Film festival (promo video)

Friday 18th September

Today i arrived to work at the picture house at around 9:30 am, ready to work, i soon relised that i was not actually supposed to be there today according to matt. and i soon found out that there was in fact a timetable of times and date we could work, but i also found out that Bill thompson has the timetables etc in his email inbox and will send them on too us at some point soon, so as far as i know im not sure when i am working or anything as of yet. Today i worked from 9ish till around 3ish (including the talk with David and with Barney)

After i left the picture house i went to Long Road where i met David Rose, and we discussed the rough cut promo video. When we got the rough cut video set up ready to view.

Here are the points that David spoke about:

- The titles look good and work well at the start
- The colour footage dosnt work at all needs to be black and white
- The music track doesnt work at all and needs changing
- There needs to be a video clip in each window on the footage
- The buldings in the videos look too distant
- I will require a copy of the final copy / rough cut on DVD
- I will be in touch with you with ideas about a new soundtrack / music track
- Overall its quite goodm but theres alot that needs doing so i will ask for more time for you to edit it


After the very brief meeting David said to me and ash that he would contact us both through MSN / email from now on as he will be very busy in london working on more jobs etc. He also wants to hold discussions via email instead of meeting up or though he did say he wanted to meet up next wednesday but i very much doubt he will show up as he will be working or something.

I also had a quick discussion to Barney about the video and he said it was good, and said that we could use archive footage instead of worrying about the film clips from the picture house. He also stated that not much needs editing on it apart from placing in the archive / film clips in the windows, in the footage we have.

So in conclusion,

On Monday next week we (Me and Ash) will be working at Coleridge and will be working on the Rough cut. We will take into account what Barney said as what Barney said made more sense than what David said, also barny mentioned that we should take the whole project into our own hands which is very good idea because David is not available s much as we wanted or would expect him to be, and also because we feel s if we have put in all the hard work for this video, and all David has mentioned is a few tips and basically instructed us on what he wants, and didn't take into account what our ideas were, so overall we have decided to take this project into our own hands and get it done asap and show it to the people at the picture house, for them to use this year. Also as far as the work experience goes im not sure i will be in to the picture house until next week, as i have a hectic weekend seeing family and also doing research for the promo video (archive footage etc) so in some sense i can count a few hours this weekend for work experience as its work on the promo video, and i will be working again on monday at coleridge with Ash (9pm until 3pm) because at 3pm i have to go to my part time work.

Overall its al going ok so far........