Final film - Person profile - Paul Rimmer (MMA)

Right so here is the finished piece to which we had to do a short film on the person profile. Paul Rimmer the head coach was really helpful and without his permission to film in the gym I don't think we would of got our final mark of a 2:1, which we were all pleased with in our group! I think because it was a lot different to the other finished films and it had some really good shots throughout.

Failed attempt at an imaginary person

Have to be brutally honest here and say that I didn't live up to expectations for creating a fake person online using social networking sites such as Facebook, twitter and tumblr etc.

I attempted to make a profile of an alien called Skippy the alien to which I added a twitter account. Also with conjunction of weavrs, which as you will see has a totally new way at looking and using public data.

Unfortunately I received no tweets or followers through using this tool so I can't really comment on how I thought it worked.

Mojo: The Train Detective

This was something myself and the creative genius of James Dunn had the pleasure of performing.

Basically we were given a task to use Google maps in a more creative way in the sense of a story. So we decided to put an extra twist on this and styled it like an old 1970's cop series. The detective Mojo was on the hunt for the infamous graffiti artist Shanksy. We even put in our own theme song! Enjoy

Mojo: The Train Detective. One man fights against the criminal injustice to train graffiti. With humourous results.

Preperation for our new filming project.

This week our group have been given a filming assignment on a person profile. Luckily I managed to track down the head trainer of the Next Generation MMA gym in Liverpool's city centre. It was good to get in touch with Paul Rimmer and introduce myself, basically asking if we could film about what he provides and generally does in the gym. Were going to do our best to get some great shots of combat and also the tuition in which Paul provides for his members.

Our finished short film! Football In The Blood - It's Liverpool entry

Well here you go, our final short film for the 'It's Liverpool entry'. I must say the editing was left pretty much till last minute but were all really pleased with the final piece. I literally spent three hours on the Internet trying to find a poem or speech bed from a Liverpool fan to tie in with the visual. In the end thanks to SoundCloud, I found a great poem that really had depth and feel towards our film, so it was all worth the searching and listening. The poem has since been taken off and was done by Keith Wilson, so I was lucky to upload it while it was still up! You also get to see the camera work I touched on earlier with the lad and his dad buying a scarf at 00:21 in, such a shame it wasn't a blue and white one! Listen out for all that ambiance sound I touched on as well... Hope you enjoy.

The joy of editing... again

Back to our head quarters were we have uploaded all our footage on to Avid, the editing software we are currently using. This is interesting to hear what people think about this software because it has a lot of mixed reviews. I've heard good things about another application called Final Cut Pro, were word is on the grape vine that we may be introduced to it in our second year. It'll be good to compare the two because I really find it time consuming having to manually upload onto Avid. Anyway here is a lovely point of view picture that myself and Ian look at hours on end!

It's Liverpool - Filming at were I dreaded!

On a cold cold Wednesday night to which I have since tried to delete out of my memory, myself, Ian, Nat and Coral headed off to my first dreaded destination of Anfield, the home of Liverpool football club. As I am a team player of course, my Everton roots got me through this I have to say! It was the semi final of the FA Cup with Liverpool playing Manchester City. Me and Ian strategically placed ourselves outside the ground in the hope of getting a nice time line shot of the fans all building up around the ground. I really feel sorry for any camera men out there who do all the reports you see on the likes of sky sports, because all you get is people jumping in front of the camera in the hope of being on the TV! This was rather frustrating for us in particular because the aim was to get a time line sequence of the fans building up. So it was just a bit of character building lets say that got us through it. The others looked more around the ground trying to get more intimate shots of fans, magazine sellers, souvenir sellers and general banter you get on a typical match day. I emphasised to everyone to try and get as much ambiance as possible, because I knew that this would be a great sound bed to have over the visual, giving it more realism and feel. It was funny actually because literally to the right of this picture ITV were filming as well, so we picked a good spot!

Really hoping the footage we got turns out to be good because we literally split up into three's at times all trying to get good footage. I was particularly pleased with a bit of filming that I had done were I spotted a young lad and his dad buying a scarf by one of the stalls. Even as an Everton fan it was good to hear all the banter involved between Liverpool and City fans, so fingers crossed we've got enough good shots for our final piece! It also helps having Ian's editing skills!