Resolution

Resolution is the quality of the video, its different things like sharpness. The better the resolution the greater the quality which in tern is better to look at. Dot per inch indicates the resolution. This image shows that the greater the number the more pixels per inch are used with getting better quality footage. ppi makes a difference to the file size because if its a high definition (HD) it will be large files as more pixels means that it will take up more spaces and take longer to load.

Frame rate

Frame rate is the frequency at which imaging devices display consecutive images called frames. Frame rate affects the file size because of the amount of fps (fps).

Audio settings


Flash player


Quicktime

QuickTime is Apple’s multi platform, multimedia technology for handling video, sound, animation, graphics, text, interactivity, and music basically every thing you use in things like phones, tablets and computers.

Windows Media Player


Real media Player


Divx

Purposes Of Researches

Audience Research

Audience research is looking into the audience that your program or film will be presented to. This requires looking into the age group and what is and isn't acceptable for them to be viewing and what you can have in your story and if they should be see it. Before finishing any designs, research has to be done before the idea can even be thought about. This is required so that the producer has better knowledge of target viewers. It can be a huge waste of time consumption and money if the product isn't created the way it was intended, all of this can happen if the target audience isn't researched or applied to the right watchers. This also links to advertisement in a way that if you know who your aiming the product at its easier to advertise in the right place for right viewers.

Market Research

In order to maintain sales and become the "best" or "top" company over competing businesses market research is very important and is needed to do this as it gives key information regarding market needs, sizes and sales. This kind of research often includes doing social with opinionated study's and also gathers peoples or company's organisations by using different methods depending on the social research. What market research is, is basically a way of getting overviews of different customers needs, wants and interests. The research helps to understand how products can be marketed. When doing market research researchers can find out the costs of different commodities along with knowing what the supply and demand situation is. Market researchers have to know how to help their clients understand things like social networking, technical and legal aspects of markets and research.

Production research

When creating a new product, production research is needed to give valuable information on different products. Different information on this could be things like how it was made and the costs for it, a good example of this is adverts, adverts are made for audiences to buy the product so its the producers jobs to make adverts that use production research. When company's or organisations conduct production research it allows them to get a overview of the products and everything involved, this is a key skill that helps businesses become successful, gain more profits and expand. this kind of research uses different techniques to gather information. Demographics play a big part when researching as it shows things like opinions, characteristics and habits of target audiences by numerous aspects for example gender, age and locations like addresses and postcodes.

Legal & Ethical Considerations

When creating/making something you have to be aware and think about the legal and ethical issues in media. One of the biggest issues is copyright. And what copyright is, is when someone copy´s an idea or the whole thing its self like a video and claims it as their own, benefiting from it. To help with this legal protection is advised so that people cant steal owners original material. One thing to take note of though is that copyright can only be used on the outcome or applications not the idea its self.

Health and safety is also a legal issue as things like risk assessment forms need to done especially when planing on filming somewhere. Employer liability insurance exists to help with diseases or injury's that could happen in the work place. Employer rights tie into this as employees have the right to a safe work place, training time, sick pay and loads more of different things.

Businesses  and company's use things like trademarks to define things and makes their businesses stand out so people notice and can tell what company it is.

You can not discriminate against anyone based on sexuality, race, sex or believes. This also falls under the equal opportunity´s act and what this is, is that you cant be singled out or not to participate in something, every one has to be treated like an equal with equal right and opportunity´s.
When company's are creating something or have an idea confidentiality is a key component that stops other company's from stealing or taking credit from the original owners work. Most commonly employers will be needed to sign a confidentiality agreement form when working on things to stop them from sharing ideas or plans that businesses don´t want getting out. Ethics. What ethics are, are basically the thing that stops people usually reporters from be biased. They must not be biased when doing a story and cant lead it or have people say stuff that would make it one sided. Its best if things are approached with a open mind and keep it mutual. When in media privacy must be taken into account, even more when filming or doing an interview, people like producers and reporters must make sure that they are not interfering, bothering or being to intrusive with people´s lives or opinions. Material is also not allowed to be released that people don´t approve of. By this I mean if an interviewee said something they don´t like or didn't mean to.

