Last year, I did First Diploma in Media which was a 1 year course and this had two video production assignments, one of them was the same, or similar, to this assignment, film a 30 second advert for a brand. The other one was to do a 60 second video about anything you want, for the 60 second clip, I did a video blog (Or as I like to call it, a vlog) about a joke-conspiracy that Jesus is Aquaman. I mainly learned a lot from doing the 30 second advert a year ago and I know how to be more organised in pre-production and production (When we film).
I did very well last year in the post production for both the video production assignments. I always use Windows Movie Maker to edit movies/clips. When we were going to use it last year for the first video production assignment, we were given a tutorial about how to use Windows Movie Maker, however, I already knew pretty much absolutely everything about how to use it. I also look forward to learning how to use Adobe Premier. I have heard from the teachers and my peers that it is very good.
Time management:
I have had experience with having to use time management for previous projects, such as making my DVD menu earlier this year and numerous assignments I did on First Diploma in Media last year. We have all been given production schedules for what we are supposed to do every week. This is useful to us so that each week we know what we are doing and what we could be behind on. It is also useful that with my group we have meetings at the beginning of every lesson so we can all discuss what we need to do and what we haven’t done yet which needs to be done.
Group work:
On First Diploma in Media, the media course I did last year, I had been put into a group for making a project similar to this, so I have had experience with being put into teams/groups. I’ve also worked on other assignments in teams as well. I believe that I can’t always work with a team but I do try my best to make an effort whoever I am with, I am just not that great with my social life. I try my best to not argue in a team and I am liking my team right now.
Production of documentation work – designing and planning, industry standard documentation:
In projects which I have done in the past, such as my DVD menu assignment, I have had to do a lot of planning before I get to just start making the DVD menu. The planning meant I had to make a lot of rough notes, rough sketches, brainstorms, mood boards about my final idea. I also made a PowerPoint presentation to pitch my idea for my DVD menu.
Research methods:
In all of the assignments that I have done in the past, I have to do research for all of them, the most common research method I use is the internet. I do however use books for some research in the library and reference it in a bibliography. Earlier in this assignment, I did need to do some research to find out more information about the brand I am making an advert for, which is Kit Kat.
Graphic/Animation production e.g. image manipulation software:
In the DVD menu assignment I did, I made some animation using Adobe Photoshop and uploaded it into Adobe Encore. The animation I did was for the main menu of my DVD menu where there was a floating object from out of the screen then disappears off-screen. Although, I don’t think that we will be using any animation for the editing stage of this assignment. I am also good at graphics.
Camera & tripod:
Last year when I did First Diploma in Media , I was allowed to use the cameras and tripods the college provides twice that year. Before we did get to, Phil, the media technician gave us a tutorial on how to set up the cameras and tripods. We all went up to set up the camera and tripod ourselves. Andy monitored every student to see how well they did. The way he was marking us was for each step there would be one of three boxes he ticked, first box was “completed step first time” the second box was “completed step after second attempt” and the third box was “completed it with assistance”. And we have also been told that we are going to use those same camera and tripods this year. I presume that Phil will do what he did last year and show us again how to set them up and make us take turns.
Health & Safety issues:
When I was talking about using a camera and tripod last year, we additionally got shown some health and safety tips when we set up the camera and tripod. We also got given “risk assessment” sheets in case of emergency’s and accidents that could happen on set. In this assignment, I will get another risk assessment section to do. It says it in the production schedule and we will do it next week.
Legal & Ethical considerations:
In my last assignment, the DVD menu work, we looked at legal and ethical considerations for making a DVD menu. This meant that I had a chance to learn and look at things like copyright infringement, anti-piracy and no racism or offensive content put in it. In the advert we make, we must make sure we do not do any product placement stuff. This is where there is another product being used or seen, mentioned or shown in the advert. When I did video production assignments last year, I edited the rushes using Windows Movie Maker. I found this easy to use and I already knew about how to use Windows Movie Maker long before I came to college.
Generic conventions – Style & techniques:
In past assignments, I covered things like what we have looked at, been shown how to format certain files, such as when we make a Photoshop document, we set the resolution to 100 and what size to put it as, and what format we should save it in, like JPEG or BMP. We should save it in BMP if we plan to print it out and put it in JPEG if we will share the file over the internet. And save it in GIF format if it is an animation or a company logo. I covered linking genre’s to conventions in my DVD menu assignment when we were studying existing DVD’s with the theme, colour etc.
Editing – capturing, logging & using the timeline:
In the video production assignments I did last year, I used Windows Movie Maker for both of them. As I have said earlier, I knew everything about it and about using the timeline in the program. The timeline was to show how much time there is and when a lip starts and when it ends. My advert cannot be less or more than 30 seconds long. I also learnt last year about when you film something on the college cameras, it is not in the correct format to be imported into Windows Movie Maker so after we have filmed the footage we needed for our assignments. We give the camera and tripod back to Phil and he edits the rushes by converted the files into WMV format making them compatible to be imported into Windows Movie Maker. He then lends us a hard drive with the files on them.
Responding to feedback & reviewing work:
Last September when I handed in a piece of work for DVD menu’s for our first assignment. We all did a “peer assessment” task, this was where all the students swap work and we all marked each others work. My feedback was very bad and I did a massive improvement over the weekend and resubmitted it the week after. The responding to feedback helps me very much because it says about what I need to improve on for resubmissions. Improvement plans also help me a lot because it helps me keep track of things that I need to do in the current assignment. Like small worksheets or tasks I forgot, missed out or didn’t do. Last year, although it was only a First Diploma course, I got merits and one distinction on all of my assignments. I got a pass on one thing but the only reason why I got a pass was because there was one missing worksheet, and the only reason why I never submitted this worksheet was because the teacher never gave us that worksheet. So despite that being a First Diploma course, unlike this one which is a National Diploma Level 3, I did not need to resubmit anything except for that one worksheet.
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