Our BBC 2 Ident Ideas

Idea 1: Out first idea we thought about making a number 2 out of white cardboard and painting a cardboard box white and filling the bottom of it with skittles. After we have finished this the number 2 will be dropped into the box of skittles. 

The idea of dropping the number 2 into a box of skittles is so that the force from the number 2 will send some of the skittles in different directions to make a more dramatic effect. By doing this a range of colours will be going everywhere and would catch the viewers eyes because the sweets will stand out a lot more due to everything else will be white. To make this idea work, we are looking at buying 5-10 bags of skittles to fill the bottom of the box. When editing the video i will be making it slower, so it builds up tension and gives more of an effect. 

Idea 2: For our second idea, Danie came up with an idea of making a human 2. To complete this we are looking at having around 15-20 people to form the shape 2 on the floor. Before everyone takes their positions for the number 2, we will be marking spots on the floor in which the people will be standing. The marks will help the people walk into their place without any confusion. 

Everyone that will be participating will walk into their places and stay there for 5-10 seconds and then walk away. This will be filmed from the room CS103. We are using this room because it is directly above were we will be filming it. 

Idea 3: For our final idea, we will be making a plastic number 2 and then we will be filling it with water. Once it is mostly full with water we will be adding red food colouring to the water. We will be doing this by using a pap-pet and placing droplets of food colouring in different places around the number 2 so that it will spread faster and so that it will give a better effect. 

We will be making the colour change look effective by doing this we will place the plastic 2 on a white background so that the number 2 will go from white to red. Also by recording this the droplets will be making contact with the water in slow motion, this is so it will give a more detailed effect. 

When doing this we will have to take care of the food colouring and the white background in the studio because we dont want to spill the food colouring and stain the floor. To prevent this happened we will put a white towel underneath the number 2. This way the background will still be white and we get the lighting we need. 

BBC2 Ident Ideas.

For this assignment we have been asked to create a BBC2 advert. We have been given 6 weeks to complete this task. For this task we will be working in groups and each individual in the group will be set there own role.  There are several different roles to be taken on such as:

Camera man, (Danie Jones)
Lighting, (Tisha Hawkins)
Prop styles, (Sammy Bebbington)
Editor, (Jordon Axford - me)
Set designer, (Molly Burton)

I have been given the role as the 'Editor' therefore one we have shot the video i will be putting it together and adding music and different animations to the video. However we have all been given the different roles, we will each help out if and when were needed with the other sections to completing out video. Decided by all of us we have came to a decision that Molly will be the team leader, she will make sure that everything is on track, and that everyone is up to date with there contribution to the assignment.

We will be filming the ident in the studio and to shoot the video we will be using a flip video camera, and all the footage will be edited using iMovie or FInal Cut Pro. We should shoot the idnet so it will last between 10-30seconds. We must make the sound ambient in nature and appropriate to the theme that we have chosen.

To give us an idea of what we could do we went onto youtube and looked at different BBC2 ident videos from previous years. This then brought us to the conclusion of getting a box of skittles on the floor in the studio and then creating a number 2 and dropping it into the box. When editing it on the computer we would slow it down so it looked like the skittles were moving in slow motion.

Evaluation

In this assignment we were asked to created a stop motion video, also we had to research different videos to give us an idea of what we could do.
We were asked to create a blogger account were we were able to upload pieces of work, and research ideas that we had looked at. After we had done this we were asked to look at different stop motion videos on the internet, to give us a brief idea of what we could do, we had to then upload the ones we viewed and write about what we likes about it. We then went into the studio as a class and done a few stop motions to give us an idea of how to use all the equipment and to show us how to do the lighting in the studios in case we wanted to do our final stop motion in the studio. To do this we had to set the camera and lighting to how we wanted and then we set the background using cloths, then we got people to move slightly as we took a picture and so on. After we had shot these, we uploaded the images to the computers and put them onto I movie where we were able to change the speed that the images went at, and we could put our own music to it to make it more appealing. After this we then shot our own videos, i chose to do mine in the studio. I set the camera and lighting up, and then set the background to how i wanted it, and go some people out of my class to be in the shots to make my video work.
While shooting my images some how they were erased from the camera, so then i had dropped behind on my work, and it was quite difficult to catch up. This also meant that i had to re-shoot and therefore i had to take people away from doing their own work to help me complete mine. So if i have to do this assignment again i will back up my work so that it doesn't get lost.
In conclusion, during this assignment i learnt about time management, due to having to put all of my images together and changed the speed they went at. Also i learnt how to use a tripod, when shooting i used a tripod so that my camera didn't move and there wasn't camera shake when i had take the images. I also learnt research skills and how to comment on other peoples work, saying what i like and i think they could improve on being set this assignment again.

This screen grab shows that i can trim my music, so that i can choose what part of the song id like playing when people are watching my video.

This screen grab shows that i have put my stop frame video and also added music, to make my video more effective.

This screen grab shows that i downloaded my music to imovie and attached it to my images, to also      make my video more appealing to the viewers.

This video is my final 'Stop Motion Video'. This week i had to re-shoot my stop motion due to loosing my images last week. I done the same set out and i shot the images in the same place. However this was a dis-advantage because my fellow class mates had already shot there's and wanted to continue working on there own videos therefore they went out their way to help me create my final video.

stop motion video

In today's lesson a few of our class went into the studio to shoot our stop frame videos. We all helped set others backgrounds up, and we all took part. When i was shooting my video i set the back ground as a bed, i had a white sheet as the back ground, then a purple, read and orange clothes as pillows. and then a white fury blanket as the quilt. To make this work i was taking pictures as a few of my class mates were moving and rolling out of the scene. After everyone shooting there videos our images were downloaded onto the computer, but for some reason my images weren't there and had been deleted. So i have to shoot these images again next week, also i next time i will make sure that my images are not deleted and that they are still on the camera.