Interview shooting skill session in Broadway cinema log

Today the session was about the rechnique and skills to film an interview in and outside door. Interview is a basic element in documentaries and TV programmes. Some DSLR can produce good quality of video but there is no way to get rid of the noise when record with the internal microphone. That means external recorders are needed in order to add a clear sound track at the editing stage. The basic types of microphone are: omnidirectional, cardioid and shotgun.  Meanwhile, the composition of the picture is also a key component.  We were required to find a ideal filming location and produce a short interview by the equipments borrowed from Waveley shop. 

Storyboard workshop log

Sequence from film  "Rain man"

Supervisor meeting log--verbal feedback

Agenda: a verbal feedback of proposal
Tutor: Phil Nodding, David Downes
Summary of discussion:


In regarding to my subject of study "A study of micro-film language, dialogue and cultural environment" and reseach question "The feasibility of non-dialogue film in the micro-film format" , David gave me his opinions and suggestions. First of all, the topic is too wide for reseaching, and the subject contradicts to the reseach question itself. He was confused about how it works when I mentioned language, dialogue and cultural environment at the same time and then but my emphases on ' non-dialogue' elements in films later. Phil concerned that when I brought out this research question it was already been proved when the film was invented at the first time, it kept for almost 30 years before the sound track was put on. In recent years many smart ideas were shown in silent films in a variety of countries. In this case it is unnecessary to prove this point of view again. Secondly, micro-film is a fangle in this industry, lack of exsting documents and materials for reseaching would be a insurmountable problem. In a ward, both of the subject and the reseach question  need to be changed.
The new topic could be:How to expand the acceptance of films to viewers who have different cultrual backgrounds regarding to the approaches of a variety of elements.  Not only talk about conversations, but also discuss the technique area and script and so on.

The proposal will be rewrite in this week.

 

Workshop coursework-- create characters

Tutor: Jools Ayodeji

Task: Observe two people and create two characters

Time: 02:15 am 16/11/2012 Fri

location: outside the pub ‘Black cherry’ in town

 

A young girl (around 20 years old ) was standing outside the pub, smoking while chatting with her friends. She was a white girl with long curl ginger hair, cute freckles on her face, red lips and a small tattoo of the peace logo on her ankle. There were a lot of sprinkles on her black dress. She might be a first year university student who was just moved out from her parents house, free in a new city, having a night out with her course mates. It was easy to tell that she had some alcohol already in her stomach because she started to wobble around on her high heels when I met her. She looked happy and enjoyed herself that night.

 

Time : 05:40 pm 22/11/2012

Location: in front of the NatWest ATM machine outside the Victoria center

 

He was a white man around 25-30 years old with a black suit and white shirt inside. His tie was pulled loose and his collar hung open. He looks exhausted and waiting in the cue to get some cash. He might be a freshman in a office, had a tough day and be told off by his boss. It started the drizzle rain, he put his brief case on his head to protect his suit and new leather shoes. At that moment what in his mind was to get some cash in order to buy himself a cheese burger and going back home having some rest.

Workshop log- important slices

Life of Pi

'Life of Pi' is one of the films I am looking forward to the most next year. Director Ang Li brings a fushion of fantastic story and incrediblely beautiful picture in this latest work. At the same time, he adept the elements from different cultrual environment, break the traditional pattern of commecial films, that is, in my opinion, very brave action in this industry.

Suppervisor meeting log

Agenda: proposal and respective journal

Today Phil talked about our proposal. Regarding to my research topic "A study of microfilm language,dialogue and cultural environment" he thought it may comes to a very wild range and it is a better way for reaserching to focus on a more particular direction in it. He suggested that when doing the experimental works I can create 2 different versions of microfilms with the same storyline, thus a comparison could be made in order to  research the reaction from my viewers. Quastionaire can be a good helper for collecting feedbacks in terms of the use in each element(such as music, acting, film tech, location, light and so on).




Good film recommendation: Argo(2012)