Photo Album - Digipak

Here are the photos of my Digi pack however schools printer isn't as good quality's the photos so a lot of detail has been lost so I have also uploaded the high resolution files as well to get the full detail. All photos are by myself.

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Spine

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Filming for Friends A2 Media Chidrens Tv Opening

One of my friends had a dilemma for his media piece. He had written a script for the opening of a children’s TV series. But due to himself playing the main character he couldn’t film it all cause he was acting. So he came to me with a shot list, storyboard and overall Idea what he wanted shooting. This was very different for me as I am used to shooting what I wanted to shoot so was very different going into a shoot and being told by others what they wanted. So in effect I was only a camera man following the shot list outlined by the director which in this case was my friend. It made me learn how to be told what to do and also just add some creative little twists that I thought might build on the great shot ideas that he already had. He was very organised with what day and time we would be filming and also how long it would last for. Everybody that was in it had a copy of the shot list, story board and script so my time wasn’t being wasted having to go over shots where people didn’t know what they were doing or had forgotten lines.

Flickr outside work

https://www.flickr.com/photos/102924535@N05/

This is a link to my Flickr account where I post a lot of my recent photography work. its from photography that I've learnt a lot of techniques  such as composition, lighting and camera controls and understanding if I changed a setting what effect it would have on the final shot and how it will effect the look, feel and how the media is represented.
 This has helped me in my media work as I have tweaked what I have learned in photography outside of school to fit in with filming in school to get the best out of the cameras and exactly what look I wanted.

Practice Footage - Light Trail Time Lapse

On the way home from a skate park in Northamptonshire where I had been shooting some photos for two Russian BMX'ers who had come to the country for a tour I had an idea. I thought If I put my camera on the dashboard and pointed it out of the windscreen on a long exposure I would get some cool light trails. I was very happy with the results. It looks like a kind of warp speed or tunnel effect focusing on the central point. After seeing the images I thought if I did the same but as a time lapse it would look cool for the opening to the song showing the journey to the gig which is a huge part of the genre of music that I am covering.

'Copyright Infringement' Role Play

I filmed and edited my class doing a role-play acting out what happens in court around a 'Copyright Infringement' case.

To film the role-play, I set up two cameras. I had one of the camera positioned stationary, it was set up to be pointing at the stand. I used a large aperture of f1.8 to create shallow depth of field to isolate the person in the stand. This gets rid of the clutter in the shot making the person stand out. The other camera I hand held walking around the room getting shots of the jury and the judge. for the sound I used it all from the stationary camera.

There are two reasons for this, first of all the microphone was better in that camera so the sound would be constantly good quality. The second reason is that if I flicked from one microphone to the other the direction of sound would constantly be changing distracting the audience from the meaning behind the video.

When it came to editing I had to do lip syncing as the footage from the mobile camera I wasn't using the sound so had to overlay the footage and ensuring that the sound fitted the video.

I had to flick between the two shots to ensure that the person talking was on the camera. this meant cutting the correct part out of the static clip and inserting the correct part from the moveable shot. this was to maintain continuity.

Technical skills development

This Blog post is about work I have done in the media outside of school and how it relates to my media work in school.

These Two photos are from the Asylum Skate park Facebook and web page. I shot the second one with the intention for it to become the profile picture. Because of this I had to ensure that what I wanted to be in the photo was in the middle of the frame. This is because when you use a photo as a profile picture it crops it into a square. so anything that wasn't in that square wouldn't have shown up. I then emailed it to the skate park where they added the logo for the skate park in the middle of the photo. due to the photo being indoors I had to use two external flashes to lighten up the image and also isolate the riders and the ramps they were performing the tricks on. to do this I had to have an understanding of sync speeds of the flashes, power output of the flashes and the effect it has on the settings in camera like ISO, aperture and shutter speed. This will help me in my filming for a music video because it will allow me to get the precise look I want from the footage giving it meaning and a desired feel.



The photo below was a photograph I shot for the new up and coming football app High Five it. Shooting this photograph has helped me in my school media project a lot. This is because I had a real brief for the photograph. I had to include the whole team including two present chesterfield football players. it also had to show the newly awarded ,kit ,balls and cheque. It also improved my time management as I had to be at the specific location in time to set up and organise the photograph. After the shoot I had to quickly post process the image ensuring it was of a high quality. this is because it was going to be in the local newspaper the Derbyshire Times and also on the social media accounts for the app itself. This has made me realise the importance of being organised and punctual to a shoot. It will help me in the shoot as I will know how to direct the people to get the desired look. Also it will help me stick to the deadline given as I know how important it is now.

The photograph below was used by the multi national tyre company Maxxis.  I have linked below some facts about the company as it is in the top 10 tyre companies in the world.

Company Information

• Founded in Taiwan in 1967
• 23,500 employees worldwide
• Operations in Taiwan, China, Thailand, Vietnam, the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Holland, Japan and Dubai
• Product distribution in approximately 170 countries
• Worldwide revenue of over $4 billion U.S. dollars
• Worldwide revenue more than quadrupled in the past 10 years
• Full lines of tyres for auto, bus, truck, light truck, bicycle, motorcycle, ATV, race kart, trailer, industrial and lawn & garden

Notable Facts

• Original equipment supplier to Ford, GM, Toyota, Nissan, Volkswagen, Mitsubishi and Hyundai in Asia
• Original equipment supplier of motorcycle tyres to Yamaha, Honda, Suzuki and Kawasaki
• Original supplier of ATV tyres to Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki, Kawasaki, Polaris and KTM
• Original equipment supplier of bicycle tyres to Cannondale, Giant, Merida, Yeti, Iron Horse, Kona and Orange
• Original equipment supplier of scooter tyres to Yamaha, Suzuki, Aprilia, Malaguti, Piaggio, MBK, Gilera and Kymco

In the photo I used my camera knowledge to create the blurry yet sharp photo. I used a panning technique and a slow shutter speed (around 1/30th of a second) to ensure that relative to the camera the rider was relatively stationary. this then means that the rider is sharp and the background is blurry. this creates a sense of motion. I would like to use my camera knowledge to create different shots like this in my music video to portray the band in particular ways and also to make it interesting, eye catching and enjoyable to watch.

Below are two more photos that have recently been used reposted by the BMX magazine "Ride UK BMX"