Interacting with partner

Barbara Santi came in a couple of weeks ago to help us with our project and see how its going. She also gave us tips on where to find footage, what shots we could use to improve the look and feel of the film to enhance the story and some other things.

She is also coming in tomorrow to see the final project and any improvements we could make.

We haven't talked to her lots of times but I think we've communicated with her enough times in order to achieve what we both would like.

Unfortunately we have found out that she cannot make her appointment she had today so she is coming in on Monday instead. I'm hoping by this point we can show her the completely finished product and gain some very valuable feedback. Then hopefully she will like our product enough to show it at the Cornwall film festival and maybe other venues round Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. She might also like to use it for futher promoting meetings or shows.

today we are ...

We are going to film the last few shots of footage which is the shots of town, public and ambulance parking area. I don't think this will take long. We will then be able to come back and log and capture this and put this on the timeline. All we have to do then is add some minor effects and tweek it here and there. I think we should be able to finish it by the end of this week. We are still having problems with the archive footage though as it does not play properly when we rip it to the mac's and then put it into final cut pro.

At the moment we are ... (continued)

We have now filmed our footage / most of it. We just need to film some streets and other shots of Biyan's dad with the ambulance service.

In final cut we have started to layout the footage according to the story boards. We still have to add the rest of footage to do, music to add (we have done a section of music in it though) and some minor effects / transitions to add in.

I think we are about half way through making our product and also I still have to evaluate this project.

At the moment we are ...

At the moment we have started the storyboards and finished the planning work, now we are going to film, edit and evaluate. There is still quite a lot to do but I think we will be able to finish it.

We have found a documentary on TV which is now on BBC player which is in the similar style that we are looking at but a slightly different story:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00sv2ry/A_Century_of_Fatherhood_The_Good_Father/
It is a story based on fatherhood using archive footage and images.

rough structual ideas for filming

Start with old footage. Start telling stories of him of when he was younger then go into interview with maybe a few pictures of his old home. All of what we are going to do has been wrote up into a storyboard format. We are also going to do a voice over of Biyan's voice to narrate peices of her dad's stories.

Targets set for today 08-06-2010

By the end of today:
* I will write a list of questions for the interview with bi's dad.

By the end of the week:
* I will complete some storyboards for my film.
* I will annotate my storyboard with camera angles.

Interview

We are starting to plan out who we are going to interview and what the interview will include. Here are some rough questions that we might use in our interview:

• What is your perception of the word 'home'?
• Who are in your memories when you were younger?
  
• Where are your favourite memories held?
• What memories come to mind when you say the word home?
• How has the area been reflective on the careers you've had?
• Do these memories of your past career appear when you say home or do you try not to picture them?
• Why did you choose Cornwall as your home or why did you stay in Cornwall?
• Can you tell us a shortened version about the Bosnian girl you gave a home?

Targets I set for today

Here are the targets I set for myself:

• I need to start working out question for what we could ask graham.
• Also maybe start putting a storyboard together.

Places

Here are the places that we would like to find footage and imagery of:

• Marazion / long rock beach
• Zennon cliff path
• Morab road
• Queens street
• Penzance town

We have linked this picture to google maps so we can show you a clearer image and get a better perspective of what we are trying to show or where we are trying to show in the perspective of what we are trying to talk about.

Tate St.Ives

We went to the Tate St.Ives on Tuesday. We found out all sorts of information like the listed below:
1) The Tate St.Ives are the only national museum in a rural context in the UK

2)Their definition of the Wider community they work with is the whole of Cornwall.

3)Most visitors go to Tate St.Ives in the spring and summer.

4) The department of for culture funds the Tate.

5) There are 4 Tates.

The storage site for Tate St.Ives are held in North London.

7) The Barbara hetworth museum was set up on 1979

8) The current Tate building was built in 1993

9) Patrick Heron made the stained glass window which is permanently exhibited in the Tate

10) There are 3 exhibitions held at the Tate every year

11) The Tate is shut 2 weeks between each exhibition to put all the new exhibition objects up. This is called the 'going dark' period.

12) the aim of Tate St.Ives is to bring international art to Cornwall.

13) The building was designed like it is to reflect on the town of st.Ives.

14) They create a new What's On Guide every exhibition they held.

15) They plan two years in advance for their exhibitions they hold.

