Moan Board , Mind Map, Video Pitch

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Final photos Evaluation

For my final photos, I had to think to present and idea for a type of magazine.

The first idea that came to my mind, was dance photography. Dancing is one of my favorite hobbies and I thought it will be quite unique if I take photos to some professional dancers. I have my friend who is a professional dancer at Pineapple Studios and is dancing there contemporary jazz.

At first I had the idea to picture him in an empty huge room with mirrors all over, but I realized I ain’t got a room like this, and my I had no budget, so I decided to go to the Pineapple Studios and ask if I can picture him in his dance class.

The people at Pineapple were really understanding, they introduced me to the class and the teacher and mentioned them that I am student and I would like to take some photographs to Daniele for a college project. Daniele’s lessons are every Tuesday and Wednesday night, so I went two nights in a row to take some pictures. When I got there I asked Daniele to stay at the back of the class, so I can take pictures better of him and not to disturb others. They danced for two hours, really intense and sweaty.

Being there I encountered two problems. One; I couldn’t use the flash because I was disturbing the dancers, and two; I didn’t have enough space to move, actually I couldn’t move at all. I had to stay in only one corner, which wasn’t too good for my shoots, to avoid disturbing the students. But in the end I was very happy and I didn’t expect that the teacher and the staff at Pineapple will let me take photos of their classes for free.

For the pictures I used a Nikkon camera and I set the ISO low. For most of the pictures I did panning shots and some blurred shots, because as I said before I couldn’t move too much.

After taking around 200 pictures, I picked my best ten and edit them a little bit. I chose to make them black and white because inspires more professionalism and it looks more interesting. This pictures I would like to present it to “Dance” magazine, but in a different way. I want to use them for Daniele, to advertise him as a professional dancer more then me as a photographer. This way both me and him can have advantages from it. He can get more jobs and auditions and me more experience and more chances for other magazines, that would like to print my work.

Overall I am happy with my pictures, and happy that I had the opportunity to work with a professional dancer and took pictures in a professional dance studio. What could’ve been better was the lighting. I wish I could’ve use some lights or at least my flash.

The Bible Review

"The Bible" is the latest visual story about the beginning of the world until the new life after Jesus Christ.
It's a 10 episodes Tv mini-series with stories based on the actual Bible. The success of "The Bible" in USA was incredible, over 100 million people watched it all episodes together. So far was launched in the USA, after the summer will start spread all over the world.  The premier was in March 2013 on History channel, five Sundays in a row with two episodes at every end of the week.
The budget was for the whole 10 episodes was just $22 million, and was filmed in Morocco in 4 months.
The impact on the public, including me,was huge. The power of God is shown in each episode and in each episode is portrayed the conflict between the bad and the good.
The series had three directors, each one of them directing different episodes, never all three together one episode, which I thought was a great idea, because they managed perfectly to make the episodes come together and make sense. From the first episode I thought the story was brilliantly visualised and really captivating to make you see the next one and the rest of the mini series, that's why the views never went down, because it didn't disappoint. What they wanted to show through this series was the real story as it is in the Bible written, and it's been years and years that a new film or Tv series about Jesus weren't made,so I think it was about time to remind ourselves were are we coming from and why we should respect and believe in the Son of God. Also in The Bible is shown how the world started and stories about other religious people that had a huge effect on the history, beside Jesus. So they are presenting stories that no one has ever seen on screens, that what makes The Bible interesting and watchable.
Even if the budget was small the effects and the performances were amazing.
From all the films and TV series that were made about Jesus Christ this was the second best so far. The number one of all was Jesus of Nazareth from 1977. The mini series Jesus of Nazareth were only 6 episodes, and they were focused only on Jesus life on earth and the resurrection of Him. Comparing with The Bible from 2013 , the series from 1977 were more detailed about Jesus life on earth, and the story more deep and sad. Also in that one there are no stories about Abraham or Moises like in the 2013 one. In The Bible like in Jesus of Nazareth, the main character is still Jesus, because it dominates in the last 6 episodes, and even from the first fourth episodes the stories will later relate to the birth of the Son of God.
The narrative structure of the whole series is linear, but in each episode the beginning starts with a short review of the former episode, to let us know where we are in the story. The story clearly starts with the beginning of the world, how God created earth, the nature, animals and the humans. Then the story naturally goes to different people that believed in the power of God and them confronting other people who where against God or just didn't believe in it. To tell us the story of the beginning of the world is told by a voiceover, I think is just a story teller who reads from the actual book the 'Bible'. The series go in a strict linear story to make sure that the public understands exactly what happened back then and to make sense to us. The Bible finishes with the two remain apprentices who in their last days wrote the story of Jesus and their experiences which made the 'Bible' book that is today.
The Christians were the stereo types in this film.  Even before Jesus the Christians existed and weren't accepted too well by the rest of the people. They were considered freaks and crazy. After Jesus birth, still the society didn't accepted them and became even violent when they were believed and followed Jesus as the Son of God. People were punished and killed because they were following Jesus. In the world we're living today, religious people are accepted but they are still considered a bit weird, because today most of the humans think they are God for themselves. I think that today people are becoming more and more ignorant with religion and Christians in general, people don't care much. Me being a Christian and believing in God and the church, I accept and respect everyone's choice about their religion. I think everyone has the right to believe in what they thinks it's good for them and helps them.
This show can influence the audience a lot, in a good but in a bad way as well. It really depends if the viewer already believed in this stories or not.
The effect that had on me was a really calm one and made me appreciate even more all religions.

