Emily Preston

Common Ground  Screen shots  Reflection I thought it was going to be really hard working in a group, as I am so used to working on my own. The fact we was making a documentary made me feel like it was going to be very film Production like. which I am not very used to as I perfer making experimental, screen art installations. So this made me feel out of my Comfort zone. As we stared talking about the documentary I felt better as they wanted it to be visual and experiment with Animation which I also enjoy but dont have much experience of. From working in a group I have learnt how to Compromise and I feel like working in a group has helped me gain confidence within the course. I liked how if, I was unsure on something that I would alway have someone there telling me their opinions on what I have done.  I feel that my strengths in making this documentary is the editing part, as I really enjoy editing and playing around with effects. I ho...

Friday still need to do the audio  sort out the Animation running on my laptop  fill in missing bits  Today we went thought what ance had done which I really like how she add and filmed another cup of tea shot which was my Expose where as the other shot was to dark and even when you did try lighting it up it just looked to grainy. I also like how she Added her beach shot and it was spit sceen which went well with the writing poem part which was also spit screen. also she added so audio in which filled in the awkward silence in the middle of the Documentary. I spent most of the day making sure that the sound was level and that there wasnt any really lound or queit bits. which took some time and I also sorted out the animation which now works. It was just the sofeware updating.                                  plan for the weekend  put the new audio in that Jen has ...

Wednesday put Animation in see what parts are missing add the quesions in for the interveiw  Today was mostly editing and trying to get the Animations on my laptop as my laptop did not Recognise the file that the animation was on even though I had the software on my laptop. I also tried just dragging it on Premiere pro which it did come up but when I played it this came up. Even though the file was there.                                                                 But I left it for the time being as I still needed to other things.        Thursday  sort out the Animation Audio  Today I was still sturgging with the animation. But I going to sort that out tomrrow and look it up in   Detail. I did some filming on my screen of me typeing up the questions f...

Today was the start of editing week,but I did do 2 very ruf cut over the weekend which was 23 Minute and another one which was about 9 minutes Just to see if what I had done went with the ruf ideas on what the group wanted. I still need some of the footage as ance was still filming some and I also need the animation that Jen had done. so I carried on editing. OrganiseYour footage                           Here I have put everythink in Order and made sure that they where in the right folder as I know this is going to help me find what I need later on whils editing . Also every time I changed the edit I created another Sequence Just incase I need to go back. It was much easyer when I worked with two sceens as I could have all the folder open with the footage in them and then put drag them on to the timeline.  

Friday and weedend sort out the Footage  and film the dog walking community  Friday we all worked Individually on sorting out the footage and animating. I also tried filming the dog walking coummunity but no one was there so I thought about doing it on saturday and carried sieving thought the footage as there was more than I thought. During the weekend I didnt manage to film the dog walkers as there was children and it was raining, so I just filmed my family taking our dog for a walk.                                            

Wednesday sorting out some of the Footage more interviews  Visual shots  Today I started of by sorting out some of the footage, but then help out ance with filming some visuals while Chole and Jen did some animation stuff. Here is some sceen shots of what we filmed         We then did some more interviews together in the afternoon which felt even more colder then yesterday and we wasnt even out for that long we did 4 interview and then called it a day as we where all cold and it was getting dark. Thursday Digital day  more visual shots  Today we then carried on Animating and sorting out the Footage and then we talked about what shots we should do when it come to the interview. so we filmed more visuals.                                                           ...

 Today was the start of our documentary we had a finished up all the risk assessment that needed to be sent off and Signed. we then went and got the equipment and then had a meeting on what we are going to do today. we also made some questions on what to say when it comes to interviewing people                                     Monday Cup shots projector shots  map shots smashing the cup shot  most of part 1  we did the cup scene a lot of time as we all felt that we needed the first scene to be good to start it off. it could us a lot of takes to get a good shot. we did gets some good shots but it was a clody day and the image looked too dark but we thought maybe we can sort that out during the edited and if not re film it but we needed to move on to another shot which was the map shot before it gets too dark. we then moved on to the projecter shot which ...

Research  We all decided to do some research and come together on what we have found.We talked about  Search Results Ai Weiwei and his work with the Sunflower seeds at the turbine hall. we looked into him as we wanted our documentary to have an art element thought it and we felt that what Ai Weiwei done was brought people together and created a community of people who made Sunflower seeds which then became an installation. During our meeting, we talked about communities that had certain views on topics and how it can bring people together but also divide us. which made me think of this beer advert what I watched online. I was called  Heineken Worlds apart. The advert gets to people to meet that have the Opposite views as them and makes them build a friendship then shows them a video of their personal view and then they have the option to talk about the views over a beer or to walk away. There are a lot of adverts like...

We stared this project by staring to talk about what ideas we all had for the documentary. I was unsure a first but i knew i wanted to question the idea of what is a documentry and push the boundaries on what a documenty is. I also wanted to do somethink that was experimental and had a art element to it. I then decided to draw my idea out as a storyboard to make it easyer for me to explain to my group what I was talking about. My ideas was to talk about the student community and how we feel as students. I know that a lot of us have views on student finance and how they esses how much we can have based on how much our parents earn and where we come from. Also why we have to pay over £9000 a year to learn when it used to be £3000. What is the differents from then to now its not like the teaching is different form then to now, tutors havent been trained any differently form then. so I thought about getting students to come together and create this giant ball and write what they feel. a...

                                                      Portraits           I stared this project by writing all my idea and mind mapping them out to, have a clear view of                                    what i wanted to do and how I could achieve these ideas.                                     Idea one          - The idea of when we take a photo of ourselves we prepare to look good or have the need to                   make ourself look attractive and i wanted to do the opposite of that and kind of create a photo        ...