Documentation

This was a lovely experience. to work on this project with the rest of the people on group D2 and find something we all had in-common.That was Castle park and so we chose it!

On the first day we met up we kind of wanted to do a love story after some brain storming i come up with the idea of a serial killer trying to give a sense of space in his tiny appartment where he kills his victims threw a series of rituals he performs including taking a photo of the victim just before he does what he does.we where going to shoot this the next day but the weather wasn’t taking a bus going to Bower Ashton friendly so no one went.The day after that someone in the group called the rest of us and told us we can’t use characters nor music voiceover or a general story.the rest of us had known that something like that where in the requirements so we decided to give a sense of space threw a place we all have the same feeling towards it. We talked about many places where some of us loved and others hated and this went on and on until a group member suggested castle park as a joke but not long after that this made sense to us all.2 days after that we met up in castle park where we took some photos, shot some footage of castle park and recorded sounds from all around.

Here are some pictures of the shooting day

Group D2 – SISE Final

Evaluation 

The final project had to be a 2 minute short film that explores a chosen location through a combination of sound, moving image and photography. We chose to shoot at “Castle park”. The reasons for choosing castle park is because it is the one place we all have incommon
we are all different to one another, with different backgrounds and identities but when its comes to where we like to hang out and relax.
When we started creating the idea for the 2 minute film we had discussions as a group, and ended up deciding that we wouldn’t use any extra music, or something that was not 100 % ours,Even the colorcorecting was very limited, and this was because we agreed that we should keep it as genuine as possible. Also because we where not allowed to use dialogue, voice-over or subtitles we thought that we are given a chance to create hopefully an experience of castle park with out having to be there and if done right the audience could be taken away and relax for just a minute or two. When we presented our work to the rest of our class i really believe that our goal was achieved.If we had more time and if from the very begining we had a better grasp at the projects requirements i believe we could have created an even better result with much more detail to both sound and image (moving and still), this way enhancing our intentions for our audiences experience in this project.

“Buddy” team Evaluation

By watching our buddy team’s project you notice the first person point of view.Though i’m not sure i fully understand the meaning just by seeing that one time i’ll give it a go by the notes i managed to take at the screening.It starts off with a fire alarm waking up the main character he then goes out to his levely town bristol and has fun.He then goes back home and falls to sleep his day now being done.His friends come knocking on his door but he can’t hear them. He later then opens his eyes because of the fire alarm but closes his eyes and falls to sleep again.it fades to black and the room is then empty.Giving me to understand that the second time the fire alarm went off was an
actual fire.The shots where descent, the sounds where ok but did not sound as pre-recorded material. Story wise it was a bit confusing, perhaps they could have  chosen a story easier to tell threw out the period of 2 minutes or tried different approaches for a clearer understanding of the end.

Media Futures – Research

If you had the pleasure to read this blog on the extend of other subjects such as the Sise projects
you’ll read threw out it about a difficult beginning i had starting off in Bristol,
so that being a big piece of how i’m still co-oping with things at this lovely new city i keep on using this feeling as an inspiration
which leads to the idea of creating something new…

Media futures! So before i knew my team or which team i would eventually end up working with i knew that i wanted a subject that if all agreed would show how it could bring so many different types of people and characters work together and create hopefully presentable work. At first i started out by searching online for some of Bristol’s thriving independent media scenes such as The Watershed Media Center, E3 media and many others!This really helped me to narrow down my first idea for this project which was to collectively gather information about some of these independent media productions company, set up a meeting with respective representatives of the said company and threw that interview with them gather enough footage to create a professional looking documentary no longer than four minutes and consist about how they see Bristol and its media landscape and how should we approach it as young filmmakers?To do this my group and i would have to book-out equipment so we could record the footage, the dialogue and then edit it all together to get the finished result.
My original groups name was none other than group 10!But by the time i was able to go in and work with that said group they had already began and almost finished their project with-out me(fully understandable) so i went and talked about it with my friend Shadrack who also was a student who came in late at this course and was in group 8 who had just started their project. I went to the uni found Abigail(one of the tutors) in the F block and asked her would it be alright to work with in another group for the Media futures project she said it was fine as long as the group doesn’t mind. I was pleased to work with group 8 even if my role was to do camera work because it really consisted on all that i had in-mind.NOT! These guys had a completely different point of view upon doing this project!the told me they wanted to do it more of a mockumentary than an actual documentary!To me this sounded as….THE BEST IDEA EVER!i liked the light sarcastic part of it!i enjoyed shooting it and creating a working relationship with my peers soon after this becoming my friends.

