Article on YMCA website about our film

Uni OVER and work progress update...

Well uni is over for this year... and damn its a relief! Past few weeks I have been working on my final project, Making a DVD menu of all of our work done this year. Handed that in last week after hours in Adobe Encore, but pleased to say I am now finished.

Okay, few things that need to be done now. Met up with Jill Robinson last week day after hand-in, to wrap up our work. We have been asked to produce a batch of copies of the YMCA Documentary film, as it was requested by several people from YMCA's over the country. I suggested for this, that I will make a DVD menu. So I guess the next few weeks I will be doing that. Short clips from the film will also be produced to be put up onto the YMCA website.
Besides that, I have tried to get a copy of the ALIVE project, the green screening from the people we worked with. However, they have not yet completed the edit. So as soon as I get that I will post it up here!

Umm what else... Oh ye I have a client for our final year project. Just to be a bit ahead of the game, Im going to be meeting up with Deborah to discuss the project and hopefully meet the client to sort things out. I have also come up with ideas for my final year research project and some artefacts, but I think I will need to think up a few more. So thats a task for me to think over in the holidays!!

Just realised I haven't uploaded the full version of the YMCA film. Will post that in the next blog. Have a great summer guys and enjoy!

Artefact 1

Today, we filmed our first artefact for our practice experiments. We have been asked to complete a plan of 2 artefacts, with an abstract explaing them, and if we can, make at least 1 artefact.

We have chosen the subject of Online TV, and the question we experimented was 'How has Online TV affected the viewer's experience?'. Looking at research, we realised the main audience that watched online tv are `8-25 year olds.
Therefore, we went out today and filmed 30 young 18-25 ear olds and asked the the question, along with what method would they prefer to watch their TV progammes on?

Take a look:

YMCA Update ...National Conference Speech

Just checked my e-mails and I have recieved an audio recording of our film screening at the YMCA National Conference, from one of the organisers of the event. I have asked for the video recording of this also.

YMCA Update

Met up with Jill Robinson today from the YMCA Insync Standards to discuss how we are going to take the project on further. We discussed some extra clips to post up on the YMCA website. We have also been asked to put the final film onto DVD and make about 25+ copies to give to all the participants and other YMCA's across the county who want to make use of it.

I suggested we make a DVD label and also a DVD menu to go with it (put our practice to the test!) as it being a real client, and this will also be good practice. A few YMCA's have requested the film also.

However, we will do this after 2 weeks, when all our university deadlines are over and we agreed to meet up again then.

Jill also agreed to write us up a reference for the work we have done.

New Project/Client taken up....STAR Access Alliance

I have taken up a new project in the past week. I will be working with a company called STAR, which manages the 'Access Alliance Programme' in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, which funds transport projects to improve access to employment and training. The 4-year Programme is due to come to an end in November 2010 and the company would like to have a permanent record of the achievements of the Programme.

They require a 5 - 7 minute video, which would include interviews with the project funders (Derbyshire Economic Partnership), a selection of project managers and a selection of end-users who have been assisted to access work and training.

I have an initial meeting with two of the people from the company this Monday at 10.30am, in which we will discuss what they require.

YMCA England Project Update

Well, we have had a little break after our film screening at the YMCA National Conference. We are now going to meet up with Jill this Monday at 12.00pm to wrap up and discuss what we are going to do further with the project now that the film has been completed. We have now been asked to produce short clips to take from our completed film and make them for the YMCA England website.

Fashion Shoot Day 3 complete... and further progress

We have filmed our final day of interviews for the fashion exhibition last week and it was a long day. We have also captured all the tapes from both cameras (yes all 15 and took 3 days) and it is now ready to be edited.

We have spoken to the three fashion students we are working with and have discussed the way in which they want us to make certain aspects of the film. They will come along when the edit, as they want to gain a little experience in editing.

Today, I will start editing the film and will have a draft version done by next week.