phew

well thats been at times a stressful three week hiatus what with getting everything sorted in all subjects.

success on all fronts. but... well problems aside i think the whole thing went okish.

in the group project we have had problems relating to some of our contributors, a couple dropping completly off the radar and others cancelling at the last minute, re-arranging, then cancelling again. but i think we have managed to create an entertaining and visually pleasing piece. ah well i have time booked into the broadcast lab tomorrow, i think, no email confirmation yet and i booked it on monday, maybe leaving it a little late to book but well, couldn't be sure on when i need to book it what with never knowing if we had someone more to film for the project.

the writing side of things, well, i think im on top of that. drawing on some of my influences i feel i have a nice collection of scripts and treatments for ideas wo put together into a respectable portfolio. just need to manage to print it all off.

in the individual, ive only really had one problem, and thats the other projects, putting too much time into them and less time into this. mr whitlock, the person giving me some footage of freddy, my subject, has had pc problems and i think he has learnt a harsh lesson in backing up all your footage. luckily he still has the tapes and has managed to restore his archive of skating in bath from the last few years to supply me with some footage, today, thank gods.

end of day...

done and dusted, filmed nathan, stu and mike. nikita cancelled at the last minute because of a doctors appointment so are filming her on friday.
hope you like the picture, thats me that is!
N.B. its not really it comes from a website picture index list here

a long long day, pt 1

part 1:
1007 hours.
tape striping, equipment checked, breakfast cooking.
megan picking me up about 1300 hours.
ok enough of the sillyness...
doing our filming today. megan is picking me up at 1ish and fiona afterwards and off we go for a day of filming excitment! first we are going... somewhere, to do some vox pops quickly, or as quick as you can do vox pops, then at 3 o'clock we are filming our first contributor, then about 5 we should be filming nikita and her brother, all of this in bristol, then after leaving nikitas we will be heading to warminster to film nathan and stu sometime around 7ish. oh a long day, then its back home to view and log rushes. da di da di do!

tattoo doc on tele

on natalie cassidys real britain on BBC3 she has had a tattoo artist from london finding her self a new shop. but whats interested me more is the shots of tattoos that they have shot in a studio. its like they have a revolving stage or something and the camera tilts up or zooms out from a position. damn i want to be able to do that.
anyway, been working on the title sequence as not had any shooting this week. its looking good, just needs fine tuning once the rest of the group has seen it and like how its going.

waiting for the contributors

it looks like my group and i will now have to travel to see the contributors and take photos and film the interview in their home or a suitably comfortable location. ah well. more fuss but i suppose it gives a bit more variety to the interview pieces with each background being in some way relevant to the subject on screen.