Rosanne
Saturday 26 January 2008
Day 1 of filming: interview montage of favourite artists
On day 1, Me, Avneet and Vipesh filmed many clips similar to the one below asking people to state their favourite arist/ who they admire in the music industry. We had alot of fun whilst filming but also it was our first time working together in the group filming and we all got used to the roles we played and shared the jobs eually. Everyone had a go at filming. Overall we got quite a few clips but also sum good footage for outtakes. We wanna take everyone who agreed to help us.
Day 3 of filming: Inspirational moment
On our way home from a very long and tiring day of filming, Vipesh started playing music on his phone on the bus. This triggered an idea for the production. We decided to use the song he was playing (The streets) as a piece of non-diegetic sound and play over our montage of different location in the opening shots. We also decided that the order for the montage as a time continuum. As the day goes by, the shot reflect this in a change of lighting started with our bright early morning/ afternoon shots to dark late night shots.
Rosanne
Rosanne
Filming Diary 03 - Location + A Few Shots For Montage
Saturday 26th January 2008
Today Me, Rosanne and Avneet went out on a filming trip, we were supposed to film our first interview with an artist called castro, however he had to cancel, so instead we decided to film some locations that are important for our opening sequence. We visited shot in the following places:
1. Greenford
2. West Ealing
3. Acton
We filmed mostly estate area's and blocks of flats, this is because they connote the rough area that most of the artists grow up in and are trying to get out from, Music is one of the escape routes for most of these underprivileged people. We also managed to shoot one of Rosanne & Avneet's friend as well as Rosanne's two cousins saying who their favourite artists were and why. The filming of the block of flats were filmed with a panning technique, this is important as it gets an all round view of the whole location/area, this is a crucial technique. We also shot locations whilst on the E9 bus, it allowed us to get more of an overview of most places, it also will be very nice to look at for the audience once we have edited it. we also shot some walls that contained graffiti on it, this once again is crucial as it connotes the struggle and the rough areas that most artists go through as they develop their way through their struggle to become a mainstream musician.
While we were on set shooting some bits for our documentary we had some inspirational ideas, for example, whilst we were shooting a block of flats in the Greenford, rectory area, me and Rosanne had a great idea for an extra in our production, whilst we are shooting different things we could also do a "making the documentary to 'Sound Of The Underdogs'", we also had an inspirational moment whilst we were on the E9 bus, I was playing the song 'breakaway' by Tinchy Stryder and Rosanne said that this would be an excellent soundtrack for the locations part in our documentary, and it is another connotation of the struggle that certain people have to deal with in order to escape certain rundown area's, if you listen to the lady singing you will hear the words 'I want you to leave leave, I want you to go go, but you keep telling me the streets are all you know'. One of the other inspirations that Rosanne had on the E9 bus was that our shots of the locations are excellent, as they go in order of light, as we shot it from light to dark, so we wouldn't have to edit it really, as they are already in order.
Here are some Photographs of Avneet & Rosanne filming:
Today Me, Rosanne and Avneet went out on a filming trip, we were supposed to film our first interview with an artist called castro, however he had to cancel, so instead we decided to film some locations that are important for our opening sequence. We visited shot in the following places:
1. Greenford
2. West Ealing
3. Acton
We filmed mostly estate area's and blocks of flats, this is because they connote the rough area that most of the artists grow up in and are trying to get out from, Music is one of the escape routes for most of these underprivileged people. We also managed to shoot one of Rosanne & Avneet's friend as well as Rosanne's two cousins saying who their favourite artists were and why. The filming of the block of flats were filmed with a panning technique, this is important as it gets an all round view of the whole location/area, this is a crucial technique. We also shot locations whilst on the E9 bus, it allowed us to get more of an overview of most places, it also will be very nice to look at for the audience once we have edited it. we also shot some walls that contained graffiti on it, this once again is crucial as it connotes the struggle and the rough areas that most artists go through as they develop their way through their struggle to become a mainstream musician.
