Podcast

Adding to the video, I have compiled a short podcast of a radio interview between myself and my other friend Chris Winnard. I set it 2 weeks after the fake TV interview (as on previous post) so as to be able to expand my answers further, adding in (fake) statistics about viewer ratings, revenue of the film and viewer reviews. I also made up for it a podcast cover which I have put into this video:

I have compiled a transcription of the video in PDF file below if any of the podcast speech was unclear:

Podcast Script PDF

The first page consists of all the points which I wished to cover in more depth than I had in the original interview video. On the second and third pages is the transcription of the podcast as a whole.

Below are pictures of the set up I had to record the podcast. I hooked up two AKG condenser Microphones to a single audio interface which all ran into a single Logic file. I used Logic as it was the software most readily available to use for the creation of the podcast. Using condenser mics as they have a much more sensitive diaphragm and are much more sensitive to speech vocals compared with Dynamic microphones which are more suited for bassy sounds and are much less sensitive.

As shown: Me and Chris recording onto a single Mac Logic
file. We shared a script in between ourselves each speaking
into our own microphone placed about 30cm away from us to
avoid any 'pop' noises (noises caused by saying words with
a strong P sounding syllable or S sounding). 

The Garageband file I later uploaded the cut version of the
podcast and added the music. I ensured that neither of the
music files were of length longer than 10seconds to avoid
copyright infringement whilst uploading to youtube later. I
also then added a vocal enhancing effect to the audio file
to ensure the best audio quality of our speech to make it as
clear as possible to the listener.

TV Film review video

Ok, so after many hours work scripting, planning, setting up, shooting, designing and editing, I have now finally compiled the main part of my evaluation. The first part comes in the form of a film interview video between myself and my friend Robert Thomas, he asks the questions, I answer. All questions have been adapted for this video to suit the genre displayed. All shots have been made using green screen and with Motion 5:

Below are each of the individual questions with their original questions:

Question 1: In What ways does you media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

Question 5: How did you attract/address you audience?

Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Question 8: (extra question) What were your concerns during the construction of your media product?

Below is a transcription of the video(s) incase any areas of the video are unclear or difficult to understand:

C.O.D.E.S interview script PDF

Below are a few photos of the two tasks to show how it was managed, the green screen set up and the software package:

TV Interview:

Video freeze frame of my green screen filming. I am fully
within the ranges of the screen itself, and while it's fairly
creased and in need of an ironing, this would not matter in the
final editing as the software would still be able to identify a
uniform colour across the shot.

Rob's freeze frame of his filming. Again he is well within the
borders of the screen and is suitable lit to be clear against the
background. In both instances, the sunlight from the window
the screen was sufficient to light the screen itself, while an
extra light I placed in front of us both so it would light up our
faces and bodies.

This is Motion 5, the software I used to edit the green screen
in. As you can see, it successfully managed to select the area
of the green screen and replace it with my background.

Again, Rob's background successfully merged with the
background, however Rob's background was a bit more
elaborate than my own. It incorporated many different key
frames and timings, along with movement controls of certain
items and then fade in/fade out controls too.

Evaluation video (Preparation)

Becoming increasingly interested in the different ways in which I could present my evaluation. Be it in a normal word document, straight forward but a bit boring and doesn't show off my potential skills. Be it in a presentation, but then on what? Powerpoint?! I don't think so, deserve something more extravagant. Video presentation then, just showing me nothing else? Well that was my original idea, but then I decided to get a bit more ambitious. I thought, why not go one more step and try something I've never tried before? Green Screening! Always wanted to, never got round to it. Now seems as good as ever.
I looked around for a green screen to actually film on. I researched the various gradients of green that would be ideal. I found that it doesn't really matter as long as its a constant gradient throughout the shot without any variations as this can cause errors to occur. With this in mind, I trawled the internet in search of a suitable screen. Many youtube videos told me that normal felt from your local fabrics store would do the trick. However, this being Norfolk there are no fabric shops which would sell me the necessary amount for a reasonable price or quality. So I looked online and found a "professional" green screen which I could buy to use.

My Green screen. 1.8x2.8m 

Having settled on the screen, I then needed to find some suitable software which could carry out a green screen effect. I knew imovie would do it but when I tried it out it seemed to infantile to achieve it to the level of quality I wanted it. So I continued to look. I also knew Motion 5 would do it, but I knew very little about the software itself, so before buying it, I did some research into the programme. I found this rather handy video which explained a lot to me about the abilities of Motion:

Having been convinced by the video on Motions abilities to complete green screening, I went ahead and bought it.

Now all I needed to do I to decide how to present the video. I looked around at other film interviews and found this:

Looking at others similar to this, I found in all of them the front cover of the film or at the very least the title of the film would be shown up behind the people involved in the interview. I decided that this would be how I could use my green screen. I would use it to flash up perhaps parts of the film behind me but also maybe the cover of my film (pretending that it had been fully completed).