Trying to asked Permisson for Music

Even thought I got permisson for florace's cosin. I know I have to get actural permisson from either Universal Island Records where Florance and the Machine recored 'Dog Days' or from there Manager 'Mairead Nash'. I've e-mailed Island Records lots of time but haven't hear back from them, and I can't seem to find how to contact Mairead Nash, but I am going to keep trying. 


Below are screen shots of the e-mails I sent to Island Records:


First E-mail I sent:

       Second E-mail I sent yesterday:
 

Finding Dalmatian Fonts

I try to downlode a picture image of a dalmatian furr in to my font on indesign, but I couldn't work out how, so instead I search 'Google' for Dalmatian fonts to downlode. I found a huge amaout. I only downlode three diffrent ones. I've screen shot each of them in Macrosoft Word as they would be as the title on the Magazine Artical:



 This Dalmatian font on the left is my favorite is called as a font 'Dalmatian'. I think this might be the one I uses.

This font to the right is know as 'Dalmatian By Zane' I like this one so mabey I might use it in the poster.


I'm not keen on this font that much, but I have added it in as an oppsion is called '101 Puppies SW'.

Magazine Photos

I really like this photo to the right and I am thinking of using it for my Magazine Article. The is girl playing with her beloved Dalmatians. I will uses this a my main photo (large one). I used photoshop elements eight to turn it into black and white and crop it. I feel it's more eye catching to the public. And it brings out the Dalmatians more. I have shown you the coloured one below, that's uncorped.

Below is another image that I really like and I think I am going to use, but between the columns. I used photoshop elements eight to add contrast, because it was too dule. 

Magazine Drafts

I have used Microsoft word to create my drafts for my Magazine Articles. The first screen shot you see on the left is my first draft. I made it into bullet points, so that I jotted down my ideas. So it's very mixed. I then had help putting it in to a readable order

Below is my second draft. I have split into to parts. The first part is my interview with the interviewer. And the second is the Article it self. I found it much essay to type, if I pretended I had some one interviewing me. I know that there are a few spelling maskats, but I will re-croett them befor e I tune into an article.

Now that I have my article in order I am going to add it in to 'Adobe InDesign' to tune it into an Article with images. Also to cheek to see if I have written effuf.

Editing Dog Footage in Final Cut Pro

This is how I edited the dog scene using final cut pro and the prezi to up load. 

Dog Scene Edit on Prezi

Below is a screen shot of the order that Prezi shows you the stages.

Editing the Car Crash Sound

To find the sound effect for the very begining of my documentary. I seach in Garageband loops and Final Cut Pro sound effects and could find nothing on a car crash sound or even near to it. I then remebered 'Soundtrack Pro' and search 'Car crash' nothing came up so I went through all the oppsions that I was given until I came to 'Imapact and Crashes' where I found 'Automobile crash' which was perfect, so I edited it and saved. I then uploaded it to final cut pro and added it to one of my scenes. 

Below I've have used QuickTime Moive to conver the unedited version of 'Automabile' sound from soundtrack pro, I then used Blogger uploads to up lode it. 

Below are some screen shots I took that aren't in order. 

Editing Interviews

I have upload 18 screen shot of how I have come to editing the interviews. It was hard because I don't really know what to expect when it I have done my interview (which was this weekend 11th-13th of Febuary 2011), but I have an idea on how I am going make a footage out of it all.

My Magazines Artical Designs

Magazine Artical review I have desgin two of my own that I am thinking of chosing one of them form my actual Magazine aretical. I've made a powerpoint using slideshare to upload. I've added small details to what each of the two posters may contain also I have added in two other slids showing the poster in full without the details. Some of the poster dosen't show becuse when I was scaing the scanner didn't collects past of the design. I'm hopeing to use indesign to creat my artical.
Mag designs

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Tonight

Tonight I fainlaly finished rendering the footage I collected for 'Dog Scene' and 'Interviews' on Final Cut Pro. Which is a hugh releaf, because it means I can start editing this weekend. I still have one more interview to do, which is myself that I am going to do on the weekend of the 12th of Feburary. For the 'Interviews' there was a problme so I had to uses 'Quicktime converter' to tranfer them to 'Final Cut Pro'


Across are the stages in which the Dog Scence has been rendered it was the same tecknick for the 'Interviews' I put all of the 'Dog Scenes' and the 'Interviews' together to save time. On the right you can see that stages I screen shot.






