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Richard Parr, Emily Fichna. NTU Multimedia course Year 2

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Risk Assessment

RISK ASSESSMENT
Risk Assessment Task/ Location Columbus street and other parts of Nottingham City Centre

Person Conducting the Risk Assessment Richard Parr Position Director Date 24/11/07 Signature

Supervisor of the Area Richard Parr Position Director Date 24/11/07 Signature

Notes:



Hazard Identification Risk Assessment Risk Control
Review

No. What harm can happen to people or equipment Risk
Score* List any Control Measures already implemented Describe what can be done to reduce the harm Whom
Responsible When By Are the Controls
Effective? Date Finalised


1 People or equipment could be knocked over by people passing by. Therefore damaging vital equipment and crew 6 Getting Extra Crew to divert traffic Making sure there is a secure barrier of people. Richard Parr 24/11/07 Yes 24/11/07
2 As equipment isn’t in a secure environment, there is a possibility that the equipment could be stolen and the crew could become badly injured. 8 Getting Extra Crew to look after excess equipment and also to spot any threatening behaviour. Making sure we are in a highly public place, not places like dark alleys and having extra crew on hand, safety in numbers Richard Parr 24/11/07 Yes 24/11/07
3 As we have a lot of excess wire for sound, people could fall over and injure themselves, or other people passing by, as well as the possibility of damaging equipment 5 Wires will be taped together and on the boom pole, so it won’t hand. Added awareness of the wires and more duck tape on hand Richard Parr 24/11/07 Yes 24/11/07

Concept Blurb

Concept/Outline

The Big Issue

This documentary attempts to grasps the publics opinion towards Big Issue sellers as whole and follow a local Big Issue vender (Called Leighton) on a typical day to see if these opinions are entirely true. Richard Parr (Presenter and Director) asks probing questions and encourages honest answers. This documentary also touches on how Big Issue, the company keeps people like Leighton Goffe in the dark about what the company’s profit is going towards. It finishes with abrupt end, allowing the audience to decide if the stereotypes of a big issue seller is entirely correct.

Transcript

Transcript

Opening

Richard:

Hey, My name is Richard Parr and I’m trying to do a documentary on Big Issue sellers and trying to find out what the public think about them in one work.

Vox 1

Rough

Vox 2

In your face

Vox 3

Polite

Vox 4

As a nu-cense

Vox 5

A con

Richard

Are these opinions correct? I’m going to try and find out and follow a Big Issue Seller named Leighton for the Day.

Leighton

Rich, Hows it going? Are you alright mate?

Richard

Had a good day?

Leighton

Not too bad

Richard

Erm, so where did you stop last night?

Leighton

I stopped last night at an er.. just at er.. somebody’s sofa

Richard

Yeah

Leighton

I was sofa surfing last night

Richard

Yeah

Leighton

You know, just tryi..

Richard

So where do you usually sleep?

Leighton

Air, dair and everywhere (here, there and everywhere), where ever I can get my head down really.

Richard

Erm

Leighton

You know what I mean

Richard

How long you been selling the Big Issue?

Leighton

Been selling the big issue now… on and off, for 7 years,

Richard

7 years


Leighton

Yeah, as I’ve been homeless, then I had somewhere to live, then I stopped, but then yeah, about 7 years now.

Richard

So, what did you do before then?

Leighton

Before I sold the big issue, I was a bit of a Rogue and I used to get into trouble all the time and er, then yeah you know, I became homeless, then living in hostels. Knocking around with the wrong people. And er I got myself into trouble, I went to prison. When I got out of prison I started selling the big issue and I haven’t looked back ever since. I haven’t been in trouble since.

Richard

You know if you er, didn’t, you know, sell the big issue, what would you want to be?

Leighton

Gosh! I would to have my own market stall or have my own shop. Yeah, I would like my own business.

Richard

What profit do you get from the big issue?

Leighton

I make 80p, from every copy and that’s at £1.50.

Richard

And what do er, the big issue do with the profit.?

Leighton

The Big Issue, what the company?

Richard

Yeah

Leighton

There profit… well I don’t know what they do with the profit.

Leighton

When, when there’s a vender on the body shop, which is the next pitch down from me, that effects my custom.

Richard

Arrrr

Leighton

Because a lot of people are walking up that way.

Leighton

The money that I used, The Big issues that I sold earliar, They money that I made from them, I had to buy more big issues, spent all of that on big issues, so like I’ve got a load of big issues, then I can start making a bit of profit then, you know what I mean man?

Richard

Yeah, I know what your saying man.

Leighton

So I’ve saved a little bit of money, so I can buy something to eat and er I will be back on my pitch and rearing to go.

