Tuesday, 3 May 2011

Jobs in Tv and film

Camera operator:
A person that operates a film or video camera for the purpose of recording a production to film, video, or a computer storage medium. A camera operator serving in an official capacity in the process of filmmaking may also be known variously as a cameraman, television camera operator, video camera operator, or videographer, depending on the context and technology involved.

Focus Puller:
 focus puller or a 1st assistant cameraperson, is a member of a film crew’s camera department whose primary responsibility is to maintain image sharpness on whatever subject or action is being filmed.

Lighting Director:
The job of a lighting director is to:
  • decide on the equipment and crew required;
  • instructing and overseeing the work of lighting technicians;
  • liaising closely with the director and set designer;
  • making decisions about the camera angles, positions and equipment required for scenes, which are then shot by the camera operator.
Director of photography:
A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera (the art and science of which is known as cinematography). The title is generally equivalent to director of photography (DP), used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image.

Animator:
An animator is an artist who creates multiple images that give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence

Stunt Person:
stunt performer, stuntman, or daredevil is someone who performs dangerous stunts instead of the actor or acress in the film or TV programme

Art dirtector:
The term art director is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film and television, the Internet, and video games

Vision mixer :
vision mixer (also called video switcher, video mixer or production switcher) is a device used to select between several different video sources and in some cases composite (mix) video sources together and add special effects

Sound recordist:
A production sound mixer, location sound recordist, location sound engineer or simply sound mixer is the member of a film crew responsible for recording all sound and sound effects on set during the photography of a motion picture, for later inclusion in the finished product, or for reference to be used by the sound designer, sound effects editors, or foley artists. This requires choice and deployment of microphones, choice of recording media, and mixing of audio signals in real time.

researcher:
A researcher is somebody who performs research, the search for knowledge or in
general any systematic investigation to establish facts.

continuity assisstant:
The Continuity Assistant in broadcasting is responsible for ensuring that all
commercials and programming sold by the sales and programming departments

special effects make-up artist:
A make-up artist ensures that models, performers and presenters have suitable make-up and hairstyles before they appear in front of cameras or an audience. This may be in a variety of settings, including film, television, theatre, live music and photographic shoots.

Composer:
A person who makes the music for the prgramme/ film eg. theme song

Location Manager:
the person who decides where the film/programme should be shot.

Foley Editor:
The Foley Editor, the Supervising Sound Editor and usually the Director and/or the Picture Editor attend a Spotting Session

ADR dialogue editor:
The dialogue editor assembles, synchronises, and edits all the dialogue in a film or television production. Usually they will use the production tracks: the sound that was recorded on the set. They will smooth it out in terms of volume and equalisation. If any of the production tracks are unusable they can be replaced by either alternate production tracks recorded on set or by ADR, automated dialogue replacement, which is recorded after the shoot with the actors watching their performances in a sound studio and rerecording the lines. Large productions may have an ADR editor working under the dialogue editor, but the positions are often combined. The ADR editor or dialogue editor also work with the walla group in films which they are required, providing the background chatter noise in scenes with large crowds, such as parties or restaurants.

Screen Writer:
The person who writes the scrips

Construction manager:
Construction Project Management is the overall planning, co-ordination and control of a project from inception to completion aimed at meeting a client's needs

Casting director:
A feature film, or commercials director will hire a Casting Director to assist them the casting of many of the roles in the film.


Health and safety consultant:
They make sure that everything is within the health and safety regulations, so that they are all safe when shooting the TV programme or Film.

Steadicam Operator:
A Steadicam operator can change from lowmode to highmode without any alteration. Dimensions are not limited to ups and downs

Grip:
Grips are lighting and rigging technicians in the film and video industries

Gaffer:
A gaffer in the motion picture industry is the head of the electrical department, responsible for the execution.

Tuesday, 22 March 2011

dummy footage



Whilst starting to edit the dummy footage Sophie decided to leave our group and join another so me and Mel decided to dedicate different jobs between the two of us to make it work. We got our teacher to help us do the filming as there is parts that we could not do on our own due to lack of people in our group. 

Thursday, 10 February 2011

Anamatic

StoryBoard






















Risk Assessment










Minutes


whilst doing the risk assessment me and the rest of me group had to think about and consider the possible risks of being in the place we had decided to film in. We decided that we would film at the mill damn which is a woodland area to the side of a river. During our risk assessment we found a few risks that is due to objects lying around the wood, slippery surfaces etc.

the risk assessment did not have t be used as there was no risks that effected us when we were filming.

Thursday, 6 January 2011

Minutes for thriller opening sequence

4th January 2011 -
Sophie, Jasmine and Melissa. We discussed the locations where we could film and the ones that are easy to access for us. We then decided as a group on the theme of the opening and what shots we would use. Some of the shots that we will use include a canted shot of a tree with nail scrapings embedded into it, many POV shots and low angle shots. We will also use a train track that is near us to add a little bit more drama. We will use quick panning to create the effect that the person is running around checking if anyone is behind her. We decided on filming in the woods by Wem mill and the roads surrounding it. We decided to film in the dark as this would look quite creepy and it will create lots of shadows which will add effect. We decided that we would use editors to input sounds such as twigs breaking and heavy breathing.

6th January 2011 -
Sophie, Jasmine and Melissa. Today we started to storyboard our idea, we all drew the shots that would be used in the opening. We will then upload our storyboard to Blogger once it is finished.

20th January 2011 -
Sophie, Jasmine and Melissa. Today we carried on storyboarding out idea. We also uploaded some footage that we recorded for our thriller the other day onto our Macs. We will then edit this on Final Cut Express once we have finished storyboarding.

25th January 2011 -
Sophie and Jasmine. Today we uploaded more footage as the original footage was lost on our Macs. I continued to storyboard as Jasmine worked on uploading the footage. We had problems uploading as the cameras kept running out of battery.

27th January 2011 -
Sophie, Jasmine and Melissa. Today we were unable to edit our footage as Final Cut would not open our videos. We decided that we needed to re-shoot some of our footage as we missed out shots that are necessary to the opening.

3rd February 2011 -
Sophie, Jasmine and Melissa. Today we completed the risk assessment for our production as the college's server had gone down and we were unable to do anything else.

8th February 2011 -
Sophie, Jasmine and Melissa. Today we scanned our risk assessment into our blogs and we completed our storyboard and scanned them into our network. Next lesson we will create an animatic out of these images.

15th February 2011 -
Sophie, Jasmine and Melissa. We were going to shoot our video again today, but the it decided to rain so we couldn't film. Instead we decided to tidy up our blogs and finish any loose ends.

17th February 2011 -
Sophie, Jasmine and Melissa. Today we tried to use Garageband to start our soundtrack for our thriller opening.

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