test shoot - paint

day 2 shoot evaluation

In this second shoot we attempted to counteract the difficulties that when encountered in the initial shoot. In order to do this changed a couple of things but kept the same lighting setup using the same camera settings and gels on the light. Firstly we discovered how to switch the macro lens to its manual focus capability. This allowed us to have much more control over where the camera focussed, allowing us to perform pull focusses and framing shots to how we wanted, gaining effective depth of field. This also allowed us to keep the subject in focus rather than the focal point moving and ranging. 

Another thing we changed in this shoot was that we kept the use of hand held shots to a minimum and ensured that we used a tripod or shoulder rigs when filming in order to record stable and smooth footage. This still and smooth footage allowed us to achieve a sense of calmness with the stillness of the camera. Here we could experiment with movement of the subject rather than movement of the camera. We also experienced with smooth pans/tilts and general camera movement. We filmed a range of parts of the body such us collar bones, shoulders, backs, mouths as well as extreme close ups where we focus on the texture. With extreme close ups we had to film parts of the body that were hairless as we felt that seeing lots of hair on the body would automatically cause the audience to assume that it is a male. So therefore we wanted to keep the audience guessing the identity of the character and ultimately achieving a sense of enigma, which intrigues the audience further.

Basic Shooting Schedule

Skin

Hair
2103
2104

Ears
2142

Brows
2119
2120

Eyes
2139
2154
2155
2157
2161

Nose
2117 (lighten)

Cheek
2118

Mouth
2150
2156
2168
2165
2169

Neck
2066

Collar bone
2111

Back
2172 x3

Arms
0972

Hands
2060
2061
2062
2063

Legs?

Feet?

MEET THE PEOPLE - EP.2

MEET THE PEOPLE - EP. 1

University of Westminster - Law, Gender and Sexuality

law, gender and sexuality

BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival

BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival

monologue development

game-changers

our society discriminates, no matter what

am i a boy or a girl?

mum i want a pony

when i grow up i want to be a princess

the feeling of going to the bathroom

am i meant to feel safe in a society/community

i am a minority

our society claims that it does the best for ALL of us

under laws, politicians and the government

explain of prisoner

domination

loose power

oppression

gender is social construction

there have always been people who have felt profoundly uncomfortable in their assigned gender roles. 

what we can do to make them safer, or make them feel recognised, heard, seen, understood? 

To validate their identity and experience could in fact, save their life.

equality, a way or a new lifestyle, a way to amen mentality, better life, less worries, more confidence

gender neutral isn't just away from discrimination

 non binary gender or non binary is a prospective.

how do we seek through the doors of gender, guarded by society closed in.

my personality, my aspiration, the love, i hate for me, should bring me access to the life i choose

this is a mad world

positive and negative

before we even see the light of day, before we have any concept of life itself, we are grouped placed into our selected genders.

we are not born with the freedom we're led to believe, our freedom to be who we are. Something as simple as a colour association seems to have society define me already, 

maybe i don't feel blue represents who I am, maybe i just find pink to be atrocious.

i am gender neutral, i'm not your stereotype to mould, my opportunities will not be determined by my gender or sexual orientation.

my gender neutral identification shall broaden my personality, let me see and participate with the world how i want. 

we are constantly hidden in the shadows of societies sculpture that has been carved out for us for hundreds of years.

why do we limit ourselves and throw away the horizons we reach for to simply fit into a system, a box.

don't make me shut out the person i am for the people i am for the people i have no business to do. 

This person is knocking on the worlds door, and they will break through.

No piece of paper will define how you see me, not through your blinded eyes.

This is a new time, a new age, the new norm

last week plan

26th Wednesday
10:00 @ studio
01:00 - interview with gisele
- Projector
- Flash
- Blurs
- Experiment with gels

27th Thursday
10:30 @ the forum
02:00 - LGBTI interview
04:30 - Conor
monologue 
start evaluation
survey and interviews at campus

28th Friday
studio
10:00 @ gabie's 
(film) editing all day
02:30-03:30 dan
evaluation

29th Saturday
Edit
01:00 - skype with ryan 
evaluation
blog
website
minutes

30th Sunday
Edit
evaluation
blog
website
minutes

31st Monday 
10:00
projector day
02:00-05:00 audio in studio
email julie

1st Tuesday
10:00 @ gabie's
(audio) all day
evaluation

2nd Wednesday
10:00 @ gabie's
editing and evaluation (if needed)
presentation

3rd Thursday
10:00
DEADLINE

interview with gisele

In this interview with Gisele, we attempted to discover and understand the public's experiences with gender discrimination. As Gisele was female, we unfortunately thought that it was more likely she would have been confronted to gender discrimination in some kind of way, especially with a career in the music industry such as Opera. She claimed that working in a patriarchal industry such as this one, male managers would expect their female talent to be as feminine as possible. Perhaps it could be seen that these particular male managers would exploit or exaggerate the talent's 'feminine' features in order to sell tickets. However, it could be argued that with Opera's extensive history the traditional views on both male and female characters are well established in the genre as part of the codes and conventions of Opera. A good example of this would be the dresses that the women would wear in order to flaunt their bodacious figures in hopes to fulfil the audience's voyeurism as the audience's expected this of them. In general dresses are seen as 'feminine' no matter how short, long or tight they are. Although Opera is heavily based on the music and vocals of a person, talking to Gisele made us understand that the representation of the character and themselves as performers are just as important for the business.