Richard

So how can you afford a subway then? Because obviously, you know, you, people, you know, subway is like a big corporate thing. You know what I mean?

Leighton

Yeah, Well I only got a subway because I got the vouchers

Richard

Yeah

Leighton

I see the guy in town every day, handing out the vouchers near where I sell the big issue, so luckily, you know, luckily I seen one of the vouchers on the floor the other day, one of the vouchers, so I picked it up.



Richard

If you had some power in the world, what would you do or er, homeless people?

Leighton

Well, I’d, I’d get all of them, like derelict buildings I walk and see that they’ve just been there, for you know, a couple years, just stood there, nothing done to them. You know, I’d change, turn them into night shelters.

Richard

It was my time to go, so I bid Leighton farewell and wished him good luck, on journey which seemed so uncertain.

The Edits

Final Edit



Second Edit



First Edit

Reflection

I believe Emily Fichna and I worked well together, she did a great job with the sound (as it was hard to not get atmosphere sound and focus on mine and Leighton's voices), she also came up with helpful suggestions in editing, such as how long a certain should be and showed me some techniques such as how to render particular parts and how to export as a WMV.

Moreover, I believe my part in this project was massive! As we only had 2 people within our group, I took most of the responsibilities. I found the subject, did my background research on the subject, also I did research on Participatory documentaries, which helped a lot with my vision on how the film should look and sound like. I organised the group, told what was needed and when, I booked out the equipment, I organised extra crew, I told the whole crew what I wanted the film to look (framing o the camera and the lighting(reflectors)) and sound like (boom pole, how it should be held to pick up great sound and stay out of shot). I created a checklist of what was needed to be filmed, asked and protected(safety precautions) I presented and interviewed Leighton. I also edited most of the film and I also did the voice over and some cutaway camera work.

The organisation for the project was well structured and we completed the project well in front of the deadline.

If I had to change anything, I would take up Debra's advice of Moving shots work with moving shots, and still shots work with still. Not together. It would of produced a much smother film. Also I would gathered more relevant cutaways. Moreover, I would recorded the voice over with a K6 Mic instead of an Edirol R09 kit, as it doesn't pick enough volume, and I would of had more people in the group, so it would of took pressure of my shoulders.

However, overall, the project went perfectly to plan and was excellently within the time limit.

A brief checklist which outlines booking, onset and offset

Checklist

□ Book 2 x K6 Mic Full Kits
□ Book 2 x Reflector
□ Book 1 x K6 extension cable
□ Book 1 x Sound Recorder
□ Book 1 x VX2000
□ Book 1 x Headphones
□ Book 1 x Standard Tripod
□ Book 1 x Carry case
□ Book 1 x Boom Pole
□ Check all works


Onsite Checklist


□ Meet at 10.30 am
□ Safety speech
□ Safety check (see rece sheet)
□ Tape wires around boom pole
□ Set up
□ Tell crew how you want it to look and sound
□ Get introduction shot
□ Get Vox pops
□ Meet Leighton at 12pm
□ Ask all specified questions and more
□ Get cutaways:
□ Leighton (different angles, with Richard in shot aswell)
□ Nottingham
□ Big Issue


□ Get Leighton to sign release form
□ Film ending sequence
□ De-brief crew
□ Pack up


Offsite Checklist

□ Watch footage several times
□ Mark time codes
□ Capture all the footage
□ Edit
□ Voiceover
□ Transcript
□ Save some cuts
□ Convert for DV AVI
□ Convert or Youtube (WMV)
□ Burn to DVD and data disc for handing in
□ Make sure all paper work is finished

Questions

Question List

Here are some questions I have devised to try and get the best out of Leighton

Are you homeless?
Where do you usually sleep?
How long have you been homeless?
How long have you been a big issue seller?
What did you do before you sold the big issue?
Do you take drugs? If so what and why?
Why can’t you get a home?
Why don’t you try and get a different job?
Do you like being a big issue seller?
What are your friends like?
I you could have any job, what would it be?
What did you want to be when you were a child?
Have you got a girlfriend?
Have you got kids?
How often do you see you kids?
Do you contribute to your kids?
What was you childhood like?
Where are your parents?
Do your parents help you out?
If you had a position of power, how would you help homeless people?

Ask more on set as the conversations develop.

Satellite Bureau

Me, Les and Sid went to the grand opening of the multimedia art exhibition called "trampoline", to try and find an interesting piece to talk about, at first, it seemed a little bit pointless for the first 20 minutes. Then I discovered this piece called the "satellite bureau", this piece seemed interesting. What it entailed was several people round Nottingham and a few in Canada were walking round with devices which gave off GPRS signals, now these signals were transmitted to the Broadway and onto the exhibitions server, these signals were than converted into lines, these lines were projected on a white board, each person had there own colour, so you could easily follow who's who. The only downfall was that it just had a white background, it would of been much more interesting if there was a way to show some sort of map of the city and give an accurate reading on where they are.

