Client Project - St. Mary's Church Video

This is my first edit of the 2-minute video for St. Mary's Church. I showed this today at my tutorial and got some good feedback from my tutor. The feedback included things like re-taking some shots that are over exposed, include interior shots of the church, include images which could include historical images of the church, and lastly include a lot more still shots as there is too much movement e.g. panning, tilting, zooming etc. I will contact Wendy Piece again and schedule a day next week to film these extra shots.

Client Update

This is the title sequence that will be presented to the user upon initially viewing the Lace Market interactive tour. It is still really a rough draft as it needs to be improved further.

Client Project - Filming day Three

Today I filmed inside The Adams College and got some good interior shots. I filmed on floors one, two and three. Even though I only need a few shots to show the interior I collected quite a bit of shots. I got shots of the fashion rooms, film production studio, the media department and many others. Again, I used the Nikon D200 for higher quality of images as some may be used to go into the final product. Here are pictures from the today:

Client Project - Filming day Two

My partner in the group let me down massively today! No call, text anything. I turned up at 9.00am at university, waited a while... few hundred phonecalls. Nothing. However, I decided to go and film myself, seen as I went to all the trouble of gaining permissions etc. And yes, I took a Sony Z1 this time, I didn't bother to hassle with the Panasonic. Although I did'nt get any more interior shots, as there was rehearsals going on for a Hamlet play (want to find out more or buy tickets to this play: http://www.em-media.org.uk/pages/news/article?2B399DD7-98AF-45E5-9A95-229DEF0AA266). I did get some exterior shots. Didn't last long. Rain stops play... The sagas continue.
















Also, used a Nikon D200 today for better picture quality and testing with ISO, shutter speed etc. This picture was taken using the Nikon D200.

Client Project - Update

I've collected the clips I shot on the test day and also the first day of filming to edit, both which were shot using the Panasonic 151. I am now faced with a problem. The Panasonic 151 exports video in .MTS files. Now, I've tried to edit using my Premiere CS3 and home, however I have now found out that .MTS files are only recognised from CS3 upwards i.e. CS4 and CS5. Therefore, I edited at university. After a few hours I got the clips to work, however they were playing at a really slow speed. I asked our uni technician to help, but after a while he couldn't also work out what was wrong and said the computer at uni we not fully capable to handle these files and it would take REALLY LONG. And yes, I tried and look how long it told me it would take...

And that was just for 2 clips.














Only other option I could think of was to convert them. After looking/asking around I was given a good .MTS converter by my friend Chris. Okay, this does work (when it wants to), but it takes soooo long to convert. I've converted about 6 of 7 videos so far. Let's see where it gets me. P.s. I'm going to use a Sony Z1 from now on!

Client Project - Filming day One

Filmed the interior of the Broadway Cinema today. Lack of lights I think was a major issue here I believe (even though I insisted to take them, but my partner decided it would be fine for his video). As it being a cinema, only small spot lights could be switched on from the ceiling. Oh yeh, there was also a guy who came in to tune the piano at screen 2, so we had to deal with constant piano key smashing. Besides that, it went fine :)









































Next stop was St. Mary's Church, and as I thought... it was big. Caretaker there was fairly friendly. I got loads of really good shots, from the south, east, north and west side of the church. I mean, I could have been there all day. I took shots of all the the windows, the sculptures, the main church hall, and various shots of the great architecture all around the building. After about an hour and a bit we finished and wrapped up. I will now gain permission from Wendy from St. Peter's Church to film again next week.

Update: Client Project

Today, I went to the Galleries of Justice Museum and took the 'Lace Market Heritage Trail Audio Tour' to get a feel of the tour. I was given a small piece of equipment and some headphones to take with me. After this, I completed risk assessments for the videos I will be filming across the Lace Market.

Update: Client Project

I have completed all my storyboards and scripts for my Lace Market interactive tour. I have handed them in to be checked so that I can fully finalised them and start filming. I have not heard from my partner on the project, therefore I decided not to complete the storyboard and script for the 4-minute video we were meant to do as a team.

Here is an example of a storyboard for one of my videos:

Client Project

After having a meeting with Deborah, I know know fully what my client project will be about (as Deborah is my client). I will be, along with Abdul Seedat, be designing an App for the iphone to be used in the Lace Market area of the city centre in Nottingham. It will be an App designed as an interactive tour, informing people of what places of interest there are to visit. There will be three profiles for which this will be done; a student profile, a business man's profile, and a historical profile. We have the job of making the video content for this. The project seems very interesting, but at the same time very hard as there will be a lot of work and time needed to do it and as Deborah has already mentioned a lot of research will be needed.

The App will be an interactive tour for a certain pathway in the Lace Market area, which will start on the street where the Broadway Cinema is and will go along that. We will need to do a lot of research for this i.e. the History of the Lace Market and the way is which to make an App, and the coding etc. We will also look at existing App like this one and see what things they offer, and analyse these to see how the users experience of using the App can be made better.