Requirements for a Moving Image Production

Name: Bradley Child

Requirements for a Moving Image Production

Unit 1

GC1

Type of moving image production (media forms)

·         What type of media product did you produce and what was it for? How did you distribute it?

The type of media product that we have produced was a short film that was approximately 90 second long.

It was for the website ‘Depict’.

The way that we have distributed the media product is through ‘YouTube’. We uploaded the media product on the website.

·         What other types of moving image media product are there? What different distribution methods are there?

There are many other types of moving image media products, for some examples there are Movies, TV Programs, Music Videos, Animations, documentary’s and many others.

Other distribution Methods can range to websites to phones apps and others for example there is Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram, Reddit or even you could have the potential or stream the media product live on certain websites or even programs. If possible, another distribution method could be to premiere the media product at a theatre/open public venue.

Finance and sources of funding

·         What sources of funding exist for film, television and other moving image productions?

Many sources of funding can be used for when funding a film or other media products, For example there are ‘websites’ like ‘Kickstarter’.

Kickstarter is a public benefit corporation that maintains                a global crowdfunding platform that grants the access to publish a media product onto the website in which allow public users to review the potential media product ad maybe fund the products depending if the viewer like it enough to donate the money to the product. This can be great way to fund any media product but is not vey reliant over its probability of enough people donating enough to reach the fund target.

Another source of financial funding could result to a producer picturising your product, if at any potential cost that anyone finds a producer, the producer can take action on your product and picturise the media product. What this will do is give the producer the action to represent the product giving it potential growth and if it receives enough recognition it has great potential for money and also a greater audience. This can really push that limit of finance to small people that want to produce media products.        

Working for an existing media distributing company is also a good way of receiving some great finance. If someone has as team or an online group that is willing partner/work for a business that specialises in “Moving images product” it could be a great a step of getting a source of financial income for a media product, with the approval of the company to fund the project and get The “moving image production” published. The negative point of these id that you will have to share the outcome source of money to the company also including the company for copyright and responsibility for the “Moving image production”. This could mean that there is a massive in money and also independency including a lot of responsibility for the media product.

Requirements for any production-i.e., what will the money be spent on?

Make a list of all the things you might have to spend money on for the moving image text

·         Cameras

·         Audio technology

·         Editing software

·         A set/permitted location

·         Computer-requirements included

·         Sd card/memory storage

Requirements (cont’d)

·         What did we have to obtain for your Depict project?

The following Requirements we had to obtain for the depict project was the following.

·         Camera – to record the following scenes

·         Camera stand – to stance the camera for positioning purposes

·         Permission from collage to use the following sceneries

·         Computer – for the actions of editing, recording audio and publishing the project

·         A dynamic microphone – to record the narration for the project

·         Editing software ‘Adobe Premiere Pro’ – to edit and process the project

·         YouTube – to publish our project online

·         Audio software- to record the audio narration

Personnel: ‘Talent’ (actors) and ‘crew’ (the production team) that work n a media production.

Crew:

·         What is the makeup of the typical team for a moving image production;

A)     A low budget short

The make up of a low budget team will normally consist of a very small amount of members on a team. The low budget short film will normally include a small amount of actors depending on the concept of the short film. As it’s a short film it casually doesn’t include a large amount of people unless the main conflict is based around a scenario of a lot of people.

Other than the actors other members that will be included will the camera crew, these are the people that are control of the shots of the short film and is in charge of controlling the camera. Low budget will not normally include a separate crew member that will control audio technology as the low budget will suggest that the audio is primarily attached to the camera.

 Other team members of a low budget short film will be the Editor of the short film, this person will combine all of the footage created by the actors and the camera men and would ‘edit all of the footage with all of the other members as confirmation of the low budget short. The overall makeup for the low budget short is the, ‘Actors’ the people that will perform in front of the camera that will propose the conflict of the film. ‘Camera Crew’ the individuals that are in charge recording the actors. And also the ‘Editors’ the people responsible for assembling all of the footage corrects with the visual confirmation of the other members of the group.

