Emmanuel House Documentary

This documentary is one of my proudest projects. As director I decided to create a feel of realism in the film and keep the raw texture to the film. I was also majorly involved in the edit and helped create the title sequence. From interviewing the users myself I really felt involved in the issues of Emmanuel House and felt that our crews sympathy really brought out the best in the people there. I created the timeline for the documentary and scripted the commentary.

Robin hood title sequence

My aim was to create a title sequence for Ridley Scott's Robin Hood movie. I wanted Robin to look heroic. From researching title seqeunces for films such as batman and spiderman i was inspired to contrast real image against computer-generated images to create a sequence of a routine. Using Adobe After Effects and Premiere I have created a suspenseful, exciting title sequence.

Im just finishing my CV to go on to my online portfolio. However word has frozen so I decided to come on here and let people know what i've been up to! i spent not last weekbut the week before focusing on my Title Sequence. I rented out a costume and shot my friend Glen putting it on against the green screen in Waverley building. There were some wrinkles in the curtains, and it wasn't until thursday's seminar at uni that i realised how important it is to NOT have wrinkles!! However from using 'video co pilot' I learnt how to use after affects and cut out the green screen as much as you can and as time consuming as it was it was pretty simple. I was literally in uni 10-7 everyday that week just working on the edit. Currently this weekend i've been ill with a really severe cold and sickness but managed to get back into uni today to find that our edit isn't as completed as i'd hoped for. However we all decided to split up the edit and focus on a subject each, I think leaving the edit to one person is abit harsh, and this way we can all work in the same room and more opinions are better than one! I wanted to continue my title sequence essay tonight, however I left my hard drive at uni! I left quite late though and should be going in fairly early tomorrow so fingers crossed its still there!! I've already analysed three title sequences and got ideas from them for my own, however I haven't put it all together to form a formal essay which i plan to do tomorrow night.

Potential plans for final editing

I created a list of what we need for the final editing just to give my group an idea of what we need to aim for...

Intro (title sequence)

Snippets of whats to come

History of Emmanuel (how it began, background maybe some photos etc)

Shots of users interacting in main room

Interview with Natasha about Emmanuel and what it does (formal)

Interviews with users about who goes to emmanuel (informal/formal)

More shots of users interacting in main room

Interview with the chef (formal)

Shots of food and kitchen and serving food

Interview with hairdresser whilst cutting someones hair maybe (formal)

More interviews with users about life on the street (having nowhere else to go) (informal)

Shots of places in nottingham the users possilbly go to, grim shots of streets

Interview with Natasha with a plea to raise money (formal)

Shooting for house Documentary 01/02/11

As director I have had to plan to the group what we want too shoot on our first day of filming...

- Formal interviews with camera and lighting with natasha, and other workers... eg chef, the volunteer in office (hu used to be a user and now works there)

- Formal interview with phone/camera and lights (optional choice) with the users

- Informal interviews in social room with an establishing shot of the room with the users interacting and possibly some close ups of users interacting.

- shots of the food in the kitchen and shots of food being served

Documentary project

Our documentary project had to be based around the subject 'House'. Our group decided to base it around the Emmanuel homeless shelter because that is a house/home to some people in Nottingham. Emmaunel house provides practical assistance, enables people access to appropriate services, offers support to peopleof all ages (16 and over) and is used alot by the 'homeless & vulnerable'. We went to visit them and found out they are being closed down by the end of march due to government cuts. They were really keen for us to base our documentary around them in order to create awareness about there issues. We can't wait to get started to help them out as much as possible. Luckily for us we were told the users of Emmanuel are 'good talkers' and are happy to be interviewed. I think this will really put a strong message across to nottingham to see the homeless and vulnerable really speaking out to try and save this shelter.

Robin Hood Title Sequence

I have decided i'm going to base my title sequence around robin putting his gear on. Im going to use extreme close up shots ending with an long shot of robins full outfit. I plan to create a gritty dark style of Robin hood which is similar to how Robin is portrayed in the Russel Crowe film. I want to add music which builds up suspense and gets louder and louder until the finale of robin hood standing tall and proud. I want to set the scene in a forest due to the obvious main location of robin hood is in a forest.

Here is a link to the batman forever opening scene where batman is putting on his costume, It is similar to how i want to create my title sequence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPSEDXw4ilc