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Title: Band Interview
Shoot Date: Thursday 24th January
Location: Harlow Square
Q: Is the location right for the script?
A: Yes as it is where their performance will take place
Q: How available is the location
A: Very, as we have plenty of time during band sound checks to interview the band in the lounge area
Q: How noisy is the location. Is it suitable for recording sync sound?
A: There will live music being played in the hall above but our interview will be filmed in one shot/take so this shouldn’t be too much trouble
Q: Is the location bright enough? Will it need extra lighting?
A: No, the room is well lit already
Q: What power supply is available at the location? Can it be used by the production?
A: We’ll be running on our own provided battery life
Q: Is location heated?
A: The room has heating which will be maintained at a comfortable level
Q: How long does it take to get to the location?
A: Approximately 10 minutes walking distance
Q: How will you get to the location? What means of transport will you have to use?
A: We will be walking
Q: How much will it cost each person to get there? Are there parking fees etc?
A: No fees
Q: Is the location big enough to accommodate crew and cast?
A: Yes
Q: Do you need permission from local council/police to film at the location?
A: No, the venue has given us permission to film on their premises
Q: Where are the nearest toilets?
A: Within the venue
Q: Are there any special health and safety issues with this location?
A: Not whilst we’re filming, over crowding may become an issue in the evening but we’ll locate our camera up with sound platform so that it
will become no threat to the public.
Q: Nearest Hospital/Casualty?
A: About 2 minute walk away
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PHOTO RISK REDUCTION SHEET
PRODUCTION: Band Performance Photography
LOCATION: Harlow Square
STUDENT NAMES: Tony Ball, Luci Jones, Jodie Cleary
PROGRAMME/COURSE: A2 Media
DATE: Thursday 24th January 2008
POSSIBLE RISK – ACTION TAKEN
Camera could be dropped – Luci is trained using the camera and will take care whilst using the equipment.
Electrocution – Special care will be taken when using the equipment. Luci will be taking the photographs as she owns the equipment and has had previous training
Collisions with public- Physical contact with the crowd could cause bodily and/or technical damage. therefore we shall stand toward the edges of the crowd to avoid harmful contact.
Running out of battery life – Battery is fully charged before gig
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VIDEO RISK REDUCTION SHEET
PRODUCTION: Band Interview (Film video recording)
LOCATION: Harlow Square
STUDENT NAMES: Tony Ball, Luci Jones, Jodie Cleary
PROGRAMME/COURSE: A2 Media
DATE(s): Thursday 24th January 2008
POSSIBLE RISK – ACTION TAKEN
Tripping over cables – Keep cables clear from all pathways
Power Failure – We’ll be running our equipment on batteries
Electrocution – We’re using good quality equipment which we’ve also been trained on.
Camera Collisions with public – We’ll position our camera on a higher platform to where the crowd with be so that all threats of injury or damaged equipment is prevented. During hand held moments, i’ll have to stand towards the sides of the crowd to avoid excited fans.
Running out of battery life – In event of our battery power running out we’ll take long spare batteries in order to carry on.
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www.orgazmatron-harlow.webs.com
Once I got all the basic information I wanted down on the site I started experimenting with the titles and backgrounds to see how professional I could make the site look. Firstly I experimented with the headlines and footers available from the website just to see what outcome it had. I found that the outcome looked a bit cheap as I could only have access to plain fonts over an already available photograph. To improve this I choose an interesting font on my laptop and using Microsoft paint I copied the font onto the image the title is printed on to make the title slightly more interesting.
To get this image onto the website I uploaded the title on my account on ‘photobucket’ and copied and pasted the HTML embedding code onto the title box on my website. So that my background image I created didn’t clash with the already available I changed the layout to a plain black layout which gave me a blank canvas to work with. Once I did this I felt that I achieved a much more effective title to the website.
I had changed my mind on have the plain black background as I felt it gave off a ‘cheap’ image to the page. As if no effort was put into creating it which I knew the band wouldn’t like. As I had completed my hand drawn poster for the band I thought I could try and combine that with my website. I took photographs on my digital camera of the poster to see if I can make my website background and title more original. Once I added the image to the computer I cut together all the interesting parts of the poster together as a banner so that I could replace the whole title with it. I found the title was quite eye catching and effective in advertising the band name and our promotion company. Using the same process as my last title I uploaded the picture onto my photobucket account then copied the HTML code onto the title.
As the photographs came up quite large I thought it would be impressive to have a part of the poster to each page, when I did this I felt the page brimmed with excitement and colour. The only problem was that the title now vanished a little into the background and the whole page looked a bit too ‘busy’ and thick with detail.
I passed the website through the band and I found that the background wasn’t popular with the band who wanted to go for a more ’sophisticated’ look so I scrapped the idea and decided to experiment again with the black. Lucy at this point had completed the EP cover she made for the group so they could sell their music at our gig. Her work proved popular with the group so I took that image and aligned it in the centre of a black background so that the group had a website they appealed to whilst making the page more original to our promotion group.
