Project Report

Here is my illustrated project report on my own individual tasks which I did in each of the following: Research, Planning, Production, Feedback, Evaluation.

Project Report

Research/Planning:
In this project I have found out my own research about the history of hooliganism, I found some fonts which we could have used for our final webisode. I also created the treatment for our websiode which leads up to the pitch and talked about what the idea was and what it was based around. This is all visible to see in my sketchbook or on my blog. I did the pitch document as well, and on this included the 'Synopsis', 'Rationale' and the 'Contingency plan'. I inked over the storyboard and made some images in more detail, I found out about hooligan clothing.

Production:
Within the production of our final webisode I like to see myself as being the person who came up with the editing ideas and although I didn't handle the editing as much I put as much imput into everything as the person I worked with. This was a major joint effort, but we separately came up with ideas, and agreed or disagreed on what we thought looked best in the footage until we came up with the best solution as a joint decision. There was much more to the production such as camerawork which I took control of and I also took a little acting role. I made some of the sound effects and found the music for the webisode.

Feedback:
I created a facebook group where people could leave any feedback on our webisode. This group was all about our webisode and I updated it any time we did something new, so that the target audience that were interested could see what we had done, and how far we had made it. So I took control on this. We also had a website where I posted a few things onto as well.In my sketchbook I have put down all of the feedback which people have given us.

Evaluation:
There were four seperate parts to the evaluation so we shared it out so we both did two parts of it each. I did the 'Resourses' part where I had to list and get pictures of everything we had used throughout the project and also I named the price for each resourse, which was difficult to find out, but I got everything that I needed to get down, into it.The scond part which I did was the 'Cast and Crew' section where I had to create a model release form for each of the actors and they all had to sign it, or if they were under the age of 18 they had to get their parents to sign it for them.

Conclusion:
I feel that I have had my fair part in this project and as a whole have come a long way from just having an idea, to actually creating it, adding all the little things that make it much better, like the sound effects and visual effects. I think that I have done a very good job in this project as an individual, and 'we' have done a very good job as a team.

Resources

Here is my resource list which I created in photoshop. I put down a list of the things we used and the prices of which they come to. I also have pictures of what was used as well just incase people don't know what things are.

As you can see there are some things which doesn't have a budget like, facebook, but other things like the make-up and the tripod costs.

Todays Action Plan (19/10/10)

The first thing which we are planning to do is to continue with the white sheet. On the white sheet are a load of tasks which we need to get completed individually and some by working together. We need to work together to do the focus group and also look at audience feedback to put into our group production bible folder. Once we have the focus group organised and completed we will then upload the footage and edit it, we will then write up the transcript of the interviews.

If we finish the sheet and have enough time, we will then start on the yellow sheet which is to be done in groups. The tasks state that we need to get scouting reports for our locations, and we have pictures. Another task is to get model release forms for the cast and crew to sign. Then there is resources which shows what equipment we used and alternative uses. Finally we have the legalities to do which is the health and safety part, where we need to complete a risk assessment for each shoot.

If we do not get this part done by today then we will definitely do it by tomorrow.

Comparing roughcut to finished video

Here is the roughcut version of 'The North Stand'

Here is the final version of 'The North Stand'

As you can see both of the copies are very different to each other and there is a significant change between them both. I am going to go through all the changes in this post.

Sound:

When watching the roughcut version you can hear all the natural sounds, so when the shots change the background noise changes and it doesn't flow very well, also this makes the fighting look less realistic because there is no noise when the punching and kicking happens because there is no sound effects. Whereas in the final version everything flows because we found some natural sound so when he is walking you can hear the same sound which runs through to the next shot. Also we dubbed over the speech where the two friends meet at college because the sound wasn't flowing well at all, but now it does. The fight scene also now looks very realistic because we went out and created our own punching/kicking noises. There is also now a voiceover.

Music:

The music in the roughcut is no longer in the final version because we though that it was too soft and calm music, so we found some quite heavy house music, similar to the music in football factory. This music continues to play through the opening sequence and drowns out towards the fight scene. Once the fight scene is over, we introduce some new music, which is a rock type song. I chose this because I thought that it fits in the fight scene and also when the credits come up this is the type of music that makes it look even better. In the roughcut there is no music at the end because we didn't have time to.

Visual Effects:

There have been many changes in visual effects from our roughcut to our final version of the webisode. In the final version we have added special effects like posterize for the beginning of the sequence and we have also used a staged live action to a staggered rotor scoping effect, which takes you from one place to another by transforming a still image. This effect works because in the roughcut version he is in one place and then in the next shot he is at college, but now we have that effect in place it makes it more believable and not so rushed. We have also made some really nice sharp cuts in certain places which makes evrything look fast pace and also as if it is an actual real fight going on. There is none of this happening in the roughcut version. We still have the cuts where he gets kicked in the face when he's on the floor and it goes in and out of black when he gets hit which was also seen in the roughcut version. On the roughcut draft we had gaps that needed to be filled and we found a way to fill them in which we made by using title sequences. The main title sequence which display the name of the webisode appears in the part where it fades into him telling the whole story. The roughcut only showed the fade and people got confused by what was happening, but now with the title it is more understood that this is the part where he is explaining what happend.

Conclusion:

I personally think that me and Louis have come a long way from our roughcut and have turned it into a really watchable football hooligan webisode.

Action plan for editing webisode

We have now finished all of the footage needed for our webisode and me and Louis have got some good ideas to make our football hooligan type webisode look really cool. Now we have our rough cut version sorted and uploaded we now need to take the feedback we got from the class and make our webisode top quality.

Our ideas for tomorrows lesson is to continue with the editing and hopefully finish it by the end of the day. Some of the feedback suggested that we needed to dub some speach over some talking because all you can hear is the natural sounds like the wind and buses.

We will have to play around with the soundtrack as well because the tempo and volume doesn't fit very well with the webisode at the moment. We have put in all the shots we want, we now just need to make some good effects and add them on to it. Such as slow motion, fades, blackouts. Another thing we need to do is make a dramatic fade so that when people are watching it they can tell that the fight scene is a story that he is telling and not just him suddenly wearing a different outfit. In the lesson tomorrow we will also be adding narrative to go over the top of some parts and also titles. We have both decided and agreed where we want to put the titles, and have got the greatest spot to put the main title 'The North Stand' in.

Some of the effects that we are planning to use in our opening part of the sequence is the notebook effect and also put a gausin effect over the top of it to make it look black and white with a rough effect on it. There has been an extension on the beginning of our webisode in the title sequence. On this part we will use the notebook/gausin effect and we also have some freeze frames for it as well. There are shots of a police man walking away which I think works well and also will hopefully help people understand it more.

Todays Plan (5th Oct)

My plans for today changed as the original plan was to finish the animatic and update my sketchbook, but as we had the opportunity to use the camera we decided that we should film instead. So we made our way down to the grafton to find a suitable location, which were flats. When we got all of our shots we came back to college and uploaded everything to final cut. We have now started to edit the shots which we took today.

Hooligan Clothing (Brands)

I have found some clothing which I think fits the genre of football hooliganism and this is what we want the actors in our webisode to be wearing. There are such brands as Fred Perry, Lacoste, Ralph lauren etc that we are hoping to use for the characters.