James Potts L2 media

1 Be able to create and maintain a purposeful reflective log  1.1. Design  the format of a reflective log to support own learning      I have created a portfolio which will be used to collate my work across the year. I have choses a dark and scary style and theme of my blog. The reason why I have chosen the theme(background) is because I've always liked my movies, Games or books that were dark, violent and tragic because it always leave an imresstion and me and the audience and it makes us examine ourselves. The color is of the backdrop is a dark navy blue. The reason why I chosen that colour is because blue can mean darkness or sadness. I have chosen a white and bold font because in dark and tragic stories, there is always either I light hared ending and a hope for there protagonist, almost like a light to guide them on there journey. So I wanted to show a light font to guide the readers ...

I playback my short film using VLC player on the iMac desktop. The reason why I have chosen VLC player can play videos at any formats such as MPEG's, audio files or text files. As a class we view our short films on the Philips BDL6524ET to play then back. It has a 65 edge LED backlit with Full HD. We link the iMac and the Philips BDL6524ET with a HDMI cable and set the smart picture to cinema mode. The reason why we use cinema mode is because it is the most accurate depiction to what the director intended to what the film should look like.

I fixed on a iPhone 8, so the first thing I did was connect mu USB charger into the phone and the iMac and then import my videos onto the Mac. I eat save them onto my toshiba memory stick and ready to transfer onto Premiere Pro. I used some effect for the the final info title which fave out then the credits start to roll. I used the razor toll to separate parts of  the soundtrack and lower the volume so that the audience know what the protagonists are saying.  When I finished editing, I the rendered the film and films sound and effects until and red bar turns green. This photo above show a green bar to show that it has rendered. Finally export the film in the format H.264. H.264 is the most commonly used format for exporting and can export quality up to 8k, UHD, 8192x4320 resolution.

I first imported the sound effects and soundtrack my copying the embed codes onto a mp4 downloader. Next, you download the like as an mp4 which then will be saved onto iTunes and then you can drag it onto your desktop. Next I moved the sound files(saved as mp4) on to Premiere pro ready to edit. Nest I unlinked the sound and stated to edit there and soundtrack and sound effects will go. While editing, I changed the volume by right clicking and the audio I wand to edit and changed the volume to the audience could hear the dialogue. I used the time codes to show at what point I should use the sound effects the the right time to make then effective.

I used the Iphone 8 to record the short film. The video files are stored onto the phone gallery after being recorded. After filming the footage you want, you use a USB shared and plug them in your phone and then the Mac and a app pops up onto the Mac and then you press import and then select the photo or videos you want to import. After importing the footage, you can either drag it onto the desktop you a memory stick. I moved the footage onto my memory stick. After saving my footage onto my memory stick, I then opened Premiere pro and select new project. After that I go onto My toshiba memory stick and drag my footage onto Premiere pro ready to edit.

One strength on scoring my audio was it was easy find and was easy to find what kind of sounds I wanted to find that would be suitable for the film. One thing I could improve on was to make sure that the sound was non-copy righted as I tried editing my video I realized its copyrighted. One strength on creating my own sounds was that it was an easy process. Just a few simple knocks on a door. One I could imrpove on is to make sure I could add morem of my foly sound into my film. I feel like I could of addad more into it. One thing that went well while editing the sound into my film was unliking the sound and diciding where it is going to go and how suitible it was. The areas I could improve on in future projects is to add more Foley sound and add more then just a knock on the door.

The first step I did when filming it a went onto the iPhone 8 camera and swiped to the left and the video camera. I filmed the video in full hd, 1080p at 30fps. I tapped on the screen to show where the camera wants me to focus on while recording. I pressed the red button on the tough screen to start recording the then press. I adjusted the quality of the fog by going to the phone settings. I transferred the footy via USB charger with will e plugged into the phone and the iMac. I first imported the footage onto the Mac and then dragged the footed into my memory stick. the video format for the iPhone 8 is MPEG-4 and can go up to 2.5 Mbps with 640x480 pixels with 30-60fps with the audio saved on an mp4. This is a photograph of what the settings for the camera resolution looks like.

Overall, I was pretty close to my initial idea to the final production. At some parts we had to improvise some of the dialogue to stretch out the runtime of the short film. One thing that went well was the actually execution of the filming. One thing that helped was the the pre-production process as it helped my choose that place to use as the setting, how each shot was going to work, and choose what sound is suitable. Overall, the target audience is suitable with the target audience because its delivers on the found footage sub-genre, monster sun-genre and the horror genre.