16) There are 4 activities going on at the same time on Super Sundays.
I found it quite interesting. I think the woman did talk to long and I felt she didn't tell us the information we wanted to know. For example she didn't say much about what work is being exhibited or cultures of the work or the actual Tate Gallery itself.

Trengwainton Gardens

We are going on a trip to Trengwainton gardens which will inform us about the kind of work we could do for them. This trip could open up a wide range of projects and work experience opportunities. The sort of work you could do is make promotional materials for their family trail or their wet nose day on the 2nd of may. We could also use their location to make a short film their after Easter in many different types of genres or do some really good photography work on the views of St Michael's mount from there or the plants which would be quite enjoyable.

We went to Trengwainton gardens and unfortunately it was raining so we couldn't get the footage and photographs that we would have liked to get. We are hoping to go again soon in the summer so we can catch all the footage or photographs we need. It would have been nice to look round if wasn't raining but hopefully we should see the full potential of the garden next time.

We went for a second time and we got some better photographs to use for this project or work experience. We also took our posters back to them to get feedback but unfortunately they said they already had a layout that they said they were going to use for wet nose day. I think there are still work experience opportunities in the future which sound quite interesting.

This has been like a mini version of the project which we are going to do next which is called interact. This where you go out and find a local organisation to make either promotional materials or marketing materials for them.

We are now offered to work with them again like we did above but in more detail. We could promote all kinds of fun days and other community projects they might have. Also you could make these in any mediums really such as graphics, photography. The project is pretty open really. This would be really good. The negative side of working with them is that When we did this before they had very high expectations on what they wanted and we could not meet their standards.

Hayle Social Enterprise project

This is a project which consists of three people in Hayle who would like to build a pionerium. This is a museum which is about all the railways and trains that used to be used in Hayle and other places. This museum will also have a cinema complex in. They would like us to come up with a logo and other promotional materials for their pionerium. This is what we could make with them. The negative side of this project is that the brief isn't that open and they are quite specific on what they would like. The good side of working with Hayle Social Enterprise is that you would learn alot about this project and probably learn a long term role with them.
The ethos of the company is to preserve and promote the railway heritage in Hayle and other local areas which is to do with railway.

The tinners way project

This is a community arts project for the Tinners way. The Tinners way is a walk from St.Ives to Cape Cornwall. The people who run this project are two visual artists called Alessandra Ausenda and Lizzie Black. This project is very interactive as you go on walks with the public, go into schools and do creative sessions and other things. This project is funded by the heritage lottery funding who fund Community Arts projects. This is a project which you can make any medium of work such as photography, film, graphics ect.
The point of this project is to raise awareness of the Tinners way and mining and pottery.
They are also very helpful in this sense that they give you all sorts of research such as maps, guides, photographs and other objects. This is definately a positive thing. Negative aspects with this project are that it is quite an active project and hands on rather than sit back and make a film or some graphic design for them.

Targets set for this week

By the end of the week:

1. Have completed blog entries about all the trips: (end of Today)
2. Have completed blog entries about all the possible partners.
3. continue to research Tre Project.

Proposal

Title: The Tre Project

Production Start Date: Monday 19^th April

Production Crew: Daniella Griffiths and Biyan Li

Production Company: Awen Productions

Detailed Description: We are going to make a film on the idea of home. We are going to make a film about Biyan’s Step Dad’s opinion of home. We will try and relate the places of how they were then to now by using footage and quick photographs. We will collect some archive footage and film a new interview of Biyan’s dad perception of home and all his memories. This film will be a documentary. We are going to make our own music in logic pro. We will keep it to the style of the footage at that particular time of the footage that’s showing or the storyline. Most of the story will be a voice over by Biyan’s dad but there will be a few clips of the interview. We are going to get some archive footage of some streets in Cornwall according to peoples stories. If we cannot get archive footage we will film the current location and put a filter on it to make it look old and we will do the same effect on photographs that we take. We will film modern footage of the areas that we have of old footage and places that bring memories to people we gather stories from. We will gather stories of Cornwall from people by using an mp3 recorder. The film will allow an insight into how the culture and place has changed. We might use the effect of looking at an image in an old Cornish book then it transforms into footage. We might make a short narrative about the idea above with the drama students based on old story of Cornwall and adapt it to our view of home either through the area or the topic of that story.

Target Audience: Our target audience is probably aimed at 40 - 80 year olds as they love looking back to their younger years and remembering what a particular place was like when they were growing up compared to now. Also I think is suited at documentary lovers as this is going to be a documentary style.

