\11\11
In yesterdays lesson i edited my haiku poem video, i did three shots one 5 seconds one 7 seconds and the last one 5 seconds, my initial idea was to do my film about a haiku poem that was about autumn and film three different shots of autumn scenery but the weather was more wintery than leaves everywhere, i also noticed that there was quite alot of frost on the trees and the ducks were all out of the water. i wrote the first line of my poem as Autumn in the wood because i got a good shot of a woods with all the leaves falling off the trees and on the floor. For the second line of my poem, the one which consists of seven syllables i found quite hard to do because i wanted to do it about squirrels running around in the autumn trying to find nuts and birds making there nests for there young but didnt have enough syllables to write as much as id planned. so i went out to beacon park which is my local park and had a look at the wildlife there. i had no luck finding any squirrels or birds but there were plenty of ducks so my second line had to be changed. The ducks looked like they were playing and chasing each other so i did the sentence as 'ducks are all busy playing' because it fit the syllables. because of all the christmas decorations i wanted to do at least one shot with something christmassy so i did the last line as 'christmas just round the corner' and filmed santa's grotto in town. The whole way through my film it is quite wintery and dosent really remind me of autumn so after putting all the shots together i put the song 'its beginning to look a lot like christmas' into the film, but at the beginning i crossfaded the music and then made it get louder towards the last shot of the santa's grotto.
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
tuesday the 15th november.
Today we looked at haiku poems we looked at 3 different poems and then did a film with something to do with the poem, for example these are the three poems i chose and what i filmed to go along with them;
1. the butterflies dance
brilliant colours of the rainbow
rippling like water
-for this one i filmed the trees swaying in the wind as if the leaves were the butterflies.
i filmed the flowers as the colours because of all the different colours of the flowers.
and i also filmed a tap running as the water rippling.
-I didn't think that this video was the best one because from my point of view the tap running at the end of the video ruined it because it was the only part of the video that had nothing to do with nature.
2. in the garden
the old man dances
behind the butterflies
-for this video i filmed the grass with all the autumn leaves on the ground as the garden. I then filmed a tree that looked all wrinkly as the old man and the sky behind some frozen berries as "behind the butterflies"
-I think this video was quite creative because i used a tree that looked like it was wrinkly as the old man because if you see wrinkles you would instantly think of an old person. and i also liked the end of the video because i think the frozen berries were really pretty so they made you think of butterflies.
3.
unknown to the birds and butterflies
a flower blooms
the autumn sky
-for this video i filmed some birds flying for the first sentence and then a pretty flower on its own for the second sentence, for the last part i filmed 2 seconds of the sky then 3 seconds of the camera gradually moving down on to a tree so you could see the contrast in colours from the sky and the autumn coloured leaves.
-I liked this video because they weren't all just still shots, and also when i filmed the flower the sun shone onto the flower and it made it look like it was blooming.
A haiku poem consist of 3 lines and they have 5 syllables in the first sentence then 7 then 5 again.
1. the butterflies dance
brilliant colours of the rainbow
rippling like water
-for this one i filmed the trees swaying in the wind as if the leaves were the butterflies.
i filmed the flowers as the colours because of all the different colours of the flowers.
and i also filmed a tap running as the water rippling.
-I didn't think that this video was the best one because from my point of view the tap running at the end of the video ruined it because it was the only part of the video that had nothing to do with nature.
2. in the garden
the old man dances
behind the butterflies
-for this video i filmed the grass with all the autumn leaves on the ground as the garden. I then filmed a tree that looked all wrinkly as the old man and the sky behind some frozen berries as "behind the butterflies"
-I think this video was quite creative because i used a tree that looked like it was wrinkly as the old man because if you see wrinkles you would instantly think of an old person. and i also liked the end of the video because i think the frozen berries were really pretty so they made you think of butterflies.
3.
unknown to the birds and butterflies
a flower blooms
the autumn sky
-for this video i filmed some birds flying for the first sentence and then a pretty flower on its own for the second sentence, for the last part i filmed 2 seconds of the sky then 3 seconds of the camera gradually moving down on to a tree so you could see the contrast in colours from the sky and the autumn coloured leaves.
-I liked this video because they weren't all just still shots, and also when i filmed the flower the sun shone onto the flower and it made it look like it was blooming.
A haiku poem consist of 3 lines and they have 5 syllables in the first sentence then 7 then 5 again.
Tuesday, 8 November 2011
pancake
Shot List
Shot Number | Description | Type of Shot |
1 | Filming the pancake being cooked | Close up |
2 | Flipping the pancake | Long shot |
3 | Putting the pancake onto the plate | Close up |
4 | Putting the buiscits onto the plate | Close up |
 edit decision list. I plan to edit my film so it is really fast but slow clips of the flipping of the pancake. Then I plan to slow it down at the end and make the last shot the longest so you get to see the final piece. I also want to add music to it and make the music fade in and out at the beginning and end. I would also like to have two clips of writing at the beginning and end saying pancake, and by Emilie Newbold. |
Sunday, 16 October 2011
.
the risk assessment for this video is that we had to check that there was no traffic and that there was nothing on the floor that she would of fell over or anything. before i filmed i checked the ground and the traffic and then when there wasn't any i quickly filmed her. the one time a car went past really noisily but after that it was fine so i filmed again.
for the budget sheet i got a flip camera and a tripod.
Thursday, 13 October 2011
5x5 video
proposal.
my synpnosis for this video is that i will film 5 different areas of my garden and find pretty scenes around my garden to show people. I dont want any sound in the film other than the background sounds that were there when i filmed it because it makes it more realistic and more natural considering that i am filming bright colourfull things outside.
the big idea.
the big idea for this video is to show people how bright and colourfull things are without being edited with technology and i also want people to see the pretty flowers so it makes them happy.
target audience.
My target audience is anyone that wants to see flowers and bright colours.
Monday, 10 October 2011
proposal
synosis
my 25 second film will consist of different views of local things, e.g a park by my house and some ducks by my local area. i might also film my brother.
i want to edit some of the film but not have any sound so people just focus on the video.
i will take more then 5 shots in case some are not good enough.
my video will be uploaded onto blogger.
the big idea
i want to show people the area i live in and my local area. i will do the video when the weather is nice so people get to see the nice parts and the weather will be good to film with. i will choose 5 shots and put the m together to make a 25 second video.
the audience
the main audience is either families or just anyone that wants to see my local area. the audience could also be people that enjoy seeing wildlife.
my 25 second film will consist of different views of local things, e.g a park by my house and some ducks by my local area. i might also film my brother.
i want to edit some of the film but not have any sound so people just focus on the video.
i will take more then 5 shots in case some are not good enough.
my video will be uploaded onto blogger.
the big idea
i want to show people the area i live in and my local area. i will do the video when the weather is nice so people get to see the nice parts and the weather will be good to film with. i will choose 5 shots and put the m together to make a 25 second video.
the audience
the main audience is either families or just anyone that wants to see my local area. the audience could also be people that enjoy seeing wildlife.
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Local tour
For my local tour assignment, i am planning on filming someone busking on the streets in lichfield and getting one minute of footage.
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