While we were on set shooting some bits for our documentary we had some inspirational ideas, for example, whilst we were shooting a block of flats in the Greenford, rectory area, me and Rosanne had a great idea for an extra in our production, whilst we are shooting different things we could also do a "making the documentary to 'Sound Of The Underdogs'", we also had an inspirational moment whilst we were on the E9 bus, I was playing the song 'breakaway' by Tinchy Stryder and Rosanne said that this would be an excellent soundtrack for the locations part in our documentary, and it is another connotation of the struggle that certain people have to deal with in order to escape certain rundown area's, if you listen to the lady singing you will hear the words 'I want you to leave leave, I want you to go go, but you keep telling me the streets are all you know'. One of the other inspirations that Rosanne had on the E9 bus was that our shots of the locations are excellent, as they go in order of light, as we shot it from light to dark, so we wouldn't have to edit it really, as they are already in order.
Here are some Photographs of Avneet & Rosanne filming:
VIPESH
Day 3 of filming: Location shots
Today, Me, Avneet + Vipesh met up and started filming some of the location shots 4 a montage at the beginning of the documentary. Overall, we're quite pleased with today as we got alot done and the shots we got were quite nice. We also had an inspirational moment on d bus home and we had fun together whilst filming. Here is a couple os stills from the day.
Rosanne
Rosanne
Thursday 24 January 2008
Filming Diary 01 - Montage Sequence
Montage Sequence - filmed on Wednesday 22Nd January 2008
For the montage sequence we shot many people answering the question that we asked, which was, 'who is your favourite artist in the music industry?' and as an extra bonus some people also said why. We also filmed some key moments that we could implement into an outtakes option. We also had shots of Rosanne & Rasheeda dancing for the moments of the daily life/routines bit.
Some of the people that we asked were:
1. Amrit
2. Hamsa
3. Moe
4. Victoria
5. Jenni
6. Neleema
7. Zatashia + Nikita + Ekra
8. Lenroy
9. Tanisha's sister + Friends
10. d-r's sister + Friend
11. Rosanne + Sister
12. Ms. Jones
13. Mr. Williams
14. Amanda
15. Sarah + Friend
16. Habib + Hassan + Krishna
17. Shirley
18. Inderveer
19. Nimrat
20. Calvin
21. Rosanne
22. Michael + Dwayne + Friend
23. Lansell
24. Jyoti
25. Dhillon
All of these people that we asked are crucial to our documentary, as we are mainly targeting their age group and in some ways their ethnicity. However we asked some teachers, this could be perceived as showing the influence that the educator's have on the targeted audience (students) or how little. Most of these shots were taken as medium-close ups, this is because we need to see their body language from the shoulders to their head, in order to see their facial expressions, or in a certain perception to analyse how their body language creates links to the different type's of music. The filming we shot is shot in a white background as well as a college area, so this connotes the audience (students), it also connotes the realism technique that we implemented into our documentary, as the white background means that nothing has been added into it. The sound that was recorded with the interviews for the montage was of people talking, it was very noisy, this creates a theme of realism into our documentary, as it shows that we have not rehearsed or edited anything, an example of this in other documentaries is in 'Bowling For Columbine', when Michael Moore does an interview with the man who created south park, we hear all the car engines overpowering the interview, this is also to create the effect of realism.
Vipesh
For the montage sequence we shot many people answering the question that we asked, which was, 'who is your favourite artist in the music industry?' and as an extra bonus some people also said why. We also filmed some key moments that we could implement into an outtakes option. We also had shots of Rosanne & Rasheeda dancing for the moments of the daily life/routines bit.
Some of the people that we asked were:
1. Amrit
2. Hamsa
3. Moe
4. Victoria
5. Jenni
6. Neleema
7. Zatashia + Nikita + Ekra
8. Lenroy
9. Tanisha's sister + Friends
10. d-r's sister + Friend
11. Rosanne + Sister
12. Ms. Jones
13. Mr. Williams
14. Amanda
15. Sarah + Friend
16. Habib + Hassan + Krishna
17. Shirley
18. Inderveer
19. Nimrat
20. Calvin
21. Rosanne
22. Michael + Dwayne + Friend
23. Lansell
24. Jyoti
25. Dhillon
All of these people that we asked are crucial to our documentary, as we are mainly targeting their age group and in some ways their ethnicity. However we asked some teachers, this could be perceived as showing the influence that the educator's have on the targeted audience (students) or how little. Most of these shots were taken as medium-close ups, this is because we need to see their body language from the shoulders to their head, in order to see their facial expressions, or in a certain perception to analyse how their body language creates links to the different type's of music. The filming we shot is shot in a white background as well as a college area, so this connotes the audience (students), it also connotes the realism technique that we implemented into our documentary, as the white background means that nothing has been added into it. The sound that was recorded with the interviews for the montage was of people talking, it was very noisy, this creates a theme of realism into our documentary, as it shows that we have not rehearsed or edited anything, an example of this in other documentaries is in 'Bowling For Columbine', when Michael Moore does an interview with the man who created south park, we hear all the car engines overpowering the interview, this is also to create the effect of realism.
