The Hive Project Part 2

So this week was the start of my placement at the Hive with Sean Macaskill again. We have been given a few different video projects to complete and the first one that we are having a crack at is the Health and Safety video as this will be our paid project. I will be working on the project with the team from last year and a few new faces so it will be interesting to see how this works with a larger team. Last year as a team we worked well and i am hoping everyone brings a lot into this project.

The first project we will be working on is the Health and Safety Videos for the art and design. We will be getting in touch with Sally Wain so we can get a potential brief and this way we will have a clearer idea of the things that we will need to include in the video. What we have got so far is that we need to include a lot of humour inside the videos and we will be meeting Monday to discuss ideas as this is the video we wanted to get done first as it is our paid one.

The second video is a kick starter project for a school in jaffna ( Sri Lanka) and they are teaching languages to children who have been effected by the civil war. We have already started looking at other similar videos to get an idea of how to lay it out. We want to keep the videos in a similar style to the interviews we did last week.

The third video is out the pop up shops that are opening up by the Hive and Sean wants us to do a before and after video. The fourth video is basically about teaching all the schools in the university about becoming about more entrepreneurial and how the Hive can help them.

Got to say i am looking forward to working on these projects and hopefully i will be working at Screen 22 aswell.

Soooo Team B won

So yeah good news after a few weeks off hard work our efforts paid off and team B won the competition. Got to say i really did feel sorry for the other team because their videos were brilliant and it came down to the fact that our team had kept to the brief just that little bit better. But it was so rewarding being on the winning team compared to last year were i feel that my team was let down by the fact we had no help from any of the second years and I hope that next year the first years on our team can step up and take charge of the team.

Also I managed to get up and talk in front of around fourty-five people which for me is a win because i went up without any fear and this is something i have wanted to work on for a long time and i feel now I am starting to get a lot better at talking to people. It was great seeing everyone staring at me and if i am being honest i felt great explaining the concept for our video ideas. Hopefully we will enter our videos into the Nottingham Young Creative awards and there is even talk about sending the videos to Paul Smith himself. What i like about this assignment is that you get to work with the first years and it is good experience in getting contacts and for some of them i might be working with them on placements.



So with this competition over it is time to start on placements I have got a few offers and had an interview with screen 22 on Wednesday. I am thinking about doing how i benefited from placement last year and what i want to get out of this year in terms of thinking about my future.

Placements 2014

So once the Nottingham Loves Paul Smith work is done out the way it is time to start on the placements. I will write a blog about what i am looking forward to this year and the potential placements that i could/will work on. I will write i hope to get out of this year of placements and obviously once i start i can keep a little record of all the work that i am doing.

My Speech

So today i had my practice at talking about the videos we had produced in front of team B. I had an idea in my head of what i wanted to say but i was feeling a little bit nervous with how thing were going to go. But luckily everyone said i did a good job and Janet was impressed.

So my speech for tomorrow is going to go like this:

I just want to say thank you for everyone who has come today.

As a team we have produced three videos for the Nottingham Loves Paul Smith. Our first idea is going out and talking to the public of Nottingham and asking them to describe Paul's work in four words which is in the form of vox pops. The second idea was linked to the exhibition in London celebrating Fourty years of Paul Smith so as a team we all brought in small quirky items so the concept is fourty objects for fourty years. There is also the story of one of Paul's fans who sends items each year to him for inspiration. Our third video is based on Paul's passion for cycling so we hired a raleigh bike and we filmed around locations in Nottingham.

A big thanks to all the team on the production team.

I hope that you enjoy the videos after that i will pass over to Harry to talk about the graphics. Thank You

*Jake Plays The Videos*  

Preparing For The Presentation

So being group leader for the video production i thought it was only right that i go up to do the presentation for our part of the team. This year at university one of my two aims was to work on my editing skills and to conquer my fear of public speaking. So there is no way i will get over my fear unless i practice doing it. With my presentation last term i felt i took a step in the right direction.

So I have started writing a speech for Thursday today we took the day writing out the speeches as a team and i just asked my team to make sure everything was ok. Tomorrow we will be talking to Janet Wotton and then have a few practice runs of the speeches as there will be four of us talking

Team Hard At Work

The Song For The Bike Video

So the video we have chosen for the Paul Smith bike video is The Clash "Train In Vain".The reason behind our choice is we feel that it worked well with the video and because it was recorded in the late 1970's when the Paul Smith was getting into the big time. Also the song complements the video well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNot47WRBFk

The Bike Shoot

So on Friday it was time for the filming of the bike video and i also helped Ashley with the vox pox later on that day. Everything was ready for the filming of the bike as we had risk assessment done, recce done it was just up to our team to make sure that we made the most of filming.

I made sure the team met at half eight. This was to run though one last plan and that everyone knew what we would be doing on the day of the shoot. The team for the bike video was myself on camera Max who would be the cyclist one of the reasons we wanted him to wear vintage clothes is because we wanted the audience to think it is Paul riding the bike when he was younger. Zac who would also be filming and Charlie and Louis who would be keeping an eye on the equipment and blocking anyone from getting in the way of the shots.It also gave us the chance to make sure everything with the bike would be ok.

So the shoot got off to a bit of a shaky start when Louis go pro battery broke but lucky he had a back up plan.  The second set back we had was that the time we was filming out was pretty dark which effected the lighting but the reason we went out that early was to make sure that we got shots without members of the public getting in the way. I had checked the weather forecast and it had predicted this weather.  But we could sort this kind of thing out in the editing stage but once we got into the filming we the sun did come out which helped us. A few off the shots got ruined by people walking infront of the camera or looking directly into it so a few of the takes took us about four shots to do. A lot of the shots used where low angle this is because wanted the focus of the video to be the bike and the clothes that Max was wearing. and i thought while filming the town hall to get a long shot and have max cycle though the people and it turned out to be a decent shot in the end. Then obviously the go pro shots will be for the first person view shots.

We also had problems filming outside the Paul Smith store due to the staff not wanting any footage to go on social media sites. But we managed to get all the shots needed by around 12:30. We put the footage onto Charlies and Zacs computer and both we going to make an edit on Premier Pro.

I will write up about all three videos and the outcome of our presentation after Thursday. This way i can write about how successful the work we have done will be. It will also give me a chance to reflect on things. But before this it is our final week coming up and this means it is time to write my speech.

Below is a couple of images of us guys on set of the shoot.