Fiction Adaptation- The Cenotaph

This is my fiction adaptation film. I believe it has turned out very well from the original idea, I think I managed to create something that matches my script. I think the parade footage is well shot for most of it as it was live.


Although I like the piece there are small things that I could of done to make it better, the character Robert does not seem to have a story arc which is a fault of my own for not creating a story. I think that on the shoot I should have tired to make it less hand held and more try-pod based as this would have helped when it went shaky.

Fiction Adaptation- Final Essay

For this essay I tried to do as much research as possible but I think there was still more to be done, this would have required a larger word count though as to have more theories I would have needed more examples. 

Fiction Adaptation

Fiction Adaptation- Editing

While editing it was hard to keep the continuity for the first two shots. I needed the first shot as it was the establishing shot, the second is a longer shot in which David gets up. But between the first and the second David moved, this made it hard to edit. Lex gave me a good idea to put the credits between the two shots just long enough to make it seem like a natural transition, and that he moved while the titles were on screen. I added the fade in and out to make the cuts less harsh. 

Fiction Adaptation- Sound Editing

During the editing process I found a few problems with my buzz track and some of the sound attached to the clips. 

The clip where David shuts the gate had some sound issues as there is a builder shouting in the back ground of the clip. To fix this I decided to use a audio from a different clip that had the gate shutting but no talking in the background. I had to time it correctly for when he shuts the gate. 

I also had to change the sound for the last post as it came in to loud during the talking of David. I turned it down for that section the back up with key frames, it continues onto the credits. 

During the buzz track of the parade I found I had a couple of conversations that could be clearly heard in the background so I had to chop up the background to make sure that the audience could not hear the conversations and be distracted by them. 

Digital News- Case Study

This is my Digital News Case Study:

Case Study Digital News

With this case study I tried to show a knowledge of the news and how it is created and also why it is presented in certain manners. I only used two sources but every paragraph has a quote present.

Digital News- Film

ARMA News program, this is the piece put together with the two news stories and the anchor. The two news stories are a live and a package. Each have different stories but can be related to a technology news channel. We have made sure that over all, all reporters are casual matching our script in how the news is told. 

I think that overall we managed to create a news program that matches our branding, it is casual but has serious tones in how it is handled. There are some small scripting errors and the trolling story could have had some more creative ideas but we were not best at time management and therefor didn't manage it.

Digital News- Short descriptions

For the digital news we needed to create short descriptions to be used under the video on the website.
These are the descriptions I have come up with so far.

U2

Apple has released a U2 album on iPhones across the world, all iTunes subscribers were given this album on their iCloud. The album Songs of Innocence was transferred to iPhones on the release of the iPhone 6 with U2 present to play a live set. This has not overall had a positive reaction as some iPhone users are left wondering how the album was put onto their devices without their knowledge.

This has lead to a question in whether Apple has crossed the line in breaching their consumers privacy. U2 later apologised for this oversight, they had good intentions that were not best received.

Trolls

This story refers to the new phenomenon affecting a generation that rely on the internet, there has always been an issue of bullying but it has now taken a new form, it has moved on to the internet and anonymity has helped those ‘trolls’ to offend other internet users.

This has become an issue of safety for internet users, as it can be said that they are put in a danger of being cyber-bullied but now also threatened by those that may have never even met them.

The government are now stepping in to update the law in reflection of the world and the times. It can be said that the abuse spreads across the internet if in person was expressed then it would count as verbal assault, this has raised the question for years that ‘trolls’ should be punished in the same way that an verbal assault will be.

We have consulted councillors and online charities that often deal with these issues and have been able to create some simple steps to help keep you safe online.

Fiction Adaptation- Essay

While writing the essay I needed to look at different types of film theory and make sure that the book and television program were easily described.

Agatha Christies Poirot, The Mysterious Affair At Styles was adapted by Clive Exton. Although the book was written in 1920 it was adapted for television in 1990. Clive Exton adapted the first stories in the beginning of the series, he was brought back to direct this episode as it was in the third series but the novel was the first that Agatha Christie had written about Poirot.