Below is a few screen shots uploaded with 'Prezi' this show how before I was able to uplode the dog's scens I had to conver the footage I had filmed using MPEG Stremclip. Here are a few screen shots of the stages I had to go through. Also a screen shot of the order of how I am showing you the stages of edting through Prezi.

Screen Shots on Prezi

Magazine Articals

As well as making a poster and short film we also have to make a Magazine artical. I have been doing my reseacher in the most recent relase (January/Feburary 2011) 'Empire' magazine and 'Sight & Sound' magazine.


              
 These are this year's from covers for each magazine. Just from the look of the front covers 'Sight & Sound' apeals more to older adults this is why:

1. The women who's posing has a very serices look on her face, she's wareing very plan colours of clothing, she's too the side of the heading.
2. The background it very plan, but it dose make the 'Sight & Sound' title stand out with it's yellow background and black and red writting. 
3. 'Sight and Sound' have made there main articals stand out more by haveing this plan background.

'Empire' on the other hand apeals to younger adults and teenages:

1. Very colourful front cover
2. The backgroung is diffrent shapes of green
3. Johnny Depp is on the front cover as his start role in 'Parates Of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' as Captine Jack Sparrow in all his make up and coustume. 
4. He's also Starting strate at you with his eval Captine Jack Sparrow stare
5. 'Empire' have made him stand out by makeing him go over the title 'Empire' 
6. They have a varity of colourful main articals and writting, but they all stand out.

Inside 'Sight and Sound' has lost of indepht writting were as 'Empire' has limited writting but clear.

I really like 'Empire' artical styles, becuse I like how you have a big picture and very clear writting. To me it's a denifit if I do a artical were not much writting is needed, yet with a very good review of what the Documetary is about. I also like how 'Empire' is very clear and simple.


'Sight & Sight' has lost of information about the film and directing ect.. It even has a colume for every one who helped make the film. This I think is a very good idea becuse it not only promnts the amout of work that went in to makeing the film, but also the preson them self. 

Dog Scene Filmed

Today I filmed my dog scene. Phoebe was a superbe Actriss dog. I felt the filming went ok, but the lighting was compliting wrong. But I hope I filmed will good for my Documentary. If I have to re-film then it must be next week, becuase the deadline is on the 18th Feburary so haven't got much time. I have a really good time re-acting my dog life, but I deffantly think I  may have to re-shot some of the scenes. Below are a few photos I took of the day. Some of them I will uses from my Poster and Magazine Artical. I used Photobucket to upload them. The outfit that Phoebe is wearing in some of the photos was the closes outfit I could match to a dalmasion. I brought my big spoty blanket that a godmother of mine gave me for my 6th birthday and I used that for some of the filming scenes too. 

Interview

A great family friend of ours is coming today, and I am going to interview her. She play a big part in that part of my life at that time. She was the one that gave me the dalmatian suit below:

  You see the photo with the cake, and there's a lady behind that her. Both these photos were taken in Wales on my 6th birhtday. 

Flat Plan StoryBoard- for dog scene

Flat Plan

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This is a flat plan storyboard that I have made for my dog scene. I have also written the all shots for each camera. I still need to plan when I am going to film this scene, but I am hopeing to filming over Christmas or just after in the New Year. 

Help Out

Friday 26th November
I helped out with my former partner 'Bianca Goldman' and her new partner 'Elyisa Polin'. They have change there film now to 'The Window'.
We reached the nursing home at 10:30 am, and started setting up. I did behind the scenes footage and took a few pictures as well as being the light girl.

It was a long day and we started filming at 12 noon and ended at 5 pm. Everyone eat lunch as we went along. The actors where fanstastice and very pasiant.

Aswell as the photo's and behide the scens footage, I was in charge of the light. It was this big very hot and bright light. And it was perfect for the hospital scene. Below is Slideshow of photos from the day.

