Jungle Book interview

Newspaper: Screen recording practice

Same Love Advert: Sexuality Awareness

1) What was the task you were given and who was your target audience? As the audience wasn't typical of the product how did you manage to sell it? What was the name of your brand? 
Our task was to create an advert that would spread awareness for sexuality. We specifically targeted the audience at homophobic bullies and everyday teenagers. The message was that you don't realise the effects until It effects you so we reversed the sexuality roles to make gay more acceptable than straight. It shows what homophobic bullying can do and our goal was to show awareness of this bulling and that you should be accepting and a friend to everyone regardless of sexuality. Our brand was called Same Love because love is love no matter what its all the same.

2) Who did you work with and how did you divide the research, planning, filming and responsibilities?
I worked with Mia, Jamie, Natasha and Alistair. We divided our roles but also worked cohesively as a team. Natasha did all of the filming, and all of us posited ideas and came up with our story. Jamie helped with the brainstorm and Mia, Natasha and I did the story board. Mia and Jamie both participated in acting. Mia started of the editing and I took over and completed the majority of it whilst being an actor. Alistair did the voice over and helped with tech things.

3) How did you plan your sequence?

To plan the sequence we made a story board and draw each shot and wrote what happens, the camera angle and length of shot.

4) What research and planning did you undertake? 
We planned by putting all our ideas onto this whiteboard in a mind map/brainstorm. We also researched sexuality awareness pages and videos. 

















5) What was you initial feedback? What did others say about your production? How successful was your sequence? 
Others quoted that it put the message across clearly and was very different and creative. The editing and music apparently worked well together too. Overall I believe it was successful.

6) Identify what went well and with hindsight what you do to improve/do differently.
I think our planning/ideas were good and that the filming was well done and editing done well. However I do believe that a lot of things could be improved such as organization and effort from others, also at times our ideas were jumbled and we had to shorten it and it was quite hard to make the message clear.

7) What have you learnt from completing this task (groups skills, communication, compromise, using your initiative, creative input, production skills, editing etc)
I have learnt how to take initiative and output creative ideas. I've also learnt to take others ideas on board to make everyone happy. I also learnt major editing skills and also how to merge to different sounding pieces of music together and timing certain scenes to specific beats in the music.

8) Looking ahead, how will this learning be significant when completing your future productions?
This will help me achieve better work due to good communications skills, more effort and hard work cooperating with others.

Club Advert Plan

 

Shot 1: moving right (panning around), 2 seconds

Shot 2: Still shot looking down zoomed in, 1 second

Shot 3: Zoomed in focused on face, still shot, 3 seconds

Shot 4: Still shot, zoomed in o face, 2 seconds

Shot 5: Moves from one person to the other in a quick motion, 1 second

Shot 6: Still shot, zoomed on face, 1 second

Shot 7: Transitions from last shot with a quick blur, 1 second

Club Advert Remake and Evaluation

1) Who did you work with and how did you manage the task between you?
I worked with Natasha and Mia in this practical task. We all managed the task by setting individual roles. By assigning different roles to each one of us this created a more organised approach to the task so that we could complete it to the best standard. Natasha took on the job of filming as she has lots of experience in photography and filming. She handled this task very well and was able to carry out each shot confidently. Mia appeared in the advert, planned out scenes and bought many valuable ideas to our group. She also shared an editing job with us all. I starred in the advert and also acted as a director for each shot recruiting actors and setting out the scenes as well as organising the videos and doing the basic editing which Mia and Natasha took over to properly edit to the actual video. We were all happy with each others input and effort and worked well together.

2) How did you plan your sequence? What processes did you use?
To plan our sequence we screenshot every single shot and laid them out like a storyboard, writing about the camera shot/angles, setting and the length of each clip. 

3) What theorists do you think you could apply to your task?


4) What factors did you have to take into account when planning, shooting and editing?
We had to take lots of things into account when planning, shooting and editing such as:

• Audience
• Camera angles
• Timing
• Setting
• Actors
• Lighting
• Accuracy 

5) How successful was your sequence? Please identify what worked well and with hindsight 
what would you improve/do differently?
Our sequence was overall successful due to good team work and organisation. Also we all had very good work ethics and put lots of effort and time into it. 
6) What did others say about your production?
7) What have you learnt from completing this task?
8) Looking ahead, how will this learning be significant when completing your future productions? 

Carys' practice footage

I like the use of different footage in my video as I put in different videos at different points to mix it up. I also used various songs also and faded the audio from James Bond into each other and faded various videos into each other. I sped up some videos to change the tempo and used some footage more than once to create a repetitiveness. To improve this video I would've liked to have added more different effects and possibly sound effects.