This could be used in many things, such as in the Army (tracking fallen soldiers or air crafts), the Police force (tracking people with an ASBO or a tag) or even in a big brother society (track your lover or children).

Satelite Bureau

Script Task B 1/12/07

Using affection or anger, through dialogue hint at how

B
Feels about
A

Without directly saying so

You have 2, 4 or 6 lines only to do it in.
One line must have one character interrupting the other
One line must answer a question with a question

B
Right Tony, why was your regime such an utter failure?

A
Was it a failure?

B

By God! Of course it was, especially the last 3 years of it! You made me feel like an utter fo..

A

Excuse my good Sir, I don’t see the relevance of how you feel to this question.

B

Well, I believe it does. You’ve left me with this shit, how can I get out of it? This is your doing!

A

My honourable sir, please leave my chamber.

Script Task 1/12/07

Part 1 – 15 Mins

2 people have to pass on bad news. You cannot mention the news.

A

What are we going to do about this?

B

I dunno

A

Well, we’ve got to do something

B

Why?

A

Because if we don’t he’ll find out another way and the have our heads off for informing him

B

On the other side, if we tell him, he might be so overwhelmed with anger and we will suffer the same fait

A

Well, how about this…. If we sort out the situation ourselves, he will see how loyal we are and spare our lives and possibly promote us!

B

How could we possibly sort out this chaos?

A

Well, erm…. Ok, ok! Not the best plan I’ve come up with.

B
It’s not the worst either

A

… ok, what if we cover it up, cover it up so good that he won’t find out!

B

Hmmm, you might be on to something. We could just sweep it under the carpet.

A

How can we sweep that under the carpet?

B

It’s an expression you fool!

A

…Ok, well I’ll get the broom

A leaves the room, slightly baffled but bemused at the same time.

B

Damn fool

FIN

Leighton Meeting

OK, I have confirmed Leighton for the doc. I would just like to share with you some research about Leighton that I've found out.

His Name is Leighton Goffe
He has 2 kids
Had a 7 year relationship until his girlfriend cheated on him with a friend of his, after this he became homeless
He used to be in a bit of trouble with the law, offences like burglary.
He was sent to prison for 6 months
After prison he starting selling the big issue
He hasn't been in trouble since he left prison
He doesn't do any sort of illegal drugs accept the occasional weed, which was about 3+ years ago.
He is homeless
He has slept on the streets hundreds of times (most of the times in winter)
He has lived in Birmingham, Scunthorpe, Nottingham and a town in Scotland, which I forget.
He cannot get housed permanently in Nottingham, and is awaiting housing in Birmingham
He earns 70p for every big issue he sells. (80p profit go to the big issue)

I will base my questions on for the documentary on this former research, to try and expose Leighton for his true self.

This meeting was very constructive and will help me produce a much better film than without it.

Documentary Research

I have this vision on how my documentary should be set out.

I believe it should be a participatory documentary with a hint of an observational style.

I would like to take place in this doc whilst directing at the same time. That might seem like a hard job but I believe its totally possible.

I decided to research into different participatory documentaries and see what they have done success full.

I watched 2 Micheal Moore Films

Bowling for Columbine () by Michael Moore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQo-orO8UHU

Fahrenheit 9/11 () by Michael Moore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zf2nCiBJLo

I found these films very interesting, I believe having Micheal in shot for a lot of the time is a good technique for many reasons, for example:

No need for many nodding shot cutaways

Makes the audience feel more involved (making them feel like they are walking and following the action step by step)

etc

Also this style feels very natural, SLIGHTLY fly on the wall.

Another director I looked at was Nick Broomfield

Life and Death of a Serial Killer" (2003) by Nick Broomfield. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFBcjII3QAE


Biggie and Tupac (2002) by Nick Broomfield
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3BTfIcFwFY

Now I preferred this director because his style is very similar to how I vision my style for the doc. Especially in Biggie and Tupac. As he is on the streets/ghettos following his subject round and trying to get constant interviews, this is a perfect example to base my doc on as hopefully I will be following a Big Issue Seller round town and having shots on the move as well as static.

Seeing these examples, I would like to use the technique of having the camera handheld, this giving the doc a more urban/natural style, which will hopefully enforce my subjects situation and involve the audience more, giving them a sense that they are with me and Leighton, watching the question unfold.