For the Mockumentary:  Click Here

Production Journal

The course that is film-making and creative media year 2013!

I can’t help but smile thinking back on these first four months! i can easily say that this must easily be one of the most fun courses there is I remember the first week i came in and did my first group work being a part of group D and did our first assignment “Live TV Studio” where we had to do a 4 minute long tv studio experience as a unit  where we would have 2 presenters for the show, two guests three camera men, a director, the producer and the auditor.I took the job of camera man No3 on that first assignment and enjoyed it more than i ever thought i would and had a great sense of team work which is exactly what we all needed if we where going to be able to get threw the rest of the module.

Second on the list?what first sounded as a joke!something that we thought was influenced clearly by the movie “Be kind Rewind”

and this was called “sweding” where we had to create a film without using any editing or post production of anysort and in a certain amount of time create a movie each group agrees on completely from memory! My group and i decided to go with none other than “The dark-Night rises” we cut some cardboard to make buildings a truck and batman’s motorbike as well as some guns. All of us where in charge of everything!we all did camera work, we all acted in it we all where in charge of set design and all did all. This experience though sounds easy was actually a bit challenging but none the less fun!

Another big aspect of this course was the media futures project where each group had to make a documentary after a certain amount of research
that would help you gather enough information about Bristol’s media landscape of practitioners and so help you create a synonymous idea as a
group. 1) It had to be around a 4 minute time period,
2) help you form a strong, creative working relationship with your peers
3) familiarize one’s self with Bristol’s media landscape

hmm…DONE DONE DONE !

Later on the course we had a lecture and practical workshops that taught us how to build our own WordPress website that would be used as an online portfolio. (i know what you’re thinking…no way…and i’m like…yeah; we did)

The SISE projects Photography, Sound, Moving Image.
For the photography session of this assignment we where said to go out and meet at this cafe near the campus area where we met up with our tutor and she told us go out and find a place that is new to us that is unfamiliar and explore it to its depths, collect notes and after a predetermined said time head back to the coffee shop and share our views and opinions about the said place.After this was finished we where now asked to go out again but this time photograph things with a camera or our smartphones and perhaps the thing we decide to photograph, we can approach it again threw various angles giving and finding new meanings. After finishing with this we met up at the cafe once more, shared are photos and ideas with one another and where then told to head back to Bower Ashton to discuss about the sise project, and watch at artists who did this kind of thing in their pathway of art. Later on we had a meeting with our tutors to discuss our ideas and how where they developing.

For the Sound Session we where told to book equipment and head out at Harbourside where @Bristol is to discuss our next assignment.Once we arrived there Dominic Grant our tutor told us to head out but not record anything, instead we should find a familiar and unfamiliar place, sit at each, close our eyes for 30 minutes and really sink in all that is happening around you and get a sense of space and an experience new to many students! I did this in a group of 3 including myself.We went and sat at a beautiful fountain near where the ferryboat is to me this was my familiar place.I had come here before many times with a girl who i met when i just came at Bristol and we used to sit there all the time.

For my unfamiliar place, well that was easy cause i was fairly new at Bristol at that time everything was new!so i went to a now everyday passing of mine, the Bearpit roundabout where i went there with a friend and her guitar, and asked her to take a picture of me playing it
(musicians can be such attention seekers)

Then i sat and tried to do as our tutor had asked of us…to try and listen, not just hear. Another quote that i remember our tutor saying
distinctively was that “Our vission is very important though if you think about it, our eyes blink.So even for a moment they rest. Our ears though never blink.”  On another day i went back to those places and recorded sounds such as foot steps, a lighter lighting, traffic, conversations, plain wind and many more.

Bristol’s Media Landscape

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