To talk about the adaptation I will use the following books;

• Adaptation in Contemporary Culture 
• Media Audiences: Television, Meaning and Emotion 
• Adaptation Revisited: Television and the Classic Novel 
• Adapting Detective Fiction: Crime, Englishness and the TV Detectives 
• Principles of Adaptation for Film and Television 
• Textual Revisions: Reading Literature and Film 
• From Page to Screen: Adaptation of the Classic Novel 
• From Film Adaptation to Post-Celluloid Adaptation 
• Television and Cultural Crisis 
• Sherlock Holmes for the 21st Century 
• A Theory of Adaptation
• Audiences 
• The Television Genre Book 

Fiction Adaptation- Feedback

I came into the studios for some editing and while I was here I decided to show Simon my fine cut if my film. The feedback was mainly related to my sound design and how I could be a bit more creative with it. So this has lead me to do more with the sound such as adding the sound of the parade, I have not yet added the sound of the last post but that may also help.

Digital News- Case Study Research

For my case study I decided to do the differences between BBC and Channel 5 on the Thursday 6th November, BBC at 6pm and Channel 5 6:30 pm.

BBC- are more of a formal company, using graphics to illustrate the story and experts to back up the opinions used. During the program the stories were in order of importance decided by producers, their stories were;

1. Banks Under Investigation (Financial)
2.  Labour Leader (Politics)
3. Teenager school threat (Crime)
4. Jimmy Savile (Crime)
5. Belgium Riots (International)
6. Obituary of Guitarist (Human Interest)
7. Syria (International)
8. UK what next? (Political)
9. Murder charges (Law)
10. Bird of Prey (Human Interest)
11. Flanders Fields ( Human Interest) 
12. Rugby (Human Interest/Sport)

Channel 5- lots of graphics in terms of illustration, more inventive use of graphics. The stories in order were;

1. Petrol Prices (Money)
2. Labour Leader (Politics)
3. 7 year old injured (Law)
4. Bank Investigation (Financial) 
5. Uniform Issues (Education)
6. Gang Warning (Crime)
7. Remembrance (Human Interest)
8. Protests in Belgium (International)
9. Fall in Sales (Money)
10. House of Lords (Politics)
11. Pippa Middleton (Human Interest)

I have decided which compartment of the news the stories has come under buy Google-ing the stories and seeing what subsection they are under. 

BBC focus more on Hard news (crime and law) then on soft (human interest). Channel 5 focus on what  the producer will think their target audience want whereas BBC need to focus on more as they are reaching to a wider audience due to them being a public service broadcaster.

The books I have used to look into these broadcasters are; 

• The Television Genre Books 
• Broadcast Journalism

In these books I looked into;

• Organisations
• Audiences
• Ideologies
• Producing the news
• Hard and Soft news
• Competition between broadcasters 
• Ownership 
• Public Service Broadcasting 

While looking into the theories I decided that my order would be;

• Intro
• What is News?
• Ideologies and Experts 
• Audience 
• Running Order
• Organisations
• Style 

Fiction Adaptation- Workshop

During the workshop with Alex we did a short about loss/confusion, involving losing signal on the persons phone when they need to call someone. I worked in a group with Lex, Andy, Mark and Sophie.

Digital News- Social Media

With this project we decided to use social media to advertise our news channel, but to keep the social media unto date I have been finding news articles to be published/re-tweeted. I mainly looked at technology stories that our target audience would be interested in.
For Facebook I used;
I used BBC news;

ITV news; 

And the Telegraph; 

On Twitter I looked at many different stories and by different news publications/broadcasters. 

Using social media I am keeping our channel up to date with the current technology news. 

Fiction Adaptation- Feedback from Alex

Alex Boorman was running workshops with us for our fiction adaptation so I decided to show him a rough edit; in which he told me that it was good for a rough but I needed to have a look at the footage and edit it more correctly. I had a gap of 17 seconds at the end which is of silence in which I have a chance to do a small sound scape. Alex suggested using the last post.

Digital News- Further Research

While looking at trolling stories and how they were told I came across some interesting perspectives.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23519337

This is BBC's news night debate about what should be done about internet abusers. July 31st 2013. 

The latest update from the BBC was in October in a form of an article. 

While looking at the trolling story I decided while finishing off the script to look into what is happening at the moment in the news;

I found there to be many current stories about people being trolled. 

While looking into these stories I believe I have come up with some images that can be used in our news production mainly with the idea of 'don't tell me, show me'.