BBC Introducing - Exit Black

This week I worked on my last BBC Introducing shoot with a band called Exit Black. I was given the job as the back up camera and editor. The shoot went very smoothly with very few problems, nothing we couldn't overcome! It shame that this is the last shoot I will work on, it was always fun!

Band BBC

Posted by Unknown in Band, BBC

BBC Introducing - Exit Black

Running a Business and a Full Time Degree

So, I used to work in retail for 4 years, the day I left was the best day of my life. I broke free the strict routine and I had my weekends back. It was all fun and games until I ran out of money...

Luckily I had some saved up and my parents told me to look for another job whilst I finish uni. So I started looking, I had no idea what sort of part time job I wanted, until I was approached by an old friend who ran nightclub events and asked me if I could film his nightclub event, as I had just bought a DSLR I was said yeah sure, we agreed on a price, I made the video, got paid and thought nothing of it. 

A  few weeks passed and I got a message from another club asking if I could make them a video, so I did. Next thing I know I making a video almost every week. Thats when I launch Action Filming, at first it was just me and a couple of mates helping me out making event videos, now I employee 6 people and we don't only do nightclub videos but we also focus on nightclub photography and have weekly contracts with clubs in Wycombe and Oxford. The company grew so quick that we are now the biggest nightclub photography business in Wycombe and second biggest in Oxford!

I'm not going to lie from reading that it sounds like it all fell into place, it didn't, I worked hard and stayed focused. Oh and whilst doing all this I'm also just about to finish my full time degree.

https://www.facebook.com/ActionFilming

http://www.actionfilming.co/

Action Filming business Nightclub

Posted by Unknown in Action Filming, business, Nightclub

Running a Business and a Full Time Degree

Its Like Im Actually There!

As most people are aware the Oculus Rift has been around for a few years. When it first came on to the scene as an alpha product people went crazy... The demand for it went through the roof, people saw this as a new way to play games and watch films, and who can blame them it's amazing, as I've had the benefit myself to use one, it is quite amazing and that bearing in mind its still in beta!

When it is finally released to the public in 2016 sales are going to be sky high, but will that be it, a one hit wonder, just like 3D TVs? Sadly to say I think it may be, people will buy it use it a few times and just get bored, it's too personal and isolating, do you really want to wear it every time you play a game?

gaming

Posted by Unknown in gaming

Its Like Im Actually There!

Have Games Influenced Films?

Presentation... Do I really have to do a presentation... This is what I asked myself when I set my most recent assignment. Sadly the answer was yes, I'm not going to pretend that yeah a presentation isn't that bad, because that's a lie, I would much rather write a 7,000 word essay than do a 10 minute presentation, but sadly that wasn't an option. So I had to find a topic, so I choose to look at the way that games have been affected films. After some extensive research I noticed that they are hugely affected in many ways.

To start with dystopian realities tend to be associated with games and films, however extreme dystopian realities tend to be associated with games, although more films these days are using extreme dystopian realities this is due to the use of special effect becoming more believable and cheaper to produce. An example of this is the film Sucker Punch. Sucker Punch made a big statement, the film is very bizarre, and left many viewer wanting more and many hating it. 

CGI was also affected, since games only use CGI, millions is spent improving it, which has made the CGI look more believable, this has meant that films have also had to step up their games and make their effects look more genuine to win over the audience attention, and to make them start asking questions about how it was made and how realistic it looked.

Games really have effected films, in so many ways. I only wonder what the future holds and what other effects will entail!

film games transmedia

Posted by Unknown in film, games, transmedia

Have Games Influenced Films?

Broke? You can always rely on crowdfunding!

Crowdfunding

So you want to get you projet off the ground, whether that be a film or a brilliant invention idea. So where do you start? Well funding tends to be the next step once you come up with an idea, however you never want to risk funding a project yourself, what happens if it doesnt work out and you lose your hard earned cash! Well there's a solution for that! In this modern time you can now post your ideas online and complete strangers can invest in you idea! Now this sounds to good to be true, there has to be a catch... Well no, there is no catch! You simply post your idea on a crowdfunding site such as kickstarter, and then sit back and wait for the funding to come in!

Although the only way you're going to get the funding is if you idea is actually a good idea, otherwise no one is going to invest and it's just going to be waste of time. You can always use an incentive to encourage people to fund your idea. Most crowdfunding sites allow you to offer "investors" to reward when they invest a certian amount, which is alway a good incentive!

So crowdfunding, would I use it? Yes. I would use, its risk free, it may pay off, and it will certainly let you know if your idea is any good!

crowdfunding online

Posted by Unknown in crowdfunding, online

Broke? You can always rely on crowdfunding!

Transmedia

In the last 10 years social has developed at an alarming rate. To think 20 years a go, dial up connections were being rolled out, who would have thought 20 years later we would be sharing all our personal information on a website called Facebook.

Since there is 1.44 billion of us on Facebook I'm not surprised the film and TV industry has started to use it to its advantage. The use of transmedia encourages the audiences of a show to use social networks to follow up on a story within a film or TV series. This benefits not only the audience who get to find out more about their favorite characters but it also allows the shows creator promote their show even more, by encouraging the fan to "Like" their Facebook page. 

This scheme works out very well as everyone benefits from it! and no one loses out!

facebook transmedia

Posted by Unknown in facebook, transmedia

Transmedia

Shooting the Privacy of Clubbing

Many people at my age tend to have a weekend or evening job, working in retail. Well that was me till about 8 months ago, after working retail for four year I had enough of rude customers, long shift and little pay, so I decided to start my own night club photography business called Action Filming. After six months I had secured contracts for three clubs, and everything was going well and the company was growing at a good rate, we also introduced offering clubs a promotional video. However as myself and my team started taking over 200 photos per club per night we were getting a vast amount of message from people requesting that photos of themselves were taken down.

I was surprised at this and felt it fairly odd, as when I go on a night out I don't mind having my photo taken, but then people are all different. This made me think, what gives me the right to be taking photos of people in the first place without there permission? Sure there in a club where its normally expected to be a nightclub photographer, but the people in the photo never agree to have the photos taken and then to be placed on social media websites.

This brings me on to the next issue, as I mentioned I also film club events. The main difference in terms with privacy in relation to a video is once its up there is no way to remove certain people from the video, unlike photos where I can just delete their picture. However I do occasionally find that people who don't want to be in the video often ask me not film them which I take seriously and understand their situation.

In conclusion, on a night out in a club most people expect there to be a photographer at the club and have come to accept this over time, as club love to use the photos as a cheap source of promotional material there is a very low chance that clubs will ever remove club photographer because a small minority of people don't want their photos taken.

Nightclub photography privacy

Posted by Unknown in Nightclub, photography, privacy

Shooting the Privacy of Clubbing