Mood Board

Frame shots & Rule of thirds

Fast Shutter speed- Frozen Motion

To achieve these pictures, we set the camera to 1/500 shutter speed and ISO of 800.

Orb painting photography

To achieve the above pictures, we used a small LED key ring light attached to the end of a plastic string. We then set up the camera setting ISO to 100 and 20 or 30 seconds shutter speed. Once we sorted the camera settings, we marked a centre point, turned off the main lights then turned on the LED light. To create the Orb effect, one person had to swing the light in a circular motion, making sure the light passes through the centre point while carefully shifting themselves in a full 360 degree circle at the same time. At first it was a little tricky to get a full rounded orb, but with some practice, it could easily be achieved. It was a fun task and I personally enjoyed the process very much.

Light painting photography

To achieve this effect may look complicated, but it's pretty simple, quick and fun. We first set the shutter speed to 1/20. Then changed the ISO to 200. Then we took a torch and creatively drew what we thought would look cool. 

Shutter, pan and zoom.

To achieve this shot, I set the the camera aperture setting to 1/50. Kept the camera still and took a picture will the truck drove past.

For this picture, I left the camera settings the same. Focused on one car and panned across as it went by.

Again with this, I took the picture and zoomed out at the same time to create that effect.

Film Noir

CV Video

Cover Letter

I am writing this cover letter, because I am particularly interested in working for your company. I am currently at college studying New Media BTECH. I have good computer skills, I know how to work with editing software’s such as Final Cut Pro and IStopMotion, and also know how to work with a Canon DSLR camera. I’ve had experience in working with the BBC helping to produce instrumental music for a short clip. It was a fun experience, and the experience has taught me how to work quickly, effectively and productively in short amounts of time.

I easily get along well with others. I am interactive and I listen to instructions given, and I can work in a fast paste. I would be extremely happy if you could offer me this job. So therefore I really hope you take me into consideration. I can be contacted at 079 777 7777 or via email on basma@hotmail.co.uk. Thank you for your time, and I hope this short cover letter is sufficient to indicate my interest for this job. Hope to hear from you soon.

Yours sincerely,

Basma Gamhiouen

Curriculum Vitae

Name: Basma Gamhiouen

D.O.B: 03/12/94

Email: *

Address: *

No.1: *

No.2: *

Education: City of Westminster College, Paddington Green, W2 1NB

Qualifications: 

English Lit: B

English Lang: 

Maths: C

Additional Science: B

Core Science: C

Media: A

R.E: C

Citizenship: C

Arabic: A*

I am a confident college student with passion to work in the media industry as I am studying Creative media production at college. I am keen to gain work experience backstage in films or theatre etc, as I believe the individual training that I may receive, range of experiences and different opportunities will really help me start believing that I have potential and motivate me further to reach my goals.

Skills: 

• Good communication skills
• Strong team player
• Good influencing skills

Qualities: 

• I have an excellent attendance and punctuality from college
• I am organised and i like to get jobs/work done on time 

Media Related Experience: 

MOBO Tour 2012

Job role was to collect data from the people that attended the event. 

 

Illegal music downloading

Rupert Murchoch BSKYB

Dear MP,

I am currently writing this email in regards Rupert Murdoch in bid to own BSkyB. I strongly believe he is not a convenient person to own this company, as he owns too many and not doing a good job at it. With all the allegations going around, makes it completely untenable to ahead. The phone hacking scandal has definitely got to be by any doubt why he shouldn’t take over BSkyB.

He breached the privacy laws of the Data protection act, by hacking into celebrities, politicians, members of the British Royal family and murdered Milley Dowler phones. Phones of deceased British soldiers' relatives were also accessed, resulting in a public outburst against News Corporation and owner Rupert Murdoch, which resulted to the closure of News of the World. Also if he was to own BSkyB, it will end up being biased as he will want to show only what he would want the world to know and see through the news. If he is able to do such corrupt acts, not forgetting breaching laws, then surely he can do it again with BSkyB, maybe this time even worse.

I strongly believe that he should withdraw his bid. He shouldn’t be able to be given the right to own such huge media company, because I don’t think it’s likely in these circumstances that it would allow public consent for the bid to go ahead anyway. I hope this email was enough to express my views on this matter.

Frankie Boyle

Press release from disability charity against Frankie Boyle joke:

As a disability charity, we strongly stand by people that are less able, and we try to change their lives for the better and give them hope and same opportunities as everyone else. Frankie Boyle's joke had hit all over the media, raising negative attention and complaints. The public found that his vile joke against not only a young innocent and defenceless boy, but his disability was highly abusive and harsh. The fact that he felt the need to attack an innocent boy with a disability in his comedy show, thinking it’s a way of attempting to amuse the audience is just horrendous and should consider a different career path.

This issue should be taken much more seriously. It’s completely unacceptable. Around 500 people did complain about this issue to the independent regulation indicator. We understand that this might not concern Channel 4 in any way, as it doesn't breach their rules and regulations which is sad because not only doesn’t it breach their rules and regulations but they also broadcast such absurd behaviour to people making it seem right to joke about such things, which can give the company a bad name.