Just discovered the perfect talent

I was walking down Columbus Street about 4 hours ago, I was approached by a big issue seller, asking me if I wanted a Big Issue. I said "yes". I bought it off him, then he replied "is it possible for me to sell it on, it's my last one". At that point something struck me and I felt like this guy was a good candidate for my coursework. So I replied "Yea, that's totally fine, but would could you do me a favour?", He asked "what?", I continued to explain my proposition and he seemed very eager. I took his phone number so we could meet up again and talk about him more in depth.

His name was Leighton, I didn't catch his last name.

The Caine Treatment

The Caine

Traits

Observant
Fearless
Compassionate
Experienced
Lighting Reactions


Set in 1982, Officer Caine (a Caucasian London Lad) has been with the London Metropolitan police force for 3 years. He starts to have an intermit relationship with an afro-Caribbean women named Philisha.

Philisha, shows PC Caine a new way of life and thinking. She shows him how Mixed Race people are mistreated in the media (BBC News – Black Male commits crime. The Sun – Black people taking 10,000 jobs away from British worker) aswell as everyday life (Get out of my shop you N****r).

PC Caine and his superior, Sergeant Vince decide to go on the beat around east London. On the beat, Sergeant Vince decides to perform a “routine” check on a Black youth (aged 17), the youth back chats Vince by illuminating the fact the Sergeant is being biased on his searches amongst Black and Mixed raced people. The Sergeant doesn’t like this and after a barrage of truth, he flips and beats the youths face against the pavement, and the final blow of his truncheon to the temple kills the in an instant.

Later on this attack is found out, Sergeant Vince threatens PC Caine’s job, as Caine is the only witness to convict him. However Vince offers Caine a major raise for his loyalty.

Caine searches for advice from Philisha. Philisha threatens to leave him if he doesn’t testify.

Caine is stook between Philisha and Vince. He decides to testify to savour his relationship.

The trial takes place, PC Caine gives is testimony which convicts Vince,Philisha is part of the court room audience, they smile at eachother. Vince is screaming and bombarding Caine with angry remarks. Suddenly, a burst of the court room doors, a colleague of PC Caine shouts “You need to see this first”, everyone is puzzled, including PC Caine and Sergeant Vince. The colleague passes the Judge a CCTV tape, it is played infront of court room, the tape shows evidence of PC Caine beating this 17 year youth, with Sergeant Vince nowhere to be seen. Instantly PC Caine is handcuffed whilst the crowd gasps and Philisha just stares straight forward in thin air, just no reaction. PC Caine screams “it wasn’t me, its a set up”. Later on PC Caine is charged with murder, abuse of power and intent to pervert justice. He sent to a maximum security prison with a life sentence and no right for an appeal.

Moreover, the style of the film changes, imitating the conventions of an investigative documentary. The documentary follows interviews with Mr Caine and CCTV footage of Mr Caine’s counselling footage. This footage and interviews with Mr Caine and his counsellor, come to a conclusion of him having mental health problems, these problems relating to him believing that he was with and interacting with Sergeant Vince in beating and events which followed it. Ending with the fact that PC Caine will finish his sentence when he is 55 and will b them emitted to a psychiatric ward until he dies.

Writing for screen media - show me don't tell me

Writing for Screen Media

“Show Me, Don’t tell me”

Heart of Drama.

Converting feelings, intentions and character traits into action and behaviour is essential to establish understanding of character.

Some Principles

Writing with precision
Use images not camera cues

Character vs Voice

Character is defined through action
Voice is the way a person presents him/herself to the world

Working with dialogue

Dialogue should reveal character
It should illustrate what people are thinking, felling, wanting.
It shouldn’t necessarily directing broadcast these things directly
Words and grammar define voice

Dialogue Questions

Dialogue as transition (changes in story time)
Dialogue to intensify tension
Dialogue to relieve tension
Dialogue and realism – convince or to undermine reality?

Conclusions

Dialogue is an opportunity to further emotional drive of the story.

Dialogue is as much part of the action as the visualised actions.
It is important but as David Freeman says
“Paint on the house doesn’t make the house stand up”
Less is usually better than more. It allows space for subtext

Subtext definition
1. The implicit meaning or theme of a literary text.
2. The underlying personality of a dramatic character as implied or indicated by a script or text and interpreted by an actor in performance.

Holding Pattern adaptations

Holding Pattern

Scene 1. Ext. Grass verge. Day.

A man, Bogdan stands by the roadside on a grass verge. He holds a suitcase. As cars whiz past he takes a seat.

*Notes – Camera focusing on a group of ‘typical’ people, students in the midst of a conversation (we cannot hear the dialogue), messing around like a group of friends but the camera doesn’t stop on them, it continues zooming in and moves to a figure in the distance stood by the roadside, Bogden. A long shot from the other side of the road as Bogden is stood unsure of himself and agitated cars are whizzing past the camera on this road as blurs, the sound is accentuated. Give the impression life is ‘whizzing by’. He runs his hand through his hair in a stressed manner, cut to a close up of his face with a particularly sad expression. The frequent sound of cars flying past builds to a crescendo and then halts with an echo upon the title card.