Vipesh
Sunday 13 January 2008
Research on Editing techniques
Valve Sound system documentary
We really liked the way this channel 4 documentary was edited. We like the way they used jump cuts which keeps the audience's attention because it is short and quick. This would appeal to our target audience as it doesn't focus on anything for too long as they get bored easily if something doesn't interest them. This would keep them interested as they will never know what is coming next (the element of surprise).
Ciara: That's right music video
The bit of editing we like and wish to use in our production is the jump cuts back and forth from different shots. This looks really good and would save a lot of time to include other clips.
H2F2 hip hop documentary part 1
We were fascinated in the editing techniques used in this documentary as it was something we were unfamiliar with. We would like to try and mimic the editing techniques used close to the beginning where they maneuver from one shot to another by a wipe of graffiti on screen. We found this interesting because we like the effect for our title as this is also in graffiti.
Rosanne + Avneet
We really liked the way this channel 4 documentary was edited. We like the way they used jump cuts which keeps the audience's attention because it is short and quick. This would appeal to our target audience as it doesn't focus on anything for too long as they get bored easily if something doesn't interest them. This would keep them interested as they will never know what is coming next (the element of surprise).
Ciara: That's right music video
The bit of editing we like and wish to use in our production is the jump cuts back and forth from different shots. This looks really good and would save a lot of time to include other clips.
H2F2 hip hop documentary part 1
We were fascinated in the editing techniques used in this documentary as it was something we were unfamiliar with. We would like to try and mimic the editing techniques used close to the beginning where they maneuver from one shot to another by a wipe of graffiti on screen. We found this interesting because we like the effect for our title as this is also in graffiti.
Rosanne + Avneet
Techniques used in music documentary called 'Shadows'
Documentary title: Shadows
The documentary shadows contains a editing technique that is similar to what we want to use for our beginning, also if you look at the captions that are used that go along with the voice over, they are something that I think that we should implement into our documentary, because it anchors the audience's view of whatever we are trying to explain, for example in the documentary the voice over says, 'shadows is a brotherhood, that came from a background of struggle, that are searching for a better life, and fulfilling their dreams.' The caption technique is a technique that is similar to that of many documentaries, the technique of using captions that ends with the last caption being zoomed to emphasis a point, it is used in the documentary 'Bowling for Columbine'. This technique is also used to end the documentary, so it reinforces the point of whatever the documentary is trying to get across, so we should once again think about using this technique at the end. Also it links to the idea that rosanne had, whilst doing the interviews we should show the persons everyday lifestyle, which is what this documentary has used. The documentary also uses a soundtrack that contains the words of the title, 'shadows', so once again rosanne this will help to understand about how we can use the soundtrack and where else we can put it, as well as the beginning.
Vipesh.
The documentary shadows contains a editing technique that is similar to what we want to use for our beginning, also if you look at the captions that are used that go along with the voice over, they are something that I think that we should implement into our documentary, because it anchors the audience's view of whatever we are trying to explain, for example in the documentary the voice over says, 'shadows is a brotherhood, that came from a background of struggle, that are searching for a better life, and fulfilling their dreams.' The caption technique is a technique that is similar to that of many documentaries, the technique of using captions that ends with the last caption being zoomed to emphasis a point, it is used in the documentary 'Bowling for Columbine'. This technique is also used to end the documentary, so it reinforces the point of whatever the documentary is trying to get across, so we should once again think about using this technique at the end. Also it links to the idea that rosanne had, whilst doing the interviews we should show the persons everyday lifestyle, which is what this documentary has used. The documentary also uses a soundtrack that contains the words of the title, 'shadows', so once again rosanne this will help to understand about how we can use the soundtrack and where else we can put it, as well as the beginning.
Vipesh.
