After Effects

This week we have quite a few work shops on how to use After Effects. After Effects is a piece of software which allows you to add graphics and movement to your pictures and clips.

The first workshop we had we were just leaning how to use the basics and this is what I made.

On our second day of the workshop we played around with how to make the text look like it had been written as well as other movements and this is what I came up with.

Green Screen Practise

Today we had a work shop on how to use green screen. It was really interesting and we all go the chance to be filmed in front of the green screen and then edit our clip ourselves by taking out the green and adding a relevant background.

Here is what I came up with.

Major Project Update

http://twinniesdoc.blogspot.co.uk/

Mine and Maddie's major project is well under way now we have secured an expert to give some psychological input into our documentary and we have also arranged to film our first set of twins this Sunday. We are still liaising with the Mac Twins manager and they still seem keen to do it but they are quite busy at the moment to it is just fitting in with them and we have almost got our 3rd set of twins sorted.

We have done so much work for this project we just hope that it turns out the way we want it to. As it is going to be quite "Youtubey" we want it have lots of graphics. We are hoping that after we have had our After Effects workshops that we will be able to make these graphics ourselves but if we can't then we are going to have to commission someone to help us but luckily for us we go to a creative arts uni and so I'm sure we won't have trouble finding someone to help us.

My Dates and Roles

Thursday 31^st May – Tech Day – Live Office Runner - Call time: 10 am

Tuesday 5^th June – Big Brother Launch Night – Live Office Runner - Call time: 11 am

Friday 8^th June – First eviction – Live Office Runner - Call time: 12pm

Friday 22^nd June – Eviction – Live Office Runner - Call time: 9:30am

Friday 6^th July – Eviction – Live Office Runner - Call time: 9:30am

Friday 20^th July – Eviction – Live Office Runner - Call time: 9:30am

Friday 27^th July – Eviction – Live Office Runner - Call time: 9:30am

Friday 3^rd August – Eviction – Live Office Runner - Call time: 9:30am

Monday 13^th August – Big Brother Final – Stand In - Call time: 11:30am

Wednesday 15^th August – Celebrity Big Brother Launch Night – Stand In - Call time: 11:30am

Wednesday 29^th August – Eviction – Live Office Runner - Call time: 9:30am

Wednesday 5^th September – Eviction – Live Office Runner - Call time: 9:30am

Friday 7^th September – Celebrity Big Brother Finale – Stand In - Call time: 9:30am

Big Brother Duties

This was the list of duties I had to complete each live day:

·         Sweep office

·         Tea run – check throughout day

·         Check live office fridge is stocked with drinks – check throughout day

·         Change bins, recycle bin and confidential waste – check throughout day

·         Read the days papers to see if there are any articles on Big Brother or any of its contestants. If there area then cut out and place in a dated plastic sleeve

·         Prep snacks for the morning meeting - sweets, cakes and fruit

·         Prep box of drinks for the morning meeting – water, energy drinks, tea and coffee

·         Set up meeting room with snack, drinks and laptops and speakers

·         Sign out runner walkies and give out lunch tokens

·         Take lunch orders for production office crew (to be done before the morning meeting)

·         Go and get office crew lunches – REMEMBER RECIPTS

·         Collect plates and cutlery from the kitchen to keep in the office

·         Check there is enough paper in the stationary cupboard for the script run – yellow paper. When there are 2 shows then use blue and yellow paper

·         Make sure walkie desk is stocked with snacks - check throughout day

·         Sign all crew walkies out

·         Put spare batteries on charge for walkies

·         Help with script run

·         Distribute scripts (Live gallery x 11, Reality gallery x2, Sound x2, Senior Cabin x2 Channel 5 Cabin x2, Edit x1, Lighting x6 running orders only)

·         Shredding when it’s quite

·         Collect dinner menu from canteen

·         Get runner dinner orders

·         Take production office dinner orders – keep checking until you get an answer

·         Place order with canteen for runner dinners to be collected at 6:15

·         Go out and collect or order dinner for production office staff and the guys in the edit – REMEMBER RECIEPTS

·         Give everyone their dinners

o   Radio runners to tell them to come and eat when they are free

o   Put production office dinners on plates and give out individually

·         Collect dirt plates and wash up

·         When show starts start tidying the office

o   Sweep the office

o   Change the bins

o   Shred the confidential waste

o   Get rid of leftover food

o   Wash up

·         Sign all walkies back in

·         Let Katie know if not all walkied are signed back in by 11

Leigh and Zoe's Wedding - Editing

We are nearly done editing the video now. We all took different sections and edited them separately and then at the end we will stick them all together and present it on a nice DVD so that it is something for Leigh and Zoe to keep forever.

 

I decided to take the ceremony as my section as I thought it has a alot of coverage and would be easy to edit. I was wrong. This section is about 35 minutes long so it has taken me along time and in sections there is alot of camera movement but there is nothing I can do about that. I have done the best with the footage we had and I think it actually looks pretty good. In the beginning I found it really hard to edit as none of the sound was synced up and so when I was cutting the clips didn't match up but as soon as all the sound was sorted it was easier to cut and it started to come together.

 

Today I sorted out the sound so that it was the best quality it can be. On the day we put a radio mic on the vicar and so this is the sound I use through out as it was on record the whole time but when the congregation are singing the hymns I up the sound from one of the other cameras so that you can hear everyone singing and not just the vicar.

 

The only thing I need to do now is colour correction so that all of the clips look the same colour wise and fit together nicely.

 

Leigh and Zoe's Wedding

On Saturday 1st September it was Dean's brother's wedding and as his wedding gift to the happy couple he asked a couple of us to film it and he would pay our expenses. I was really excited about this as I love a good wedding and as it was for people I knew I was keen to help out and enjoy their day with them.

I thought filming a wedding would be pretty easy but it was alot harder and alot more stressful than I first thought. During the ceremony we had 4 cameras recording and lucky we did as towards the end one of them ran out of memory and the other ran out of battery. This made me really panic but I had to keep reminding myself we still had 2 cameras recording so we should be alright in the edit.

The rest of the day went pretty well filming wise until it started to get dark as we didn't know how to change the ISO on the Cannons and again memory was an issue but we did the best with what we had.

As an extra bonus present for Leigh and Zoe we got lots of their friends and family to do nice messages to camera. This idea worked really well and we got alot of really nice messages as well as funny ones.

The day was beautiful even if it was stressful and now it is time to start editing.