Title appears: Holding Pattern

Cut to:

Scene 2. Int. Government Office. Day.

The Government office is as most government offices are in that there has been an attempt to make it look fairly inviting. Posters, with ‘apply for this’, ‘you are entitled to that’ messages adorn the wall.

Bogdan sits and waits to be seen by the Customer Service Provider Manager. He removes a sandwich from his suitcase and takes a quick bite before returning it. He takes a sip of water from the water cooler provided.

The Customer Service Provider Manager glances at Bogdan before resuming his paperwork.

Notes – We begin this shot with a close up of Bogden’s face, on the wall behind him are a load of entitlement leaflets and posters. A mosaic with him as the center. He wears a visitors tag which proclaims ‘My name is Bogden’ in a scrawl. Cut to a shot from a corner of the room, the camera pans from left to right slowly as if a CCTV camera is watching the scene, we start on the left with Bogden as he hastily grabs one of the leaflets and stuffs it in his jacket. We pan across to see the receptionist eyeing Bogden over her half moon glasses we pan back to see Bogden by the water cooler filling a glass, as he nervously heads back he turns to give a cheery smile to the receptionist only to trip and spill a small amount of water, he gives the receptionist a jokey apologetic look. The camera pans back to the receptionist who has removed her glasses and holds a look of utter disdain hold the camera on the receptionist as we Fade out.

Cut to:

Scene 3. Int. Living Room. Day.

Bogdan reads a tabloid newspaper. He has next to him a dictionary. It is a Romanian to English dictionary. He periodically consults the dictionary, writing select words in English and Romanian in his notepad. He is eating a pastry and sipping water as he reads.

Cut to:

Scene 4. Int. Living Room. Day.

Bogdan is dancing. The music is some Romanian tune.

Bogden enters his home and places his briefcase upon the floor. he is holding a small bag indicating he has bought something. He sits down on a chair and looks tentatively into the bag before removing from it a cassette. He places it in the player and waits for it to start, it is classical Romanian music. As the music begins he bounces uncomfortably, he looks like he is trying very hard to get into the music, as the music builds he begins to move around more, he dances quite vigorously for part of it before stopping suddenly, walking over to the player and stopping the tape. He sits back down looking sullied and disappointed. Fade out.

Cut to:

Scene 5. Ext. Park. Day.

Bogdan is sitting on a bench. His suitcase is next to him. He counts his money out on a bench. There is approximately two pounds in loose change.

Behind him an amateur football games is being played.

Notes – As Bogden counts his money a solitary falls from his collection, he watches helplessly as it falls down a nearby grate.

Cut to:

Scene 6. Int. Library. Day.

Bogdan is writing an email.

Notes - We pan up from his typing fingers on a steadycam, we see his cheap watch ticking loudly and move to an angled view of Bogdens face squinting at a computer screen. Behind him are family tree posters, the camera pauses on these as we Cut.

Cut to:

Scene 7. Int. Living Room. Day.

Bogdan is reading an official looking letter. He uses his Romanian to English dictionary to translate the occasional word.

Cut to:

Scene 8. Int. Government Office. Day.

Bogdan stands in a queue. He holds the letter tightly in one hand and his suitcase in the other.

Notes – He forcibly smiles at everyone who walks past. He is ignored.

Cut to:

Scene 9. Swimming Pool. Day.

Bogdan is swimming underneath the water.

Notes – Alternative, Close shot of Bogden’s face underwater in the bath. We have echoes of the Romanian music as a bubble escapes Bogden’s mouth. The music stops as Bogden breaks the surface of the water and shakes the water from his face.

Cut to:

Scene 10. Ext. Grass verge. Day.

Bogdan stands by the roadside on a grass verge. He holds a suitcase. As cars whiz past he takes a seat.

Eventually he takes the letter out of his pocket, rips it into small pieces. Standing he attempts to hitchhike.

Notes – Bogden examines the letter very carefully, he rips it up and stands with a look of newfound confidence, the camera cuts from the previous long shot to a fairly close steadycam level with bogdens face as he puts his hand up to hitchhike looking triumphant.

Cut to:

The End

by Tom Robinson

Tutorial - Presentation One

Shane Meadows

Shane Meadows was born on 26^th December 1972, Uttoxeter, Stafordshire and spent most of his life growing up with a bunch of rebel type skinheads in the suburb of Nottingham known as Sneinton.