B)     A television programme

The typical team makeup for a Television programme will consist on firstly the actor of the television show, depending on the budget of the television show will express how many actors that will appear during the ‘TV’ show, the range of the actor that will appear in th television programme will range to more than 10 people. The categories of actors in the main cast, the main cast are the actor that will further represent the television show this means that the main conflict of the show will be based on the main actor of the show, in some scenarios the show can have cameo appearances on the show, some other actors from other televisions programmes or movies ect. For example, in the show big bang theory there are multiple appearance of the other actor participating into the show as a ‘cameo’ appearance. This is a great and unique way of grabbing interest from other audiences as more of the people.

Other than the main characters of the show they will also be the off cast characters. The off-cast character are the people that have a particular role in the television programme.  They are normal relevant in scenes of a conflict to or assist the character in the situation they are in.

Television Programme will have a leading producer, the person responsible for setting up all everything the story, sets, actors and ect. Not only person is responsible for creating every single episode there can be other/different producer that can create the episode (these are called executive) it depends on what type of television programme it is a sitcom or a cartoon tv show. Normally these are the people in charge of the creation of the television programmes.

Finally we have the editors of the television programme, these people are very important because they have a great responsible for assembling the episodes together. Over the way the shot are created in the television industry the editors are extremely important. There are different kinds of editors in this area as there is special effects edit for if a scene requires special effects for example game of thrones will have a special effects editor over its visual representation.

C)      Hollywood feature film

The makeup of a Hollywood  feature film consist on a large cast as normal a Hollywood feature will have a large budget. The Hollywood feature film will have different group that will be operation different roles for the feature film for example there is an audio group, a group that focus on sounds music basic audio, there will be an recording group and an editing group. There is a recording group which will be in charge of the recording, camera will be controlled by the producers of the feature film will control the shots. Other groups like the Design group, there role is to create the sets and also the clothing for the character that will take place in the feature film.

The important of the makeup of a Hollywood feature film will be the actors. The actors that are appropriate for holly feature film are actors that has an existing reputation or that has previous experience with good rated project that are associated to the same industry.

·        Explain how you allocated work in your very small group. Who performed what role? Did they any experience of that role before?

We allocated are group to have different roles in the proposal of the performance/recording of our short film. Are allocation was to have two main actors, a narrator and a camera man. The crew of the small group was:

Declan: Main actor, playing the stalker

Erin: second actor, playing the victim

Mathew: the narrator of the short film, describing the situations of both actors

Bradley: The camera man, one responsible for recording the shots of the short film

Actor, Declan has had previous experience playing and acting in short film before and has perform well for what we tried to aim for.

Bradley, has had association with controlling the camera in other short films.

Erin and Mathew has a new approach to these roles

Cast/other contributors

There was no other contribution during the project short film. Only backstage people in the shots of the east Norfolk collage.

Time: What was your timeframe and how well did you use your time you were given?

The teams was fairly great at completing the objects of our work in the time frames that we were given, The team finished early and had succeeded at managing a decent quality short film with many assets for example we had implemented an onscreen texting visual effects which would be very interesting in terms of quality, also we had to try and fit in time for the narration recording on the short film. At start we had to record the part in the collage which including the actor Declan to record his parts for the first scene in the “hive” location. Other day had to be scheduled to record the certain part in the same area. “The Next Day” in the short film had to be a scheduled plan as we need  the actor to be in different cloths. The recordings of the next day was performed in the day. The actor ‘Declan’ had to make sure of the clothes that he was wearing for the recordings as the same with the other actress ‘Erin’. Each different location in the short film he recorded on different days of Monday, Thursday and also Friday. Over the teams main timeframe was around one month including the parts of editing, narration and also the recording.

·         What happens when do not meet deadlines in the professional media industry?

The consequences of not meeting the deadlines on a professional standard in the media industry will result in a negative effect of you media representation, as it’s the responsibly of providing and maintaining a link with the client that are involved in the work. If the situation is public over the consent of you or had been responsible over journey it and infact affect the audience over the course of action of not completing the project that is said to be revealed for the public, in this is will cause a negative impact in the business that you engage with in the future as they will be informed of the actions of not meeting the deadlines. The actions that you mostly have to fill is the part of trying to receive more scheduled time, if work is not completed you will have to invest more money and time in the schedules of completing the product in the professional industry. Also it will not only effect you but also other people that our involved in the planning and production of the product. If you miss a deadline its possible you could be putting the journalists in a different position as they will have their own deadline to meet with other editers and publishers to meet and so can give you a reliant in terms of the professional media industry.

