Tuesday, 2 April 2013
EQUIPMENT & PROPS
Equipment List Props
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Risk Assessement
FILM
PRODUCTION RISK ASSESSMENT
Essential
Contact Numbers
Emergency Services
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Fire
Brigade
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Ambulance
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Police
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Hazard
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Persons who may be
harmed
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Property which may be
damaged
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Risk controls already in
place
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Risk Assessment
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Further action required to control risk
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Camera crane/ camera cables / camera movement/specially cable runs
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Actors
& Crew
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Object
that the wire is connected to.
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Ensuring
wires are safely tucked away.
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MODERATE
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Tape
wires to floor and out of way when needed.
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Liquid
near electrical equipment
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Actors
& Crew
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Equipment
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Ensure
liquids are kept away from electrical
equipment.
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HIGH
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Make
sure liquids are far away as possible.
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Falling Objects
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Actors
& Crew
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Equipment
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Make sure camera and other equipment are securely mounted to tripod
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HIGH
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Actors
& Crew
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Equipment
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Ensure
that all props or objects are not blocking
path.
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MODERATE
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Script
INT.house Evening
Music playing in the background.
First shot close up of the main character follow by a long shot/wide shot.
Aaron:
Picking up a pill and taking one then offers one to Owen.
Owen:
Owen refuses to take it.
No, no! I'm Okay.
AARON:
Come on, Don't be a wasp.
OWEN:
No I don't feel well.
AARON:
Take it. Nothing will happen to you!
OWEN:
(Looking nervous.)
Okay, okay! I will try it!
AARON:
Go on then.
OWEN:
(Pan and look at everyone before taking the pill.)
AARON:
See it's nothing.
OWEN gets up. (Aaron looks at him and asks him where he is going).
OWEN:
Nowhere. I'm just going to get a drink.
AARON:
Oh okay...
Owen walks to the toilet.
INT. Toilet Evening
OWEN:
(Rush into the toilet go towards the sink)
Put his finger into his mouth trying to throw up.(To get rid of the pill)
But realise nothing's coming out. (Tears coming out his eyes).
End Scene.
Friday, 22 March 2013
Cutout Animation
The process of cut animation is done in certain steps:
Here are the materials used
1)Masking tape/ Double-sided tape
2) Glue
3) Blue tack
4) Scissors
5) Magazine puppets/cutouts
Then you will need to do is to set up the process of recording the animation
A table or an elevated platform is required to serve as the work area where the cut-out animation can be created. A digital video camera is mounted on a tripod connected to a computer loaded with the Final Cut Pro software for stop-motion capture on the table.
An ordinary photographic tripod is usually used and the DVC is placed such that it points downwards and would shoot the cut out puppet from above.
After then you will then go onto production of editing the animation piece
.Construct the basic set up accordingly as shown in the set-up section. Switch on the computer and start the programme Adobe Premiere. Select File> Capture> Stop motion.
2. Draw the paper cur outs, in this case, a car, and the background, the road, hill etc. Cut them out and place them together.
3. The moveable parts are attached with either blue tacks or masking tape so that the parts can be removed easily when needed.
4. The car is then placed on a background of the road and the sky. take 12 frames of the car at the bottom of the hill.
5. Move the clouds and the sunrays about during the action sequence.
6. To show the car moving down the hill accelerating, the car is repositioned further apart from its previous position. therefore, lesser frames are required to capture the acceleration down the slope.
7. To show the the effect that the car is climbing up the hill slowly, the car is repositioned close to its previous position. Therefore, more frames are needed to capture the gradual climb up slope.
8. When the entire sequence is captured and replayed, the actionsequence will show the car climbing up and down the hill on the road. The aniamation sequence ends with the train exiting out of the picture.
Here is a video I done for cutout animation. In class we had to make a video of a cutout animation for our project which had to have a max of 30 to 1 minutes. This is an example of not a fully finished version.
A great professional who has used cutout animation and created many animated shows are Lauren Child. She was famous for making the show Charlie & Lola which is shown on Ceebies.