Saturday 12 January 2008
Voiceover Techniques & Shots Used In A Dub Documentary
Documentary Title: Deep Roots Music
This documentary is on a genre of music called 'Dub', I looked at this documentary and thought
that the director chose a excellent voice over, if you analyze it carefully you will see that the voice over has a authoritative tone, yet it also produces alot of information about the genre of music, for example the voice over describes what 'Dub' music is compelled together by, "dub is the instrumental riddim track, an unobstructed rhythm without words, with the emphasis on the base...sound effects and echo in particular are used alot." The voice over also adopts the language that goes with the stereotype or group of people that listen to the music, this is important as if we are going to be successful at creating a great documentary that our audience will be interested in, we need to be more connective towards our audience, that means adapting a voice or language that sounds like them.
Looking at the shots in the production also, you see that they get alot of medium close-up's of when the producers are working in the studio's with there team or group members, you also see the documentary use some medium shots of when the producer is messing around with the controls, this is important to us as we can implement this technique into our documentary because it allows the audience to get a better idea of how the musicians are at work, also uncovering the atmosphere that some producers and musicians work under. There is a key moment in the documentary where you see the three co-operatives dancing around and boping there heads, this shows how the music can affect the everyday lives of the typical people that listen to the genre of music 'Dub', it makes them all happy.
Vipesh
This documentary is on a genre of music called 'Dub', I looked at this documentary and thought
that the director chose a excellent voice over, if you analyze it carefully you will see that the voice over has a authoritative tone, yet it also produces alot of information about the genre of music, for example the voice over describes what 'Dub' music is compelled together by, "dub is the instrumental riddim track, an unobstructed rhythm without words, with the emphasis on the base...sound effects and echo in particular are used alot." The voice over also adopts the language that goes with the stereotype or group of people that listen to the music, this is important as if we are going to be successful at creating a great documentary that our audience will be interested in, we need to be more connective towards our audience, that means adapting a voice or language that sounds like them.
Looking at the shots in the production also, you see that they get alot of medium close-up's of when the producers are working in the studio's with there team or group members, you also see the documentary use some medium shots of when the producer is messing around with the controls, this is important to us as we can implement this technique into our documentary because it allows the audience to get a better idea of how the musicians are at work, also uncovering the atmosphere that some producers and musicians work under. There is a key moment in the documentary where you see the three co-operatives dancing around and boping there heads, this shows how the music can affect the everyday lives of the typical people that listen to the genre of music 'Dub', it makes them all happy.
Vipesh
Sound of the Underdogs
‘Sound of the Underdogs’ aims to target both male and females between the ages of 13-30, however it will have a secondary audience of anyone with a passion or interest in the music industry. ‘Sound of the Underdogs’ will follow the lives of young upcoming and well known artists, showing an insight of what really goes on behind the scenes and the drive and determination they have in trying to achieve their dreams.
We thought the title was appropriate because the word ‘Sound’ connotes music and ‘Underdogs’ mirrors the fact that they have not made it yet, which reflects the documentary as it will be following upcoming and well known artists who struggled to make it into the music industry, to provide information and advice to a young target audience who have an interest in music and aspire to break into the music industry.m
As it is produced and presented by young people, it should appeal more to the target audience because we have a better understaning about thier interests. We aim to target a good range in music genre however it will mainly target Grime, Hip-hop and RnB. These are some of the artists we wish to feature in our documentary.
Finally ‘Sound of the Underdogs’ will be entertaining whilst informative.
Rosanne
We thought the title was appropriate because the word ‘Sound’ connotes music and ‘Underdogs’ mirrors the fact that they have not made it yet, which reflects the documentary as it will be following upcoming and well known artists who struggled to make it into the music industry, to provide information and advice to a young target audience who have an interest in music and aspire to break into the music industry.m
As it is produced and presented by young people, it should appeal more to the target audience because we have a better understaning about thier interests. We aim to target a good range in music genre however it will mainly target Grime, Hip-hop and RnB. These are some of the artists we wish to feature in our documentary.
Finally ‘Sound of the Underdogs’ will be entertaining whilst informative.
Rosanne
Friday 11 January 2008
Message from the Underdogs
Hello and welcome to our blog! There are 4 members in the Underdogs: Rosanne, Vipesh, Avneet and Maninder. Hope you enjoy as we take you on the journey to producing our documentary.
Underdogs
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
