Case Study Blog

For this case study I have chosen three different types of film from BBC Three, Channel 4 and Vice. Two are factual and one is live.

The first one is all about table tennis, this includes a live action event as well as edited. This is because its telling a story of how the boy never gives up about table tennis. When he losses to a game he gets back up and keeps going. I like the way its edited as it shows his journey and how he's always motivated and makes him want to play, even when he losses. The live action shots had two cameras, one as a wide shot setting the scene and a mid shot of the boy. The reason we didn't get a mid shot of the other player is because we wanted the focus to be on the boy as he is the centre of the whole program. I can compare this to my live action table tennis match in the Crib at College. We also had two camera set up, but we had to mid shots of the two players and not a wide shot to set the scene. Obviously the program was much more professionally filmed then our film. Ours was mainly to get experience, practice and to understand how live action events are filmed. Also ours wasn't telling a story and was mainly about the match and a little interview at the end.

The second video is an interview, where you don't hear the interviewers voice. This is a very simple interview as the text just comes on screen and then Nick answers them on the spot. It was filmed with a mid shot and a background full of people. The only thing I don't like about this is there's no cut ways to overlay over the talking. My factual film we interviewed the photography students and a teacher and filmed cutaways in the darkroom of them developing the picture. When it came to editing this we over layered the footage on top of the interview to make it flow more, also to make it more interesting to look at. This is because if you get someone talking for five minutes its going to get really boring. Yet again the Channel 4 interview is much more professionally filmed with correct lighting and sound. We filmed are interviews in really bad lighting as we were just outside the darkroom. As for sound, when we interviewed one of the students there was a really loud humming sound coming from the heater in the background. This was pain as it was quite hard to hear what she was saying.

The third and finale one is my favourite. We have a informal BBC Three interview, or as they state it 'a test'. Tylor Lautner gets tested by Greg Davies about British Citizenship. Its filmed with three different cameras, one wide shot setting the scene, where we see Tylor and Greg sitting in the same shot. One mid shot of Tylor on the left and another mid shot of Greg sitting on the right. The whole place is really well lit up and is very sharp looking. Just like the previous film this also doesn't have any cutaways to fill gaps. But as its really informal and very comical It doesn't really need any. From this we learn a lot about Tylor's knowledge about Britain. For example, we learn that he cant make a cup of tea to save his live and doesn't know what we call plasters and nappies as he's American. To compare this interview to my factual film we both see the interviewer in the same shot. But my film has cutaway's and you get taken through a journey, although you learn things in Tylor's interview, in my interview we learn a lot more factual things like how to treat a lizard and to understand there different habitats.

I really want to make a professional film with good camera shots, correct lighting and a good story behind it. I would what this to be a challenge as I like to be pushed to my abilities to produce the best possible work. By doing this it will develop myself as a producer and will help me in the future.