< Research into potencial Client for Year 3 >

One orgionasation that has court my eye is De Montfort Hall in Leicester. De Montfort Hall is a major concert hall located in Leicester City Centre. It puts on concerts for major acts ,live performances and plays. The idea that has intrested me is doing a promotional piece for them whice could include an advert for tv, promotional documentry for them or content for thoer website. I have come to this conclusion becuase they are a major venue in the east midlands but doesnt have a wide rage publicity if any. Looking at their website it doesnt have any videos of their venue or what they offer potencial clients. Futhermore its promotion through video is non existent. This is why i feel their is potencial for me here to do something.



Another orginisation that has caught my eye is a charity called Voluntary Action LeicesterShire. They are a voluntary organisation that acts to involve volunteers and local groups in improving life in Leicester and Leicestershire.VAL was first established in 1965 as the Council for Voluntary Service for Leicester and has developed into a major force for change and improvement in the City.

The project that intrests me about this orginsation is The 'ACE Project' .This project gives young people a voice, and enables them to be active in the design and planning of environmentally friendly activities for young people aged 10-13. They also have a project steering group of 11-13 years olds who actively contribute to project design, delivery and decision-making.

There is an opertunity for this orgination for them promote the good work their doing aswell as a documenting their work for other people to watch the good work their doing.

< YMCA Project 3>

This is a video diary of the first day we shot for the YMCA Project in Liverpool.

< YMCA Project 2>

Meeting to discuss YMCA video
Nottingham Trent University
Wednesday 27th January
Jill’s notes


Present: Deborah Tuck, Abdul Seedat, Umar Hussain, Jill Robinson

Points of Actions

1. Dates for Filming

Abdul to check that equipment is booked for each of the dates

Dates confirmed as follows:

Liverpool 10 February (Wednesday)
London 15 February (Monday)
Nottingham 3 March (Wednesday)

Abdul confirms that Alan and Duncan are also available on those dates.

2. Purpose, audience, length of video

Deborah advises that clips for website be about 1.5 minutes each and that the whole video should be several minutes long.

This will mean very clear focus when preparing and filming. There will be a lot of unused material which could be edited and archived. It is suggested that students could be paid at a rate of £8 - £10 per hour to do this, as they will have already given a great deal of their time and skill to the project.

Short clips will be provided for the website and the whole piece will be used with different audiences, including people at National Assembly (provided organising committee happy) and YMCAs and individuals considering self and peer assessment.

Simon Badman (YMCA England Head of Communications) will be asked about any additional stock shots he would like to have and will be kept informed about progress.

3. Approach to filming participants

Deborah advises that we think carefully about how people come across when different techniques are used.

Talking straight to camera can be too authoritative and formal.
Need to get people relaxed and smiling and easier for them to be expressive about their experience when they are looking slightly aside and talking to somebody.
Need to structure interviews/ questions/ conversations beforehand and Jill to take a lead on interviews to give the crew time to do all the technical stuff. Interviewer can be edited out.

It may be that old photos could be used to show ‘before’ and ‘after ‘.

Whole tone of video to be upbeat and inspiring. We will need to work consciously with this!

4. Risk Assessments

These are needed for each location that the students will visit and there are forms, which Abdul will circulate

The main points to be covered:

Students to be informed of fire drill and any other relevant procedures at each venue
Each venue to evidence safe use of electricity in designated filming space
Safe lockable room to be provided at each venue for university’s equipment (which is being provided without charge)
Each venue to ensure that permissions are agreed by all present and that team be made aware of people who do not consent to appear. Badge could be provided.

It would help the team if photographs could be provided of rooms to be used at each venue

Risk assessment and photos to be shared by 3rd February

5. Celebrating the partnership

Deborah and Jill both keen to celebrate the partnership between Nottingham Trent University and YMCA.
This will include acknowledgement on the video credits and website. Advice to be sought on other ways to do this.

6. Communication

A group to be set up on the Insync ‘Ning’ site and used to share documents and arrangements


7. Travel Arrangements

Standards Unit will cover costs of travel, food and refreshments

Jill will confirm train times and arrange with Louise Seaman, Standards Team Administrator to book tickets

Umar and Abdul each have Young Person’s Railcard.
Abdul will check with Alan and Duncan on this

< YMCA Project 1>

We have been approced through Deb and the university to take part in a project for the YMCA England Insync Standerds Department . Our main point of contact will be Jill Robinson. After emailing her to set up a meeting we have got an idea of the direction we have both agreed the project will go .

BackGround

YMCA is a national and international Christian youth movement that supports children and young people through, amongst other things, the provision of accommodation to homeless young people, youth work, vocational training and programmes promoting good health and family relationships.

Insync Standards are a development tool for YMCAs wanting to deliver the best possible services to people. Although reflective of the key features of other quality frameworks, they are customised around the work of YMCAs, as requested by the YMCA Movement, and are endorsed by the Charity Commission.