As he broke free from this bunch of skinheads, it allowed him to develop his own style and pathway in life. This heavily influences his films.

Firstly he created short films and is available as a compilation known as Shanes World,

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xfk86L3Sb3E Part 1

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hS3n4-ippaY Part 2

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LoJjzx6h5aI Part 3

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iUJIhCO4btw Part 4

Shane started small by directing small films known as “Where’s the money, Ronnie?” and “Small time”. These films weren’t very well known, however he made his first major feature film, starring Bob Hoskins, Twenty Four Seven (1997). This film was filmed in black white. It won 8 awards and had 3 nominations.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0276349/awards

After this epic achievement, Shane produced his next feature film called A Room for Romeo Brass, starring Andrew Shim and Paddy Considine. This film was a success and after having these two success’ he tried to go main stream with his next film “Once Upon a Time in the Midlands” (2002).

This film flopped and Shane simply lost some fans and credibility. So with his next film “Dead man’s shoes” (2004) he decided to go all out. It stars Paddy Considine and Toby Kebbell. Paddy simply avenges his brothers death in a chilling and unusual way.

This film was an amazing hit all other the UK, this enabled Shane to create his latest film, “This is England” (2006). This film is heavily influenced by Shane’s childhood and is a major hit at the box office.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dKUtD5s-z78 Twenty Four Seven Trailer

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eoUgoAc1NTI A Room for Romeo Brass

http://youtube.com/watch?v=44TsO7vPZHg Once upon a time in the midlands early footage

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_vAk3Og3HLA Dean Man’s shoes trailer

http://youtube.com/watch?v=H0jkv2bRFgQ This is England trailer

Script task

Script One

Characters

Vladek - 19 year old male, Polish, Jewish, evading capture. Dressed in white and grey striped overalls (mortified with a star of David) and wooden shoes

Man – A 32 year old Polish man who owns a house in the outskirts of Sosnowiec, slightly simple looking, with tattered clothes

Patrol Man – A 30 year old patrol official, German. Dressed in a black official military uniform, rounding up Jews.

Script

Vladek is on the run, needs to stay out of sight and find cover for the night! He searches in the country and finds a small cottage among some great big sycamore trees. Vladek hustles to the door and knocks with haste.

Vladek – Excuse me.......Hello...Please answer! PLEA..

A man opens the door whilst holding a lit candle.

Man – What do you want boy! Do you know what time it..... Wait, are you a Jew?

Vladek – Why yes sir! I need some help! Somewhere to stay, or “they” will find me!

Man – Ah... I see, I have a shack round the back. Hurry round and I will come in a half hour with a loaf of bread and some water.

Vladek - Thank you! Oh Thank you!

Man – Don’t mention it

As time passed, Vladek hid in this derelict shack, the Man never came. Vladek was too afraid to check if the man was ok, as he didn’t know where “they” were.

Vladek – What should I do?

After about 3 hours later Vladek heard distant footsteps, they become closer and closer untill, A Patrol man opened the door.

Patrol Man – You dirty fucking JEW

Vladek – I’m not a jew!!! Honest! I just stole these clothes from a dead corpse! I needed to! My house with my clothes were blown to bits.

Partol Man – Liar!!!

Vladek – Honest! I swear!

Pastrol Man – You Jews always believe that you can outsmart everyone........well guess what..

Vladek – What?

Vladek quivers to his knees

Patrol Man – Not me

Vladek – Please sir! Have mercy! I do no harm, just work hard and I keep my head down.

Patrol Man - .........

Vladek – I have never hurt a fly

Patrol Man – Maybe not a fly, but an Aryan maybe?

Vladek – No sir! Honest, not an Aryan, German, Jew, Pole or anything. I am a gentle soul, please sir, have mercy!

Patrol Man – Why? Whats in it for me? Except risk! Risk of people knowing that I have let a dirty Jew out of my powerful grasp!

Vladek – I won’t tell anyone, not a soul! Plus I will do anything, become your personal slave. Just please spare my life.

Patrol Man – Hmmmm, Bartering are we? Like a stincking Jew!

Vladek – No barter! Offer! My life, my loyalty and my skills!

Patrol Man – What skills?

Vladek – I Can do anything, from shoe making to blacksmith work

Patrol Man – You know all this?

Vladek – Yeah, my cousin Richeau taught me before all of...this!

Patrol Man - ........I see. You have potential. How old are you?

Vladek – 19

Patrol Man – 19?... uh all this at the age of 19! You do have potential.

Vladek – Thank you sir!

Patrol Man - .............. you seem to be a nice Jew, maybe even Polish?

Vladek – I am nice, a nice Pole

Patrol Man – Are you lying to me?

Vladek – I wouldn’t dream of it, not to someone with so much class, charm and intellect. Someone with as much intellect as you would spot a Jew from 20 miles.