26th November 2010

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My Three Posters Design

Poster designs

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I really like these poster I have done. I showed these poster to my Mum and she really like the poster with the eye. Which I really prefer becuase I saw the poster of 'Requiem For A Dream' by Darren Aronofsky that really made think about what poster I would like. I wanted something to stand out to the audicne, just like 'Requiem For A Dream' stood out to me. When it comes to creating the poster I am either going to uses indesign or design a A3 poster my self useing nothing other than pencils and felt tips.

My shooting Schedule

I originally scheduled to shoot over christmas but had to revise my schedule to shoot in november (see left). I hadn't originally planned to shoot in Wales but the opportunity arose to film in the area where i had grown up so i had to take advantage. I did get some very good footage.


Scheduling for a documentary is quite different to scheduling for a film. Although both need to be planned. My documentary was going to involve interviews and some dramatic 'recreations" so I hade to schedule when the interviews would take place as well as cutaways, location shots etc.





On the right is my schedule for December, as you can see it looks a bit more organized then the November one. 


I can't wait until Christmas holidays, to film the rest of my documentary. 


Only thing I haven't planned is when I am going to film the dog scene of my footage. I had scheduled it for  'Sunday 28th November' but unfortunately the young actress who I was going to use was not be available because her mum had to rush of to America.  I will have to reschedule that scene for later.

How to make a documentary

I added this documentary that about how you should film interviews. I found it very help full because when I filmed up in Wales and inteview my Nain I didn't really know what I was doing. From watching this footage, i've realzied the mastakes I made in wales. So when I start doing my interviews over chirstmas I will be prepared. I wished I found this footage before I went up. 
Below is a screen shoot of the comments that were left under this footage:

North Wales Footage Done

It's taken ages from me to edit my North Wales footage. I finaly have finished, but mabey some of the footage in this I may not use. Also I going to make another one with a Voice Over to test the quality of it. Only bit that I haven't edited from North Wales footage is the interview with my Nain (Grandma in Welsh)

Editing Fist footage

I have fainly finished edting my footage from North Wales. The only thing I haven't edited is the interview I did with my Nain. I am waiting until I have finished all my intervewing, and then I will be able to fit them in. I am going to interview myself too along with family members and friends. 


Here are some images of how I came to editing the footage in 'Final Cut Pro',  I used Prezi to make it. It's  a bit confusig because I have added the image befor the writing, but hopefully you'll be able to follow it. 

Cricc Footage Edit 1 on Prezi

Below hear is a screen shoot of which order I have allowed the screen editing shots to go in. 

Replay

The cousin has replayed back and says it's ok for me to use 'Doggy Days'. 

Above is the replay for the cousin.

Poster Designs

Posters I Admire

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I done this power point slide with diffrent types of posters, so I can see the style I like. I might even do a mixture of the posters to make them in to one. 

Sorry Change Name Again

I've change the name of my documentary again. Form 'My Life as a Dog' to 'My Life ad a Dalmatian' this is because that I was tecnacly a dalmatian for those years. I promise that it's going to stick this time.

Film-'My Life as a Dog' 1958

'My Life As a Dog' was directed by Lasse Hallstorm who's also directed 'Dear John' 2010 and 'Chocolat' 2000.


Genres: Darma, Comady
Language: Swedn
Box Office: $8,345,266 (USA)


I have never seen this film before but I am now very intriget to see it. I am hope to watch it over this weekend. 


The poster of the film, is really eye catching, becuase you have 'My life as a Dog' in white mediam size letters and then the two young boys hugging. The back really make thought pacific this stand out beucase of it's dark colours. 


Just from looking at this poster I am see that this film has one two ocars, and a golben globe award. This is really appealing to audice to who this film attracts. But also it's really good to advertise there awards so people who not shore they like this film will go and see it because of it awards and they want to juge them self's. 


If I was walking past this poster, it would really appleal to me because I would really like to know why this film got so many awards. 


Lasse Hallstorm has put a saying 'A Soul Sothding Masterpice'. I am hopeing to have a saying by the time it come to finishing the posters.   

Maybe ending to 'My life as a dog'

This is what I might use as the ending for my film 'My life as a dog'. I used a fade in at the beginning and cross dissolve for the rest and then fade out at the end. There is a picture of me at the end because it is to show me as I am now. Also I have repeated four pictures at the chorus 'Dog days are over'. A few of them are out of beat but I am going to sort it out if I actually use it for the ending of my documentary. 
I showed it to my mum and older brother yesterday and they really liked it, but my older brother mentioned the fact the pictures were not corresponding with the beat of the song.



