This week my group and I faced further issues regarding our group media folder. Unfortunately despite our constant emails to ITS we had still been facing problems and this meant that we had been unable to access and edit our footage for the past two weeks. In class (23/11) we sent further emails to ITS to see if we could get a response, as well as asking the Media departments IT technician for futher help. As we could not edit our footage the class took part in a voice-over exercise, although this did not turn out so well for us either as all of the computers in the voice-over booths that myself and my group tried to use broke down. The pc's worked perfectly fine for the other group but they just did not want to respond to us, so this meant that we were unable to get any work done this lesson, which we all found very frustrating.
As most of the group were busy this week, Andrew visited ITS services in person on Friday (25/11) and managed to get some advice from them. Unfortunately they gave us some tips on how to get our regular media for drives back, not our group media folder. So Andrew had to go back to ITS to get further help, and somehow they managed to resolve our issue by the weekend, which we were all very thankful for! We were unable to meet up as a group to edit our footage this week so we plan on editing next week and cracking on as soon as we can!
Friday, 25 November 2016
Monday, 21 November 2016
Week 9 (14/11) : Group Media Folder Error
In this weeks class (16/11) my group and I encountered a rather large problem. We logged onto the macs in Silverstone and we noticed that none of us could (seperately) open the group media folder that we were given the week before which contained all of our footage. We all emailed ITS and reported the problem, and the response that we got was to restart the computers and try again. Unfortunately this did not fix the problem and we were still stuck with an unresponsive group media folder. We contacted the Media technicians and they tried to fix the problem and also had no luck. To add to the problem, the internet and computers all over campus then started facing issues and completely crashed out. This meant that not only were we unable to access our project, our teache was also unable to teach us anything or show us any videos because all of the equipment was unresponsive.
My group and I have been trying to resolve this problem that we are facing in regards to our group media folder but we are still yet to make any progress.
My group and I have been trying to resolve this problem that we are facing in regards to our group media folder but we are still yet to make any progress.
Week 8 (07/11) : Old Police Cells Museum Shoot & Editing Our Rushes
This week my group and I had our Old Police Cells Museum project shoot (08/11). We arrived on location at 8:30am in order to allow ourselves enough time to set up the equipment and get any extra exterior shots that we wanted to get before the staff at the Museum unlocked the museum for us to shoot in. The shoot went extremely well as we had almost no problems with the equipment (apart from a slight bit of confusion in the beginning when it came to white balancing the camera, but we quickly overcame that). It was great because we all took it in turns to act as each role, so one of us would start on the camera, going through each room and getting nice cutaways for us to use over the top of our interviews, whilst the others would record certain sounds of the museum (e.g. doors shutting, whilstling vents, keys jangling, etc.) which we want to add into our project in post production to really capture the atmosphere of the place. The best part for me when it came to shooting was using the camera and working with the fig rig, it was really nice to use the camera handheld rather than being restricted to a tripod, and it allowed me to get some very effective and stable shots.
We initially thought that we would be interviewing one former police officer, and then we would have another person from the museum who we would be giving us a tour of the whole place which we would then add in to our project. On the contrary, we were actually given three old police officers! This actually worked quite well as it meant that we were able to get a lot of content and we had lots of different personal stories that were really interesting that we thought would intertwine nicely throughout our narrative. The only problem that we encountered with this was that sometimes it became a little hard to keep the interview strictly about the Old Police Cells Museum as our interviewees tended to stick more to talking about themselves as old police officers rather than their experiences with the museum itself, so the interview became more like a portrait of a person rather than a place. We tried to ask as many questions about the museum as we could without overloading our interviewees so hopefully we will be able to edit our interviews in post production and cut together all the relevant questions/answers in order to keep strictly to our brief of a portrait of a place. Over all it was a really great experience and it was lovely to be able to work as part of a group again and work on something really exciting!
For this weeks class (09/11) we were supposed to be having group tutorials, but out of the whole class only my group came to the lesson so instead we were able to have 1-1 tutoring with our teacher which was really useful as it meant that we could receive more detailed feedback in relation to our footage which that we shot. The group got to look through all of our footage and we went through and labelled all of our shots and made a note of which were the usuable ones and which were not. After organising all of our footage and labelling it we started a very brief edit, we created the opening sequence and played around with a few effects to create a smooth transition between shots. Organising our footage took up most of our time so we didn't get to edit too much in class but we were definitely able to get a better feel of the footage that we were working with and better prepared us for the next opportunity that would have to edit further.
On Friday (11/11) my group and I booked out one of the editing booths and met up to edit more of our project. We spent around 3 hours in the booth editing our footage and after the 3 hours we had managed to edit about 45 seconds of our project. After creating this initial sequence we noticed that the tour part of our video didn't have a clear and consistent enough narrative to use as it was so we decided on using only certain parts of the tour which were clear and then adding in a voice over of our own in order to tie all the parts together and make the narrative more precise. We planned to record this voiceover in the next week or so.
