BBC Voices Certificate

Animation Evaluation

This is my e-sting (E4 idents stop motion animation media text) which I produced.

Drag Race

Constants 

As I am aware of the legal issues for Ofcom and the regulator, there isn't any brand or another copy right issue in the scene. There is one, which is E4's logo but on the guideline of the E4 competition we are allowed to used it. However the difficulty is on the filming which is using a human as a controlling Muppet, as they are always moving over the limit of the action and also do not always do what you exactly want. Even though there is a way, which is setting them up picture by picture but it will take too much time and wouldn't meet the deadline. Time available of the actor is also a big issue for the live action animation as we have to wait for the persons availability to film, which can be a waste of time.
Location in this scene is in college but during lesson time so there are not many students or staff using the path way, however unluckily during the filming time there is a person visiting the college and I had to wait for them to leave the path way which wasted time.

Management
At first I decided to use the idea of a guy wearing a suit, creepily following a girl but the scene is set at night and it's to dark to see the action even though I used DSLR camera and put The ISO on 6400. So instantly I quickly came up with another idea but completely forget about the unbelievable animation part and had to re-film again. Then I thought of the most simple idea which could be a great subject and I have 3 days left including that day. So I went out and filmed during lesson and finished it later that day.  I didn't stick to the original ideas which I did the research on because of this issue but on the final ideas I've strictly stuck with the story board and the process of the stop motion animation.
despite the issue and mistake in the process during filming, the project management was poor but my time management and planning for each scene worked well and I was still able to finish 2 days before the deadline.

Feedback
After the deadline, we watched the film and received/gave feedback to each other on both positive and negative. On the feedback I received, most of the students and teachers liked the fact that the audio and action worked well together, with black and white but leaving the original colour of E4's logo and the creativity of easy subject. On the negative side the frame is shaking while tracking and it's not so smooth. However most people like the ideas of "drag race" and the way the E4 logo is presented at the at the end of the scene.

 What have I learnt from this project.
As my project is on life action animation; I have learnt that the way to control people as objects can get frustrating as they won't able to understand you 100% .  Also, to come up with good ideas for life action animation of the impossible live movement and fit in 10 seconds, is not an easy thing to do even you plan it well. The rules and brief on the projects can cut down your creativeness; on this one it has to be 10 seconds exactly and it must have the E4 logo shown within that 10 seconds. This means the ideas have to fit in 10 seconds. There isn't time to make full sense in the scene to fit in the ideas.

 Would I taking animation further
To be truthful I've never been interested of working in animation as a career and now I've done some more of animation work including full production, paper work, editing, sound and filming, I've confirm that I'll never work for this industry. Animation as an industry isn't suitable for me at all as you have to be very patient for each movement which is not how I like to work.

DSLR test

DSLR test

This is a test on a DSLR camera. As a second year media student we've learnt how to used DSLR and all the settings on the camera to shoot the correct footage without using auto option. 

As it's only a test and not being marked, I don't have to worry about the credits in the end of the scene. On this production I take part as a camera man and editor. (This is the first production I've worked using a DSLR camera)

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Depict project - Story board

This is a story board for my depict 90 second short film project.


Story board for depict

This is my depict production project, this is the work that every group in my class (Media BTEC sub diploma, block C and D) has to spend the first week on. My group started on story boards and names for the 90 second short film. We did this by having an agreement and improving each shoot by going through it together as a group. 

Depict paper work

This is a picture of props and all the paper work for my depict project 90 second short film, which also includes talent release, location release and risk assessment.

Depict paper work

These are photos of the important equipment we needed to use for our Depict 90 second short film. These glasses belong to Sean Offord , our media teacher as this glasses looks like Harry Potters. I believe these glasses will fit well in our film. I'm thankful that we are able to borrow these from him.






This wand belongs to Lauren and we are in the same group. As she is a Harry Potter fan we're lucky and this wand is called Elder Wand. We took 2 pictures each in a box and on the table but we found that keeping it in the box makes it look a lot more attractive.




