The Junction Young Ambassadors are a group of people from Cambridge, who help the Junction with their plans and decisions which are made towards making the venue a more youth-friendly place. They started this in March 2009 and they have also been included in a project before this, which involved working to design a new front Foyer for the Junction building and running something called a ‘Youth Summit' and they invited teens to participate in producing ideas for their summer event.
They are running a project at the moment, which is an event called ‘Takeover’, which runs on the 8th May 2010 and this is also targeted at young people. The event includes workshops, which are held within the Junction and these workshops have a variety of activities, such as, sound and lighting, spoken word, dance, beatboxing and digital imagery. The event will end in the evening with a dubstep DJ performing for the teens.
This interaction is quite similar to ours, in the way in which they are working with young people. Within working with the Junction, we are coming up with ideas together and talking with Simon Bates about our ideas. It was a collaboration between all of us and making the documentary helped us to promote what we are doing to young people.
I have tried researching into other student documentaries to see how they have structured their videos and how it may compare to the one which we have produced. The first video that I found was a documentary about student life that a group of students have made to show what student life is like for them. This shows all of the basics of student life, the accommodation, the night life, social life and university.
Even though that this is a different topic to our documentary that we produced, it has some similarities. I think that it also shows how we have done well on our documentary from the feedback that we got back from the Bournemouth students. For example, they have used quite slow cuts for their video and I think even though we had a topic that needed more cuts, more cuts in their video would have made it more interesting to watch. Their video flows quite smoothly, with the slow cuts, it helps to explain what they are trying to get across and helps you to see the full picture of their student life.
The music that they have used over the top of the footage works incredibly well and is very suitable for the audience that is aimed at. As students will be watching this to get an insight, they will be more interested as their is a sound track that is too their taste. Wehave done a similar thing with our documentary, we have used a sound track that relates to the video so that the viewers do not lose interest in what they are watching.
They have also used interviews, like we have within ours, and they are cut down short to make sure the video runs smoothly. This is what we were aiming to do with ours, as we had a lot of footage on interviews and we were finding it hard to cut down but we found the parts which were most relevant and put them together.
I continued to do a little more research and I found another documentary that I could try to come compare to our own, to see the similarities, how I would do things differently and how I could improve. When searching on YouTube, it is hard to find very many documentaries that are relevant to what we made. I starting searching for student made documentaries but they were not very serious so I widened by search to educational and music related documentaries and in the end I have decided go with a video another member of my group found - to compare for my second video.
This video has more of an educational feel to it as it is explaining the Creative and Media Diploma. I thought that this documentary would be useful to compare with because it relates to what we are doing at college and that we were making a documentary that shows the Creative and Media Diploma working with an outside business.
I think that the first thing I notice about this documentary is that is focuses on one school that is using the course and how they work with Liverpool consortium to complete a project called Artefact. I think that this is too vague and they should be showing other schools that are using this course, maybe the same project and getting their opinions too.
Within our documentary we have tried to visits or aspects of the project that we are doing, all the people that we come into contact with and that may explain what we are doing with Skillset, the Junction and Bournemouth more clearly. We have tried to get as many interviews as possible and tried to get the right people who we thought would be good to example each aspect. For example, we decided to interview Simon Bates and Gary to explain how the Junction worked with us to help us complete this project, we used Bournemouth staff and students to explain how we worked with them to improve our project and we also organised to get interviews with our Long Road staff to get their explanation on the project and the course.
However, I think that as Skillset were a big part of this project as well, it would have helped us to get a better video if we had researched and got in contact with them and organised an interview. This would have explained the structure of the project more clearly, especially to someone who is looking to find out what we do but have never heard of this or knows very little about it.
Another thing which I liked about this video was the way in which they introduced someone they interviewed. A name would appear on the screen when they started to speak, to tell the viewer who they are and what they do. We used the same concept but I think that the way in which they have done it is much more visually attractive and is clearly for the audience to see and understand. We we used this method, the text was in a very simple font, small and in the bottom left and they use reasonably big text, an interesting font and they have situated it more central so it is easy to see. Below are the comparisons between the video I researched and the video that we produced.