Patrol Man – Ah, you boy are a Pole! No Jew would show so much common sense.

Vladek – Thank you sir

Patrol Man – So......

Vladek – Can I go?

Patrol Man – Of course my friend!

Vladek – Thank you sir! You are...

Patrol Man – After this

The Patrol Man pulls out and a standard hand gun, it glistens by the moonlight.

Vladek – What....what is that...for?

Patrol Man – Don’t worry boy, I want you to get rid of this for me!

Vladek – Why??

Patrol Man – I shot the man inside that house!

Pointing to the house of the Man who helped Vladek earliar

Vladek – Oh....ooo..erm yeah! Ofcourse, no one will ever know.

Patrol Man – Thats a good boy, now..... on your way

The Romanian Man

To me the film is about a Romanian Refugee who is struggling in society, being very alienated. Occasionally finding pleasures reminding him of home, such as dancing to Romanian pop songs.

He also is struggling with reading a letter, this letter could be from anyone, such as the government, an English speaking girlfriend or an employer. Whoever its from, to me its bad news. News which simply destroys this mans hope for a new life in England and making him revert back to his life in Romania.

The Issues which could apply to this script could be immigrants/refugees coming to England and the the inferior treatment from British people towards these people.

This could be added easily with a look of disgust from the woman in scene 2 towards the Romanian man as he drinks and spills the water supplied by the government office's water cooler, implying that he is not worthy this water and to spill this water is an utter insult.

Misc en scene: Old Boy (Korean Blockbuster, 2004: Fight)

I have chosen to analyze the misc en scene of a specific clip from a very famous Tartan film from Korea called "old boy", basically, this man called Dae-su Oh has gruesomely interrogated another man to find out who his boss is, shortly after we have a major fight scene which is very darkly lit, with cold blues, blacks and hint of red (hinting danger).

The main focus of this scene is Dae-su Oh and his challenge to overcome the problem of exiting the building with a massive entourage standing in his way.

The movement of this scene is simply a tracking shot down the hallway, following action that takes place.

The sound on this version isn't the original soundtrack however it still works very well, being a very graceful piece, with the occasional violin strike, seeming quite graceful and deliberate which juxtaposes the far more manic frenzy in the action, only further emphasizing the epic fight scene. The soundtrack being most of the sound within the scene as it lacks dialog.

The sequence is completely linear as the fight starts, it was filmed in one shot!

With shady lighting and colors, along with the deliberate juxtaposes technique it creates a dark and exciting scene.

Why did jools?

Basically!

I believe Jools set us the inside out task to see how we interpret someone else’s work instead of developing our own idea.

Team work

Creativity

To create and method of working

Break us in into the second year.

Establish individual peoples strengths and weakness

We can learn something that we could use in the future.

My Comic

Me and a few friends from my multimedia course have been trying to create a comic, but to start, we all have made our own, so here is my 1st attempt:

Black and White link: http://luckypigeon.dpsweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/lucky-pigeon-no-colour.jpg

Colour Link: http://luckypigeon.dpsweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/lucky-pigeon-coloured.jpg

If you want to see the other comics, go to: http://luckypigeon.dpsweb.org/

Second Comic

This comic is named P-nut, this is my second attempt an was alot easier compared to my 1st:

http://luckypigeon.dpsweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/p-nut-black-and-white-copy.jpg

click if you want to see the black and white version

http://luckypigeon.dpsweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/p-nut-coloured.jpg

click if you want to see the colour version

Year II or 2

Year 2 is starting in about a month, so I thought I would start on this blog again, you know to get back into practice!

I've taken AV/Audio Visual (Film)

I am really looking forward to it! I'm also going to sit in quite abit of game, as I am very interested i tht subject also!

I have been producing a comic with fellow collegaues in the summer, trying to broaden my horizons past film, but also to brush up skills such as narrative! We have a website set up to discuss ideas, so it is easier for us to know what everyone wants before we meet!

I feel that this project has helped my skills with organisation and narrative ideas.
Most of my ideas which I put forward for this project are potential ideas which could be adapted to film, such as my "UK Now" idea, which is simply an idea which follows this average guy who experiences run ins with stereotypes of the world and it all clashes at the end. (The idea is fully developed yet).

For most of the ideas look on:

http://luckypigeon.dpsweb.org/

Well, I best b off, but I will force myself onto this blog more often as I want a 1st this year!

Lynx browser

I nhave experienced the text only web browser called lynx. Lynx is a text only web browser for the blind (it links to a special keyboard which creates brail, creating brail for the page). I have noticed it works very well and can work better than just usinbg a kewboard. e.g. www.playmonday.com, on this website you can access the lottery ball selection, unlike the keyboard only technique. This browser is a good piece of software.