Wizardry for dummies
There is a book for this shot but we didn't buy it as we have no budget so we created out own book instead by typing up "wizardry" and recovering the original title but left out the dummies part .This book is also very important in this scene as we used this to the start of the film. The story will really start to begin after he start reading this book. The character
has been given one of those Harry Potter fans who goes a little crazy in his head. As the book is not real we created a spell book and stuck it in somewhere in between the middle of this book. The page was designed to look old and goes well with the spell style, we also looked for the best type of letter and lay out and also side of the letter. I think we worked quite well on this.






These is a paper work for Risk- Assignment,  permission on the location and also agreement release for the actor to make sure that we do everything in order for our Depict project.




















 

These are the pictures of the location ( East Norfolk Sixth Form College's library ) we are shooting in from different views. We worked on where the camera should go as it's a small room, so we have to make sure the location is suitable. However, after work out the location we designed to shoot in this place as this is the most suitable place in our college.

Proposal For Documentary

This is a proposal for my 3 minute wonder documentary film.

Proposal

Original ideas
At the very first start I had 3 ideas for my media text documentary style. My first idea is about ''adults with learning difficulties shows'' (seagull theatre in Lowestoft) which is about people with learning difficulties including autism, downs syndrome  who work as an actor/actress in this theatre (this film will mainly show about fact, opinion, process and improvement for those with learning difficulties).
The second idea which was suggested by the teacher is about me as a person from Thailand in the UK, which mainly focuses on me, including the way I feel living in the UK, how hard is it to change everything to fit in to the culture, my original every day life and my family back ground.
My third idea is about a teenager who was abused when he was a child which is my personal interest and I believe this should be exposed to the public. This is a very interesting idea, think it is one of the best ideas I have out of all. However after talk to my teacher (Ellie) she suggested that this topic will be very hard to create because I will need to cover up the person's identity and plus the time I'm given to create this video wont be enough, and to make this video I'll have to be very careful of what I am doing. After the suggestion I stuck with very first idea which was The Seagull Theatre because my second ideas have some of the personal issues of why I cant make it.
I chose number 1 - learing difficult and theatre
My documentary 3 minutes wonder ideas is about people who work with those who have learning difficulties at The Seagull Theatre in my area. From my research I have found a few interesting techniques that can be used in my documentary film, such as voice over to describe the situation but at the same time the character is talking,  and this way sound track can be used. This film will mainly focus on the feeling and process and what the staff love about their jobs. As those people with disability work at The Seagull Theatre this means I'll film behind the stage and in front of the stage if with the permission of the theatre and the people.
If possible I'll also interview the manage to get an in depth opinion of why he's running this theatre.
Purpose
The main purpose of this documentary  is to challenge the usual stereotypes about people with disability by focusing on the staff's opinion and experience. Without a story board, because this is a documentary style, I'll have to used recce techniques and decide where the camera can be put beforehand. To make this form of documentary successful I'll have to use mixture of different documentary techniques and styles but base it on observational documentary. This is special interest type of documentary also it's also my personal interest and I believe this assessment can be used as a opportunity for me to access the way this theatre's running and learn more about those people.
Target audience
From my primary research I believe my main target audience is a slightly older teenager to middle age between 18 - 50. However this means there will also be people of other ages that are interested in my documentary subject for example the age between 15-17 and 50+.  I also believe this subject can have a very wild range of audience including people who have disability in their family.
Location
I'll film at the seagull theatre in Lowestoft which is about 35 minutes walk from my house and this shouldn't make to much of a problem for me. I know one of the staff that work there very well and this will make it quite easy for me to access in the building (as the person I know has asked for permission for me).