Our interviewer, Oya asked a series of unscripted questions as she personally wanted to have more of a conversation with Gisele as the topic of 'gender' can be seen as sensitive for some people. The questions ultimately provided us with an insight to Gisele's own thoughts and opinions on gender.

On the other hand it seemed that Gisele's personal life effected her way of thinking. She discussed her Brazilian origin and her strong catholic upbringing. She personally felt that the music industry discriminated her in a number of ways. She exclaimed that she was never really listened too in terms of expressing her opinions and ideas that she ultimately just had to 'follow orders'. She concluded the discussion by saying that the industry is dominated by "men" and that they want it to stay that way.

Due to her Catholic upbringing she presented an interesting perspective on gender neutrality basing her opinion on the Christian belief of "love thy neighbour". When elaborating on this she explained she felt that no matter the gender of a person they should be respected and treated equally, seen as a human rather than a 'gender'.

Evaluation:

In this interview we encountered a technical difficulty with audio due to the fact that we had not thoroughly tested the audio when we began test shooting. Unfortunately after the interview, when we went to playback the footage we realised that there wasn't any audio at all, this was due to the fact that the microphone was not properly set-up in order for it to work with the DSLR. As an outcome of this we had only filmed the interview without any audio, which was inevitably most important. From this we learnt that it was vital to throughly test the equipment before shooting, even if that meant to upload the content onto a computer in order to be satisfied that everything was working properly.


written by I Joshua Manley
edited by I Gabriella Livingstone

survey

Online:
http://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/3CARJ/

Campus:
http://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/RJX1G/

contact with LGBTI's president at The University of Westminster

equipment

two led lights

two cameras

one tripod vinten

one microphone

one hand held rig 

various gels for lights

narrative

1. Blackout (a few seconds)
- Sound of a heart beating continuously.
- Underwater audio (distorted)
- Use EQ

2. Film
- Slow or fast paced cuts?
- experiment with lighting and gels/filters
- Use of flashes
Body Parts:
- Eyebrows
- Hands
- Heel
- Ears
- Nose
- Birthmarks and beauty stops
- Skin
- Belly button
- Knee
- Thigh
- Teeth
- Lips
- Fingers
- Block of Hair

3. Non- Diegetic sound
- Kid's monologue voice-over
- Non-gender monologue voice-over (i.e. siri)

4. A person's back
- Using of projector? or paint?
- A sentence
- Stay away from arms

5. CUT

gender neutral ideas development

light theory (oya)