We initially thought that we would be interviewing one former police officer, and then we would have another person from the museum who we would be giving us a tour of the whole place which we would then add in to our project. On the contrary, we were actually given three old police officers! This actually worked quite well as it meant that we were able to get a lot of content and we had lots of different personal stories that were really interesting that we thought would intertwine nicely throughout our narrative. The only problem that we encountered with this was that sometimes it became a little hard to keep the interview strictly about the Old Police Cells Museum as our interviewees tended to stick more to talking about themselves as old police officers rather than their experiences with the museum itself, so the interview became more like a portrait of a person rather than a place. We tried to ask as many questions about the museum as we could without overloading our interviewees so hopefully we will be able to edit our interviews in post production and cut together all the relevant questions/answers in order to keep strictly to our brief of a portrait of a place. Over all it was a really great experience and it was lovely to be able to work as part of a group again and work on something really exciting!
For this weeks class (09/11) we were supposed to be having group tutorials, but out of the whole class only my group came to the lesson so instead we were able to have 1-1 tutoring with our teacher which was really useful as it meant that we could receive more detailed feedback in relation to our footage which that we shot. The group got to look through all of our footage and we went through and labelled all of our shots and made a note of which were the usuable ones and which were not. After organising all of our footage and labelling it we started a very brief edit, we created the opening sequence and played around with a few effects to create a smooth transition between shots. Organising our footage took up most of our time so we didn't get to edit too much in class but we were definitely able to get a better feel of the footage that we were working with and better prepared us for the next opportunity that would have to edit further.
On Friday (11/11) my group and I booked out one of the editing booths and met up to edit more of our project. We spent around 3 hours in the booth editing our footage and after the 3 hours we had managed to edit about 45 seconds of our project. After creating this initial sequence we noticed that the tour part of our video didn't have a clear and consistent enough narrative to use as it was so we decided on using only certain parts of the tour which were clear and then adding in a voice over of our own in order to tie all the parts together and make the narrative more precise. We planned to record this voiceover in the next week or so.
Thursday, 10 November 2016
Week 7 (31/10) : Non-linear Editing Workshop
In this weeks class we were introduced to Adobe Premiere Pro, and given a demonstration of the basic functions that we will be using throughout the edit of our creative projects. I have a lot of experience using Premiere Pro so I have a fair amount of knowledge about how the programme works etc. but it was really useful to be given a recap of some of the basics and I actually found out a few shortcuts I did not already know which was very interesting!
In pairs we were given a folder full of footage (both audio and visual) and we were asked to organise it into seperate folders on our group hard drives and then into bins on Premiere. We were able to play around with the different options on the programme and because I have a little more experience than my group mates I was able to show them a few more complicated things on Premiere Pro like using effects and adding in moving titles which was really fun as we all found it really interesting and it was nice to be able to share my knowledge with others!
In pairs we were given a folder full of footage (both audio and visual) and we were asked to organise it into seperate folders on our group hard drives and then into bins on Premiere. We were able to play around with the different options on the programme and because I have a little more experience than my group mates I was able to show them a few more complicated things on Premiere Pro like using effects and adding in moving titles which was really fun as we all found it really interesting and it was nice to be able to share my knowledge with others!
Week 6 (24/10) : Reading Week & Old Police Cells Museum Tour
This
week we had no lectures, seminars or classes so as we had a little bit
more time on our hands my group and I decided to book a tour of the Old
Police Cells Museum that we could go along to in order to gain a bit
more of an idea/feel for the place before we plan to shoot the
documentary there.
It was a really good experience being guided through the museum by one of the tour guides as it gave us a lot more insight into the building itself and we saw a lot of things we didn't know about that we thought would slot very nicely into our documentary, e.g. the old police officers' uniforms and vintage photographs which would give a nice visual representation of what policing was like when the cells were being used for the viewer.
Booking the tour was definitely a very good idea as getting to see the museum and the cells themselves really gave us first hand experience of the place and it enabled us to solidify our previous ideas and artistic visions of where we wanted the project to go and made the lead up to our actual shooting day a lot easier. After the tour, throughout the week we all spoke online in our group chat and discussed final details and points that we needed to make clear before the shoot, and we created a shot list of the shots that we wanted to capture most and a list of the most important questions that we wanted to ask our interviewees.
It was a really good experience being guided through the museum by one of the tour guides as it gave us a lot more insight into the building itself and we saw a lot of things we didn't know about that we thought would slot very nicely into our documentary, e.g. the old police officers' uniforms and vintage photographs which would give a nice visual representation of what policing was like when the cells were being used for the viewer.
Booking the tour was definitely a very good idea as getting to see the museum and the cells themselves really gave us first hand experience of the place and it enabled us to solidify our previous ideas and artistic visions of where we wanted the project to go and made the lead up to our actual shooting day a lot easier. After the tour, throughout the week we all spoke online in our group chat and discussed final details and points that we needed to make clear before the shoot, and we created a shot list of the shots that we wanted to capture most and a list of the most important questions that we wanted to ask our interviewees.
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| Outside the front of Brighton Town Hall |
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| Bartholomew Sq, The road of the Police Cells Museum location |
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