Research

I read an article on the internet about how to capture light in photography

http://www.digital-photography-school.com/how-to-capture-motion-blur-in-photography

I knew most of the details but needed some reassurance that I would be doing the right thing.

Technology:- My targets for this week

I have thought about the areas that I need to work and improve on in technology to make sure the project is done to my best ability:-

I want to experiment with the Editing Suite and work out how to use Clip transitions/effects/layering

I need to experiment with the combination of Adobe flash and Premier and the Allowances that it gives me.

We need to look at certain areas of our filming that we are not sure how to approach such as stop motion and match on action/graphic match areas.

Because we have found an advert with an effect that we would like to try and re-create:-

(the video does not have an embed code)

http://www.youtube.com/user/orange?v=8SNmDop1z08&feature=pyv&ad=4612110832&kw=orange%20wednesday

Creativity

Sir ken Robinson expresses his attitude toward creativity and gives us his opinion on how creativity is formed.

He says that young children will take a chance and if they 'don't know, they'll give it a go' and they are not 'frightened to be wrong' and essentially be imaginative with what they do or say if they have miss-understood it, I do agree with this to an extent, I believe that children under a certain age haven't had enough life experience or influence to be swayed by a concept, but I also think that they copy things, such as older brothers and sisters, they will copy their movements or behaviours because they are their main 'influence' or role model. As for students in education, we are much more aware of everything around us, and are more likely to branch from one base inspiration that has been seen/found/heard/touched/tasted in our lives. And we are more likely to aspire to create a different version of that idea or better it. I think we are definitely prone to be more afraid of being wrong because through education we are pretty much shown how to do everything in one way or another, and we initially think that that must be 'the right way' because we are being told, we are afraid of pushing boundaries or stepping outside the box because it is such a rarity.

My creativity:-

To begin with my initial ideas for the digipak stemmed from our research for our mood-board, where we found an abstract image of lighting and then also video test-shoot, and the streams of light that the cars were creating as we photographed. I moved on to think about different lighting such as natural lighting or street-lighting/car headlights or fire.

This made me want to experiment with light streams and continuous image across each side of my digipak, and deciding on colours and imagery to create a house theme like these :-

I then did a small test-shoot with fire to see how easy it was to photograph and capture:-

I found that I simply needed to adjust the shutter speed and aperture when photographing fire to get the desired effect.

This week I also used programs called Adobe flash and Premier Pro to try out a different way to storyboard. I first drew a small animation on adobe flash the outputted it do premier pro to create the small video and allow me to edit it

Print Idea

After experimenting with lighting for our music video, I had the idea of doing this for my print work, a continuous stream of light through each side of the digipak. I will do some experiements to see how this works.

I'd also love for there to be a large element of photography, so i will do some basic test shoots to see which works best.

The Beatles

This is a video that we were introduced to during our media trip in London.

It has a very childish, haphazard nature about it, and we thought it was such an original idea for a video. This video has helped us with ideas and inspired us to consider things for our video such as, low and high angle shots. Also the idea that we could speed up clips, came from this video, it also adds quite a comic haphazard effect. We also love the location, the low angle shot of the building they come out from makes it look particularly industrial and urban, and also the spiral staircase. We could use this for our video.

Our test Shoot

This is the test shoot that we did for our pitch, to experiment with what we could create using a still camera. We stood on the City Walls Road bridge and took still images of the traffic on a low shutter speed, so that the lights from cars became strips of light down the road. We then used Windows movie Maker to combined these images to create a moving traffic clip.

The Pitch

We had to pitch our ideas to the rest of class. We had to communicate as best we could, the type of things we wanted to include and the basic concept of our video. This included a moodboard of ideas:

Pitch

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