Finally, I think that our idea of using a small sound track underneath has worked quite well. The video I have researched didn't seem to use this and in my opinion it makes the video hard to pay attention to. We have used a compilation of shots at the beginning and end of our video, with the track louder of this and this adds to feel of video, an introduction and I think it makes it more interesting. However, our first edit went a little wrong and a lot of the soundtrack went over some of audio of the interviews so this needed to be edited again and this will be a lesson we take with us when editing again.
Here are the logos that we had to use for the videos that we produced. We needed to credit each of them somewhere within each video, as each of them contributed in making this project work.
The Junction had asked us to make them some promotional videos and also a documentary about making the promos and working with the Junction, Bournemouth and Skillset. Bournemouth have worked with us to help us to get good videos out of this project and to get a new experience from getting feedback and help from the students there. Skillset have worked with the Junction to get the project up and running and they have funded the Junction with the money to make it all work. Long Road has worked with us through our teachers, helping us to get the evidence that we need for the project and to get project the done efficiently. They have also supplied the equipment, as well as Parkside have also supplied some equipment and this has all helped to make sure that the project works well.
The video below is the second rough cut of our documentary, it is rough as we still need to add an interview to the rest of the footage. We are still waiting for a meeting to be available with the Principal of Long Road so that we are able to interview her.
Today we have had a lot to get done and we haven't managed to get everything done to hit the deadline on time. We have needed to tweak a lot of the original rough cut and also to add a lot of footage that we were not able to before hand.
Dave has spent the lesson editing the original rough cut, going through all of the feedback that was given to us from Simon and the Bournemouth students. The whole documentary needs to be cut a lot quicker to add smoothness and flow to the whole video. It also need a sound track under all of footage so that it becomes more interesting to view and we are also going to be adding a montage at the beginning and end to add to the feel of the video. Dave has completed all of this on the old footage and new footage we have given him today, however, we will still need to edit it again once we attach the newer footage.
Myself and Mike has worked on the Bournemouth and Samba footage, edited it on another computer and then given it to Dave to fit in with the rest. This went quite well but I think we were cutting a bit close to the deadline, and I could have edited it bit quicker by being less detailed with what he looked like and just stuck to the basics of what we needed. This may have been why we were running over time but we knew that we need have some of footage to add at this point, so we would miss the deadline.
This has gone quite well considering the time that we had to edit in and the footage that we had to work with. The rough cut now has the basics that we think Simon wanted for the documentary and think once we have the interview that we need to add, we shall just have to give it the "wow factor" that he likes.
Today we are continuing with editing our documentary ready for the deadline tomorrow. We have gathered together the feedback that we received from Bournemouth and Simon Bates and we have written it all down. We started by having a meeting to discuss the feedback that we have and what we think we need to do first and who will be doing what and so on. We have decided to start off with Dave working on the titles and the logos within the edited footage we have already. Myself and Mike will be working on editing through the footage from Bournemouth that Mike shot on Monday. And we are hoping to have that ready to export by the end of the day to give to Dave to put together with the rest of the documentary. If we are able to get all of this done, we will be working on getting the rest of the interviews completed, the Samba footage edited and to then put it all together.
During our time at Bournemouth we were advised by post-graduate students who gave us feedback on our documentary and for the others feedback on their promo's. We were really thankful for this feedback as it has helped us make our video a lot better and to the clients needs. Below is the feedback that they gave us and which points we have completed.
- Put a sound track within the interviews - The introduction of each of the interviews should be tagged at the bottom left of each shot, to introduce the person(we have completed on the footage we have) - The introduction needs to be established - Good use of band footage and maybe use of more would be good - A montage may be good to set up the feel of the venue(we have one completed for the end but needed one at the beginning) - Simon Bates, use footage that links with what he is saying - Maybe some transition footage in between the interviews to breakup the structure - Good use of titles to break up the structure - Shots of the interview needed more to be used more to breakup the footage of editing - Shots of screen edit - too much - First five mins need to be broken up so it make it less boring - Setting up a feel of what we to get from the film, basic introduction - Faster cuts to give more structure and a smoothly flow to the documentary(we have almost completed, being re-edited while we bring in new footage)
Simon gave us the budget for working within this project, however, when it actually came to doing the work we didn't actually stick to the budget that we were given.