By evaluating the whole project itself there were many strengths and weaknesses i had in this project. The strengths was that you was highly motivated into this because I am a very creative person who likes to cut out things and design some stories with the cutout puppets. Also i believe that I acquired new skills such as: Using final cut pro which was to mainly design the animation itself, developing new skills such as: cutting out, moving the puppets very slow. My weaknesses were that I didn't have the right ideas to know what to cut, plus I was very late with decisions on what to plan the story on and knowing what to make from the background and the characters I cut out. Also I had a bit of a downfall with final cut because at first it got me very confused and I didn't know how to use it, but with the improvements and support from my classmates and teachers I knew what to do and gained more required abilities to finish off my final piece of cutout animation. I could of improved many things as well. One of them was that I should of planned out a story board for my animation so I could of had a simple plot for my animation. Also I should of took some of my time off at lunch time and develop my skills upon final cut pro so I can take down the simple options and gain some advanced techniques to make my project a master class.
Overall I felt that the project was a very creative one and it gave me very thinking to do because it was something I haven't done but it was an exciting one to do and it established some new ways of how media can be like and how animations today make people exciting with very great imaginative skills.
Here are the materials used
1)Masking tape/ Double-sided tape
2) Glue
3) Blue tack
4) Scissors
5) Magazine puppets/cutouts
Then you will need to do is to set up the process of recording the animation
A table or an elevated platform is required to serve as the work area where the cut-out animation can be created. A digital video camera is mounted on a tripod connected to a computer loaded with the Final Cut Pro software for stop-motion capture on the table.
An ordinary photographic tripod is usually used and the DVC is placed such that it points downwards and would shoot the cut out puppet from above.
After then you will then go onto production of editing the animation piece
.Construct the basic set up accordingly as shown in the set-up section. Switch on the computer and start the programme Adobe Premiere. Select File> Capture> Stop motion.
2. Draw the paper cur outs, in this case, a car, and the background, the road, hill etc. Cut them out and place them together.
3. The moveable parts are attached with either blue tacks or masking tape so that the parts can be removed easily when needed.
4. The car is then placed on a background of the road and the sky. take 12 frames of the car at the bottom of the hill.
5. Move the clouds and the sunrays about during the action sequence.
6. To show the car moving down the hill accelerating, the car is repositioned further apart from its previous position. therefore, lesser frames are required to capture the acceleration down the slope.
7. To show the the effect that the car is climbing up the hill slowly, the car is repositioned close to its previous position. Therefore, more frames are needed to capture the gradual climb up slope.
8. When the entire sequence is captured and replayed, the actionsequence will show the car climbing up and down the hill on the road. The aniamation sequence ends with the train exiting out of the picture.
Here is a video I done for cutout animation. In class we had to make a video of a cutout animation for our project which had to have a max of 30 to 1 minutes. This is an example of not a fully finished version.
A great professional who has used cutout animation and created many animated shows are Lauren Child. She was famous for making the show Charlie & Lola which is shown on Ceebies.
By evaluating the whole project itself there were many strengths and weaknesses i had in this project. The strengths was that you was highly motivated into this because I am a very creative person who likes to cut out things and design some stories with the cutout puppets. Also i believe that I acquired new skills such as: Using final cut pro which was to mainly design the animation itself, developing new skills such as: cutting out, moving the puppets very slow. My weaknesses were that I didn't have the right ideas to know what to cut, plus I was very late with decisions on what to plan the story on and knowing what to make from the background and the characters I cut out. Also I had a bit of a downfall with final cut because at first it got me very confused and I didn't know how to use it, but with the improvements and support from my classmates and teachers I knew what to do and gained more required abilities to finish off my final piece of cutout animation. I could of improved many things as well. One of them was that I should of planned out a story board for my animation so I could of had a simple plot for my animation. Also I should of took some of my time off at lunch time and develop my skills upon final cut pro so I can take down the simple options and gain some advanced techniques to make my project a master class.
Overall I felt that the project was a very creative one and it gave me very thinking to do because it was something I haven't done but it was an exciting one to do and it established some new ways of how media can be like and how animations today make people exciting with very great imaginative skills.
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