evaluation

Ideas




I came up with three different ideas to try come up with the best idea for me.
my first idea was to do a scene from a play, I decided on busy Malone because I love the play and have a script for it at home, I thought I would do a scene from in the night club when the men were talking then go on to some scenes with the dancers and girls. I decided no to do this coz its too hard to make look professional and good quality and I feel like it would have been too much work for this project, I'm happy now that I didn't do it because I helped someone else film their play and I don't think it went too well and I don't think I would have been able to do it at the standard he did it.
My second idea was to record people playing a board game around a table but I thought it might be hard to record and it might be boring to watch as well as it would take too long to complete and make. I think this would be good to do with some games but none I own so I decided against this idea.
My third idea was to play halo and get a group of people to do a tournament but a fun one and have it all having fun and playing around. this idea I decided to do as it seemed simple to pull of and it seemed okay to make look professional without being a professional. I really like this idea and I think so many people can watch people playing games and do daily that this would entertain someone.
My thoughts were to have the video of people playing and have their faces as their playing in the corners in graphics and swap between cameras to get different angles and emotions as the people played.
My idea changed thought the project a lot, it changed when i found out i could use the black magic cameras i changed to being able to live edit and stream it all, this is what i wanted to do when i heard about this project to i got very excited because i loved doing the live streams in level 2 so i was really happy when i found out i could use them, i changed my idea to be able to use the, it didn't change much when i changed to live editing when i was planning it but during the production i noticed that i wouldnt be able to edit it how i wanted with my graphics and the lay out of the final product because i was going to have each persons face next to their screen but i couldnt do that then as i coudnt separate layers.
While changing my idea and making my ideas i kept asking my target audince about my ideas and making sure that they would enjoy and watch my final product.
Now i have learnt from this to stick to my orignial ideas or if i am going to change make sure i have planned it out fully and that my target audince would be still interested in my product and it would still be suitible for them.
next time i am going to explore my ideas further and try not to change them through the project.


Research

At the start of my research i look at shows and what a multi camera shoot is and looked in to how many cameras were normally used in live multi camera shoots, i took screenshots of every camera angle to see how these shoots work and figure out how i can do mine.
I looked in to major league gaming as that was the main thing i was getting ideas from and is set out how i was planning to set out my show. I took most of my ideas from my research of this. i saw what guns it was using, how it was set out, what the camera angles were like and so much more. This research told me that i could make a video look about as good as the old halo MJG's did. as the videos i was inspired by these videos but they are about 7 years old so the quality wasn't the best and the show obviously didn't have much funding so it was easy to see the little things they did to make it look professional year after year and i was able to see how to make my show look more pforesstional and i kept making sure that my target audience would always enjoy and like anything i was getting from these videos, i liked to watch the different ones year after year as there was such an improvement in each one. one thing it taught me was how the graphics would look and how to design mine. Next time i am going to look at more moden example of my idea to make sure that it fits modern codes and conventions.
I did a lot of primary research that included asking my target audience a lot of things, i always like to get a lot of feedback and ask a lot of questions to make sure my product will suit my target audince and they would watch and enjoy it. Asking a lot of questions made me learn lots to change and impore upon my idea. Next time i am going to continue to ask this many questions and more throught my project.




Planning


The planning part of this project went the smoothest, i made graphics like the ones i had seen from my research, i planned my shoot and did al of my paperwork.

To start my planning i did my paperwork, figured out where i was going to shoot and did all of the paperwork for it so it as all okay and i could plan my shoot.

When planning my shoot i had to make loads of assest lists to see what i would need.
first i had to see what i would need to film and record so i could see what i would need to bring, the hardest things to plan were two Xbox's and the technology i need to record the screens as i could only use the black magic recording devices to record the output of one xbox and not two but i was very lucky that nate had a screen recorder that could be plugged in to the xbox and with an sd card can record hours of footage. This was un needed because we didn't end up using the other xbox which was rather irritating.
when planning my shoot i had to figure out a way to get 8 people together at one time during the busiest time of the project so it was hard. the people that were in my show there was 6 of us in my class one in the other class and one that works. So i had to figure out how to get everyone together for a few hours, eventually i found a day where the timtables connected and picked a week where the person working could come, then i had to tell nate to bring his xbox and controller also the recorder. I had to plan all of the controllers i thought i needed, i planned to bring two then nate brought two and caitlin brought one but i realised the day before that i needed another and luckily morgan was able to bring one.
This all has taught me that if i plan early and sort everything out early it will be a lot better as i saw other people struggle to get everything they needed and all the people they needed, i planned early and booked everyone and everything early so i got everything i needed.  I saw some people use cameras they didn't want and struggle to get people because they think if they book the studio everything else will be fine but usually that will mean theres cameras to be used but not all of the time so they end up with cameras their inexperienced in using.
Next time i will plan slightly better but continue to plan early and book everything early as production is the longest part of the project.


Production

Production went okay but not my best production part of a project i have done before. I planned well but there were unexpected things that went wrong with the shoot and that led to hours delay on filming and that led to me not being able to do half of what i was planning. This was very annoying and i was really upset from it but i was happy to have the tournument. So this has led me to have to change a lot of my show and idea but it taught me to plan more and leave an entire day to shoot instead of just a few hours. Next time i will plan more and make sure i know everyones scedules that are helping me as there was a problem with poeple leaving early and there were issues with the timing and when people got there so next time i will make sure that i fully know what should be happening hour by hour on my shoot day ad plan eveything i need to do before and after recording so i can quickly have eveything sorted and have more time to shoot.

My editing side of production is the reason i am behind in my evaluation. It started out okay i was able to make a version of my product that was all editing it just needed graphics. So i started on the opening sequence and used photoshop to make graphics that i could then edit to move, that all went smoothly untill i exported them on to premier pro where they messed up and stopped working and it took weeks to srot out, i still have no idea what happened and why it messed up as it did but it was very annoying, made me very stressed and upset. eventually i figured out i had to re export every graphic in separate layers and edit them, it took ages and it was very hard. I learnt from them that i always need to have a backup if something messes up and to focus on other things first then to go back to the problem when i have time to. Next time i will do better or plan my editing better, i will also focus on the main edit first then do the opening sequence or any side bit to make sure i complete them all to the highest standard i can.

Conclusion

In conclusion of this project, i think i could have completed this better but i am still very happy with what i made and how my show ended up, i am really happy with my opening sequence although it is longer than i excepted. I feel like i could have worked with more efficiency in this project but i have learnt from this and will work faster and with more planning in future projects. I am very excited to start a new project and work with what i learnt from this project.
So from this project i now know how to work harder and i have also learnt a lot about the black magic technology and how to use more systems and different things that am i very happy to learn more about.
Next time i am going to try learn even more things as i love to improve my skills and learn more. I am going work more effciently and faster with more organisation and work. I am happy i have not done as good as normal in this project as it will make me work faster and with more planning next time.