We decided to not stay at Bournemouth overnight so we still needed to hire the coach to get there and back - £1000, but we no longer needed to pay the £20 per head for staying overnight in a hostel. When we got to Bournemouth we had a voucher of £5 given to us to pay for lunch, as we had a free lunch, we no longer needed to pay the £20 per head for food. The university fee still applied for paying £500 for student mentors from Bournemouth. The tuition fee for the Level 2 group to do Samba was still £260.
The total now came to £1760
All of equipment was owned by Long Road Sixth Form College so it was free for us to use for the duration of the project. This came to a big advantage, as we had a lot to shoot, a lot of interviews and if we were to have paid for all of that - it would have been too expensive to complete.
Today we have been on a trip to Bournemouth university and we were there to receive some feedback from the media students there, to collect some footage for the documentary and also to edit with them and get some advice. We started off by getting some lunch with our £5 vouchers and then headed off to the media block to get directed to what we were going to be doing the rest of the day. Once we got into the media block, we all gathered in a room and they informed us about the day and welcomed us and we then were sent off into our groups, each with one media student. We went off into an editing room with our student and he played our rough cut of our documentary of Vimeo. He then gave us feedback on our video and advised us on ways in which we can make it a lot better. Once he has given us all of his feedback, he then offered to show us some tips and tricks on Final Cut and also to show us Motion software, which is similar to After Effects. This was very useful to us as we learnt a lot of things on Final Cut which are quite simple but make a bit difference and we also learnt that Motion is a similar way to get good effect without using the complex After Effects.
This was really good experience, it helped us a lot with our project and also for future projects that we may do. It has also given us a taster of university and prepared us a bit and given us a step up possibly above the others students going to university to do media.
Alie and Mike, within our group, have worked on making a risk assessment for the whole project. They have produced a sheet that shows all of the possible things that could happen while we are working on this project. Below is an image of the sheet that they managed to produce.
This is a shot list that our documentary group has put together for when we film at Bournemouth on Monday 22nd Feb.
"1)Open with the coach journey down to Bournemouth. 2)Establishing shots of the university and signs “Welcome to Bournemouth university”. 3)Shot of the university students talking to the class and shots of the students listening to them. 4)Shots of Long Road students being helped by University students. 5)Interviews with a University of students. Possibly interview 2 students. 6)Shots of all the Long Road students working. 7)Interview with some Long Road students about what they got out of going to bournemouth for the day. 8)Interview with a University teacher. (This may not be needed) 9)A shot of the Long Road students finishing for the day and heading back to the coach, the journey back to Long Road."
We have all agreed on this shot list and this in the order that we want to shoot in it and also the order that it will be editing in, which will save time for us when it comes to editing.
Below is the budget that was given to Simon, to produce this project.
Travel £ 1000 Hire coach(for Bournemouth) Accommodation £20 per head for overnight at Bournemouth, based on staying in a hostel £400 Food £20 per head £400 Uni fees £500 pay for student mentors from Bournemouth Samba tuition £260 Total £2560
After we completed the rough cut version of our documentary, we asked others to give us feedback on what we had produced. We started by getting feedback from the class and then we managed to get feedback from Simon who has commissioned us. Below is the feedback that he gave us based on the rough cut that he saw.
"Visuals looks clear and mature. Audio sounds good. Interviews with the students, Junction staff, lecturers interviews. More, e.g Nick would be great, Sandra at Long Road, Jonathan at Bournemouth for interviews. Demonstrations of students working alongside Junction and Bournemouth staff, Some good footage but more of the Samba and CRaM conference would be great. Interviews with students who are going to Bournemouth and how Long Road has developed the link. Needs more of this Information for other consortia on how to schools and FE colleges should engage with employers. More on: students saying how important this is to the success of diplomas, at the end of the day this is why students do diplomas!
