Research for main task.

I should explain this post to start off with, during today's lesson Jonny voted that we try a science-fiction black and white silent machinima, I agreed. After the lesson we both met on Xbox LIVE and messed around on the Forge for about 45 minutes. We played on the maps we would use and messed around with the inbuilt filters. You must understand that this is great because it includes actually playing through video games... for educational purposes! I settled on the map Orbital and forged it with an inbuilt colour filter (that means the filter you're seeing in these screenshots was added in real-time as part of the Bungie game engine). I should probably mention here that the Orbital map is only available as part of the Mythic Map Pack 2 as included in the Multiplayer disk with Halo 3: ODST (you have no idea how much I'm enjoying this). Without further ado, here's the research:

Preliminary task and it's evaluation

The preliminary task was edited and uploaded on Jonny's account, here it is:

Music for pre-lim task cleared.

This is an intermediary post to say that I've finished my evaluation, as a Vlog, if that's okay, it's uploading at the moment and will be on my channel in 5 hours or so. It's better than my previous vlogs because I went back to my previous practice of meticulously editing out all the 'um's, 'ah's and anything else I didn't want. This was because I also returned to my previous practice of converting my video from my camcorder in MP4 format to DivX format as soon as I got them onto the computer (I have the DivX converter, and more surprisingly I got it totally legally and paid for it with actual money). MP4 files don't work well with MoviePlus X3, I might download the 3ivX codec to fix that sometime.

You slipped on a banana! Lol!

You might have read a few months back that we did a filming task in school, well on Friday I was able to get it off the Macs and onto YouTube.
I've also got a vlog-review of Prince of Persia: the Two Thrones on the Wii uploading at the moment, I'll post it on Twitter when it's done and and I'm back from this afternoon's lesson, or you could subscribe to my channel and watch it while YouTube's processing it.
I'll add captions to it, after it's done.

Prelim task filming.

On Thursday 4th of March we went to a pub to film our historical drama. I had costumes and a camera and a bike to take us there. What I hadn't researched was whether a pub would be open on a weekday morning. I thought it would be easy to film because the pub would be virtually empty of customers, so it was closed. As a last ditch attempt we went to a church around the corner (churches are good for historical setting because they're old and sort of generic). The church too was closed.

Storyboard for prelim task.

This is the storyboard for the prelim task that me and Jonny made:
EDIT: It won't upload. Will re-try at home...

2nd EDIT: Wahey! Tried at home and it's done.
We decided to go with the Victorian historical drama, because we don't really watch or like Romantic films.
3rd EDIT: Jonny put up his storyboard too, it's the precursor to this one.

Historical genre for film task.

Historical
It is 1884 and young master Filpott is meeting his friend Neville Baker at the local Tavern after a long day ploughing the field. He enters, the room is thick with smoke from the roaring fire, men drink and wenches dance [we don't have to film this, just get the sounds]. Filpott crosses the tavern and sees Neville, whose face is smeared with factory grease. Neville raises his tankard of ale in greeting.
Neville: How be the Harvest this season?
Filpott: Poor.
Neville: Aye, it's hard times.
And they stare sullenly at their glasses, take one long swig and then the world fades black.


Notes: We would add a monochrome filter to this as an effect and make the video look older.