June 2012
6 posts
Interview Technique
Interviews are used throughout different types of filmmaking. they are useful to get an insight into the minds of individuals. interviews are used extensively in documentaries and news programmes. in these, interviews are used by the filmmaker to validate the information. people are more likely to believe the person who was involved with an event than someone who heard about it. An interview is...
James Bond Intro Sequence
James Bond Intro Sequence For my title sequence, I decided to do an alternative version of the James Bond intro. In The Original James Bond intro, bond it begins with a black screen. A white dot travels across the screen in time to the music before opening up and revealing a man. The man walks forwards half a dozen paces before turning towards the camera and firing a gun. animated blood then...
Use of Animation in Documentaries
Animation is made up of a series of images put together to create the illusion of movement. it can be made with hand-drawn images or created on software such as Flash. Animation is useful in documentaries because it can connect an audience to the topic by giving certain information a visual property. It can also help to display information that would be difficult to convey verbally or with...
Music Video And Interviews
On Saturday 9th I went to the Boom Stage music event in Bath to go film For my music video and Interview films. I was able to achieve this by getting in contact with Suited and Booted Studios, whom I know have good contacts with the events planning crew. As a result I was able to get a crew pass to the event. This allowed me to film anywhere: in the crowd, backstage, even on stage with the...
May 2012
2 posts
FMP
For my FMP I am doing a documentary on oil. A what, how and why about the energy we use everyday. The list of things I wish to include in this documentary are:
- What is oil? - What is crude oil made out of? What are those things made out of? - How did we discover crude oil and its uses? - How is it found and collected? - What needs to occur to turn crude oil into fuel? - What other things can be...
Gman Project Edit
For my editors mark, I have been editing The Gman Project separate of Alex’s version. Having sat down with Alex during the edit and organizing the sequencing of events for the physical film, all that I wished to create was a montaged intro, and an ending. To do this, I log and transferred the clips we’d shot on Dartmoor on the thursday, after all the actors had left. Once I did that, I...
December 2011
9 posts
I’ve been in Jazz’s short ‘Notebook’.
2/12/11
I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks. - Al Franken
Well, long time no see, but frankly not long enough…
Much has happened since my last post in October, I got up on a stage in front of a few thousand people and talked about something that I have no first hand experience with.
I Traveled to London’s financial district to be asked for examples of...
October 2011
10 posts
Black Box Season 2 Ep1 Transcript
Just thought I’d upload the script I wrote for Black Box Season 2 Episode 1
Black Box Season 2 Episode: 1
By
Gareth Evans
AIRCRAFT INT. CABIN 1 - SCENE 1
Scene starts with the cabin filling up with passengers, being shown to their seats by a Air stewardess. Among the various people are two backpackers who clomp next to each other. The hostess leaves and the two guys stare...
13/10/11
“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”
- William James
Editing Black Box all day. Got masses done, but mentally its taken a HUGE toll :(
Now, all I need to do is add in some acting credits, slap on the intro sequence from Mike and shout at my producer over details such as extending a fade by 1/5 of a second…
Should be fun!
6/10/11
“It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.” - Douglas Adams
We managed to film Black Box yesterday, after extreme problems. For some reason, someone decided to call our actors, and tell them that the film was canceled (we still don’t know who it but when I found out who did…)
With none of our Yr2 actors available to film, and half a...
5/10/11
“As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.” - Linda Fiorentino
The day started off well enough. I finished up pre-production with Black Box and managed to confirm all the actors of their roles and costumes - white shirts & black trousers/skirt for the air stewards, casual backpacking gear for the two speaking roles.
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September 2011
8 posts
28/9/11
The path of my life is strewn with cowpats from the devil’s own satanic herd. - Blackadder
Well this has been an interesting week so far.
First off I started feeling light-headed and sniffy on Friday evening, though I ignored it so that I could go out that night (it was pretty dam awesome!) Unfortunately it changed my little sniffle into full blow flu, putting me down for four days! This...
Camera manual
In order to reinforce what I earned about using a camera on manual settings, I’m constructing this ‘mini guide’ as a way to help out my fellow man in the mysteries of digital camerawork.
- Shutter speed
The cameras shutter speed, is how quickly the camera shutter flashes open, burning the image onto the cameras’ film. This cam be very quick (1/1000 of a second) for high...
22/9/11
Today I worked on my Main film after completing 90% of the paperwork for the Black Box episode. I decided, after a few minutes of thinking, to do a documentary based upon Freeganism the anti-waste, anti-capitalist lifestyle movement that became fairly big news a couple of years back. For my research, after much internet scouring, I went to a local ‘hippie’ food store and inquired with...
21/9/11
“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.” - Susan Sontag
On this date, we had a lesson that taught us about how to use the Sony Z1E camera (basic stuff like how to change the gain, or how to change it from high-definition to standard definition and back again.)
In the afternoon I got more done on the Black Box episode,...
15/9/11
“A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.” - Sidney Sheldon
Today was… satisfying. Early in the morning, I volunteered to work on the first episode of Black Box, full in the knowledge that I will have a huge degree of creative freedom and first pick of the actors in the Drama department (If they’re teachers are doing their jobs in...
14/9/11
First day, Second year - What a wonderful world.
I suppose I should mention the elephant in the room - literally, the room itself. Last year we were shoved on a blue carpeted hallway. We had about four (Count them; FOUR) Classrooms before you hit the staffroom (which always had more paper on the tables than the tables themselves!) Keep going on, and you hit the rental room, in which we had a...
Tumblr Initiation
I always thought my first ever post to be ingrained into the indefinite space of the internet might be a bit more glamorous. At least be cheery and upbeat like so many other infinite blogs and posts made by people whom seem to be permanently ecstatic at every detail that occurs within their lives.
If you’re reading this expecting me to be the same, please leave now.
This blog, instead,...
