21st May 2010

This morning i finnaly finished my web page for the Music based programmin assignment this is now ready to be linked to the other pages next friday. The finishing touches included adding tables at the bottom of my page which displayed upcoming gigs with times and prices and who was playing and i had to stretch the body, left div and right div so that everything fit in comfortably.

We are also interviewing joe hibbert today because he has had good expierience with working with young offenders on a project called sound base.

20th May 2010

The others in my group looked at what i had changed and were pleased apart from that the title's i had given to some of the interviewee's were wrong but this was only rough and can be changed, this helped show what are kind of heading towards. Cara interviewed the mother of a young offender getting her opinions this was also captured and put in the bin along with the other clips i had also got the typewriting sound effects sorted for Opening Title.

19th May 2010

Me and Adam were scheduled to go down to wolverhampton today to meet and record the opinions and facts that Pauline Jones had to tell us, she worked for job centre plus and had alot of interesting facts to tell us as for what she had done and what young offenders she had worked with. Considering it took us about 1 hour 40 mins to get there it was a shame we only got about 7 mins of sound footage but what we got was all important to our documentary and very relevant. When me and adam got back at about 1 o'clock i put the sound files onto the editing suite we were using and listened to it back and was pleased with what we got. I then spent the next 3 hours purely starting on the online edit and did coulor correction, titles and edited the sound so everything sounded equal.

18th May 2010

Today was spent purely around the editing suites really, me and josh carried on working on the edit suite doing the same as yesterday and i carried on with some sound work, i also found some time to work on my genre essay.

17th May 2010

Me and Josh worked on the editing qiute this morning analysing diferent ways of putting the clips on the timeline in different orders and the effect it made on the viewer, so we now have 2 timelines, the original one we started on and a more recent one which is more up to date, i also put myself on the editing suite next to the one we were originally working on and lookfor typewriting sound effects and other sfx which would work well with or documentary where background music was possible to include.

In sharons lesson i carried on with my freelance portfolio i mentioned how i would work in that industry in terms of health and safety and how i would keep myself healthy and how i would manage my time so that deadlines were met on time and the production ran smoothly. on

14th May 2010

Colin's lesson: i have now fnished m actualy webpage for the radio shows which will eventually be connected to everyone else when they are finished. I have decided to make my own website consisting of around 5 pages about Music in general this include top artists, upcoming gigs and festivals and music news. I will use the layout and colour scheme that i have already used on the radio show page i made because it is attractive and the colour scheme works really well.

13th May 2010

On tuesday i thought i had captured all the vox pops but it seems they wernt saved which must have been my fault but when i got in Josh re-captured them and started moving them along the timeline to put a rough order to our documentary. This is hard because we really need more footage and a storyboard. I also got a new folder and started arranging my production folder for FMP.

11th May 2010

Today i worked closely with josh to start putting some of the footage together on the editing suite and then at about 11:00am i went into Stratford Town Centre and positioned myself on the road with subway on it because of the flock of people who move through there. I went with Cara and Lisa and we managed to record some quality vox pops on poeples views and stereotypical thoughts on youth offenders. I was on the camera while Cara went to try and get people to go in front of the camera and Lisa apperated sound. We got qiute a few people but unfortunatly we were catching most people on their lunch breaks so they didnt have time, this tells us in future though that is a better time to do the vox pops maybe earlier or around 1 we were told by the people of stratford.

10th May 2010

Today i got in and started capturing the previous footage that we had got. The footage contained the interview with Anne Mulliner, i watched this through and the footage came out really well although the volume of sound was a little low because she had qiute a qiuet voice but this can be edited to sound louder and equal to everyone else. The rest of the tape contained the footage from Upskill, this is what Adam, Josh and Emily went to get. Some of the footage contained some sensitive information from one of the guy's working there who had been addicted to heroine and he explained how upskill had changed him. We also got an interview with a guy called Trev who was one of the teachers/lecturer's he had some good opinion's and how he thought young offenders are treated but unfortunatly he did ramble on and repeat himself. The first interview was with Micheal Dunn and this turned out extremely bad. The crew were in the reflecion of the window, sound was awfull and the boom mic kept popping in the right hand corner of the shot like a little rat so this interview will need to be done again. We are in need of cutaways i feel and i am thinking of doing a reenactment of a crime possibly for the opening titles and a cut away of Trev teaching the young offenders would be brilliant thats if we go back in time.

In Sharons lesson we started on our freelance portfolio work, this reqiured me to critically anyalyse the state of the film industry because that is the area that i want to move into and then analyse the job role that i want to move into. In my case it would be editing so i need to evaluate what resources i will need to have and the attitude and skills i will also need to be able to handle a job like this.

7th May 2010

Adam, Josh and Emily drove down to Derby today to do an interview, we would have all gone but only 3-4 people were allowed and its extremely hard for me, cara and lisa to get up to sratford for 7:30 living so far away. At 12:30 i phoned josh to find out how it went and apparently it went really well and got some really sensetive responses. At 1:30 i split up from Lisa and Cara to practice editing since i am the main editor for our documentary.

In the website design lesson i got closer to finishing my webpage for music based programming, i also placed my hyper links on the left hand of my page, i have further fully understood CSS rules and how to apply them to my webpage. By next lesson the webpage will be finished and ill be working on my own website.

6th May 2010

Today was the scheduled day to interview Anne Muliner, we spent the morning rehearsing questions we were going to ask her and thought about how we were going to ask them so that we could get good replies giving us the information we need which will prove important and relative to the documentary. At 11 o'clock we set up and with phil's help we managed to make a good job of setting it up, with the camera angle and placement and we got to use a neck mic which belonged to phil. Sound came out really well and the white balance was good along. Unfortunatly because we had film studies we wont be able to look through the rushes untill monday.

3rd May 2010

This was our second attempt at our pitch but for our group it was more of a top up where we covered areas that we didnt in our pitch before. We managed to get all our points across to the lecturers/board and we able to answer all of the questions fired at us, we understood what we were talking about and were all on the same page.
Afterwards the group met up to talk about the interview we were going to do with Anne Muliner who works at Carrillion, we talked about what eqiupment we needed to get out and set the time of the interview at 11:30.

30th April 2010

Today we worked in Colin's lesson and carried on working on the website we were desgning. We learnt how to drop down menu's and apply them to our own pages, in my case i could use the drop down menu on my left hand side navigation bar and include hyperlinks in the drop down menu. I also to closer tofinishing the content of my page such as pictures and text information.

In John's lesson me and my group carried on with work towards our pitch we made the slides that we were missing to hit the higher grades, these were slides about things such as research methods and results and what the results have lef us two decision wise. We have also included slides about primary and secondary research and qualitative and quantitative research and a textual analysis on our documentary.