Purpose of the Project

Is to give a video perspectives on working with the Standards which will help them bring this to life .

In addition to being able to feature clips on the website – for example, a Peer Assessor talking about the training and development programme, an Insync co-ordinator talking about the challenges faced by an association, a CEO describing the process and value of working with the Standards, we would also like all perspectives edited into a whole video piece that can be used to: promote the Standards to people considering signing up for self and peer assessment
demonstrate the value of Insync to partner organisations and funding bodies

It is hoped that elements of the whole piece could be used at the Movement’s National Assembly which takes place this year on the 9th – 11th April in Nottingham to further promote the Standards to participants and act as a backdrop to the celebration of the successful accreditation of more YMCAs.

< Seminar Task >

We were asked to find blank footage with no sound and to put a sound track and voice over as a task to understand how sound can help and improve a movie this is the video we have made.

< Bogdan 12 >

Here are the promotional stills of our movie Bogdan:

< Bogdan 11 >

Production Stills & Video

< Bogdan 10 >

Shooting Order for ‘Bogdan’

WAVERLEY

9:00 – 9:15

Arrive at Waverley, stash props in 108a, collect kit

DICE
9:15 – 9:30

Camera crew to begin set up for first tracking shot.

9:30-9:45

Actors rehearsals and blocking

9:45 – 10:00

Tracking shot (1); (intro)

10:00 – 10.15

Wide shot (4)

10.15 – 10.30

MS+CU Bogdan (7/8/8a)

10:30-10.45

MS/CU Lawyer 5/6)

10:45-11:00

Pan shot from stairs (9)

Track shots Lawyer/Bogdan outro (8/9)

Additional shots?

FOREST TRAM STOP
11:00-11:15

Taxis to Forest road tram stop

Ryan and Alan to York office > set decoration > first lighting setup (for shots FACING the window)

11:15-11:30

Actors rehearsals and blocking

Camera crew to get additional establishing footage

11:30-11:45

WS/MS/CU/ECU Bogdan reading

11:45-12:00

Pan shot Bogdan to trash can

WS/MS/CU/ECU Bogdan seated at tram stop

12:00-12:20

Tram arrives/departs/full scene establishing shots

12:20-12:30

All remaining cast and crew to York House for rendezvous

12:30-13:00

LUNCH

YORK HOUSE OFFICE
13:00-13:15

Actor rehearsals and blocking

13:15-13:55

All shots facing window (initial lighting setup)

13:55-14:35

All shots facing away from window (switch to second lighting setup)

ALAN HOUSE
14:35-14:50

Remaining cast and all crew to final set via taxi

14:50-15:05

Actor rehearsal and blocking

15:05-15:30

Bogdan activities round house (tv/food/toilet/read paper/ coffee/cook etc)

15:30-15:45

Bogdan application form/email

15:45-16:00

Bogdan email V/O record

16:00-16:30

Bogdan arrives home from meeting/finds letter

Reads letter/destroys letter

Unfortunately, we didn`t manage to get all of these shots; a series of unforeseen circumstances meant we had to rethink some of the shots on the go. I suppose this type of unpredictability is part of the job.

< Bogdan 9 >

Here are some pictures of our rehershing days where we went to the locations and practiced. As we would only get 1 day with the actors we wanted everything to go perfect .








Doing this would help us save as much time because we would need it. When it came to the day of the shoot we knew what we were doing and where to set up and could do it faster .

< Bogdan 8 >

Notes for Filming


Notes for Dice Building Shoot




Notes for Forest fields Tram Shoot



Living Room Shoot


York House Shoot

< Bogdan 7 >

Foley Sounds

These are the sounds that we will use in our video:

3. EXT. DAY. LEGAL OFFICE

-door opening/closing (Outdoor)

-cigarette lighting

-someone smoking (puffs)

-footsteps

-stamping out a cigarette

4. INT. DAY. HOUSE

-typing on a laptop/computer

-kettle boiling

-toilet flush and tap running

-ripping up a letter

5. EXT. NIGHT. LEGAL OFFICE

-door opening/closing (Indoor)

6. INT. NIGHT. HOUSE

-picking up letter

-screwing up a letter/piece of paper (Indoor)

8. EXT. DAY. GRASS VERGE

-screwing up a letter/piece of paper (Outdoor)

9. EXT. DAY. GRASS VERGE

-tram approaching

-sound of tram moving + bell ring

-voice of tram saying ‘’skylink’’

Also get the atmosphere track at different times of the day (Morning, evening etc).

Background Music:

Idea of one instrument playing all the way through at pivotal points of the film (e.g. piano, violin).

Also Romanian music for example ‘Masked Ball’ by Jocelyn Pook.

< Bogdan 6 >

Here are some examples of how the film will look from this preview of our storyboards :

Opening Scene:





Lawyer Scene





Letter Scene