I have decided to play around with other ways of displaying my work so I have looked into working with a site called Prezi.com. This website allows you to make one big presentation on one big poster. You can zoom in and out to all areas, different angles and shapes. It was hard to start off with but once you get the hang of it, it can be quite rewarding.
Here is the link to the blogger page that we are all using for documentary, within the interaction project. We will be posting everything that we do throughout the project on this page so that we have all of the evidence. http://junctionproject.blogspot.com/
Today we continued to work on our documentary and today was our deadline for getting a rough cut exported and uploaded. We spent all of today's lesson editing our rough cut and we worked on getting the basics together. We needed to get all of the interviews together and we had the idea of putting the audio of these interviews over relevant footage to what each person is talking about in the interview.
This worked really well but there is still a lot to be done. As this is a rough cut, we of course think that would could do a lot more and we know of somethings that need to be tweaked. We need to tidy up the editing a bit and I feel that the interviews are a bit too long and boring so they may need to be cut down or made more interesting in some way.
After completing our rough cut, I have decided to go through our rough version and analyse it and see what we could have done better and what was good.
I have started at the beginning of the video and I have decided to go through it and pick out the parts which I think we need to improve on and how.
This first image shows you the opening credits which are basically the logos that were needed for the video and also a text introduction to the documentary and who is speaking. I think that the logos and effects with them work really well, however, I think that it is a long gap of silence and that it would benefit from some sound to make it more interesting.
I then went on to look at the introducing of the interviews. These done using simple text and fonts and just in black and white. I think that these were also a bit too quiet and that we could have used the audio from the footage that is going to played after, to play over the intro. The image below then goes into another frame which introduces Simon Bates.
I have also found that some of the shots that we have chosen for the live footage, are very dark and hard to tell what is going on. I think that we either need to find some other shots or if they are none of the same footage we will have to fill it in with something else. The images below show a bit of what the certain parts of footage are like.
I think that overall it was a good first attempt but it still really needs some work. To make it more interesting it needs to have some of the audio in the background still playing under the voiceover of the interviews. Some of the footage needs replacing or getting rid of and it also needs to be shortened a bit and cut a bit quicker to make it more viewable.
For one of the task that we set ourselves to do today, we had to look through all the footage that was recorded and pick out which ones are relevant to the documentary. Then put them into Final Cut ready to edit. Below is a list of the all the footage that we thought would be useful but we will be cutting down a lot of it.
Today myself and Matt H start to work with the footage that we have from the Junction Fiver. We decided to sort through all the footage in each folder, find what is relevant to the documentary and then put it into our own folder. This took a long time but we completed it and have now transfered them into Final Cut and started to sort them into different sequences and edit them.
In our next session we will be focusing on cutting down the footage to the set time, making sure all the content from the Fiver is relevant for the documentary. We will also have to see if we can get hold of the other footage which was taken when the Level 2 CRaM group went to play Camber and we recorded one of their sessions.
When producing any product, for any commission - or in general, you need to take into account all of the health and safety issues that may arise from making it. The majority of the issues that may arise are things that we will automatically be watching out for already. Such as, not dropping, damaging any equipment and making sure that all wires and cables are well out of the way so no one is likely to trip. We shall also be making sure that objects within the room/area that we shoot are well out of the way or there is a clear path so that people can get through easily without any injury. This will all apply for the shoot that we are having at the Junction for the Fiver but there are others issues that we need to take notice of.
When we were in a meeting with Simon, informing him of our ideas and questions we had, we asked if we able to use the cherry picker while we are on shoot at the Fiver gig in the Junction. As for health and safety, this was not allowed because there is a high chance that someone could hurt themselves or others while operating the picker.