Lynx browser

I nhave experienced the text only web browser called lynx. Lynx is a text only web browser for the blind (it links to a special keyboard which creates brail, creating brail for the page). I have noticed it works very well and can work better than just usinbg a kewboard. e.g. www.playmonday.com, on this website you can access the lottery ball selection, unlike the keyboard only technique. This browser is a good piece of software.

Help the needie!

If you want to give to charity for free and help feed a child or save some animals then visit this website and click the link (other links at the top of the website for other charitys)

www.thehungersite.com

Remember! It's Free!

Stella performance

The actual performance went well in some parts, it was abit stressful being Stella and having to act like a fool infront of people, however it worked out ok. The flash animations and the rest of the elcetronic presentation worked very well with the performance. We covered Stella's life very well however the acting/script could of been funnier. I feel like there could of been more chracter to interact with and the performance could of interacted with audience more. However it was a confident success! We also made a profit around £17 which will be given to charity (breast cancer).

Stella Rimington

I have been put in a group of six members, our group was told we had to create a "site" based performance on a certain person and make profit. That person being Stella Rimington. Stella Rimington was the ex diretor of MI5 and used to attend the Nottingham High School for girls. Therefore we decided to set our performance there. We have come to a conclusion that we shall create a live performance with acting, animations, music and comedy. I have been nominated to play the role of Stella Rimington, so me and my fellow group Chris are working on a script which would be suitable for the key audience (High school pupils). This is a brief outline on what the script will include:


Pictures of Stella repeat on projection screen

Introduction animation plays

Narrator walks on stage

Narrator Introduces the group

Narrator Introduces Stella

Stella walks on stage in a secret agent way

Introduces herself (repeating Narrator - humor)

Born in war - inspired by suffragettes

Went to Nottingham Highschool for girl - got great education, especially in english and inspired her to go to university to continue her education, allowing her to progress in life to eventually become director general of MI5.

Juggling being full time mum (super mum) and DG of MI5 (animation reflecting this - humor)

Phone call, banter between father about picking children up.

Once she felt she had completed her duties as DG of MI5 she left.

M&S/BG group

Didn't want to resign to a stereotypical boring house wife after the excitement of MI5.

Successful writing carreer, two novels about female secret agents and an autobiography.

Other successful women in power - margerette thatcher. "M" character in Bond movies being played by female character after Rimington becoing DG of MI5.

Whats next for women of the future? When Stella was at school, female figures of power were unheard of. "Just imagine what you young women could acheive in the future"

Round up of Stella Rimington

Questions about Stella or NTU

Thank You

Mention all profits go to charity.

Frame Forge

I was introduced to a story boarding software known as "Frameforge 3d", which allowed you to create a virtual set with virtual chracters and virtual objects. You can move cameras within the software, to gather desired shots. To make a moving like effect you can use a technique called tweening. Tweening is a word that originates from the word "between", it simplys allows you to zoom from your first shot to your last shot in a desired amount of frames, without creating each frame. You could also edit the chracters themselves, for example clothing, facial expressions, age and even down to the little fingers position. I believe this is a very helpful piece of software especially for planning out filming, possibly for my ident assignment!

Space Centre

Space Centre

I found the water rocket the most interactive, engaging and interesting display as ypu could choose how much water the rocket will fill up by (choices ranged from 1% to 100%), to try and get the highest flight possible. This display included a touch screen which added to the interactivity as it is diffetent from using buttons or a mouse to click the desired choices. I believe that this display was an excellent display for interactive multimedia as you could choose a 100 choices and every outcome was different.




The worst interactive display was the “Make your own alien face”, as it took a photo of your face the camera and light quality was appauling therefore you couldn’t see your face at all. It used a mouse, which would of been better if it had a touch screen. You had to choose specific points where you wated the face to morph which made no difference each time you did it, the outcome was the same either way. This display was disgraceful.

Pin hole camera

Pinhole Camera

This seminar was possibly my favorite over the first seminar period, it was very practical and very enjoyable. I made a pinhole camera out of a 500ml can. I cut the top off, sanded the edges, made a pin hole in the middle of the can. I also sanded down the pin hole making sure the hole is a smooth hole and make sure the hole is covered with a piece of gaffa tape, acting as a shutter. Then I made a light ight lid out of black paper. Once this process was complete, I loaded the camera with some photographic paper (shiny side towards the hole) in the dark room, making sure the hole isn’t covered. Then I set my camera down outside infront of where I wanted the photo’s to be taken (The graveyard and the cornerhouse) and released the shutter for about 10 to 12 seconds. Then went back to to the dark room and developed them.