This report will discuss a basic understanding of the theory of light such as Colour temperature ( White Balance in videa) Lens Structure Types of lenses F Stop Depth of field The inverse square law COLOUR TEMPERATURE ( White Balance) Colour temperature setting in the camera tells it how it should see white. When properly adjusted the camera sees the colour white as white and then adjust for all other colour accordingly. Colour is light. The colour of an object is based on a combination of factors the Colour of lights the nature of the material they are hitting and how light it is being reflected off the object. LENS STRUCTURE Lens is an optical device used in conjunction with a camera body and though which light is focused this mechanism to make images of objects chemically or electronically. To focus light onto the photosensitive surface at the back of the camera. This can either be photographic film or CCD (charge- coupled device. ) Every lens has been examined to determine how they affect light and what degree. The focal length of a lens determines it is angle of view, and thus also how much the subject will be magnified for a given image position. The structure and operation of the eye is very similar to camera lens. Both are based on two major components: a lens assembly and a imaging sensor. The lens assembly captures a portion of the light emanating from an object, and focus it onto the imaging sensor. One key difference between a camera and the eye is that a camera does not focus light onto the photosensitive surface by adjusting the shape of lens. Instead the focusing screws move the lens forward or backwards in order to focus the image onto the photosensitive surface. DIFFERENT TYPES OF LENSES ZOOM LENSES Most common type of lenses known to the use filming industry. This is so because with zoom lenses you can go telephoto or wide-angle at the push of a button. You can zoom in or zoom out with zoom lens. The advantage of zoom lenses over prime lenses is that you don't have to change lenses to get to tighter or a wider composition. It save time from switching lenses. This choice of lens is ideal for documentary and news gathering. The disadvantage of zoom lenses is the loss in image quality. PRIME LENSES (Fixed focal length lenses) Can't zoom in or zoom out. Every time the film maker wants to get tighter on his or her composition he can either physically move the camera closer to his subject or change the camera lens for one with a longer focal length and narrower field of view the telephoto lens. The image quality is far superior. Professional narrative filmmakers always prefer prime lenses. The disadvantage of prime lenses inconvenience of switching lenses. TELEPHOTO LENSES e.g. 50 mm (in 16mm film ) In comparison to normal lenses telephoto can get really tight on the subject. Also the image is optically enlarged to show fine details from a subject that is far away. The image is optically enlarged to show fine details from a subject that is far away. Telephoto lenses compress space making people and objects that are far apart appear really near one another. The disadvantage of telephoto lenses. Shallow depth of field and shakiness and movement are more pronounced and noticeable need to use a tripod. Movemeat is more pronounced when hand-holding a camera with a telephoto lens. WIDE ANGLE LENS e.g. focal length = 10mm ( in 16mm film ) By comparison wide angle lens are the opposite of telephoto lenses. Have a broader field of view and they can show sweeping panoramas of mountains, ocean and forests. They make objects look further away than they are. Shakiness is negligible with wide angle this choice of lens is ideal for handheld work. Long depth of field make all subjects look sharp. The disadvantage of wide angle lens when the wide angle lens is too short it bends the image and make the subject appear fat. NORMAL LENS e.g. normal = 25mm ( in 16mm film ) By comparison normal lens are halfway between telephoto and wide angle lenses. Normal lenses mimics what the human eye sees, without neither getting to close to subject, nor distorting it, nor compressing the distance among the plains. F STOP (APERTURE) aperture getting bigger or smaller. Main F stop = f1| 1.4 | 1.8 | 2 | 2.8 | 4.5 | 5.6 | 8 | 11 | f16 | f22 | Without light there are no images on cameras. Light controls what we see in a camera and how we see it. Because natural light changes constantly we need to able to control its intensity as it passes though the lens and into the camera as we are filming. Controlling the light is important because shooting with too much light and you have an over exposed image and not enough light gives us an under exposed image. F-stop it is one mechanism by which we control the amount of light is hitting the film. DEPTH OF FIELD Depth of field is the distance between the nearest + farthest object in a shot that appear in focus. It's the area of your image that's in focus. In other words you can use it to make blurry background very little in focus except the main subject. ( narrow depth of field) and deep focus ( large depth of field) almost everything is in focus. THE INVERSE SQUARE LAW Is a principle that explain light states between distance , a light source, subject and time. Base on two principle A- light loses power if you increase distance from the the light to the subject. B- you will lose this light at a faster when distance get longer rate than you think. Below the chart is enlarged to help visualise this

sue's feedback

logo creation

day 1 shoot evaluation

Here we carried out a test shoot for our project where we focussed and experimented on our cinematography, lighting, positioning and light gels. For this we used a studio, positioning two LED lights either side of the subject, the right side being stronger and more intense in order to produce a shadow on the left side. We also applied gels to the right hand side light. We had experimented different colours of gels in order to see what kind of atmosphere that the colours produce. We eventually decided to continue with using natural/neutral colours of oranges, deep reds and yellows which correspond to our theme and purpose as well as complimenting the colour of skin. We felt that we should steer clear of using blue gels as it produced a rather cold atmosphere which could be considered to present the matter in a negative perspective. Also if we used a pink it could produce a feminine feel which also wouldn't go hand in hand with our intentions. We eventually used two gels on top of each other to create our natural outcome.

When filming our test shots we used a Tamron 90mm macro lens which allowed us to achieve very detailed close ups which focus on single aspects of the body very well. However we encountered an issue when using this lens as we had never used it before. This was that we didn't realise how change the lens setting to manual focus rather than auto focus. This meant that the focusing was very temperamental and didn't focus on a single part for an established period of time and kept ranging the focus. This meant that it was hard to control the lens. In some cases the out of focus moments imply a sense of disorientation or confusion and works well with hiding the identity. After this shoot we researched more on the lens and now know how to use manual focus and the outcome will be shown in our next shoot.

Also we experimented with both tripod based and hand held shots when filming. When using hand held shots the footage in some cases it quite shaky as expected due to the use of a macro lens. However we collectively felt that this irregular movement provided a sense of intimacy with the subject making the audience feel as if they're involved and much closer to the visuals, being in the space of the subject on screen. We also liked the contrast between the static and movement shots as we felt that it emphasised the peace and calmness in the static shots. We will experiment more with the use of the tripod which can allow for much smoother camera movement carrying out transitions such as tilts, pans and random movement with very gradual movement. We also will illustrate the different cover gels and display how we feel that it doesn't fit in to our aspired aesthetic. 

how to setup lighting with toby

hassan's opening times

location scouting

troye sivan does his nails

"only two genders!"

'like a girl'

ruby rose

a gender capitalist model

starnow listing