вторник, 27 ноября 2012 г.

week 11 - success

Due to the failure of the smartphone video quality we started to try out the qualities of our school cameras, which turned out to be perfect for our idea. Within this week we continued to shoot new stories, and reshooted nedded materials. In addition  to that we started to edit the raw material of outdoor and in school shoots in the Pinackel and successeded to finish half of our storyboar scenes.
We tried out the effects, the one we found was perfect for our plans. We did not want the to input kitchy effects, but wanted something that will resemble the closing of the personal eyes do to the fact that camera is personalised in our video.
We tryied the ironic scenes and they worked very well, especially the scene with the who is the first egg or chiken argument. It was fun to shoot the scene, and being involved in acting.
The new strategy was found that the all of three of us will exchange the recponsibilities of camre woman and the actros playing, therefore making the video wore interesting and funny in the way. Since now it became the One day story of three IBS girls.  

week 10 - trying out recording devices

Week ten for our group was devoted to finding the right recording device for our music idea. At the first time we - our group together with our supervisor Andras decided that the best would be if we could shoot from the mobile device. Therefore, we started searching for the  best quality smartphone devices that could be used to record the one day of the student.
We thought it will bring the felling of everyday life of a usual student, as it was shooted from their point of you. As we know the smartphones became part of our lives, so why not to do it the eye of our lives. We tried out the Iphone camera, and Sony Ericson Xperia, where the letter one showed the better dimentions of video recording.
We started to shoot the cuts of our video, using our story board. From this time we devided our responsibilitie within the group and Valeria - became responsible for the presence of story board, and I was responsible for the logistics of the cameras, due to the fact that Sony was the phone of one of our best friends. The raw material was afterwards edited in Pinackle and we found out a majour problem of the video editing soft ware. It turned out that after editing the raw material the qualitiy of the video became worse.
Therefore we decided to solve this problem, and from now using the IBS small cameras.
The outcome of the Monday class were several shoots that were not damaged by the quality after video editing, and we draw our plans for next week to continue shooting. 

вторник, 13 ноября 2012 г.

Within this Class we also created more illustrative story board , and introduced new ideas.
As it come out, we decided to shoot Valeria, because in our opinion she is not only good in performing, but has an interesting character.

Therefore the main actress of our story will be Valeria, and other students (mainly our friends)
The scenes will be made at home, in the school and outdoor by the ipod, so that to create a particular  style and image. We will involve several visual effects, and there will be different angles.
The camera itself will be presented as the life person, as the eyes of Valeria and as the third person.
The aim of our video will be to present the day of student in ironic way, to make it funny and cheerful.










week 7, Part one

As an out come of the the second class, we came up with the extensive story board of the video. To create it we made a research, and also were brainstorming on personal experiences.

 The story:
1) Waking up at 6:30. The camera = eyes of the main hero - we can see the hand showing the alarm to the face.
2) Way to bathroom - the camera follows, but when the hero gets to the toilet - he/she shuts the door in from of it.
3) The camera goes around the apartment to enter the bathroom from the other side, and there we see the hero brushing teeth.
4) Still being sleepy and grumpy the hero pushes away the camera and goes to the kitchen to have a breakfast - the camera follows and sits to the table in front of the hero. We see a table with food and some juice. One hand grabs a glass of juice, the other takes some bacon from the plate.
5)Dressing up and leaving the apartment - the camera stays in the apartment
6) The hero comes back home to take the bags of trash
7) The hero also remembers to take the camera with him to follow.
8) Want to go by bike but the tyre is flat... Has to walk then to bus stop
9) On the way we show people's faces etc, sights on the way - church, fountains etc.
10) Hero stops in front of the window to check the reflection.
11) Going to school by bus reading the book
12) Showing the sights that are passing by in the window
13) After getting out of the bus goes to buy some snacks - checks fruits but finally buys something not so healthy, like a sandwich. On the way mets friends...
14) Comes to video production class, works on dittoing the video.
15) Checking the timetable - 2h gap... zoom in
16) Thinking what to do during the gap. Goes to the library and studies - checks time all the time but the times goes to slowly.
18) finally is getting to the lesson - lecture in Theatre Hall. While it really looks like heroes are studying, really we can see that there are doodling all the time in the notebook.
19) Goes eating to the canteen - scene similar to the breakfast one - eating 2-3 from the same plate.
20) Working in a team in the residence hall. While it looks like a serious discussion, actually the team is discussing what was first an egg or chicken.
21) going home by tram
22) scenes again
23) going shopping to the market
24) buying a lot of things, showing empty wallet, leaving the market overloaded with things etc.
25) leaving all the things at home, grabbing the sport bag and going to yoga class
27) The yoga instructor is showing 4-5 very difficult postures, the main hero cannot do those - gets frustrated.
29) Cooking at home - chickens on bottles.
30) Putting the table together - a lot of food and wine - a lot of people too. everyone is eating. In the end showing a huge belly of someone - the camera moves and we can see that all the people on the table are hardly seating of being totally full:) carrying the plates to the kitchen and washing all of them - everyone abandons 1 person to wash all the plates.
32) The main hero is getting out of the showed with a towel on the head and falls on the bed - to tired...
33) With the final second of the song we can see a hand crossing one of the days on the calendar.

We plan to shoot almost all the scenes, and include those , which were best in the video.
The music in 3:33 minute long, which means we have more than enoguh space for at least 2/3 from our list

week 6

This day We were introduced to our new module leader, Andras. This session was devoted to discussion of the plans created with Eike, and the development of ideas. Due to the shortened period of time, our group had to change the decision regarding the concept, and thus our group decided to do the video in the scope of our abilities and budget-wise
We  made the same steps in choosing the music,  the new theme for our video will be the Asaf Avidan - One day.
The new idea is created to shoot one day from the life of Student. Due to the fact that one of our group mates were absent for the class, we decided to create a short story board to discuss it together.
The idea of creating the video related to the school environment, came to our mind in the first class the only thing is that we were not able to find the appropriate music.  
And after a while we succeed to find the music which we believe fulfills the idea. In addition the style of music, gives more freedom to special ideas and scenes. Thus this song directly will create the atmosphere of an ironic one day that could be told as a story)

This Song has simple lyrics and temper, where one verse is repeated every time:

  One day baby, we'll be old
Oh baby, we'll be old
And think of all the stories that we could have told
And several times additional verse appears:


No more tears, my heart is dry
I don't laugh and I don't cry
I don't think about you all the time

But when I do – I wonder why

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