E sting Pre Production

The format I tend to use for a E sting is by using stop motion frames. This is because I have enjoyed using this format by practicing it with my peers. However I will be specializing in claymation. This is because it is very similar to stop motion photography. The characters will be made with clay and the setting will be made with a combination of materials e.g. sand, colored paper and a cardboard box.

The narrative will be about two cowboys having a shoot out. First the two cowboys will catch eye sight and they will both start to reach for their guns slowly. The two characters I will make will be distinguished by their coats. One will have a red coat and the other will have a blue coat. One of the cowboys has one eye his name is Angelo and he is an outlaw of the west  with a price on his head. Mark is a bounty hunter on his way to track him down and kill him. Angelo will leave the saloon when Mark will be there. They will both reach for there guns and Angelo will be killed by Mark.

The lighting of the set consists of several light sources. This is easily managable because they are part of light switches. However the premises is used a lot so if I were to control the light sources I would have to get permisiion from other people to use them.

The diegesis of the film will be set in a remote part of the desert with cacti. The time will be just before sun set so that I can make a it look like an iconic western scene. I will use the orange paper to replicate the sun and I will use sand and the card board box to simulate the desert. With the blue paper it will show the clear landscape so that the characters and the environment are the main focus of the E sting. I will also add a saloon in which one of the cowboys exits out of the classic double doors. I will do this by using a cut out cardboard box to make up the saloon. I will use pipe cleaners for the characters skeletons to make it easier for me to position them.

The limitations of my E sting may be the financing of the paper I will need. Different colours of paper can be expensive. Also as it is winter when I will be filming when the models are not being used cold temperatures can harden them. This can make them brittle so I will have to be careful as they may break a lot. Also there will be many limitations to the production of the E-sting due to copyrights. For example the E sting competition gives you tracks for you to use in the E sting. These tracks are the only ones you dont have to pay for the copyrights for however if you want an indiviual one and you don't have the rights for it E4 won't allow it.

My target audience for my E sting will be males aged 17-35 who watch E4 at 21:00 or onwards. This time could be earlier however because of the content I should be concisious of the watershed .This is because my E sting will contain some violence and guns which wouldn't be appropriate for children to watch and it may upset him. The time in which I will air the E sting will be past the watershed which is the time set in which adults watch TV with more mature content.

Preparing Editing Material

When preparing material for editing we must know what Mac computer we were on. This is because with the mac protects this data from any corruption people might accidentally do. When we make a project we choose a mac an log on with specific username and password. From this screenshot the username is media c which is part of the other mac computers however your data is protected as this is an individual user that restricts the files from being on any other username e.g. Media A, Media B, Media D, Media E and Media F on the different Macs.
When we want to edit some material for an assignment we must put in an SD card into the Mac to transfer the data into the Mac by placing it into one of your folders. This is important because the footage must come from the Mac itself rather than the SD card as you will find that editing from the SD card will leave you with problems. To do this we must first make a folder in the movie document on the Mac. This ideally would be the name of your project or something distinctive so you can remember it. You would then need to go into the file in which your footage is in and transfer the folder called Private into the folder you created. Once this is done you need to then rename this folder to the date you created the footage.

To do this you double click on the current file name and the text should be highlighted for you to edit the name. Once this is done the you should be able to see the footage. Usually when this process is done right the footage will turn into a folder with your the footage inside with an item called AVCHD, this is your footage you want to import into a project on Adobe Premier Pro but first you have to make the project.

First you must select new project which then gives you the option to edit the audio and video type however I just left it how it was. Then you must give your project a name and also select the right format and frame rate for it to present itself in the way you want it to be presented. For my project I had to select the AVCHD 1080p at 25 frames as the camera I filmed in was a 1080p video camera.
Furthermore the program will then open for you to start editing. Before you start editing you will need to import your footage into the program for you to edit this. First you must select the option file in the top left hand corner then go to import to bring up the menu were you can locate your footage. When this is done some bins will appear and inside them will be your footage.

Organizing your footage into separate bins can make it much more easier for you to locate footage. Also when you do this you must have all the files on the Mac PC rather than on your SD card otherwise your project will not include the files in your project, this is because when you import your footage into premier pro the bins are only images of the file which are actually pathways to the files that are on the mac to Premier Pro. If this isn't understood the files in your project might get a question mark on which means Premier Pro can't find your files.

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DSLR First Exercise

Single Camera Production Project

DSLR Practice Shots