At the moment I am still waiting for a reply for the florance's cousin. So, at the moment I haven't actually got copyright on 'Dog Days' which I know is wrong but I am working on it. I trimmed the song by using 'Quicktimer trim' and making a copy of the song. The very beggining of this when it comes up with Maybe ending of 'My Life As a dog' will not be in the film. I know it looks tacky and very pixalited. 

Editing of Mabey Ending to Documentrary

I've done this fooage that might be the ending of my docmentary. There's a few changes to be done but I am really pleased with it. I am hope to add the credits to it as it's showing. Before that here is a few screen shots of me editing it. I've used 'Prezi' to show you. You have to click the play buttom each time you want to see the next slide. 

Edting 1 on Prezi

Music

I hopeing to have my sister Angharad singing some songs that she's made up also I am hoping to have Flonrance and the Machine song 'Doggy Days' it' the perfect song for 'My life as a doy'. 

I've e-mail a cosion of Florance and the Machine who my sister know very well. The name has been cut off for protaction purposes. I've asked the cosuin to get back to me and let me know. 

Below you can see the e-mail:

First of the Questionnaire

I was home this weekend, and so was my older brother and mum. I asked them to filling in the questionnare. I am still hope to collect answers from non-family members and friends.
 Below is my brothers one:

Equitment to be used

This is all of the Equitmant I am going to use, throught all of my filming.

Questionnaire

This is a questionnaire that I am going to hand out to family members and friends. This questionnoire with give me a good idea of who my audience will be. I think it was a mastake putting 5 Under in the age range beucase they wouldn't really know what I was talking about.

4docs

4docs is part of channle 4. It have a varitaty of informaion about documentaries and short films. You can uplode your own on to 4docs. There's even compations that you can enter.
 Below is a short powerpoint that I have done on 4docs:


4Docs

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Hear is a like to the 4Docs website: http://www.4docs.org.uk/

Change of Plan

I've diced to concentrat more on my own film, insted of two films. 

I know I have dicided to make this move at a critical time in are coursework (pre-producion), but I feel it's a right move for me todo. But I told Bianca that i'll will help her when it comes to filming her's. 


Also I am going to change the Name of my film from 'Trapped No More' to 'My Life As A Dog' I may change it again, but for now it's going to be 'My Life as a Dog'.

Audicence Re-Search For Documentary

Who do I think will watch my Documentary??
Below is sorted out by age in years,

5 Under- Under 5 years probably wouldn't even know what a Documentary.

5-12- I'm still not shore that this age range would watch my Documentary, I think there more likely to watch 'Planit Earth' and 'Blue Planit' by Sir David Attenborugh. 

12-18- Probably 16 to 18 might just watch Documentaies similer to mine, but that age range is very into 'Friends' on E4.

18-25- I think this catogray age group would be more likly to watch my particular Documentary, espachaly if there Medical Studies learning about people who are in comas or been traitized the way I have been. 

25-30 and Over- Againg this would be a very good age group for my Documentary and others, espasaly if you have very well traiend phycitrasies and Doctors who have never seen this type of trama before. 

I think my Documentary is most likeling going to acracted medical studients, Doctours, Nurses and other medial staff because it's appeals to there sort of thing by my way of acting like a dog was caused by a tragic car crash. 

To re-search audicence propably I'm going to make a question air and hand it round, I might to go a hospital and get there oppinion and a few answers from a medical team in that area of trama it's self. 

Story Borad (Mostly Scene four)

This my story board mostly for scene four in my Documentary. Some of the shots are going to be handheld and there others filmed on a tripod. I hopeing to add more scene as  I go along. 

Below is an animatic that I made using Image Ready

Final Script

Trapped No More

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This is my fiainal scriped. So far I'm pleased with it but I know I will probably change a few things such as the Vicoe depending on what footage I show. Also going up to North Wales, were I did a bit of filming that I am hopeing to add in when it come to editing. 

ViceOver For Documentary

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This is so far is my final Voice Over, but debending of the footage I have put in the Voice Over will change.

Photos From Wales

This is a few shots of when I film my dad's grave. 

