George Wing Television Blog

Documentary        Dramatic Film  -Unscripted (Often relies on classic narrative structure) A documentary is in its purest sense a filmed observation. The film is being made to inform and educate. The term first coined by Scottish filmmaker John Grierson (the father of British Documentary) in 1996. He described it as "the creative treatment of actuality"  It can be used in stylistic ways in its creative treatment through the way its filmed and edited.  Formal Documentary  -Observational (excluded) -Current affairs/factual (Making a Murderer)  -Pole Mic (Adam Curtis)  Uses documentary form, techniques and conventions to educate, debate and inform content. Hybrid documentary -Reality (Benefits Street) -Scripted reality to play on characters (TOWIE) -Drama documentary (Man on Wire) Doesn't have educational, journalistic factors as such, usually just for entertainment.  Expository -Emphasise...

In order to try and draw up some inspiration and possible ideas for my 10minute script, I researched short films online, and came across some very interesting ones. One of those films was called ‘Don’t you Forget’ by Tom Bryan and it related to my idea on so many levels. It contained a similar scenario to my own, though the plot is completely different. Review Don't You Forget Director: Thomas Bryon Writer(s) : Kashman Harris and Thomas Bryon Length: 19:47 ‘Don’t you Forget’ is a short film drama based on the strong bond between a teenage boy and his grandfather. The boy is of an age where he’s just starting to explore himself, and when most young people begin to enjoy themselves. However, to his indignation, he is forced to come to terms with loosing his Grandfather to the cruel disease, Alzheimer’s. Mathew lives with his grandfather Albert and from my interpretation they have for some time. They have built this solid everyday routine, as indicated by the monta...

During todays lesson with Fergus we continued our editing workshop with Fergus. In this we worked on using all of the editing tools in further detail and working on shortcuts which are essential to the industry when editing. If you have a client paying you £200 an hour everything you do is going to be much quicker. If they want two clips swapping around you need to be ale to do this within a matter of seconds, otherwise it would be unprofessional. The first set of clips we were given were from a car racing group. It included race footage and interviews. Firstly we needed to change the sound because there were a lot of background noises. In doing this I went onto: Clip | Modify | Audio channels With the way it was filmed there were four channels for the interviews, so I simply unselected all of the ones that were causing the noise interference. Something I was also able to work on was the slip tool . I used this with the 'Cafe Meeting'  clip. In this I was ...

Objectives: Importance and function of sounds Elements of sound How important is sound? Can add to a piece and create more feeling/atmosphere Can you have sound without pictures? yes Can you have pictures without sound? yes Derek Jarman's Blue (voices over a blue screen) Even silent cinema was never really silent, it would usually have music from the piano etc. If they wanted to project th sound of thunder they would get a slate of metal and flex it. Function of Sound It provides an aural narrative (dialogue, voiceover) Sonic ambience (mood, atmosphere, sound effects) Emotional or intellectual resonance or dissonance (music). Key elements   -Speech (dialogue or narration) -Ambient or natural sound -Sound effects -Musical score or soundtrack Sound cane used to heighten drama-abstract or enhanced effects designed to affect audience perception or emotional state (e.g. audible, heartbeats in horror films). They can simu...