As we are intending to shoot at the Junction and inside the venue, once everyone has arrived, it will get very crowded and quite warm within the room. This means that we would advice all members of our class who will be going to take water or to at least know where the nearest source is so that no one is likely to get dehydrated. Also because it will be crowded, this is another reason why we need to take special care with the equipment so that we do not damage it or harm anyone else in the venue with any wires. There will be a lot of people there and also back stage so we shall also have to make sure that we keep hold of the equipment at all times or leave it in the hands of another member of the Creative Media Diploma. This is because we will not be able to risk anyone stealing the equipment or knocking it over when it has been placed somewhere.
Health and Safety - At Bournemouth
We are also planning on shooting a bit of footage at Bournemouth when we go there for a trip to edit the footage we have already gathered. The same basic health and safety applies, when taking care of equipment and making sure that no wires or objects are in the way. However, there are other issues but not as many as shooting within the Junction. We will be working with computers for a lot of the day so we shall have to make sure that we get regular breaks from the screen so that we can get the work done efficiently.
We shall also have to make sure that we get permission from anyone who we chose to interview and to make sure that we are filming them within an area that the university allows us to.
In our third meeting with Simon we had a chance to jot down a rough idea of what we though our videos would plan out like. For me, I wrote a rough layout of what I thought our documentary would plan out like.
"-Intro(not planned as of yet)
- Samber footage and Level 2 interviews and a possible split screen of both of these within frame. Interviews with NIck and Simon.
- Simon interview of Fiver and band interviews and footage. Interview Level 3 13 on making the footage and music videos at the Junction.
- Level 3 13 interview on Bournemouth, editing footage, Bournemouth staff and students and interview with Simon.
I have decided to look through some documentaries on YouTube to see if I could find something that would be suitable for this project. I selected a couple, looked through them and thought about what kind of things from different videos may work for our documentary.
The first video I found was a documentary on AC/DC. I chose this one because I thought that it would useful to look at a video that focuses on bands and live performances. As we are working with the Junction and a lot of footage that will be used will be from the Fiver and the people connected with it talking. This video shows lives performances from AC/DC and the band talking in between and over the footage. I thought that this idea could work for our documentary, as we could use the Fiver footage, have bands, students and Junction staff talking in between or over the footage.
This video also uses quick cuts which I think would be suitable for the topic of the documentary and would fit well with the footage. It also uses the audio from the footage quietly under the interviews, which I think keeps the viewer interested and would be useful for us.
This next video really shows the educational side of documentary that we need to capture and get across. I have found a video which is actually about the Creative and Media Diploma and it shows interviews with educational practitioners and footage of all the students at work.
This video uses similar quick cuts to the AC/DC video and uses the audio of the footage under the interviews, which works well. I think that combining these two videos in our own way would work really well to get the educational side across, while working all the footage and audio to our advantage.
In this meeting we had with Simon, we didn't really spend a lot more time on the meeting and it was quite short. He just went over what he wanted again, informed us that the promo's are to be between two and four minutes long and that the documentary is to be between five and seven minutes long.
He then got us in our pairs on each of our tables to have a few minutes to note somethings down and then he asked us if any of us had any ideas for either videos. We went round the class giving a brief idea to what we thought each should be like and Simon seemed quite please and told us that we just needed to develop them.
Once Simon had left, we then organised ourselves in to five groups, three of which are each to make a promo and two of week are to each make a documentary. We then got to work on some rough ideas of what we thought we would do for this project.
Here are some things that Simon really wanted to be included within this project for it to work best for the Junction.
"Don't use the Junction/fiver Myspace address, it is no longer live!
All promos need to use our logo and NOT stetch it in any way.
Please use Helvetica as the font with no additional formating (ie bold, shadow etc)
The following logos MUST appear in the promo: The Junctions, The Arts Council, CRaM, Long Road, CRC, Parkside Federation, QB Learning Outside the Classroom, Skillset.
All promos should include some advice on getting noticed, for example 'good photos' of them gigging, consider testomonials, 'action' photos."