Who will need to be in the scene
To make this scene successful I'll need to have the staff, those actor/actress with disability and even better with the manager to express their view and show the way they work in the film. In this project I'm working on my own so it will take less time to film because I wont need to make an agreement with other students. I can also design how I want it to be exactly and I will need to take part as a director and editor.
Interview
My idea in this film will mainly be 'talking heads', this means I'll need to provide the interviewee the questions and give them times to be able to think what they going to talk about. So the question for the actor, actress with disability is how they feel about working in The Seagull Theatre. The question for the staff will be about how they feel working with disabled people and what they love about it. If I can interview the head officer the question for him/her will be what is the purpose this theatre.
Props and budget
Props and costumes will be usual for every day life to make this documentary style narrative and look as normal as possible. This means I wont need to provide props but will need filming equipment e.g. camera, tripod etc. As I don't have any budget given to make this documentary so if I need anything in order to be able to created this documentary style  I'll have to spend my money.
Update after discussion with my teacher
I need to work out who I will focus the documentary on - In the documentary I'm not going to focus on one person, so I'll focus on the staff/disability people's feeling and the process that they are giving during the acting. The main point of this documentary is to show the main purpose of the theatre. By using mixture of documentary style filming and editing techniques I believe it will help to get to the audience 's emotion.

Research Dossier

This is a research of an existence media text on the screen play projects which is similar to my story ideas and also includes the rules to write a screen play and the competition for screenplay.

Research Dossier

Film Completion- Think-future 

I wish to enters my media text into Think-future, Think-future is a national youth film festival competition. it's given youth the opportunity to be a part of something big and getting a very own awarded.

Think-future rules to enter feature films.
(only for NYFF Short Film Award Categories All Short)

How to Enter The Feature Film



























Enter Your Film click here.


Other

Screen Play Format

I took this screen play from the BBC writer room and writing in the box to show the format and lay out for the screen play. this screen play are for "Remember Me" with the genre of drama horror.

Good used of script writing!

A good development of character included inner presence, outer presence and context. These roles are to show the character's expression and in-depth about character.Outer present are showing the outer looks of the charter ; age, gender, clothing, grooming,style of speech and language. For example "In the next valley, a panting man in his 40's stares along the

towpath of the canal." This showing the age of the character.

(If you realize all the dialogue in this part of the the film; Hannah is singing Scarborough 

Inner presence are showing the "dominant attitude" of the character created by their interior. This also include their intelligent,knowledge,personality temperament believe ,fear, goal ans self-image. Fore example "In the next valley, a panting man in his 40's stares along the towpath of the canal. Acting Detective Sergeant ROB FAIRHOLME is deep in painful thought, hardly noticing the beautiful

hills that surround him." ;this show that Rob Fairholme have a secret or something that's going on in his mind that usually wont be tell in the scene just yet. Sometime this can be hard to show by an act as the setting of camera and maybe music back ground included have to be perfect. 

Context is a word of the character created by  their environment, relationship with friend,colleagues, their culture, their ethnicity, their class/education, where there bough up, their personal history or even their life. For example if the dialogue of Hanah was the speech instead of the sing i 'd believe that she been bought up back in the older day , white , middle age,middle education and working class background.

This is the very first scene direction from "Remember Me", the scene direction are written in the present tense. The words used to describe this scene are short but keeping a great values of imaginative.  "ROB FAIRHHOLME", The  name that is mentions in the scene direction is also using capital, therefore the reader don't get confuse; this scene direction are greatly following the structure of script writing. Also slug line are clearly describing the time when the scene 's set which show a  great structure of the begin of horror films.

This dialogue belong just after the scene direction that's I've analysed above. It's greatly following the structure of scrip writing; as the name of the character who's talking are right above it and also set in the center of dialogue. This dialogue can tell  a little bit about the character's class, personality and age; within 9 words! however this is a sentence in a song, with the lyric and music it's I would describe this as creepy.

2 short that I like

Beirut, I Love You (I Love You Not) is a ten minutes short, this film is one strange film that spread out big range of meaning which could related to love e.g. "lighting candles and blowing it right after", " smiling at stranger and see how they respond", "looking at the dead end that no one never notice"; what starts will ends, living every life forward the future, seeing someone in a different ways as everyone else. It's also an old styles,the scene are sets to looked like it's back in the olden days. Because of the music used in the scene at the beginning; if I close my eyes and just listen to the dialogue I would say this film is some how related to Weston genre. Even thought I could not understand the sound of dialogue, but still, the none digestive sound are able me to know what the film is basically talking about. The strange part which seem like there is nothing related to the scene is making the main part of the story stand out even more. This strange part in the middle of the scene is began when both of the main character meet which show the audience that every feeling that they could related to are running trough their mind when they meet the right person. My main reason why I like this scene is because it's showing a great used of non digestive sound and raise the action using mainly music back ground. It's also complicated to understands, theses technique that's show in this scene is very unusual.