I understand that Boyle is only doing his job as a comedian by entertaining his audience, and sadly, a small percentage of people do find jokes like that amusing and funny; but I genuinely think that there are loads of other topics out there he could have used to entertain, without offending the greater percentage of people who found it offensive.

Channel 4 did describe this behaviour as 'testing the boundaries', well now they have tested their boundaries and understood the consequences it has caused and hope that none of this would be repeated again in the future.

Survey results

 Judging from the results I have received, most people know what phone hacking is, and are aware of which law it breaks. They were also aware that Rupert Murdoch was the owner of News of The World, as he was also involved in the phone hacking scandal. But when asked if they knew much about the phone hacking scandal, none of them knew in depth about it. In a way it isn’t surprising. Most of the people that partook in doing my survey were teenagers; this just comes to show that some teenagers are just not interested in this topic and doesn’t bother them much, despite it being all over the media. 

A bit more about me

My name is Basma

I currently attend to City of Westminster College and I study a Btech in New Media, hopefully this could open doors and would be a positive start for me to pursue a career in the Media industry. I would love to either be a camera operator, director or even a photographer; I'm not exactly sure what I want to be just yet... I’m still deciding...

I'm from Morocco

I have a huge interest in photography, and I feel that photography is one of the few ways a person can tell a visual story. I like how you can use various shots to create an eye catching picture. I also find it very captivating how you can capture a moment and always look back at exactly how it was. I love looking at beautiful landscapes around the world, nature, fashion and much more. Here are some examples of pictures I like:

The world is a big beautiful place; it’s full of amazing sights and adventures. That is why I would like to take some time out and travel the world. I think that travelling is invigorating and gives you perspective. Meeting new people from different exotic cultures could teach you to look at the world from a different perspective. That's why I would love to travel to Costa Rica, Malaysia, China, Hawaii and many more.

Please do my survey :)

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DS7JBNB

David Starkey email complaint

Dear BBC,

I am currently writing this letter of complaint about David Starkey and his crude comments about the riots. The comment David Starkey made “the whites have become blacks” obviously specifying that black gangster culture has influenced the riots. He then selfishly and obliviously started to back his argument by mentioning in other words, how if someone was to only listen to David Lammy, they’d think he’s white. So he’s basically trying to suggest that only white people talk in such a respectable manner.  

Throughout the whole interview he kept targeting a specific culture. I’m disappointed, and I find it very cheap that a historian could make such baseless, sweeping comments. Violence has been shown time in and time again throughout the past, much worse than the violence that was involved in the riots. As a historian, he should be clever enough to know that it’s a matter of humanity and not a particular race or culture.  

I am very unhappy and outraged, even though I’m not from that particular race; I certainly took offence as many of the other viewers did. I believe that it breaks the rules and regulations, as the BBC state the following:

Output controllers and programme or content producers should ensure that strong language, especially the strongest language, is subject to careful consideration and appropriate referral, to ensure it is editorially justified, before it is included in our output. Context and tone are key to determining whether strong language will be acceptable or deemed unjustifiably offensive.  We should consider the following:

• What language was used, who used it, to whom it was directed and why it was said
• How it was said.  Was the tone angry or aggressive, or charming and funny?  The same terms can be considered more or less offensive depending on the tone of the delivery and the character or personality who uses the terms
• Where the content is to be found in the television and radio schedules or online
• The quality of challenging material, which includes strong language, is a significant factor in determining its acceptability or unacceptability to audiences.  Strong language can be acceptable when authentic or used for clear purpose or effect within a programme, but audiences dislike careless use which has no editorial purpose.

I would really appreciate it if you could atleast consider taking some sort of action. Judging from the irrelevant comments David Starkey made, it would also be appreciated if he could atleast be made to apologise to the public and to whoever got offended. These things should be taken much more seriously and I would like it if the BBC investigate further in this matter.

Intro to channel idents

A channel ident is the first clear message of what a channel stands for, it is also the strongest visual representation of the channel.

Channel idents all have a few things in common. These are the things I think they have in common. 

- Logo. They all show their logo to represent who they are.

- Music. Most of the channel idents use music or audio instead of voice-overs.

- Colourful images. Most use colourful images, animation or a certain color to portray their brand/company. For example E4 use a lot of animation, so it shows that it’s aimed at the younger generation. They show a taster of what the brand is all about. 

CWC Ident

Evaluation:
I think that we didn't manage our time as we quite should have when the task was first given to us on the first week. But as soon as we came up with a stable story line/concept, on the second week, we were then able to get to work and manage our time effectively by starting our pre production work such as our audio pitch, story boards etc. I would rate a 4 to my group members, because they all contributed equally well to this project. There were some delays as some group members arrived late, usually I’d come in on time so I start off without them to not waste time. That however, did not affect our work. I would rate myself a 4 aswell, I think I contributed well to the project. I definitely fulfilled my role as I managed to finish all my pre production work as well as my post production.

