Thursday, 31 October 2013
Tuesday, 22 October 2013
Welcome to 2013 introductory professional studies
Hi All level 4
Welcome to Introductory professional studies.
It is important to start to research and develop your blogs.
This is how you will submit your reports for assessment and the supporting research. There is no folder work so any physical work must be scanned into your blogs.
All downloaded,
scanned and photographed material (visual and text based) MUST be legally
sourced and referenced on your weblog.
Remember it is in your interest to get good at blogging as you must submit your work this way!
Welcome to Introductory professional studies.
It is important to start to research and develop your blogs.
This is how you will submit your reports for assessment and the supporting research. There is no folder work so any physical work must be scanned into your blogs.
The information that you upload to your weblog
should include referenced primary and secondary research including weblinks
where appropriate. You should also evaluate your research choices.
Your weblog can include:
§ Own photographs/scans of samples, products,
designs from brochures etc.
§ Own photographs/films taken during research,
trade shows, exhibition visits, etc.
§ Own photographs/scans of appropriate
newspaper and journal articles
§ Weblinks to the work of appropriate
practitioners and organisations
§ Images/content legally downloaded from
appropriate weblogs and websites
§ Your own written posts evaluating your
research
§ Production log
Remember it is in your interest to get good at blogging as you must submit your work this way!
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Hello
I've refound this blog site and will start to use it again. This is essentially a tale of the FDA degree course and what our students get up to on the course!
Our first year students are currently working on their 16mm film projects, shooting their "Sense of..." dramas. The student productions are centred around a bank heist, A biker bar, a haunted house and a man who loses his mind!
The students have shot a B/W test shoot and they are now deep into production on their colour projects. This year we are doing a test of Kodak 250D stock versus Fuji 250D across the four films to see which give us the richer colours and saturation.It should be fun to see the footage when we have it returned from processing over the Xmas period.
As well as the 16mm films the first year (stage 5) students are working on their Location doc/drama digital project which are also due in January. Busy time for the first years.
Our 2nd years (Stage 5) are getting ready to present their findings from their creative producion module where they test research and test new ways of developing thier film making skills and finishing off their shoots for their live clients, who have been found by the students themselves and gives the students an understanding of finding and working for a real client. Results in January for how they did!
I've refound this blog site and will start to use it again. This is essentially a tale of the FDA degree course and what our students get up to on the course!
Our first year students are currently working on their 16mm film projects, shooting their "Sense of..." dramas. The student productions are centred around a bank heist, A biker bar, a haunted house and a man who loses his mind!
The students have shot a B/W test shoot and they are now deep into production on their colour projects. This year we are doing a test of Kodak 250D stock versus Fuji 250D across the four films to see which give us the richer colours and saturation.It should be fun to see the footage when we have it returned from processing over the Xmas period.
As well as the 16mm films the first year (stage 5) students are working on their Location doc/drama digital project which are also due in January. Busy time for the first years.
Our 2nd years (Stage 5) are getting ready to present their findings from their creative producion module where they test research and test new ways of developing thier film making skills and finishing off their shoots for their live clients, who have been found by the students themselves and gives the students an understanding of finding and working for a real client. Results in January for how they did!
Thursday, 23 June 2011
Thursday, 20 January 2011
Multicam finished!
Hi all
Just to say well done to all the FDA TV & Film production students for getting their live Multi-camera production on air, as it were, live, bang on at 4pm yesterday. The show was the most ambitious ever conceived in my seven years teaching this module and the students are to be congratulated for even attempting such a difficult task which included no less than 14 actors playing 16 roles. While I can't talk about individual performances of the crew, it has to be said that the days up to and including the broadcast were a great team effort despite some serious difficulties and setbacks along the way. To all of you well done! I'd also like to thank the actors for their time, effort and of course their abilities, especially James Harris given the size of his script and the fact he took it on with very little time to learn such a large part. To all of you a huge thank you! Your copies of the performance will be with you in a few weeks time! On Monday we shall be reviewing the recording to see what worked, what did not and what it looked like in the final outcome. More nerves for the students I think!
Many regards
Mike Boyle
Just to say well done to all the FDA TV & Film production students for getting their live Multi-camera production on air, as it were, live, bang on at 4pm yesterday. The show was the most ambitious ever conceived in my seven years teaching this module and the students are to be congratulated for even attempting such a difficult task which included no less than 14 actors playing 16 roles. While I can't talk about individual performances of the crew, it has to be said that the days up to and including the broadcast were a great team effort despite some serious difficulties and setbacks along the way. To all of you well done! I'd also like to thank the actors for their time, effort and of course their abilities, especially James Harris given the size of his script and the fact he took it on with very little time to learn such a large part. To all of you a huge thank you! Your copies of the performance will be with you in a few weeks time! On Monday we shall be reviewing the recording to see what worked, what did not and what it looked like in the final outcome. More nerves for the students I think!
Many regards
Mike Boyle
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Now you have have your folders (if you have paid) It is vital you start filling them with your research you have done so far. It's not just about the forms to be filled in but quality research in your roles.
Crew roles are just as important as a director or producer!
For example is there a film that has inspired a certain shot or has the sound being used in a unique way in a certain film that adds to tension that may work for your film.
It is vital that you do sound or visual tests and record these and enter them in your folders with commentry about how these tests went. The director wants a particularly difficult shot. How will I achieve the look he or she is after? What does the storyboard call for? We did the test shots with the P2 camera but I wasn't happy with the lighting. What did I do to improve the shot? How do I mask the sound of the buses going past? The director wants a really wide shot in the open . How do I mic up that shot without showing the boom pole? These are just a couple of questions that a crew memeber should be asking themselves and recording in diaries, blogs and within the paperwork before the shoot has even happened. There should be much more that occurs to you depending on script, location etc.
speak soon
Mike B
Crew roles are just as important as a director or producer!
For example is there a film that has inspired a certain shot or has the sound being used in a unique way in a certain film that adds to tension that may work for your film.
It is vital that you do sound or visual tests and record these and enter them in your folders with commentry about how these tests went. The director wants a particularly difficult shot. How will I achieve the look he or she is after? What does the storyboard call for? We did the test shots with the P2 camera but I wasn't happy with the lighting. What did I do to improve the shot? How do I mask the sound of the buses going past? The director wants a really wide shot in the open . How do I mic up that shot without showing the boom pole? These are just a couple of questions that a crew memeber should be asking themselves and recording in diaries, blogs and within the paperwork before the shoot has even happened. There should be much more that occurs to you depending on script, location etc.
speak soon
Mike B
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