Camera Workshop - Crossing the Line

Today was the day we had to use the 180 rule in our camera workshop.

Storytelling - 180 rule

Today we got our brief for our next camera workshop; this is storytelling with the 180 rule.

Middle, Beginnings and Ends with Steve Coombes

Today we learned about what's needed for middles, beginnings and ends in story writing.

Edit workshop

Today we had our first edit workshop and we worked on editing clips from a story of 'Delicious Peace'. This helped us to learn the basic tools using Premier Pro.

Camera Workshop 2

Wednesday 5th October 2016

For the second camera workshop we first had to use what we had learnt in the first one and set up our cameras and tripods and then use the white balance, focus and zoom.

Premiere Pro test

Monday 3rd October 2016

Using Adobe Premier Pro we had a 'test' to see which level we was at basic or more advanced; we had to edit clips and audio of a guy in a library/book shop.

Characters and Dialogue with Steve Coombes

Monday 3rd October 2016

Today we learned about characters and dialogue from writer Steve Coombes. Starting with dialogue we were told about 'gold watch dialogue'- this means that the dialogue is really good but for a play and not a film or television.

Pitch feedback and development

Friday 30th September 2016

Today we had to pitch our script idea that we will eventually produce. It was a 25 word pitch with a title, genre, character information, location and a few extra lines of the story. Once we had pitched our idea, Simon our lecturer and the rest of the team gave feedback.

Mise en Scene

Today I learned Mise en Scene - this means 'what is in the scene or visual frame' and is the visual aspect in storytelling. It's a useful way of showing an audience instead of telling and can help define characters for example their emotional state and status. It defines relationships between characters and there are 4 key elements to Mise en Scene which are:

• Setting - location, environment (genre)
• Costume/Makeup e.g good or bad
• Lighting - how it affects setting and character e.g shadows for villains
• Staging - positions of characters or items in the frame

Camera Workshop

Wednesday 28th September 2016

Today we had our first camera workshop. We learned about assembling and using the camera and the boom mic and how to put people into focus and out of focus whilst they are moving or still.

Pitch ideas

Our first unit is 'Story-telling' and our first part is to come up with an idea for a screenplay from the starting point of 'The Meeting'. It has to be fictional but we can choose if it is going to be a Drama, Thriller or Comedy genre. It has to focus on the meeting of two main characters and have a main location. This then has to be presented as a 25 word pitch.

Storytelling unit - 25 word pitch

Title: Future.

25 word pitch: Rachel films everyday of her life to her online following, today she finds out if her life is about to change. Does she have Cancer?

Screenwriter Steeve Coombes

Monday 26th September 2016

Today writer, Steve Coombes, came into the studios and spoke to us about scriptwriting. Steve Coombes has written for shows such as 'Lovejoy' 'Hustle' and 'Outlaws'.  Steve gave us many tips, rules and general information that we may not have known about, for example loglines, treatments and bibles. He gave us some 'golden' rules to go by (although there may be an odd exception of breaking one here and there). We also looked at 2 versions of the same script 'American beauty'.

Screenwriting - 'Soft' short film

'Soft' vimeo (2011)

Monday 26th September 2016

Today we looked at pitching scripts and a short film called 'Soft'  from director Simon Ellis.

Short Story telling Project - Rehabilitated Love

Wednesday 21st September 2016

Working in groups of 3 we had to choose one location and two characters out of a box. With these we then had to create a short 'meeting' story and had to think about the following:

• Who the characters are?
• Why would they be meeting?
• Goal, conflict and change

Unit 1: Storytelling - What is a story presentation review

   Monday 19th September 2016

Today was the start of the unit 1 on the TV Production course I am studying at UCA. Unit 1 involves storytelling; for this unit we have to produce a 10 minute screenplay either a DRAMA, THRILLER or COMEDY. It will be produced in to either a 2 minute trailer for the script or the first 2 minutes of the script.  To start this unit, our lecturer Simon Welford gave a presentation titled 'What is Storytelling?' . 

Draw My Facts About Me - UCA Summer Project

Hi and welcome to my UCA Summer project which is a video about me.