Fourth enttry for Industry

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In the last week, imagine all that hurry to finish the semester... tons of projects to finish... and one of those was this blog! What else could I think of? Well... you are reading exactly what I thought... absolutely nothing! GREAT! I am now bull******* my way through.

Anyway, it was a good semester, I loved the experience and the lectures themselves. I am very excited for semester 2 and hope it will be as good as the first one.

Third Entry for Industry

Website from ABC1 in Darwin.

In the fourth week, we made a trip to the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) in Darwin City. We Had a great overview on how thing work in the Industry and how people got there. We also had a group interview with one of the insiders... who showed us the live news room... which is really smaller than I thought!

The Movie - After all edits, tutorials and OVERNIGHTS!

Visual for storyboarding and camera # 6

Just some of the sound effects I used on the movie.

Visual for storyboarding and camera # 5

On the last 2 scenes, The camera was basically not being operated. Some of the people who helped me went out for a break, and only me and Nathan were left. Luckily, Vikki came and gave us a hand!

Visual for storyboarding and camera # 4

The captions! iMovie had some pretty good caption... but the flourish looked like it was supposed to be used on marriage movies or something all right! So I took a screenshot of it and edited it on Photoshop, to make it look more RETRO and less MARRIAGE.

Visual for storyboarding and camera # 3

After applying the the old movie effect on iMovie, I finished it adding some rounded borders on the edges (gives the impression it was being projected, not screened).

Visual for storyboarding and camera # 2

This was the website with the tutorial I used for the Old film effect I got on my film.

Visual for storyboarding and camera # 1

In this countdown, I used a flash animation to do the actual countdown, then imported it to iMovie, and then, finally, applied a grain effect on iMovie, so it would look like old film countdowns

Number 8 entry for Storyboard and Camera

Final Work
I have showed my final movie to some people in my class, who seem to like it and say they can follow the storyline Al the transitions look good, and I'm also hoping that I will get a good feedback from Georgia, who if I recall right, "wants to see the final edit"(she has to see it anyway...)

Seventh entry for storyboarding and camera

Editing

The famous art of editing... where you can add special effects, and even make someone look better than he/she actually is!

During my film editing, almost everything flowed perfectly. The cuts were very easy to do(Remember: planning ahead), All the basic edits were completed in less than half an hour... Except for some missing shots... Had to make it work with failed shots and bloopers, edited together to look like on shot. The fact that I was doing a Silent Movie really helped me out there, because the recorded sound didn't matter so much and the jumps in some parts actually made the movie look better!

Sixth Entry for Storyboarding and Camera

"Capturing action for a film is an art form. Camera operators have a lot to think about while they are taping. A camera operator must be concerned with what is in the picture and what is not, whether there is enough light, and whether the camera is picking up the sound of the action or not."

Week 8 handouts - Introduction to digital video.

Exactly as we learned... lighting, white balance and a lot of other stuff is involved when you are filming... You can't just go there and FILM. When I was filming my movie, for example, I had a really hard time trying to figure out if the light conditions were good enough, and I had to wait for several minutes for people moving in front of the camera, etc (it was a public location) Also, we always have to think about things that can just decide not to work... luckily, that was not the case when I filmed, but still, it can happen(and probably WILL happen) when you are working with this kind of equipment.

Fifth Entry for Storyboarding and Camera

Recording Formats...

Four recording standards currently being used to broadcast television around the world

Pal - 625 horizontal lines, 25 fps, Australia, UK, west Europe, China, South America

NTSC - 525 horizontal lines, 30 fps, United States, Canada, Japan

Secam - 625 horizontal lines, 50 Hz, utilizes different technology to the other two formats, France, Former USSR

HDTV - 1,080 lines, 50i

For some historical reason which I'm lazy to look for, different countries in the planet decided they should broadcast their TV programs differently, one of my guesses is that it was to make it harder to copy a broadcast, but it probably was due to electricity and voltage difficulties, as CRT monitors and old tube televisions depend a lot on the electricity's current to generate their frames per second.

Fourth Blog entry for Storyboarding and camera

Doing the storyboard for my idea was quite a challenge. I had some kind of draft ideas on my mind, but most of them ended up being too hard to draw or formulate into a working plot, or even something possible to film... Turns out it wasn't so easy as I expected!
My solution was to make it even simpler... a Hollywood Silent Film could wait, and I couldn't probably make it if I made a badass storyboard. Hoping my drawing skill were still with me, I made the draft storyboard, to be handed on the next week's class.

Third Blog entry for Storyboarding and camera

After chewing lots about what to do for the class, watching television for hours and reading three book trying to come up with an idea, I finally came up with something simple and apparently a good idea... simply because it was something very easy to do. A Black & White comedy, or Silent movie as people in class told me I should call it. The initial idea, which I still would develop a lot further, was a plot where someone trying to get a drink from a drink machine wouldn't be able to get it for many reasons.

Second Blog entry for storyboard and camera

On the second week, we were told we had to participate in Fist Full of Films, the film competition which we were told about on the first week...
I was really helpless, because we HAD TO draw a storyboard and it was the first time I did such a thing, I also didn't have any possible ideas on my mind on what I was going to do a movie about, so it basically made me helpless and euforic.

Second Entry for Industry

Copyright

Legal monopoly that protects published or unpublished original work (for the duration of its author's life plus 50 years) from unauthorized duplication without due credit and compensation. Copyright covers not only books but also advertisements, articles, graphic designs, labels, letters (including emails), lyrics, maps, musical compositions, product designs, etc. According to the major international intellectual-property protection treaties (Berne Convention, Universal Copyright Convention, and WIPO Copyright Treaty) five rights are associated with a copyright: the right to: (1) Reproduce the work in any form, language, or medium. (2) Adapt or derive more works from it. (3) Make and distribute its copies. (4) Perform it in public. (5) Display or exhibit it in public. To acquire a valid copyright, a work must have originality and some modicum of creativity. However, what is protected under copyright is the 'expression' or 'embodiment' of an idea, and not the idea itself. A copyright is not equivalent of legal-prohibition of plagiarism (which is an unethical and unprofessional conduct, but not an offense), and does not apply to factual information.

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first blog entry to camera & storyboarding

It was the introduction to the unit, we learned about many film festivals like Fist Full of Films and got introduced to the storyboard creation skill.

First entry for Industry

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As most first weeks, I believe there was not really much to learn... but here goes what I have grasped so far:

In industry there are roles, and these roles are separated by pre-Production, Production and post-Production. e.g.:

Storyboarding (pre), Shooting (prod) and audio editing (post).

Then there is the people employed in these roles and they are similarly classified by pre-Production, Production and post-Production. e.g.:

writers (pre), directors (prod) and sound editors (post).