We would like to make this film because it is all about Cornwall, which I love and it is a family relative of my friend. I think the mood and feelings expressed in this film will be a mixture depending on the story being told at the time. We have chosen to use the effects above because I think it portrays Cornwall and Graham’s Story very well. Also you are able to see and interpret these areas in all different ways. The footage and images portrayed in this way are presenting the old and archive feeling of the story in a realistic way. We want to achieve an interesting and different perspective of Cornwall and make people aware of issues and opinions that used to happen compared to now. We aim to finish this project by the end of term, which is the 9th July. This will be the film that we make and all the paperwork that we have to do. We have done all the research now so all we have to do is make the product and other evaluating and analysing work. Our team will be Biyan, Graham and me. There will be also some other people we could interview about their memories with her Graham. Biyan and I will be filming, editing and taking pictures and doing the paper work. Graham will be the person telling his story. The Archive footage we are going to use are the following: Marazion / long rock beach Zennon cliff path Morab road Queens street Penzance town We will also take recent footage/images on these following areas and other recent footage that Graham remembers in the footage/images. We chose these pieces of footage because this where Graham has the best memories. Also these are the places he’s going to talk to us about. Our time Constraints are: Week 1 – Story boards, evidence, interview. Week 2 – Film footage, interview, take pictures Week 3 – Arrange all footage both recent and archive in Final Cut Pro. Week 4 – Edit all footage and add images. Budget: For film Video camera Renting: £75 per day £210 per week £840 for 4 weeks Buy = £3000 Tapes: 10 Tapes - £40 1 Tape - £1-4 Wage for us: Daniella: £4.30 per hour Bi: £5 per hour Daniella: Max 100 hours = £430 Min 40 hours = £172 Bi: Max 100 hours = £500 Min 40 hours = £ 200 Min total £372 Max Total £930 Travel costs: Bus: Return ticket per adult £5-7 6 times = £30 – 42 Petrol ( car ): £1.15 litre Penzance to St.Just: 8 miles £0.50 - £1.00 return Penzance – Marazion: 3 miles £0.20 – £0.50 return Penzance – sennen: 8.6 miles £1.50 - £2.00 return Footage: Depend on the person who owns the footage.

PZ Gallery

There wasn't much information to find out on this one as there was know one to talk to our ask questions about the gallery. It was a pretty open gallery with studio space, work presented and chilling spaces.

The exhibition being held at the moment is by Chris Simpson. It is all about weird and mind tricking images of landscape and nudity.

You can do a lot with this gallery as it is up for hire.

Here is a link to their website:
http://pzgallery.com/

Targets for today and the Rest of the week

By the End of Today:
-Finish off text and pictures in whats on guide
-Decide on footage for Tre Project
-Add more detail on blog about trips

By the End of Week:
-Start Researching Tre Project
-Write a blog about each possible partner e.g. Tinners way, Penwith Radio

Penwith Radio

Here are some questions that I prepared for going to Penwith Radio. I looked at the website and there wasn't much information to find out. Every link you clicked on it either said no information or this website will be updated soon. Below I have filled the answers in. This is the only information I could gather as we did not have much time to ask questions:

*What sort of qualifications do you need to get into this industry?

*What sort of Genres do you cover in your shows?

*How many people roughly tune in to Penwith Radio?

*What previous careers have you had?

*How is this organization funded?

*How long has this organization been running for?

*How many people work in this organization?

*What previous experiences have you had?

*How many days per a week does this radio put shows on?

*What is your favorite part about working for this organization?

I think the negatives of this project are that it isn't very active and you are constantly working with them instead of being at college working on the project. I think the positives for this project are that the brief is really open and you can basically do anything you want with it.

The Tre Project

We are thinking about doing the Tre project. This is about making an archive film about the word home. This could be what you interpret to be home such as area, house, people. This would be a film made out of recent and archive footage. The brief is really open and can be practically anything. A women called Barbara came in on Friday and talked about the brief to us and what people have done in the past.

Here is what she said:
What are the aims of the project?
3 - 5 minute short film. They will distribute this onto the web and DVD.

What has the partner produced before?
Creative films, a DVD about Cornish related issues. Films, photography about farms (exhibited round Cornwall)

How did they get into the creative industries?
University course in television drama, working title films company. e.g. Bridget Jones, Four Weddings and a Funeral) worked in BBC 4. Start at bottom work up. moved Cornwall and started to make films. Made a film company.

