Filming my film, 'Envelope of Love'

Today was the first day of filming my film, There were a few people late but we got act 1 all sorted and finished out.

The location was in  the collage library, which did have people working their so I had to try and record my scene without anyone in the background. I had all my shots written out so I would know how to shot each scene and when.

With the camera, I had some help from Ted because when it got the shots where the camera needed to be higher, Ted then was my eyes because I'm short. My two sound people were Paige and Will and my main star is Tobie Lang, who plays the librarian.

Everyone worked great and helped out a lot.

What did bug me was the 3 time I had to write the scrip and then on the day of shooting I had to change act 2 so that theirs only Tobie in the film and no one else. For all 3 scripts it was the characters size. 1st 4 actors 2nd 4 actor 3rd 2 actors. Even though I got it down to 2, I still had trouble finding the second actor. So when talking to Tobie he said something that gave me an idea, which change most of Act 2 so that their was no ghost we could see.

Today went well, it was quick and simple few retakes but other then that it went great, If it's the same tomorrow as it was today then I'm sure I can get the whole of act 2 done by tomorrow plus still some time left for me to do the audio of the female voice saying "Give it to him"

Tomorrow I want to finish everything plus get a picture (thumbnail) for the youtube picture when you first see it, Already got something in minds but can only be done tomorrow.

Media Apprenticeship

This is something that sound interesting and maybe some I might like trying out.

Comic layout

Leanne showed us how to make this layout on InDesign, She showed us how to make the rectangle then to copy and paste along the page   

Creating Frames, Shapes

• To make a star shape you need to use the tools polygon frame tool.
• For the number of sides you want for the star, use the Polygon Setting dialog box.
• Next is to width of the star, this is done by star inset which also insets the star image you created on to the page.
• Also a zero can create a polygon when its a value Star inset 

Comic style

1. Star Wars: the layout for this comic, is that it has two long sided for picture 1 and 2 and for the other 3 their all long down, pictures. I don't like this because, their too many scenes with only picture or with a small amount of story in it. Since they've used only small boxes and speech bubbles in the pictures, it doesn't take up so much space in the comic.

2. Weber's dairy: The layout are all different sized frames, 3 on each role. I really don't like that the speech bubbles take up the entire face, and not lot of drawing in the frame, only the people and background. I don't like that the speech bubbles are kind of squished together in the small frames.

3. Dark Rain: The layout is two big frames at the top and bottom of the frame and on long one along the middle. I like that the frames are bi fixing both picture (Detail drawing) and speech bubble and still have enough room to actually see, other details of the drawing.


For my Comic, I'll be using, number 3, Dark Rain. My reason why is because each scene are big, so that you can have enough room for pictures and the speak bubble doesn't take up so much room, like it does in Weber's Diary.

Another is the speech bubble, because with the bubble they've used them, with height to help show which is the 1st, 2nd he is talking and instead of separating all the speech bubble, it joined up together to make more space in the picture.

Script re-write (Tobie Lesson)

With the recording of our films starting, my is the last one to get recorded, mu only problem was that I had no Actors for my Film: in the film their were gonna be 4 character but with the drama students only being able to come on an Wednesday, it wasn't gonna work, so the only thing I could was to write another script, which I did.

Next problem was asking the College to let us us the library to recored, but turned out ok so that been booked.

Going back the script I just wrote I notice another problem, The amount of characters I had, It was 4 again which was the same problem I had with the first script, so when I got home I kept some of the script and adding some on for the third script I wrote.

This time I've only got two on screen characters and a female voice. Still haven't found any actors but I should have some by the time it's time to film my film, I hope.

Envelope of love

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fJqejbP1FtZdBSemUIk3Y2MXvX6QFI44PI-_UeUs7bw/edit

A Day in the Life of...

Right now, we are all writing small magazine article about ourself, it could be any, even make it up. We've just be out taking at lest 5 picture of ourself, (Don't like my pictures being taken) around Bath, then once that was done we all went back to the classroom, where we had to write a short story about ourself.

Once we've written something, Leanna showed us how to use InDesign to make the magazine the way we want it, plus how to place the pictures on the page then make them smaller or bigger, to help fill the page. After that we put in the text box, which we fill in with some random text which showed us what the page would look like, if we wanted to see what it would look like with the line around the boxes.