5-8th Novermber: I was in North Wales, which wasn't part of my plan. Wales is were it all first stared with me acting like a dog. So I gest it was lucky that we had to go up that weekend. I filmed my dads grave two days in a row because I didn't like the footage from the first day. I also did a bit of out of focuce of a few rooms of where we used to live. Along with interviewing my Nain (Grandma in Welsh)

Below are the interview questions that I ask to my Nain and it's what I am going to ask my other family members when there time come for me to interview them:

The interview went well, but I know the framing was wrong and my Nain didn't want the camera to close to her so what I should of done was zoom in to her, which probably I was ment to do in the first place. It was my frist interview ever so I was very please with what I came out with. And we may be going back up there befor christmas so I could re-do it. My Nain was slightly tense at the begging of the interview but then relaxed into it. I am going to add some more questions at the begging, so hopefully by the time I come to these main 9 questions they will be more relaxed.

Full UnCut interview with Nain

I put the hole interview footage on hear. I know I needed to agutst the camera framing and light. But it was my first interview and I was very pleased with the turn out. Aswell as my Nain being nurvise at the start so was I becuase I didn't want to mess up, which I did towards the end because I couldn't read my writing. I shook hands with her at the end. I think I need to add a few more simpler question at the begging so buy the time it comes to the main questisons they hopefully will be more relaxed. Also I need to add in a few more away shots, such a camera at hands or picture of the person. 
Below is a screen shot of me uploading it on to YouTube:

Behinde scene of interview with Nain

Hear behinde the scenes at my very first inteview with my Nain (Grandma in Welsh) alnog with my first time using Final Cut Pro. There's lots of cuts in the sneek preview, but when it come to putting the Behinde the scens previews on to the DVD extras, I will make shore there as close to perfice as I can get. It was lucky aswell that I used the HD camera to test it out for the next time I use it and I shoot it all in DV tapes. I am hoping to get as many behinde the scenes footage I can including photos of the location I use and the people. 

Editing First Half

I did my first part of edting this weekend with the actual footage of what I filmed in Wales. It took a long time for the footage for the camera to load up on to computer because there was some fault in the camera. On thursday I mange to collect the footage for the camera to my hard drive. Below is some screen shoots I took of me edting the footage in 'Final Cut Pro'.

Car Crash 1998

I remember the car accident so well, also as if it was yesterday. Daddy was in the front with the driver, my mum and two sisters were in the middle and My older and younger brothers were in the back with me. It was very late when we reached the outside of the house were were going to be staying in for the New Year. It ws a long journy so I feel asleep I woke up just as this white flash of a van was heading straight to us at about 100 miles per hour. Then black. 

I woke up what I think about 45 minutes later, because everyone eles was gone. I looked up and saw a man who said 'another one hear' he then lifed me very gently out of the back and took me outside to lay of the ground. I was laying next two one of the member of the family (can't remember which). I look up and saw a group of women looking back down on me, I gested it was because I had a bleeding nose, but I was also thinking who are these's people?? What's happened? I then looked over to were my dad was, there was a crowed of men pulling him trying to get him out, he had blood all over his face and he was laying upside down his eyes shut. 

I don't remeber how we end up in the ambluance but I do rember laying next to my older brother who rolled on to my left leg that later on we found out I had broken it. I didn't screm but I did grown.

I don't remeber the hospatl bit at all. 

Every time I saw blood or a fake skellation I would get a flash back to the accident and burst in to tears. Now I don't have it so much actually not at all. 

Shot List For 'Documentary' 'Pre-Production'

 

This is my shot list for scene 3 in my documentary. I am hopping to film this particulary scene in hand-held camare and very Dogme style.

Mood Board For 'Redemption' Pre-Productsion

Mood board

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Bianca and I came up with the idea of doing a Moonboard each to show eachother what we feel the location of scene should look like. Were then going to do show eachother and then put the ideas together. 

Below is Bianca Goldmens One:

Mood Board

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Second Drafed of Documentary Scriped

Second Drafed
 Trapped no more.pdf

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First Scripted Drafed For 'Redemption' Pre-Production

Redemption

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We used Celtx to write the scripted. We tryed wirting the script as acruate as we could to a really Film scripted. 




First Scriped Drafed For Documentary 
'Trapped No More' 'Pre-Production'

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