What is their ethos?
Giving people a voice(opinions and feelings) giving people a chance to express their feelings. being able to explore their issues.

What do they need you to do?
pretty open project, make an archive film half new half old footage.

What are the time / project constraints?
Finish film by the end of term.

What is the social context?
The social context for this project is bringing communities together. For instance trying to connect the Isles of Scilly, with the rest of the UK. They will do this by working and connecting with the 5 schools in the Isles of Scilly, and work with schools here.

The ethos is to give people in the community a chance to express their feelings and explore their issues that they are interesting. She quoted ' Giving people a voice'. This means the above.
Here is a quote from:
http://www.awen.org.uk/
'We operate with a "more-than-profit" ethos, which means all profits are routed directly back into community projects we're developing. The CIC format enables us to stay close both to the management and delivery of Awen's projects.'

I think the positives of this project are that there are a lot of subjects you could make this film about because everyone has a different opinion on home. The negatives are that you have to work with archive film in some sort of way.

They are funded by themselves. Basically they do a project and profits from that pay for the next project and some spare money just in case needed.

This project could lead to varied opportunities such as showing our films at the Cornwall Film Festival. This is the kind of standards she would like. The Tre project would like us to really get creative and make a film themed on home using archive and recent footage. If they like it then we could show it at Cornwall Film Festival and other venues around Cornwall and get our work and us noticed. It's not just colleges they are working with it is Communities in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly to find out what home really means to us and how archive film inspires and informs us about our past and future. Also they want to find out what stories should be re-captured in the Westerly part of Great Britain.

The Exchange

The exchange is a contemporary art gallery in penzance and newlyn as it is split into two halfs. They have all different kinds of exhibits held from a range of different artists. They also offer free drop in sessions for people so that they can participate in different activities such as art or clay work or something creative. They like to work with the community alot. They work with local schools, colleges and other resources. Funding is quite difficult, as every project they do they have to go and really search for someone to fund their projects.

Galowen Festival

This is an organisation that runs festivals and other activities similar to this in Penzance. They are funded by Penzance Council and by how much they make in the festival after they have paid everyone else. There all sorts they provide in the festival such as old fashioned trains, parades stalls on the side of the road, fireworks and lots of other activities. This has been run for 20years now. You have to have quite alot of skills to do this job such as patience, organisational skills and some others. You also have to think quite creatively. This is a vlounteer career to everyone who organizes it.

The Acorn

We visited the acorn on tuesday. A lady gave us a talk about what the Acorn is about.

The Acorn offer lots of different oppurtunities for people to try out such as theatre, Dance, Music and others. They also offer renting sessions there I think it's £160 for the small hall and £260 for the big hall for the night. They do gigs, private parties, performances, singing and dancing groups. They have to finish at 12 though as the sound is an issue to the neighbours near by.

Penlee House Gallery

On tuesday we went to Penlee House Gallery. They gave us a little talk about what they have on there and about their exhibitions.
Penlee house is funded by the lottery fund. I think to do the job you have to have good communication skills, knowledge about the project, and skills in art. I would think you have to have a CRB check if you were working with all kinds of people, young and old.
Opening times:
Monday to saturday 10.00 - 5.00 last admission 4.30
Adults £3.00 Concessions £2.00 Under 18's free
Exhibitions in the next few weeks:
A Marriage of the Arts: the Garniers and their circle.

Street photography

We have started to look at street photography. This was a big part of photography in new york 60's and 70's. It captured the heart of the city. Unfortunately we can't do this kind of photography anymore as we have problems and issues like paedophilia, privacy and terrorism. Its not just streets its all public places.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/apr/18/street-photography-privacy-surveillance

This is where I found information about street photography.

Here are six photos that I think are really similar. They all show the streets in a lonely way. They all use black and white imagery to show this.

Introduction / Brief

We are now starting our new project which is called interactaction. In this we will be interacting with a client to make a product which they choose. It can be any medium: Film, photography, Graphics depending on which client you choose.

There is a selection of clients to choose from but you can find your own if you wish.

We have until the summer to complete this product and pitch it to the client.

This project is all about cultural heritage in cornwall.

Here I think I have been a self manager because I have to plan what product I am going to make and which client I want to choose. I am also being a team worker as I am working with someone to do this project.