Watch video - Vicky and Sam

Vicky and Sam is a ten minutes short, it's a short about making a short which is a simple ideas of film. However the used of camera techniques are perfect! Also the action in this film is very professional. What I like the most in this scene is the used of montage technique and the timing between 2 stories in the scene. Also the fact that one stories is hardly any dialogue and another is mainly using dialouge for the act.

Motivation of similar successful films

About Butterfly Effect

In chaos theory the definition of Butterfly Effects is the sensitive independence on the initial condition. Meaning that if there is a change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large difference in later state, in which I believe this is where the name of the film came from as I've watched this film and this is what it's about.

The Butterfly Effect is a science fantasy psychological thriller, the film received poor reception but was nevertheless commercial success. producing gross $96 million from a budget of $13 million.
The film also won the Pegasus Audience Award  and was nominated for best Science Fiction at the Saturn Awards and choice movies:thriller in Teen Choice Awards. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butterfly_Effect 

The main character in this scene is Evan Treborn  (play by John Patrick Amedori), The character who loss certain part of the memory in his child hood. As his child hood he's in love with Amy Smarts; the girl who play the main part of his motivation to time travel later in later state. Evan discovered that the loss his in his childhood is because in his adult hood he goes back to used his childhood body to change certain part in his future.

The Butterfly Effect (2004) Trailer

About- Heroes
Heroes is a TV series, it's about people who have the super human power, each have different power, e.g healing, flying, control of heat and fast as super sonic. But there is a guy who is able to space-time manipulation, Hiro Nakamura who were told by a leader of one supper human group, that if he want to change one thing then change one thing.
As this is a series so there is so many main character however there is the only 1 character that I' m interested in which is Hiro Nakamura. Hiro Nakamura are play by Masi Oka who's an American and Japanese actor. Hiro Nakamura is a fictional character he presses the ability to space - time manipulation. the name Hiro is short for Hiroshima in the series.
Hiro is an office worker specially level 3 programmer at Yamagato in Tokyo who were one day discovered the bend the space and time. He's also a fan of manga science fiction and supper heroes, However at the start Hiro is only able to speak Japanese and relying on his best friend Ando Mashahashi as an translator but as the series go on his English is developed.

About- About Time

About time is a romantic fantasy comedy-drama,  it's about a guy called Time which discover the family secret of time traveling. he's going to used this power to make his world better but it's not easy as you think; because sometime you can not change something with out consequences and sometime there's something that you couldn't change.

Tim (play by Domhnall Glesson) is a romantic and not so confident character because he is scared and worried that something may go wrong all the time. Then one day he discovered the power to time travel which make him a lot more confident then his actual self  because he know if he messes up he's able to change it as many as you want.

About Time trailer (2013)

What have I found after the research
1. All the main character is playing the roles of a nerdy romantic personality.
2. The motivation of those character is to make a brighter future with the love one.
3. Sometime there is a thing you could but it will be consequence but there is also something that you cant.
4. If you change the past the future will also change; whether it's a good or bad.
5. Sometime it's better to enjoy present because the will future could be worse.
6.Theses kind of story could be happening any where.




Audience Research
Quantitative 
I used the interview to find out the interest of target audiences by asking 15 people their age, gender and tell them about my story using the log line and what will happen. Most of them say if the story is well planned and if there is not any gap of mistake to be question they will like the film. However there is not many fan of a time traveling genre type but they are interested in the romantic and drama side of the film. From the interview data the rate out of then form the film is based around 7, surprisingly it's very close to both films I've research above. Some of them say they like the fact that it's straight forwards but also leave  some of the complication stereotype of science fiction genre.

Note
People the age of 18 and above are mostly interested in my film but rest not into Romantic,science fiction type.

