Video Project

For Tuesday sessions we have been given an assignment which is to make a 5-7 minute video project in a style of our choosing. Edem King and I, after much deliberation decided on making a Rocky style short film.

We originally wanted to do a music video from either the grime or hip-hop genre. We were seriously considering Sway - This is my demo and Kanye West - Stronger. However it was always going to be difficult to make a music video for the length of time the project needs to be, and failure to find a suitable track which would allow us to work on an interesting concept led to us scrapping the idea.

Then whilst surfing youtube for inspiration we came across this video from The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air.



This showed us the potential for a funny spoof training montage from the Rocky movies. Once again however giving the length of time the montage would have to go on for we decided to put a basic storyline to the feature.

We are planning on reenacting the famous Rocky 3 scene where Balboa and Creed come to the arrangement of Creed training Rocky in Mickey's old gym and allowing the story to develop from there.

The storyline really gives us a lot more scope and ability to work with different features in post production then a solo training montage would. This will hopefully show our ability to not only edit to music, but edit in a film form.

Celtx Shot list

In class we were discussing uses of storyboards and shotlists in creating short films.

We downloaded a shotlist from Minerva and were instructed to create sketches of each shot using the programme Celtx

A shot list is very important for the camera operators to have as it saves the director explaining each shot to them. It is also effective for the other members of crew and actors to have as it displays what is expected for each shot.

Football match soundscape

We were asked to compile a soundscape and I decided to go with the theme of football. I captured all my audio at a Melksham Town match, and edited it using logic pro.

Here is my completed soundscape for 4002

Montage

For University we were given the task of creating a montage using various videos and images. All these could be played to a soundtrack consisting of either commercial music or a soundtrack which we devised ourselves.

The music I used was Eminem - Lose Yourself - Official site


I decided to go with a boxing/MMA theme with hand held camera footage and a misk of good quality and blurred stills.

Simon MMA Montage from Simon Partington on Vimeo.

Eisenstein, Kuleshov and Vertov RE RE RE RESEARCH!!

Sergel Eisenstein

Eisenstein was a pioneer in the use of montage. He developed the 'Methods of montage'

1. Metric

2. Rhythmic

3. Tonal

4. Overtonal

5. Intellectual

In his early movies he avoided casting stars, instead using stock characters from the relevant classes to the characters in the film.

Lev Kuleshov

He is believed by many to be the first film theorist following his montage theory. Kuleshov loved the juxtaposition of images which has become known as the Kuleshov experiment. In this he would cut shots of actors with meaningful images in order to show how editing affects peoples interpretation of what they see.

Dziga Vertov

Vertov was a Soviet pioneer for documentary and cinema theories. His practices and theories have paved the way for Cinema verite documentary film making.

'Do I really need ...' (Treatment)

The story will be told through a fly on the wall documentary style and with a voice over narration.



The narration will give a brief introduction stating the study of VDU's so viewers know the aim behind the programme.

The show will then follow all 5 subjects and present how their life at hom and work differ without VDU's. There will also be times in the show when the subjects will talk directly to the camera and give their views on how easy or difficult they are finding the experiment.



For the conclusion of the programme the narrator will recap on the key parts of the show and discuss how each subject found the experiment.

There will then be a fade followed by the end credits.

Do I really need ... (Proposal)

My idea for the programme 'Do I really need ...' is centred around people's reliance on technology and especially VDU's.

Therefore my programme aims to show how people react when they can no longer use TV's, Computers, Phones and iPods. It can also be a study of how peoples culture, gender and profession affect their on VDU's. This can be achieved by making sure each subject in the programme differ from each other in some way. For example a 18 year old male will rely on VDU's differently than someone from an older generation.

The show will follow the format of a 'fly on the wall' documentary and will observe 5 individuals in their regular everyday lives and see how they react to not having VDU's.



The subject matters to me as I have a genuine reliance on VDU's for education and entertainment, but it will also be a throwback to days before technology such as TV's. I believe many viewers will also like an insight into what their life would be like without the VDU's.