R.I.P DVD?

A DVD is an optical storage thing that comes as the successor of the CD, but with a capacity of nearly 7 times higher and with a different way of writing information on disk.
A DVD looks like a shinny disc, and has a MENU, extra, director's Cut, Skip button and Next.
The DVD technology replaced the video tapes that were currently on the market, and probably even the DVD will be soon completely replaced by other new technology like Blu-ray and even USB. The DVDs so far they were very useful to storage big information of a few GB.
When the CD's came out they were a big thing for us , because finally we got rid of cassettes and the huge discs. But when the DVD came on the market it took technology to another level, we transferred all the footages or audios on it from the old ways of seeing or hearing them. And also we put information on it in a much more larger amount then ever.But nowadays everyday something new comes out and concurs the public and puts down the old technology, even if it’s only a few years old.
I still think that beside all the new technology that comes out now, the DVD will always have our back, and when we will need it we will still use it. The DVD made our computer lives easier, so I will not give up on it easy.
The people opinion is that soon the DVDs will disappear but there is still a open market to it. For example some people go and rent their favorite movies on DVDs from shops like “LoveFilm” or buy from “HMV”. The latest technology that appeared are the Blu-rays, which can store on it at least three times more than a DVD. This way the DVD will go down but I don’t think will disappear forever.
Some computer games are still made on DVD's and computer games are still quite successful.  On the other hand, now we have YOUTUBE ,SKY, Apple and the biggest ones are the Hard Drives, who can stores millions of GB. Also the DVD is not compatible with the new 3D technology, you can’t watch a 3D movie on a DVD.
Some of us still buy DVD’s because they are cheap and also pirate DVD’s are very popular. Like a USB the DVD is really portable and have a hardware to support them. So as long poor people still buy cheap DVD’s , this way they will never completely disappear from the market. 
Also think about how many technology less countries are in the world that they don’t know much about computers and things like that. For them the DVD can be a huge useful thing until they will fully develop the newest technology.
I still have home so many DVD’s even from 10 years ago, with pictures, music and films, and this way I will never throw them out.  
As long as the computers will still read a DVD there will be no way that will be gone forever.

Splash photography

For today's assignment we looked at fast shutter speed. We went up to the studio and set up a bowl of water to drop strawberry's into. To get these shots we use a very fast shutter (1/400) and set it to manual mode. The f stop was also 4.0 and i used a 24mm lens. 

Low-lighting Experiment

For today's assignment we looks at low lighting and shadows. We had to take portrait pictures of each other with objects making shadows.
I put the iso up to 200 because we were shooting in the dark and the f stop was 5.0 so i could focus on everything in the shot. 

Splash pictures

Portrait Photography

For this picture I needed lights from the right side.

My subject for this task were vintage photographs, from the 50's.
I picked some vintage pictures with James Dean from the 50's and I tried to create the same effect for my pictures. I took my boyfriend for these pictures and I photographed him as James Dean and then I added different effects to create the vintage look,like black&white,saturation and vintage effect.

Comic Relief

Charity
The charity that I chose to support from Comic Relief is "Domestic and Sexual Abuse" against women.

• Each year 1.5 million women experience domestic abuse at least once - 800,000 are sexually assaulted and 100,000 raped.
• The impact of these acts of violence can be devastating for individuals, families and even whole communities.
  
  They fund agencies working with young survivors aged 11-25 – including organisations which provide crisis support and therapeutic care to young people, and those which help young survivors get their voices heard.
  
  They are helping to fund the Women's Aid Accreditation programme so that there is a UK-wide training programme for domestic violence workers.
  

Comedy
Make parody music videos of famous artists with red noses. All this through college, like E.T song by Katy Perry!


Live Items

In the live show I would like it to be funny and spontaneous.
I think that a "Live Diva Fight" will be very funny. So two girls who are very full of themselves they will play the roles of two divas that hate each other and think that they are better than the other one.
They will star dancing and in the middle of the dance they start fighting and in the end a guy breaks them up and tries to get them to make up.

Lights

Working To a Brief Report

1.1 Structure of a Brief
The structure of a Brief is simple.
First you have to read the title of the company that you have the brief from.
Secondly most important is the deadline that you have to respect if you want to succesed.
Also in the brief you have the task that you have to complete and the steps you have to follow to finish it.


2.1 Reading a brief
Reading a brief is quite easy, is like reading an explanation of something that we have to do to finish a project.
Reading it you have to understand the meaning of any word and to try to accomplish your project as much as you can respecting the brief. A brief gives you also tips on how to do things.
Make sure when you read it you understand what the brief asks you to do.Go through the tasks and try your best to achieve correctly.