·         Did you meet the deadlines in class?

Yes we had managed the time to publish the final produced result on ‘YouTube’ with the time we had received we managed to include other positives aspects of the short film.

Equipment/Facilities: What is needed?

o   The equipment that we needed to enquire was a camera that could deliver the benefits of recording in the resolution of 1920x1080 pixels and also at least 45 fps

o   An editing software to edit the short film in not only tradition cut but also including other unique visual ideas

o   A condenser microphone to record the Narration

o   Permission of filming in certain areas

We had obtained the equipment from the granted permission from the east Norfolk collage. We were granted to borrow the equipment by using the student cards as an of responsibility for the equipment.

Locations: where did you film and how do go about securing locations legally?

The filming performed by the group was located on the grounds of east Norfolk collage, all permission for filming on the ground inside the collage was approved, total of 2 locations of where we filmed within the collage.

The way of securing locations legally for recording purposes is that you would have perform the action of receiving permission from either landowner of an area or a building to record on the premise. If this is not performed then you could risk the recording getting either taken from you or copyrighted to the owner the location. For example, if you were filming on a land area where the owner is not aware of use of recording he can take legal action against you ranging from copyright, exclusion of footage or a fine.

Materials: what, in addition to a equipment, crew and cast and cast, is needed to make a moving images text? Where/how are they obtained?

o   Pepsi max = £1.50

o   Cup =£0

o   Papers/folders = £0

o   Phone = £0

o   Bag = £0

No consideration had to be made.

Legal issues:

No legal considerations had to be made for using the certain selection of material that we had enquired.

·         How did copyright affect your Depict! Production?

It had really affected our ways to use any types of song to include within the moving image media product as most of the music would have come under the risk of copyright this forced the group to use a copyright free music website to benefit our short film, shortly though we decided to not include music in the video as we preferred the narration instead. The phones seen in the short film as a visual effect we had to locate a design that we free for access and that wouldn’t go under the terms of copyright.

·         Define and give examples of the following:

o   Clearance: The action/movement of “clearing” a proposed access or complication for example if you want to use a property clearance is the action given for receiving the authorization for access to that property

o   Public liability insurance: Is the access to cover the cost of any legal action and compensation claims made against your work/business or any form of organization for example, if you perform any action like property damage or an injury the insurance can clarify the situation and pay for any of the actions like transport of medical injury or to give the action of medical treatment or replacement

o   Completion guarantee/insurance: this gives you action to receive a guarantee completion for the producer to finish and produce the film to the distributor and so triggering the payment to a minimum price of distribution.

Regulation: What is a regulatory body and what do they do?

A regulatory body is an organization that is appointed by the government to establish the national standards for certain qualification like media to ensure a compliance with them.

·         What is OFCOM and what is its function?

OFCOM is a telecommunications company that qualifies the approved regularly and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications, and postal industries of the UK

·         Who regulates the BBC and why is this different to OFCOM?

The BBC is a quasi-autonomous a corporation authorized by Royal Charter, making it operationally independent of the government, regulations our appealed by OFCOM

OFCOM isn’t a media distribution company like the BBC, OFCOM is a telecommunications company while BBC is a Broadcasting media distribution company.

·         What is the BBFC and what is its function?

The BBFC is a company that regulates the national classification and censorship of film exhibited at cinemas and video works released on physical media within the UK.

Trade unions and trade associations: What are they and what do they do?

·        What is a trade union and why are they important?

a trade union is an organized association of working in a trade of either specific factors of work or nation work, for example, the media. They are important because they’re the ones responsible for keeping trades on media protected and also further their rights and interests.

·        What are PACT and BECTU and what do they do?

PACT stands for Producers' alliance for cinema and television. And is a trade association for the independent content producers in the feature films, and other types of films like animation television and etc.

BECTU is the trade union representing workers from the UK’s media and entertainment sector. It exists to defend the rights of those working across the full spectrum of entertainment industries including film, broadcast, independent production.

·         What is a trade association and why do they exist? Start skills.