The rate out of 10 for the film is 7

More then half of my target audience is female, "I like the romantic and drama side"

Feed back from the Pitch
Most of people like the ideas but it's hard to imagine as it seems complicated and the transition on the traveling back in time have to be something more creative; in which I change it to the stop watch.
Filming night time going to be hard and the actor/actress have to be great to created to emotion and pass it to the audiences. Having full story of time traveling in ten minutes seem impossible.




Why did i chose to write science fiction genre?
I have always been interested in the thought of being able the change the past, being able to go back in time to change certain mistake if life and here is this film call  "The Butterfly Effects". This film show me that you shouldn't, if there is one distraction on the past it will determine a large change in different state. The changing and the large change in later state when they is a distraction always going the get worse. However there is one TV series that i just finished watched recently call Heroes and on one of the episode they is a part where one character is talking to other character who's a time traveller, he says to the time traveller "if you want to change one thing, then change one thing" within an act that he throw a ball to the stacking up cup and only one that fall off. and this give me an ideas that I could make a scene that fit in 10 minutes but montage technique will be used quite a lot.
However both of the film used a lot of effects on the traveling point; where the character is going back in time. Which mean if am going to make it, it will take mounts. but then there is a film call "about time " which is the only film that I find easy to set up while filming and don't used any effect while  traveling in time. and it would work to be a  low budget film.
Still, the thought of making a full science fiction movies would no way being a great story in 10 minutes so I used the romantic and drama side to add in the scene, in fact the motivation for these this movies I mentioned are also using romantic and drama as it's motivation.

Other existence text about time travel, love and death 

Book:
The Time Traveler's Wife

The Time Traveller's Wife published in 2003. It is a love story about a man with a genetic disorder that causes him to time travel unpredictably, and about his wife, an artist, who has to cope with his frequent absences and dangerous experiences.
Source : (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Traveler's_Wife)


Book:
Outlander

Out lander is the first in a series of eight historical multi-genre novels by Diana Gabaldon. Published in 1991, it focuses on 20th century nurse Claire Randall, who time travels to 18th century Scotland and finds adventure and romance with the dashing James Fraser. A mix of several genres, the Outlander series features elements of historical fiction, romance, adventure and science fiction/fantasy.
Source: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlander_(novel)


Book
The Time Traveler

Imagine changing centuries—and making things worse, not better, on both sides of time.
When 15-year-old Annie Lockwood travels back 100 years and lands in 1895, she at last finds romance. But she is a trespasser in time. Will she choose to stay in the past? And if she does, will she be allowed to stay?

Source: (http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Time_Travelers.html?id=POILIuqYiIcC&safe=vss&redir_esc=y)

News:
(Dies for love one)

This is a news story about love, death the beatiful sacrifice, 3 boyfriend die protecting their love one.
The vedio abouve will show that truth love does exist.


Harvard Referencing

Think-Future http://thinkfutures.net/2013/09/27/national-youth-film-festival-competition/
accessed on 16-December 2014

Pearce, A. Remember Me (BBC, 2014) (script available at  http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scripts/Remember-Me accessed on 17-December 2014 )

 Munia A./ Cyril A. LAbanoon  Beirut, I Love You (I Love You Not) (2009)
Avalible at http://shortsbay.com/film/beirut-i-love-you-i-love-you-not
Access 13 January 2015

Nuno R./Potugal   Vicky and Sam (10 mins Short) 2010
Avalible at http://shortsbay.com/film/vicky-and-sam
Access 13 January 2015

E. Bress/J. Mackye Gruber Butterfly Effects 2004
Available at  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butterfly_Effect
access on 14 January 2015

NBCUniversal Television Studio Heroes (series)2006-2010
Available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_%28TV_series%29 
Access on 14 January 2015

R. Curtis About Time (2013)
Available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About_Time_%282013_film%29
Access on 15 January 2015

A.Niffenegger The Time Trveler's Wife (2003)
Available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Traveler's_Wife
Access on 16 January 2015

D. Gabaldon Outlander (1991)
Available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlander_(novel)
Access on 16 Januarry 2015

Daily News Three heroes died Aurora taking bullets for their girlfriend. 
Available at http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/aurora-shooting-died-bullets-sweeties-article-1.1119395
Access on 16 January 2015