Group Project: Trevor Daley Musicworks

For our group project I was assigned into a group with Aaron, Johanna and Racheal. We were tasked with making a short documentary piece about a local business (that wasn't a branch of a national organisation). After a brief walk around town brainstorming, we came up with a short list of companies we'd like to do and began approaching them to arrange times to interview. We agreed to let Johanna and Aaron operate the camera for this project.

After some companies (such as the Tuatara Cafe) declined the project, we approached the Trevor Daley music shop who were more than happy to work with us. I took charge of directing this project, and confirmed the availability of Trevor Daley and Hayden Budd. I came up with the list of questions for the interview, arranged the time of the interview, and produced the set-up for the interview set up.

We later dedicated an afternoon to the production of more B-Roll footage and I contributed an extensive amount of potential shots related to a variety of sub-topics within music, and 3 hours later, we were done with getting our footage.

Note to self

625 pixels in a frame

Using 4:3 aspect ratio:
PAL Standard Def = 768 x 576 Pixels
720 x 576 =

25 frames per second
50 fields

Using 16:9 aspect ratio:
Full HD = 1920 x 1080
1280 x 720

"1080p25 -> Progressive scan
Vertical dimension = 1080
Frame rate = 25fps

"1080i50"
"576i15"
"576p50"

Frame Size = 4k >
Able to scale down in aspect ratio, rather than having to magnify

RGB Curves

Three-Way Colour Corrector

Note to self: When colour correcting, regularly take breaks and come back with 'fresh' eyes.

Video Editing 28/4

Tuesday April 28th:
Some members of the class presented our Microsoft Powerpoint presentations that day. This was our first assessment of the class.

My topic was 24p vs 23.98fps, which was relatively straight forward and people followed what I was saying. I offered chocolate as a reward to anyone who answered the questions as an incentive to ensure that they kept paying attention. Sure enough, they answered my questions correctly and remembered the educational facts I told them.

Most of the class gave their presentations that day, but we had to wrap the class up near 2:50 so the rest of the presentations were due to present on the following Friday (May 1st).

Friday May 1st:
Powerpoint presentations continued, amendments and additional notes to some of the presentations that happened on the tuesday. Marks would be next week.

Tuesday May 5th:
Today we started working in Premiere Pro to create a Pre-Roll. The rationale was to help us deal with demands from broadcasters.

The main aspects that were necessary to include were:

• Bars + Tone -> Calibration
• Black Screen
• Slate -> ID (Identifying format specs, who/what/when etc, I.E. - clapper board)
• Leader -> Countdown (Leading into the footage)

We also briefly talked about colour correction , colour grading, and broadcast safety.