We
began today by spending the majority of the morning by listening to an ex pupil
of Jamie’s, which was very helpful. The ex-student explained that whilst he was
working in college he was getting some official on hand action by shadowing
cameraman at Blackburn Rovers and eventually got his chance to work on the
camera. He also showed us some of his final products that he created at
college, and then went on to talk about his experiences in more depth, how he
has progressed and his views on university. I think this was actually a big
help, it has inspired me to work on every chance possible, get involved with
everything. Also it made me think about either going to university or
attempting to get into the business as soon as possible.
Once the
session completed we were assigned to go and work on any work we needed to do, I
and a couple of students had already decided that we wanted to go and work on
the Dolphinholme footage. It was originally meant to be me, Becky Gill &
Jordan Gott to be working on it considering whilst at Dolphinholme we all took
part in producing and directing everything. But about eight other students
wanted do it but this caused a massive problem, when editing you should always
have a small group of 1-4, this is so you can all have a creative input without
wasting time. The overall problem was
that there was too many in the room, making noise and some were just being a
nuisance, not being productive at all. There were some students that seemed to
be genuinely interested on working on this but it just made the group too big.
Due to this we could only observe a couple of shots instead of reviewing
everything in detail.
We had
returned from dinner and thankfully we had all been split into groups and I was
working alongside the people I originally intended to.We had some complaints
with some students, so instead of ignoring them we gave them a copy of the
footage and allowed them to go off and do their own thing like a short advert.
I’ll admit I wasn’t being the most productive considering I was bantering with
other students to leave and get on with their work.
By two
o’clock we had calmed down and were able to begin reviewing the footage, there
were 238 shots worth of footage and total time to review was one hour and
forty-one minutes. Unfortunately we were only able to review 141 worth of shots,
this was due to distractions and by the fact we had to finish up by 3.30 seeing
as the college was having an open evening.
We
decided either the shots were; good, bad or maybe/ backup. We would view the
footage and debate on if could be used or not or if something just needed to
edited in some way such as; cut down, stabilising, audio adjust etc. I added an
“other comment” sections just a simple reminder to me of certain shots or if
they needed a lot of evidence.
List of shots reviewed below.
Whilst working on this Jamie came in and assigned us three
assignments.
- · Documentary based around college involvement at Dolphinholme
- · Documentary based around the farmer and goats.
- · Short video of everyone’s confessions
We had already planned ahead to create
a short documentary based around the farmer so we had known what the layout would
be and what would be included. Jamie
said he wanted the documentary based around the college student’s involvement
first, which would be more difficult to achieve considering we hadn’t done any
proper prep work on the sequence of the documentary.
The fact we were doing this type
of work thrilled me seeing as I have been doing art work which is out of my
comfort zone and now we had been given three assignments to do in a week. It
felt great to jump right into some proper media production work.
As we
didn’t get too far with any edit work we asked if we could spend Tuesday
working on it instead of doing our pathways, Jamie said “maybe” but I am sure
he wants this work soon and will allow us to work on it. I have high expectations
for our final piece of work considering I think we work as a great production
team and can make a great piece of work.
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