At the beginning of this project, we sat down within our group and went through who would be mainly completing which roles. My main role is editing of the documentary and working with taking off the footage from each shoot and edit it in to each new cut of the documentary. I also have another role of taking pictures on the site of the shoot so that we can then use them for evidence within our main blog and our own personal blog pages.
I think that the editing will be a tough role as we have a lot of footage to go through already and it is only the beginning of the project. We need to gather a lot more footage for ourselves and from other groups and that will add to the content that we will have for the rough cut. This may be a challenge to edit but I think that as we have two others in the group who will or can be working on the editing with me, we will get a lot of it done in a smaller time.
Below is a list of all the roles of the group.
Kirk - manager, on set photographer and interviewer
"My Idea; Visual video with voiceover audio, possible text at the end, Throughout the video there will be footage of the Fiver - Variety of bands and small snippets of interviews with band members, while voiceover isn't on - e.g how they entered and what it is like. Audio will start by saying what the Fiver is, where and then go on to saying how you apply, what you get and what you have to do regarding selling tickets. At the end, a reminder will come in text, how to apply, and other important info.
Junction and other needed people will be credited. Music will be played throughout, hopefully music from the bands who played at the Fiver. It will be a fast paced video but info will be smooth and clear. Footage will have some kind of colouring - effect so its more club/gig like and more interesting to watch. "
It has been organised that Simon Bates, the head of learning and access at the Junction, is to come to Long Road each Tuesday to have a meeting with us about the progress of the commission that we are doing for them.
In our first meeting, Simon came to introduce us to the project and what he wanted us to do for it and get from it. He explain what it all entailed, for example; what the Fiver is, what content from that he wanted in the promo, how he wanted the promo to look like. He also told us about what he wanted from the documentary, how he wanted it to be orientated around the educational part of the project and who was involved.
Simon was quite vague with what he wanted but he laid down the important grounds for the promo and the documentary and then he told us to then think about adding the "wow factor".
After he has explained what he wanted, he then asked us if we had any questions and if we had already had any ideas. We didn't put anything forward to him at this point but I think there were a few questions to the shoot, where we can shoot in the Junction, who we can shoot and so on.
Below is a image of the sheet that was given to us by Simon to explain the brief for the promo and also what the sheet says as the image is not too clear.
"The Brief: Create a Promo for The Fiver
-Background Information
- The Junction Fiver is a successful established brand that is gaining credibility as one of the best youth events in Cambridge.
-Five local young bands at varying stages of development perform in Junction 1(850 capacity live music venue), tickets cost a Fiver!
-The bands are given a set amount of tickets to sell from which they take £1 per ticket, the more they sell the better they do financially and the more audience there is in the venue.
-The Fiver aims to encourage and nurture emerging acts and provides a platform for young musicians to work with professional technicians, a top class PA system and exposes them to an audience five times their normal size.
-The Junction needs to continue to attract new bands in order to keep this brand going and must increase the presence of the event on its own website and amongst social networking sites and forums.
The Brief;Create a Promo for the Fiver
-Level 3 Independent Unit
-Level 3 students will produce a promotional film for The Fiver for the Junction website.
- The film must have the following content:
-live footage of the Fiver
-what the requirements are for getting in
-what you get if your band is accepted
-how to apply
-It must look contemporary, sat, appealing to the 14-17 age group and supply all the relevant information.
-Films will be judged by a panel of senior staff and, if the standard is high enough one film will be chosen and used on the website.
Planning sessions should be planned for the week commencing 29th of Jan and scheduled in advance with Gary Brown, Simon Talbot or Simon Bates. "
As I am going to be working on making the documentary within this project, the target audience is slightly different than for the promotional video that the other groups are making. This documentary is aimed at students who would be looking to do the Creative and Media course and also the educational companies who are interested in learning about what we do. This means that we need to make sure that we reaching both audiences and giving them the right information that they would need. I shall also have to make sure that we show how we have worked with the Junction and Bournemouth University to finish this project and how working with them has helped the process of the project.