Now that was all done we could save it on our desktop and start writing our own.

Comics, Magazines and Graphic Novel

Comics are paper back book base on that one theme like spiderman, Batman, X-Men and Scooby Doo. There are lots of comic, some can be rare as they get older or people could collect them. Marvel is best named comic company that produces superheroes book?


Magazine are base in all kinds like Children mags, Teen mag, Fitness, Tattoo, Tv mag. They also included advertisement for different. Plus competitions as well. Other magazine like Take a break write about real life story from cheating, life changers and living in hell.


Comics and Mag have both in common is that their both paperback, plus they both include stories.


Graphic novel are hard back book with only written story without pictures or they

Visual 

StoryTelling 

The art and Technique 

Tony C. Caputo

Introduction by 

Harlan Ellison

Special Essay by 

Jim Steranko 

What I have is a Graphic novel called Visual storytelling the art and technique. It tell's about how comics are made and why, Like why the comic are written in different in different areas instead of straight down the page. In one part of he book theres two picture and a small writing telling about Scott McClourd, Reinventing Comics, Who made the point that the cover of the comic is only the package and that the inside is the product.

It has loads of pictures like Hand drawn, Computer Graphic and photos, where in each one they used speech bubbles and mind clouds So people can tell who talking or thinking.

Another thing they talk about is light and colours, which helps give Comics dramatic effects. They used to comics stripes both the same just one in colour, so you can see how much of a difference it look and more understandable, because with out colour you wouldn't be able to tell witch bit is dark or light, whereas in the colour one it does and it makes the comic look better.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Flash Popcorn

I still need to do the coding for the buttons to work so they'll go to the pages.

Advertise Royal Baby

New Year, New Royal Baby!

It's a new year, a new start and even more for the new royal baby. Welcome to the new world Bentley. Started the year with a thumb up and a bright smile, riding in the 'Bentley'.

We got in groups of 3's and the task was an advertisement of the royal baby and a car company. Each one of use had a job. We had 20 minutes/more to come up with a picture combining the royal baby and a car company of our choose, then come up with a small catchphrase for it; Ours was New Year, New Royal Baby!  

Then we needed to write a blog for the advertisement, The one we used is at the top, that was my job whilst the other two done the photoshop of the royal baby and his parents.

My script and treatment

My script is a love/supernatural.  I love the paranormal and any story I write if I can I will involve it and in this script I have.


This is my treatment for Envelope of love

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1taEe_JWjbx666sxLz0HZSY1pIlAutzj3ooW5WRN1FK8/edit



Script for Envelope of love

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OeWz1ENF4BzYsUTz_XFBgkGPopouu_mQ8XD_EUEIXac/edit

flash button and popcorn

In this lesson we used Adobe Flash to make a button and popcorn.

The first thing we did was the button which has 4 pages Up, Over, Down, Hit. In up is a blue circle. Over is the green button underneath. Down is the same as the green button but a light blue colour. Hit is a square where when you go over it it will change the blue button into the green picture then when you pressed on to the green button it will change into the light blue colour one.

The next one we did is the popcorn where we had to draw a popcorn corn the and a small explosion. Next was to add a sound to popcorn when you pressed onto the popcorn when it explosion. My was a thunder storm. The last one was to make the popcorn to move, This one I did have some trouble but having Steve explain it again it looked easy and showed me my mistake which was I used the button symbol when I should have used the movie symbol.  

Discussion guide template

In our groups we we got the template and looked up card from pinterest and these are the question we came up with.

Title - Snowmen

Purpose of the session - To come up with different ideas  

Demographic of those involved -

At least 5 discussion questions focusing on the aesthetics:

Images

Typography

Style

Content

1. What interest you about these pictures?

2. Do you like these colour contrast in picture 3?

3. Do you think picture 2 would work well on a card?

4. What is the target audience?

5. Is pictures 1 suitable for a certain age group?

Also need to ask about Pricing

6. How much would you pay for this card?

Closing statement - Thank you for your answers and you may leave, cheers.

A focus groups is people working in a group to come up with question and to asked people about... what the question is to them.