SPP Assignement 1 / thinking what the hell am i going to do when uni is done

part of SPP this year involves finding job advertisements and creating mock applications for them. i can only assume this is to encourage us to think about employment after university. unfortunately this is all i seem to be able to think about just recently as a result of the added pressure of potential homelessness if i don't get a job to pay my rent. my landlord is a big guy.

the job adverts listed below are the types of job i am and will be pursuing. the reason i haven't been too ambitious with the types of job i have selected is simple. i don't have time to waste dreaming like all of the middle class students. it costs money to live in my life therefor i need to apply for jobs that a stand a chance of getting. these jobs are also pretty well suited to my background experience as i have done this type of work before, also they will keep me up to date with AV technology and provide plenty of networking opportunity. you may have to click on the jov ads in order to read them.

The Diamond Promotional Video Client Project

The video will be a compilation of gig footage shot in and around the venue, cut together to one single music track. Therefore the video will be the same length as the track. Animated titles which will flash and dance to the music will appear at equal spacing’s throughout the video to display any necessary text or well established tribute act names, the video will be long enough for 6 – 8 title frames with no more than 8 words in each to keep them short and straight to the point. No single shot either static or moving will be longer than 3 seconds, keeping the pace of the video fast and hard-hitting. Many different special effects will be utilized in the video such as time lapses, super slow motion, strobe and lightning effects etc to provide plenty of contrast between shots and avoid any loss of interest from the viewer’s perspective.
Fade in from black to reveal a time laps wide shot of the stage being set by the crew and band

below is a shot by shot list i put together for the video. however this list will not act as a hard plan for what the video will consist of, but merely act as a guide to assist with shooting and editing



-Camera tracks down the length of the line of people outside waiting excitedly for the show ahead of them

-Time laps shot from above the mixer desk looking down on it. The mixer is systematically having its channels tweaked and prepared for the gig

-Shot from inside the room camera pointed at the main doors, the crowd are entering walking towards the camera but dispersing to the sides. Perhaps gesturing to the camera in a positive rock and roll fashion as they go by.

-Close up of pint being pulled

-Tracking shot of a wall full of music memorabilia

-Close up of a bottle being opened, the camera then zooms out to reveal the bottle being served to a happy customer

-Tracking shot of a second wall full of music memorabilia

-Shot from head height of a group of about 6 people laughing, drinking and socializing

-Camera pans from bottom to top of one of the wall mounted guitars

-Tracking shot of a third wall full of music memorabilia

-Camera pans from bottom to top of a different wall mounted guitar

-Shot from head height of a different group of about 6 people laughing, drinking and socializing

-Camera pans from bottom to top of another different wall mounted guitar

-Shot from behind the bar looking onto the dance floor which is starting to fill up

-Camera pans from bottom to top of yet another different wall mounted guitar

-shot from the perspective of a person negotiating their way through the dancing crowd

-Close up of mixer desk faders gradually being tweaked upwards

-Close up of the drum kit being played synchronized with the music track being careful only to get the drummers arms in shot

-Crowd dancing shot from as high as possible looking down on them being careful not to get the band in the shot

-Animated title reading
Featuring such tribute acts as

-Crowd dancing in slow motion shot from as high as possible looking down on them being careful not to get the band in the shot

-Animated title of the Mercury band logo

-Group of about ten people dancing together in slow motion shot from head height.

-Animated title of the Dirty DC band logo

-Camera cranes from toe to head of an attractive young female dancing in slow motion

-Animated title of the State of Quo band logo

-Camera follows and circles Same attractive young female as she seductively dances giving eye contact to the camera, in slow motion.

-Animated title of the Bon Jovi Experience band logo

-Camera follows and circles Same attractive young female as she seductively dances giving eye contact to the camera, in slow motion.

-Animated title of the Ozzmosis band logo
Camera follows and circles a second attractive young female as she seductively dances, in slow motion.

-Animated title of the Bryan Adams Experience logo

-Camera follows and circles the second attractive young female as she seductively dances giving eye contact to the camera at some point during the shot, in slow motion.

-Animated title of the Whytesnake band logo

-Group of about 5 attractive young females dancing together, in slow motion

-Animated Title of the UK Guns n Roses band logo

-Close up of the drum kit symbols being played synchronized with the music track being careful only to get the drummers arms in shot

-Animated title of the Too Rex band logo

-Close up shot of the main body of the lead guitar being played synchronized with the music track

-Close up shot of the main body of the bass being played synchronized with the music track

-Wide shot featuring the whole band with the crowd just beneath them synchronized with the music track. This shot will have to be timed in the edit and during shooting so that it happens at the beginning of a chorus or upward modulation.

-Close up of mixer desk faders gradually being tweaked upwards

-Close up of the singers face synchronized with the music track

-Close up featuring as much of the bassist playing as possible synchronized with the music track

-Close up featuring as much of the drummer playing as possible synchronized with the music track

-Close up featuring as much of the lead guitarist playing as possible synchronized with the music track

-Close up of the singers face synchronized with the music track

-wide Shot of the crowd dancing from as close to the singers point of view as possible

-Wide shot featuring the whole band with the crowd just beneath them synchronized with the music track

-Shot from either side of the stage featuring the band playing in one half and the crowd in the other half synchronized with the music

-Vox Pop. Head and shoulders shot of a rock and roll looking individual saying a short but positive comment about the diamond

-Shot from the perspective of a person negotiating their way through the dancing crowd

-Vox Pop. Head and shoulders shot of a rock and roll looking individual saying a short but positive comment about the diamond

-Shot from the perspective of a person negotiating their way through the dancing crowd

-Vox Pop. Head and shoulders shot of a rock and roll looking individual saying a short but positive comment about the diamond

-shot from the perspective of a person negotiating their way through the dancing crowd

-Shot from the stages perspective panning over the top of the crowd so the shot is filled with dancing arms heads and shoulders

-Close up of singers face singing the last line of the song synchronized with the music. The shot then zooms out to reveal the wide shot of the whole band with the crowd going crazy at the bottom of the shot, the image then, although still in motion fades to a blur

-Animated title appears over the end of previous shot reading
The Diamond, The live music experience you won’t soon forget

research project artifacts

Research Question
To what extent has modern technology such as the internet affected the way we perceive narrative through film?

Research and experimentation into the impact modern technology has on film must include some form of data or statistics from the past in contrast to the modern day situation put together in charts and graphs. Tables of statistics will reveal specific areas of change throughout the past century making it more apparent which of these areas of change can be attributed to a technological advancement and how much credit is due to the advancement. To gain insight into how audiences perceive film in the modern age, Re- editing experiments may prove beneficial. For example, the film Pulp Fiction, famous for its none-linear story line may work just as well if it was edited into a linear story line. Smaller experiments may include taking an old film such as the Great Train Robbery or metropolis and editing it down into a modern hard hitting trailer to see if the footage is sufficient to use for this purpose despite its age. The reverse of this might be to take a modern film featuring vast amounts of technology and see how the footage works edited into an old silent film with text frames. Feedback from audiences about such material will help substantially to generate useful data, and data only has to be analysed correctly to become useful.