Tutorial 4 and 5

Tutorial Four and Five: Video Production Sessions

Task One: Follow instructions and work in a small group to plan and produce and edit a 30 second short.

Task Two: Set up a U Tube account

Task Three: Follow instructions to posting your video on U Tube.

Task Four (Blog Posting): Provide a brief summary of the services offered by U Tube. Information can be drawn from the week five tutorial hand out.

You tube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. The services you tube offer include sharing of; video content, movie clips, tv clips, music videos and video blogging. You tube is a service which is free to unregistered users and is currently a non profitable organisation. Registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. You tube is easy to navigate and related videos will appear to the right hand side once you have entered a search. Feedback and ratings are listed under the video’s link. Overall You tube is easy to navigate and offers a service for viewers all over the world to share there experiences or communicate with there friends and family.

Retrieved May 19, 2009, from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube


Task Five (Blog Posting): Provide a brief account (1-2 paragraphs) on how the use of planning (storyboarding and scripting aided your groups short film.

A story board is a visual aid of the different shots and ideas your film will entail in order. The story board was a good indication on what shots our group would like to take for our film. It set the theme of ‘student flats’ and the ideas we would like to capture which represented our interpretation of the Dunedin student life. During the photo taking process we did refer to the boards but also took photos of ideas we came upon. Generally we stuck to the story board but changed a couple of shots which weren’t applicable to take photos of at the time.

Due to time constraints of the tutorial we had to take our shots and film within an allocated time period to allow time to edit back at Polytech. We decided to take shots of Campus wonderful, the Leith river, Student flat and any broken bottles which represented the ‘Student life.’ This planning allowed us to have enough time to capture the shots that were in our story board and return back to campus to edit our film on the ‘Student life.’