Mood Board

Shallow and Large Depth of Field

Shallow depth of field was used as principles for the pictures below. The Depth of Field is measured in Fstops. The way it works is the larger the Apature number the larger the depth of field. This controls how much of exposure the lens will pic up in the photo. To achieve a larger depth of field the opposite needs to be done. As Fstops vary from 4.5-30 apature  

Photography Work

 Rule Of Three Photography 

FRAMING PHOTOGRAPHY  

War Vs Fashion Photography Presentation

WAR PHOTOGRAPHY on Prezi

Multi-Camera Production

T.S.T  Magazine Programme Evaluation

For this unit of work, we as a class were assigned the task of creating a Television Magazine programme. In preparation for this task, we were given the opportunity to attend a live broadcast of the Television show, ‘The Allan Titchmarsh show’. It was a good experience as it opened our eyes to the television industry and gave us first look experience at how things are run; from minor roles such as cable basher and warm up man to camera men, floor manager, and presenter so on and so forth. Going on this trip to the London Studios really fascinated me and made evident how important each and every role of production is to making a successful show.

Next, we watched a TV show called ‘Faking It’ which showed a fire station operator ‘Faking’ being a Multi-Camera T.V director. After all these tasks, we finally had an idea of what we wanted to do.  Primarily, we had to write up our proposal of what we wanted in our individual shows (to start with) and present our ideas to the class. This was a way of determining which aspects of each other’s show would be incorporated within the main live production. 

The pre-production process of the task was demanding as the team mates seemed to find it challenging to keep on top of the different tasks that were assigned to them. Consequently, the things that had to be produced quite prior to the live show we done hastily within a few days of the Show.

The lack of communication between the entire class appeared to be the team’s downfall. An example of this would be when auditioning the special performing guest. It fell apart as majority of the group had no knowledge of it ever been planned and felt ostracised  by some of the teams decisions when it came to running the process. Some of the ideas and suggestions put across by the team members weren’t listened to or put into consideration until the very end.

 I was given the responsibility of producing the Equipment List.  I was in charge of finding out the props we would need for the live show and produce a budget list that corresponded with the items needed in order to obtain funds for them. This process was done fairly quickly and effectively. As we chose to centre our Live show on Halloween, all the props and costumes had to compliment that theme. As a result, our prop list consisted of items such as fake blood, face paints, pumpkins, spiders etc.

As chaotic as the pre-production stage ran, I enjoyed this unit. At some stages I was given other roles however no enough time was given to me to performance them. I was given the role of understudy presenter, floor manager and co director. Each of those roles we’re taken from me within days of being assigned them. Likewise, to many others faced with the same problems as me, it made me irritable.

In conclusion, I think the entire process would have been more successful if the team worked and listened to each other. There are many things we could do in the future in order to improve ourselves however one thing I would say, is that we must comprehend the importance of time management; as sticking to deadlines would have eliminated all prospects of anything going wrong. If something had gone wrong before the show going live (as many things did) it would have given us enough time and ability to rectify them before the live show. Nevertheless, I must commend my team mates for the set of the show. As we all had the same vision of what we wanted it to look like, it made it much easier to produce a creative set revolving around the Halloween theme.

 

Multi-Camera Production

T.S.T  Insert Analysis

 In order to make the T.S.T live show run as professionally as possible we had to create short inserts to incorporate within the show. In groups of four we brainstormed some ideas that we felt would captured the attention of our audience and make them enjoy our show. Many of my team mates went for educational things that fit in line of the colleges themes and values.

Thinking outside the box, those in my team and I choose to do something a little more spontaneous and light hearted. We decided to recreate a television show entitled ‘Name That Tune’ which was a popular show that ran from 1952-1985.

Using the same name and similar concept we went about producing our insert.

We choose familiar and current song with some variations from our music devices e.g phones, iPods, MP3 players.  The aim of the game was that the participants had ten seconds to listen to a random juncture of a song chosen for them and identify the song that was playing correctly. The entire insert had an overall running time of two minutes which stuck to the brief received at the beginning of the unit.

The pre-production stage of our inserts making was fairly uncomplicated. However, the sound equipments let us down. As at some points of the filming stage, it randomly stopped working, so the audio of the transition between different participants and songs were inconsistent and therefore made the footage hard to hear and muffled. After having rectified that problem, we were unluckily braced with another. The edited footage that we had saved had been deleted thus making us restart the process again. Second time round, the filming process was tedious. Reluctantly, we finished it.

Feeling content and excited about the work we produce and how the audience would react to it we proceeded to setting up unto the tricaster ready for the live show. Unfortunately the format of the insert wasn’t compatible with that of the tricaster so therefore couldn’t have been put on. This was a technical error which could have been fixed if the process was done considerable before the live show day.

In conclusion, I enjoyed the making of our insert and think of it a great shame that we didn’t get to show it. My group and I worked well together in producing it. In future, I would recommend a back up of our work so if one copy was to get lost it wouldn’t set us back as much as it did this time round.