Documentary comparison with news article

There are a lot of differences between documentaries and news article the main one is that you can edit at a much larger scale within a documentary, as it is a production and you can add music cuts and everything you would use within a moving image project. A news article is normally live and is straight to the point with no cuts or edits and also there is only one side to the argument, as it is a reporter reviewing the story and saying the facts of the matter. A documentary can also include fiction with ease, as in a news report it would be unwise and frowned upon.

I will compare my own video documentary, which is about what people keep inside of their handbags. I will use this example as I created it and know exactly what I did to film and edit the footage.

Inside:

http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=p86ayB26sEo&feature=channel_video_title

In this documentary we recorded raw footage of interviewing people as I used a z5 to film the face and reaction as a normal interview my colleague Oliver lee used a Nikon D5000 to catch the hand movements and the items within the bag. I then edit both of the footage together to create the documentary, with live news shoot you don’t have this option and you have to stick with the one shot or sometimes can use multi live camera but that is rare. This is a news article I have chosen for my comparison with my own documentary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF1OY0zsrKU

This shows a selection of simple camera shots a live interview and keeps the watcher focused on what’s happening there is some edits showing different clips whilst you can still hear the audio within the background. Also the difference with a documentary and a news report is that is normally based on one specific subject and report. For example if it’s a pre done report then they can do in camera edits by showing different shots through out the interview or report so that the viewer does not lose interest.

MAPA Christmas Lights

I was asked by Darren on behalf of MAPA to edit the Christmas lights video including live performance's and interviews with the artists. i have included my own music and other effects on certain clips to keep the audience entertained. This will be used in a screening to all the MAPA team and students. It took a far amount of time as the raw footage i was given was around twenty two minutes long and i had to condense this to under ten minutes, this made me come in on days off which i enjoyed as i put my own style to it, also felt like a professional task.

They wanted a YouTube type video for a showing to all the students and everyone who was involved in the Christmas lights performances which was a lot of people so i had to screen shot pictures of the footage and send to the music department to find out the names of the students and team involved. Also they wanted a mix between live performances and interviews to mix it up and make sure everyone was featured. It took a little longer than expected to complete as max the head of MAPA kept throwing ideas around for me to include which was a good thing as this kept me on my toes and made sure i had the film up to his expectations.

I have got good feed back from the video, this was a great feeling as i had put in some of my own comedy effects which would either float or sink.

Black Box

We have just created a 5 episode series based on a plane, going from comedy to musical.
i have learned that time is key and organization is the most important thing to insure a good production as you need to know what everyone is doing and how and when there doing it! i was involved in editing, acting and writing, i learned that its hard work and you need control over your whole team, this is vital to get a good vibe within the production and to make sure you get all the right shots. this is the first episode were i was the editor, i felt i did a pretty good job would have loved to have spent more time on the edit as i was against the clock also felt there were better shots which we could have made the clip more intense. I also created the music using logic pro.

Episode 1 Consequences




i have learned from this episode especially that with the right actors and time we have the ability as a group to create a tense atmosphere and make a near professional production.


Episode 2 Plane Strangers

In this episode i helped with cameras and also acted, this one was well organized as
the people acting learn't there words before we started filming also we had all the props (nuts,bottle of water) bought and ready for when we started filming.




Episode 3 Crew

In this episode i was the The actor Joe and helped out apart from that i wasn't included in the production.



Episode 4: Empty

again in this one i helped out with the acting and the some of the camera work.



Episode 5: 5

In this one i was the co writer with Duncan we didn't have much time to write so we tried to keep it simple as we could and just include classic puns through out with a strict sense of comedy. i have learn't you need time to write a decent script and make sure have the right actors to do the job.

Tv Ident

Idents are everywhere in every film TV Programme and it most things to do with media.
they are the opening sequences at the start of the footage there are plenty of famous idents, for example BBC with there trademark logo of the world and there famous BBC font which is known all around the world and extremely popular in the TV world. here are some more idents you may recognize.



Sky Sports again have used the same style of ident through out the years of there experience and have made it more modern and up to date each three years or so and always have additional idents in times of celebration such as Christmas and Easter.





Channel 4 is a UK public-service television broadcaster, which launched 2 November 1982. Channel 4 was built to provide a fourth television service to the UK, to break Licence Fee’s funded by the BBC. Recently Channel 4 launched a 3D week, showing programmes each night. However complaints were made when viewers could not watch selected programmes in 3D or the quality of the programme had no effect.

Other famous ones which are recognized worldwide is the famous BBC Ident which has changed through out the years drastically but has kept the same basis with the globe and the famous large font in bold.

This is one of the original BBC Sport ident's

1992


This was made in 1992 look at the changes since this time now to the one made in 2009.




2009

there is a big difference image wise but they have kept there well known BBC in bold and in little black squares as this is there trademark identity.




We have created are very own ident's for are youtube channels which you can see at www.youtube.com/uptheexproductions, We made these in motion which is a excellent software and easy to use.

Publishing lesson review

In this lesson we went to a postal museum where we learned about then history of stamps and how they were developed. We were assigned a project to design and make three stamps which are to do with Bath or things to do with Bath, we will do this by finding three pictures which we could use for the stamps images. i did some sketches of some of the stamps which i liked which are now in my sketch book and can help me with how i design my original stamps. Also we had a talk with a volunteer from the postal service who explained the history of postal stamps and how the royal mail started and works.

Lesson review Formatting

this morning we have been taught about formats and how they are compressed and which formats work best for what. i have researched these formats and found out what they are good at and what they are not as good at.


JPEG: Good at getting images from the internet in good quality but isn't good at printing or in animation. Jpeg stands for joint photographic experts group. JPEG is a lossy compression file.


GIF: Stands for The Graphics Interchange Format, Gif is brilliant for animation and simple fonts and also graphics. But isn't good for quality pictures or photographs. GIF is a loss less compression file.


PNG: Stands for Portable Network Graphics, which is very good for many colours and is excellent and supporting quality photographs. PNG is a Loss less data compression file.


TIFF: Tagged Image File Format, this is good for storing images and fine art, although it isn't good for displaying images online. Tiff is a loss less compression file.


SVG: Stands for Scalable Vector Graphics, is a family of specifications of XML-based file format for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and moving.

Raster Graphics vs Vector Graphics: Raster supports bitmap images which are bigger files but are less quality for example when zoomed in you can see the pixels all blurry were as a vector graphic is much better quality here are some examples



Vector graphics:

WK 3: HTML

Today we learned how to use HTML and how to use it in a effective way and will be very useful when setting up websites and updating are blog pages. HTML hyper text mark up language, which essentially means a coded language which the internet understands. It can define the website the layout and set up links which is useful and quick for users.





Elements:An HTML element is everything from the start tag to the end tag
*

This is a paragraph

* this is a link



Tags: * HTML tags are keywords surrounded by angle brackets like
* HTML tags most always come in pairs like and
* The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag
* Start and end tags are also called opening tags and closing tags

Formatting: this is the type of font size and font for example the way the text is shown and what size.

Attributes: * HTML elements can have attributes
* Attributes provide all kinds of information about the element
* Attributes are always clear in the start tag
* Attributes come in name/value pairs like: name="value"

Links: The link address is provided as an attribute. Links are defined the tag