Class Feedback

Because watching our OTS has the effect of bias of the work we've done we decided to show a rough cut to our class for audience feedback. Here is the feedback video:

Making The Music Sound Track - Introduction

We had many ideas when it came to the sound track of the OTS. One was to have a self-written, performed and recorded song, performed by some people at school. This felt like a good idea because I took Music GCSE and got an A* for one of my compositions and a B for the other, so I could write a piece for this OTS but we had constraints of time and of performer availability.
Another idea was to use royalty free music but we all felt that was cheating and we wouldn't be able to achieve the right sound for our OTS. We had to meet somewhere in the middle and seeing as we were using the macs in our Media Studies classroom to do research and just general work and editing, I thought of using Garage band. With that we could actually make a sound that we liked using loops of different instruments and it didn't feel like cheating too much because we actually created that music using samples.

Filming: Day Two

On Sunday 4th January we continued filming our Opening Title Sequence. All the set up was the same: The set, the camera, the layout of props. This day was for doing the shots involving the board. We got more items to go on our board since the first day and also we were going to use a cork board to make it have that traditional look but we didn't want it to look traditional so we modernised it by using the whiteboard that was already in the office and that way we could use marker pens instead of strings and pins which also gives it that modern feel. It's also very handy that Aidan's mum had a laminated map of Norfolk in the office: a) to give the audience a sense of location and where they are and b) we could draw on it with marker pens without ruining it.

Filming: Day One

We started filming on Saturday 3rd January at Aidan's Mum's Office. The set up for filming consisted Aidan's camera on a tripod with an external microphone attached. We also had my camera on site as a back up. In that day we filmed the first few scenes that didn't involve the board and map very much due to having insufficient props to make it look as realistic and full as we wanted. Using that type of camera (DSLR @ 1080p) meant that we could control the lighting of our shot much more than physically covering up windows and doors, which is also what we did. To make sure that we had a structure we constantly consulted our storyboard which we had on set. To see Aidan's Blog post about the story board, Click Here

Pre-Production: The Set

In a production log, Aidan directed our attention to his Flickr account. On said Flickr account were many pictures of his Mum's Workplace, an office.



These are pictures of two offices and we decided to only use his Mum's office which are pictures: 1, 2, 3 and 4. We chose this one as it looked like a more typical office.

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