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Alastair Simpson

1452

CLAREMONT FAN COURT SCHOOL 64680

 Welcome to my blog.

I worked with Oliver Roberts 1449 and Callum Drewett 1413

I hope you enjoy my blog for H540 Media Studies G324 Advanced Portfolio in Media.

I took specific responsibility for filming the airplane scene as well as the running and sports scenes, directing the hospital scene and editing the trailer.

Brief 2:
A promotional package for a new film, to include a trailer, together with a film magazine front cover, featuring the film and a poster for the film.

Our TRAILER is immediately below. My individual FILM MAGAZINE COVER and individual POSTER are above.

All my RESEARCH and PLANNING follow below that on the main blog roll, in reverse order, starting with the latest first. To present my research and planning, I have used a wide variety of platforms and tools, including emaze and piktochart.

My EVALUATION is above under four Pages. Clicking on each tab will show the research and planning that went into my responses to these questions. 
To present my responses, I have used the following platforms: 
question 1 on genre conventions: Analysis of my promotional products with annotations.
question 2 on combination of main production with ancillaries: Visuals of the products and an explanation of how they are synergised with each other
question 3 on feedback:  Emaze 
question 4 on technologies: Visuals of which technologies I used throughout my coursework

Below you can see the final promotional product which is our movie trailer

CONSTRUCTION: HOSPITAL CUTAWAY SHOT

Whilst constructing our shot for the Hospital scene I was the director for the scene and Callum Drewett was the cameraman. Our shot consisted of a full shot showing the room that the actress was in to show the environment around her.

For the camera shot, we started with a head level shot and then went to a slightly lower angle shot as we panned and tracked the movement of our actress. We used this pan and movement to differentiate this shot to others and make this shot seem more fluid as we edit it together with other shots.

We set up some objects in the background of the image to make the scene look more like a hospital, you can see a hospital bed as well as a container where dangerous chemicals or needles would be put if they need to be disposed of. This makes the scene more believable in order to create a more realistic scene.

CONSTRUCTION: TV NEWS REPORT SHOT

In the starting sequence of our trailer we will show a reel of different news reports talking about North Korea as well as Artificial Intelligence (AI). We will also create our own news report where we see and interviewer, interviewing Max Tegmark the writer and author of Life 3.0 where he talks about the dangers of AI in the future and how it will change the way that the world works. In this short clip of the interview, the audience will find out how dangerous AI is and that North Korea have made multiple cyber attacks using this technology against their enemies.

In the end we didnt use this idea, we found that artificial intelligence was irrelevant towards the plot of our trailer. Instead we made our own news reports by using a green screen and putting news report footage and images behind the people who we had speak in the news reports. In these images below you can see the way that we set up the greenscreen in order to create our very own news reports.

CONSTRUCTION: PLANE CONVERSATION

Involved in the construction of this scene was the process of building the green screen. We also used an Ipad with the application Green Screen by Do Ink to insert a background of the outside of a plane. We used live action filming in this scene and the actor in this scene acted as the father towards the teenagers who are the main characters in our trailer.

This was the way we set up the green screen, we had the actor in frame on the Ipad with the application that rendered the image onto the green screen.

For the second layer we used an image of plane windows with the windows being a green screen so that we could put our own video of the outside of an aeroplane onto the green screens of the window.

The live footage of a birds eye view of London was taken from a British Airways flight this year that shows iconic London buildings like Tower Bridge as well as the hugely recognisable River Thames

This is how we set up the green screen alongside the Ipad with a tripod so that the frame was straight whlst we filmed the scene.



Then we used our actor for this scene, made his upper body in the frame, filmed him doing his lines and that was the end of the scene. This is how it turned out, with the moving image you can see the different environment moving in the windows of the plane. This meant that there were three different layers when filming this scene, the first layer being the live action actor. The second layer being the frames of the aeroplane windows, and then the third layer being our own filming from the outside of an aeroplane.