This project which I am working on is called Interaction and it is slightly different to other projects which we have worked with other companies or people before. We have been asked by the Junction to produce some videos for them but this is unlike a commission project as we shall be working along side them on this project.
Within a commission, you are working for someone, meeting their needs, deadlines and working to their approval and making sure that you are delivering them a product which they are wanting.
Within a interaction, you may be completing a task or a product for someone or a company but you working with them. The Junction are helping us by involving Bournemouth University and Skill Set. Skill Set are going to be working with the Junction to fund a trip for us to go to Bournemouth University to work with the students there to edit some of the footage that we have gathered fro the videos. The Junction is also giving us some flexibility when filming at the Fiver event and also with some of the ideas that we have for the promotional video and the documentary.
We have been commission by the Junction complete this project but it is more complex than just a commission. SkillSet describes themselves as 'the Sector Skills Council for Creative Media'. They have offered help the Junction by funding this project and they want to help us and others to get a good experience for the future. They have worked with the Junctions head of learning and access, Simon Bates, and organized for us to work with Bournemouth university and their students.
This experience is partially aimed to show us an example of a possible career path from this course and then on into work, or then from university, on to work within the media. It gives us the experience of working with employers within the industry, to see what the work is like and to see what we could go on to do. It gives us a lot of opportunities and experience that may put us ahead when it comes to getting a job or just when studying in university.
We have been asked by the Junction to make a promotional video for their event the 'Fiver' and we are also being asked to make a documentary on the whole precess of making the promotional videos. Simon Bates is the head of learning and access at the Junction and he comes down to Long Road each week to see how we are getting along with the project and to tell us what he thinks and wants from the videos.
I am working on the documentary and I spent about a week working on some ideas for it and then speaking to him about what he thought of them. He said that he wanted the video to show a lot about how the Junction has worked with the Creative and Media group and how each person involved has found the experience with working with them. We have had a few ideas for this and I want to make it quite simple so that I can meet of his demands.
For this project I have had to find a person or company to work with who may need something creating or need help with a task. I have been researching on the internet and around Cambridge for people who may need us to produce something for them. We are looking for someone who would want us to make some kind of promotional video and who would need some kind of promotion.
I have researched a few place and this what I found and then decided to work with.
Addembrookes - have said that they wanted us to takes pictures for a poster to put in the hospital for promotional purposes. However, we have decided that we prefer to make a promotional video so this wasn't the right thing for us.
While researching I came along a place called the Mumford Theatre and I thought that as they work within the same style of business that I am interested in, that they may be interesting in working with us. This is probably not the best company for us to work with, if we had the choice, as I haven't really worked with theatre before and I think it would be too big a challenge for us.
However, if they were to ask us, they may want some kind of advertisement for one of their shows and maybe something promotional to encourage students to work with them(from Anglia Ruskin).
The Picture House was another possibility to use within this project. This was because they were looking for someone to make a promotional video for the 'Cambridge Film Festival'. I thought that this would have been a good opportunity but I have worked with the Picture House before and it didn't work out. Therefore, I have decided to not go with this company for the project.
I have also looked at the Junction for being a possible company to work with. Simon Bates, the head of learning at the Junction, has said that they need a promotional video for their event called the 'Fiver'. I think that we may be going with this place as it is more the type of thing that we were interested in.
I also thought that as I looked into the Picture House, that maybe other cinema's may have a similar interest. I thought that asking a cinema like Cineworld wouldn't be the best idea, as they are part of a bigger chain and are unlikely to think of us for a promotional or any kind of video. This is where Vue came in as a good idea, it is still a well known cinema but there aren't really many around so they may find it helpful for us to produce something for them.
Again, Vue is like other cinema's and is likely to want some kind of promotional video for possibly some kind of offer and so on.
I finally looked at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge, which in some ways I would assume it is like the Mumford Theatre but because it is more of venue for gigs and music more than theatre, they may be more interested in what we have to offer. They would possibly be interested in us making a promotional video to advertise an event they have, just like the Junction would possibly want us for the same thing.
