production log

                                                                    production log

day 1

on arrival of the production of which has already started I have been asked to create a pitch/idea to deliver to an organisation to create a road safety advert in which will be shown in colleges to student in order to prevent dangerous driving.

Day 2

Today I have started my pitch in which I believe that I have a brief idea of which I want to do the theme of this advertisement will be the effects of life after an accident to show that once the crash is over the consequences of the actions leading up to the accident are not. The only decisions I feel I have to make are on location as I would like to film at the scene of the accident but as it is still fresh in one of the victims minds I feel this may be inappropriate or too much too soon. I have decided to use my father in the interview as he has just been through this himself and he has been very kind to volunteer his services to the project.

I would also like to note that I have been assigned to this project with 2 other students. Already this has proven a little difficult as one of the students has a very strong opinion of what she wants to show in her campaign and has made it clear that she will not compromise on any of the points that she wants showing in her advertisement.

Day 3

I have decided to go ahead with my idea as I believe that I have a relevant part that I would be able to show in the campaign. I am going to interview my father whom has always been in self-employed and has recently been in an accident that involved him, my brother and also his best friend with whom died as a result of the accident. I have decided to film the interview at the residence of the interviewee as I believe that taking him to the scene of the accident is too much mentally and physically. I am also still having problems with the other 2 students as their attendance towards this campaign has been next to nil existent this is proving to be very difficult.

Day 4

I have started the pre-production paperwork that needs to be completed before I can commence with the actual practical production. In my pre-production paperwork I have included the following:

Actor’s contract

Call sheet

Cast list

Contributor release form

Equipment booking form

Location release form

Production schedule

Script breakdown

Risk assessment

Storyboard (this is more a floor plan to demonstrate the camera angles and the position of the interviewee and the interviewer.

And also as a part of the pre-production I will include this production log

At this point I have decided to take on this project myself I will complete all of the things that have been tasked to the group myself I think in the long run for the sake of the campaign this will prove to be for the best.

Day 5

After collecting and filling out all relevant paperwork I have decided that I am ready to carry out the practical side of the production I have scheduled that this production should take 5 hours to complete, this includes collecting my equipment that I have previously booked out, travel of which I am using a bus, filming and then travel back.

Day 6

After travelling to the location to film on my return today I found that I had not correctly set the audio recording and therefore it would seem that an what seemed as an easy task has already had its first set back, I will be returning to the location to film and record (audio) again as soon as I have filled out some more pre-production paperwork (e.g. equipment booking form)

Day 7

I returned to film the interview with my father again today and fortunately everything went well this time everything was on schedule and also all of the visual and audio recording went.

Day 8

Today has consisted of editing the material that I have collected from the interview I am very happy I feel this interview shows exactly the consequences of your actions if complaisance sets in while driving.  

this blog has been made in order to determine the difference in good and bad editing when it comes to raod safety adverts in this i have given a good example and a bad and also a colleague has contributed the same giving two example of each good and bad.

The first is a good example i feel in the case that you are shown in depth not only the catastrophic damage from the incident in what seems like real time but the editing is seamless this compels the watcher to take interest i feel because of the depth they have gone in to in order to demonstrate this i hope you agree.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z23CzSONiU

The second instance i feel has given us something completely different, below budget and terribly edited the only thing this shows is almost a lack of interest in the subject by who ever has created it. The only edit point is a terrible fade to black then a question mark that almost humours the drink driving as a whole again i hope you agree.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vfo--Fs80o

i feel that these next examples are again good and bad in entierty and there fore demonstrate the principal of what we are trying to demonstrate.

the first example again is a good example i feel that technically this is a very sound piece and the story hits a broad ranged target audience allowing everbody i feel to relate to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9_42_cOm9E

The second example is of a childrens advert and a bad example of it if this is terribly long winded and for the target audience being children i feel that there attention span really should have been taken in to consideration there are parts that could have been clearly removed to keep the flow of the advertisement true instead you are left feeling trapped in a repetitive trap with dry tones a bad bad bad example of editing because they haven't done enough!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPCcpSHPiuA

Online Video Distribution

there are three main types of online distribution of which one of those are broken down in to another two these are download, progressive streaming and true streaming. progressive streaming is broken down in to another two and these are progressive streaming and progressive download they are generically used to describe each other and sometimes confused wuite easily but both have their differences.


DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION - ( content delivery, online distribution or electronic software distribution)

this describes the delivery means of media content suck as audio, video, software and video games.
online distribution bypasses traditional means of physical distribution methods such as hard files like paper, DVD's and CD's. with the way that technology has evolved and the advancement in network bandwidth capabilities online distribution has become very prominent since the 2000's.




DOWNLOAD

in the context of which we are using here download literally means recieve and save and realistically explains its self in this way more than any. The dowloadable content would only be usable once the download was complete



PROGRESSIVE STREAMING

the concept of progressive streaming is one of which you are asble to show pre-recorded information (video or music) over a network of which a user can join and then view without saving the content to his/her hard drive but only be able to view when coneccted to the network.

TRUE STREAMING

the concept o0f true streaming is live onformation is fed to a server and then sent directly to the user this is not edited and therefore is shown as seen by anybody watching the event live example such as the famous felix baumgartner jumping from space was shown through live streaming to millions.

























Cavan Steven Chameon Mcloughlin.