This is my final cut of the short film. My genre of my film is a horror and the sub-genre is found footage. The reason why i picked horror and found footage because i wanted to audience to feel scared and suspense with a scene of realism its a shaky camera with various close and extreme close up shots. While editing the film, I used a lot of cut to black sequences to show that there are various video logs in the film.In chase scene, I used very shaky camera work to show that the scientist is running away from the monster. I used the razor toll to cut out some parts that either done fit in with a particular scene or is irrelevant to the scene. When the scientists hiding, the camera mostly show there faces to the weather a worried or scared expression to show the audience that the monster is close.

In the first part of the short film, we recorded some dialogue to show what the scientists are going to do in the film. I used the iPhone 8 mic to capture the sound of the dialogue of what the scientist are saying. This photograph from the film show the scientist talking about the experiment. In this photo, one of the scientists his hiding from the monster after here it knocking on the doors. I recorded another clip to create a knocking sound by knocking on a door. I recorded the knocking sound also using the iPhone 8 mic. When editing, I unlinked the knocking sound from the actual video to create the foley sound. I positioned the sound file to synchronize with the actions.

The main website I used to find my sound effects and soundtrack was youtube. Non Copyrighted Scary Music | Ghost story- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoedjZnvqQ Creepy Laugh- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiqN6F7WFxQ Screaming Monster no.1- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Bi-U_4kuM Male Screams no. 2- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8BVJcPNiLE The reason why we need to use non-copyrighted music is due to copyright strikes. You could be at risk getting your video if not your entire youtube channel taken down from youtube or you could even be fined thousands of pounds for using music without the appropriate license.

I filmed the entire film in the college. The reason why i have chosen the college is because I wanted the setting to be a Science Lab and the college looks similar to a Science Lab. I filmed the entire film using an iPhone 8. The reason why I have used the iPhone 8 is because I wanted the sub-genre to be found footage to add a sense of realism. I used the iPhone 8 mic to capture the sound of the dialogue and the foley sound. My film is a found footage film. so there were a to of medium, close and extreme close- up shots. We used the lights in the college to show the thing has happened in the science lab just yet. I made sure that the lighting would not effect the camera from recognizing the protagonists faces and made sure it stayed in the right frame. This photo show us that the Main setting os a science with white backgrounds which are associated with science experiments. It also show the 2 main protagonists who are acting in the film who are debating about why the test subje...

For filming we use the Canon EOS 1200D DSLR. The frame and resolution we use is either full HD: 1920 x 1080 or 720 HD: 1280 x 720 or SD: 640 x 480.   We store the video files on a SD card: 640x480(30, 45 fps). 8/16/32/64GB. We also use The EOS 1200D and it come with a 18-55mm f/ 3.5-f/ 5.6 IS III lense. It also fetures a 3in TFT LCD display with a resolution of 460,000 dots. The camra have built in microphones to help record sound. However, the microphones are not external, however, it can be manually ajusted in the menu. The cameras store video fils onto the SD card. Another camera I use is an iphone 8 camra witch feture a 12mp camera with f/1.8 and f/2.8 apratures with 4k 2160p 24/30/60fps wth 1080x1920 pixels. Things filmed on this phone with be stored onto the gallery and can be tranferd via USB. We transfer our clips onto a Apple iMac OS X El(Version 10.11.16). The procsser we use is the 2.7 Ghz Intel Core i5. The memory is 16GB 1600 MHz DDR3 and the graphic...

  Teamwork skills -TYNESIDE CINEMA Section 1: Be able to contribute to the setting of team and individual goals. 1.1- Identify the team goals Our goal for our teamwork task was to create a film trailer with a specific genre. The aim of the project was to produce the best trailer possible my making it visually eye-catching and engaging. We choose a genre of 3. Horror, Gangster and SI-Fi. My team choose to do Si-Fi called "Checkmate" and we all had different roles, my role was the playing as the protagonist Barry. We also had some ideas to make our trailer better. 1.2 Describe the process involved in planning and deciding the team goals We achieved there particular goals by sharing  other people ideas. My idea was to add lighting effects such as adding red plastic to the light to add the red lights of the alarms to add more of a mix of deep space and creepy tone as the war against man and machine rage on in space.  2: Understand own and ...

TEAMWORK SKILLS ZOMBIE 1.              BE ABLE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE SETTING OF THE TEAM AND INDIVIDUAL GOALS 1.1.         Identify the team’s goals We were asked to create a short film. The goals for our short film is to work as a team and try to make the best film possible and make sure that everybody does their part and be involved. The film should be about 7 minutes long. 1.2.         Describe the process involved in planning and deciding the team’s goals We had a project meeting and decided which part the film that people are doing in the film. We all pitched an idea and decided which idea was the best to use, and planed out how the film is going to work. We decided which part each person is going to do and when it will happen to insure that the production runs smoothly. 2.      ...