3.1 Negotiating a brief
To negotiate with a brief you have to negotiate with the client or company that gave you the brief.
This is when two parties have different ideas from each other but they both have to come to a decision by compromising and making sure that both the parties are happy with the final decision.


4.1 Opportunities created by a brief
The opportunities are meeting new people and experience different tasks.
Every brief is a new challenge for every client or customer because you have to follow the requirements
from the paper and if you managed to done it like it says then you are going to be successful.


5.1 Different types of briefs

Competition Brief
Is a brief for a competition that you entered, and to have a chance to winning you have to strictly respect the whole brief, otherwise you have weak chances of winning.Usually on this kind of briefs you can't negotiate.

Contractual
A contract brief is between the client and employees. The contractual brief explains the duties required and how the company's schemes its work. The contractual brief explains how the much employee will receive. The contractual brief includes areas such as what the employee is agreeing before signing it.

Formal
A formal written document containing specific and precise details about the goals that needs to be achieved. The brief gets straight to the point and doesn't contain any unnecessary detail or information. This type of brief is mainly aimed at a group of people or a business company rather than individuals. A formal brief is not always a legal document.

Informal
Is a informal written document which contains details that you have to follow to achieve the tasks.
This type of brief is done face to face through a meeting, all aspects of the brief must appeal to all members from the client list, the advantages of doing an informal brief is that it can create a relaxed enviroment and their for be created alot quicker, the disadvantages of a informal brief is that it can be seen as unprofessional and unclear.


Tender
This is the type of brief you would recieve if you are new to the company and wher you would develop your ideas amongst others and from their the company would decide if you should be the client. The advantages are that it is very relaxed and easy however the disadvatages are that you may not be chosen as the final client.

Photography

This pictures were made like this:

On the camera you changed the settings in a TV mode.You change the

shutter to 25" and then change the ISO to 100.You have to manually focus and take the picture.

In a completly dark room you rotate or do whatever you want in the air with a small light.

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Frame in Frame

Framing is the technique of drawing attention to the subject of your image by blocking other parts of the image with something in the scene.

Your frame doesn’t need to go completely around the edges of your image – they might just be on one or two edges of your shot.

Rule of Thirds

The “Rule of Thirds” one of the first things that budding digital photographers learn about in classes on photography and rightly so as it is the basis for well balanced and interesting shots.
The basic principle behind the rule of thirds is to imagine breaking an image down into thirds (both horizontally and vertically) so that you have 9 parts.
The theory is that if you place points of interest in the intersections or along the lines that your photo becomes more balanced and will enable a viewer of the image to interact with it more naturally. Studies have shown that when viewing images that people’s eyes usually go to one of the intersection points most naturally rather than the center of the shot – using the rule of thirds works with this natural way of viewing an image rather than working against it.

Working to a Brief

A brief it's a short statement where explains things that you have to follow to accomplish the requirements for a project.

The following report will explain what a brief is and the requirements of working to a brief in the video production industry by example.

A brief gives instructions or preparatory information to guide you through what you have to do.

The structure of a brief is quite short and straight to the point.

What is the task you have to achieve in this brief?
It clearly says in the first paragraph of the brief what to do, and it calls it challenge. The challenge is to write, film and edit a short video, maximum three minutes based on the theme "Ambitious".

What is the deadline of the competition?
After they give you options on how to shoot it(at your choice) they said you have to submit the video by 31 of January 2013 23.50 p.m.

How to enter the competition?
The second paragraph explains how to enter, you only need to make the video, upload it to Youtube or Vimeo and complete this online application form inserting the link of your video as well.
At the end of the competition you will can read the "Terms and Conditions" after that if you are happy you click Submit.

How can I know if I am entitled to apply?

The competition is open to anyone, on any budget and any genre, just make sure the theme is "Ambitious".

What is the competition looking for? Is looking for originality,and something funny and artistic filmed with any kind of camera you have. Just make it good enough to make sure you win.

What is the process of the competition after everyone submits their work?

After all the entries , the best 12 shot films will be picked and watched over and over again by the final judges who will decide the winner. The shortlist will be screened at an awards party in London in June.

  

What's the prize for the winner?
In the last paragraph says everything about the prizez, you will win £10.000 Grand Prix and you are awarded for Best Young Filmmaker.

how to control the camera

 Blurred Motion
I took the picture of the car moving but me staying still.

 

Panning

I took the picture of the car moving and me moving along with it.

Shutter Zoom

I zoomed in the person I used, and I zoomed out in the same time when I clicked to take the picture.





What exposure is in photography?
Exposure is the amount of light allowed to fall on each area unit of a photographic medium during the process of taking a photograph.
This includes ISO, Aperture, Shutter Speed.
ISO
If you set the ISO high , the picture will be more sensitive with lower quality.
But if you set it low, the pictures will be less sensitive with better quality.