I think that our CWC ident answered the creative brief very well. We combined Claymation as well as cut out animation together to create our ident. We tried to represent the college to its potential as we used pictures of students that come from different race backgrounds describing CWC in one word, then at the end putting all the students together; suggesting that CWC is a place of unity, fun, multiculturalism, but most importantly one of the best places for education. Every aspect of my work was pretty much fulfilled as we ended up creating a successful ident for our college. Everything worked out well better than we expected.  

I would say the only aspect of my project that I didn’t work out well is the lighting. The quality of the camera was rubbish and made our final ident look a little less professional and more amateur. We did try using a different camera, but unfortunately the format wasn’t working. In the future I would definitely try harder fixing the camera quality issue.

Judging from the feedback I had received from my peers, most of them mentioned how it was unique and liked the whole concept of the words coming out of each student’s mouth. Pretty much all of them were positive feedback. One did mention how we could have improved the light, which I agree with.

Overall, I’m proud of all aspects of this project, and how smoothly everything went. It was a fun and exciting experience. I really enjoy working with the ‘iStopMotion’ software, as well as with the editing ‘Final Cut Pro’. I also liked how the music complimented our ident and was in sync. I’m happy with my group members and we all worked well together throughout this process.

Storyboard

CWC Audio pitch

Mind Map for Ident

Claymation Animation Evaluation

The process of claymation starts by making your own claymation character. In this case we had to create our own Morph. When you have made your clay character, you are ready to create your animation. By sticking to your concept, you start to move your animation character and take a shot, move again and take a shot and so on. It's pretty similar to cut out animation process. By achieving this, we used the 'iStopMotion' software. After you have finished, you can then decide to edit, add sound effects music etc, to make it sound and look much more effective.

Morph is an animated plasticine stop-motion character. He was produced for the BBC by Aardman. It was significant to the success of Aardman because it was his first ever successful TV commission.

The animation me and my partner produced was well cut together. We stuck to one story line and the movements of our characters appeared smooth. The only negative things are the lighting; we could have used a better camera alongside a better angle.

The limitations of claymation are that it takes a long time to make especially if we're making more than one morph. Furthermore, as I kept moving parts of my Morph character, e.g. arms legs, it would start to break off which was annoying. I also found it frustrating for my Morph to stand up straight without falling.

The strengths I found with claymation and cut out animation is that they don't have to look perfect or look good, as long as there is a good story line and sound effects to it. With claymation you can do so much more than cut out animation. Such as certain movements you can do with claymation but not cut out. Claymation also looks much more effective as it is 2D. Having said that, cut out animation is also in some ways better than claymation because the process is much simpler, as all you'd have to do is cut out pictures and think about a story line.

Claymation Animation

Evaluation for cut out animation

Cut out animation is a technique for animation, used with cut out pictures from magazines, fabrics, newspapers or even drawings. The process of cut out animation is pretty much simple and easy. By using a camera, taking single shots of your cut outs, and moving them around and taking another shot and so on, putting the shots together then makes it look like they're moving. By using a simple and straight forward software called 'iStopMotion', I achieved this technique. It's also a fun software for people who like creating animation videos.

Terry Gilliam was one of the pioneers for this animation technique. Terry Gilliam was the animator and director of Monty Python which wass extremely popular in the 70's. Monty Python animation consisted of Gilliam’s imaginative mind by using loads of odd pictures, sounds and backgrounds mostly from the Victorian era. Till this day, there are loads of TV shows, films and music videos that still use his technique.

Examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PTDv_szmL0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5r_iOFipfE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_kGL3M5Cg

The positive thing about cut out animation is that you can let your imagination run wild and do pretty much anything random and put them together and would still look good. The negative thing about it is that you can't make it appear 2D, with 2D cut out animation; you can see more than one side. As much as the process is easy and simple, it requires a lot of patience, as moving cut outs bit by bit and taking shots in between can be a little irritating.

My cut out animation went well, and I’m happy with it. I tried to throw in random things and make it a little humours. What I would change about my animation is that I'd make it appear smoother together than it is, because now it just looks like several different clips, doesn’t stick to one story line, also, I would change the camera quality to make it look a bit more professional.

Comparing my work to the professional one, I can proudly say that I understand the basic idea of cut out animation and I've stuck to it, although I still need practice sticking to a story line and smoothly putting them together like Terry Gilliam did.

Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard J. Muybridge was born on the 9th of April 1830 in Surrey and passed away on the 8th of May 1904. His full real name was Edward James Muggeridge, but he adopted the name Eadweard Muybridge because he believed it to be the original Anglo- saxon form of his name. Eadweard was an English photographer who spent most of his life in America which he immigrated to in 1851. He was famously known for pioneering work on animal locomotion which used multiple cameras to capture motion, and documented a baboon in motion. Eadweard was acquitted for the murder of his wife's lover.

Eadweard Muybridge manged to capture horses gallop by using a series of large cameras that used glass plates placed in a line, each one being triggered by a thread as the horse passed. We recreated this experiment by setting up six webcams, and six people had to take a picture in time as Iman walked by. We used the same technique for Ruths fall. The process was pretty fun, also the technique we used was straightforward. Although we could have improved it by using more frames per second to make it appear smooth.

CUT OUT ANIMATION

Ruths Fail

Emans Walk