Cost of developing the script

If my script was to go into production a average cost would be needed. Thinking about it and looking into it the cost should not be sky high as it would be filmed with minimal cast and would be filmed with a single camera.
There would be no more than five cast members. Four will only be needed really as one character would only make a quick one minuet appearance right at the start.
The crew would also be a small number with probably a most of three members, a designer to help with characters cloths etc, a sound guy to hold the microphone up when filming and lastly the director who would also film and edit the whole thing helping with keeping costs staying low.
When filming the locations shouldn't cost anything as its based at college so timings and logistics would be arranged to fit a day its open and also empty.

I think with keeping the crew, cast and equipment at a low the general cost should be to high and would be affordable and easy to maintain. Every thing like filming and all the practical stuff would be done in house so that would help a lot overall.

Market Researching

When I was doing my market research I could not find any films or TV shows that had the same premise as mine. I did find that there are similar films and shows that involve a bunch of people being hunted and killed. From knowing this and watching these similar story's I feel confident that mine will be very different as mine is based on body image which as far as I can tell hasn't been done before. Because mine is already starting of similar to other shows but completely original as well I will have to be carefully to not copy other creators ideas and will have to stay true to my own story and vision. The similar shows and films that most resemble mine are scream queens and the hit film series scream. Because my idea is original and there hasn't been a story like this before there are not any competitors that I have to worry about.

I've learnt that if  I want an original concept then I will have to look more into these films and shows and learn how and what I can do different to make other people wan to watch my show. Seen as how successful they are I could find out what makes them so popular and begin to draw ideas from them but also have to remember the legal side of things and stay away from any copy right issues, this shouldn't be a problem as with my research there's nothing else like that has been done before.

Engaging in market research I looked into the audience and the channel it would be aired on.
Looking at the audience and the viewers it had I think that my film would best to aired on the BBC 3 seen as how they have similar shows to mine but also because the viewers that they have fit the age rating my film has. Due to the tone my film has the gory nature of it, it should be aired any time past 9 o'clock that way it will be sure to reach the correct viewer rating and also to get the maximum of viewers.

The techniques used throughout the production.

Filming

For my interviews and the experiment I used medium shots which are intermediate between a close up and a full shot.

Has my documentary met its original intentions, has it turned out how it was supposed to?

Yes the experiment documentary went almost to plan. The documentary its self went as planed we got the results we were wanting and the reactions needed for film. The issues we had were technical and human. Technical issues were when the camera didn't focus when filming when the interviewee was on his own. The human issue was when the interviewee laid down and went out of the cameras view for a lot of the filming.
We found out what we wanted to and we got results and film from filming the interviewees. We got footage of our three people in the stages of going through a sensory depuration experiment.

How well did we work as a crew?

As a crew we worked average. Its was a rough start as we wasn't sure what we wanted to do but after planning we got everything filmed and sorted. Filming the interviews, experiment and b roll went smoothly, quick and simple. As a crew we knew what we were doing and what different roles we had and knew what to do also when & where.


How supportive was my group?

My group was very supportive of me producing and setting up the equipment for both my filming session and the experiment.

What responsibilities were taken on during the shoots?


How was the interview conducted and was it successful?


What problems were encountered?


What could have been differently or more effectively?

Script Writting Project

A huge part of how I got my back ground findings was from the BBC writers room webpage where they talked a lot abut script writing techniques and what it takes to make a good script.

Developing your idea.

All good ideas need drama. And what is the center of drama that drives your story.
Asks questions like is it compelling enough for your character and audience? Do you have enough story to carry out over several episodes or weeks?
Its crucial to create a coherent world.You need to know the rules of your universe, what do and donts we need to know and see? The writer needs to know all the rules and backgrounds, where as the audience only needs enough to stay hooked without being confused, which is why sometimes less can often be more.
What the emotional response laugh, cry or be scared, need to if this idea is important to you. Put you passion into it as its your story. don't write anything you don't  care about just to be expedient. Challenge your audience.

Form & Format

Have really strong scripts and to know exactly what they are and know what it is that ur trying to do. Don't have weak ones that flow on that don't ever really be clear from the start. Great writers master form and manipulate it. So form is what kind and shape of story you are telling to tell. Format is where in a specific broadcast or performance schedule it might sit. Where and how is its most meaning full expression. Is it a idea that works best in radio

Character

To write great characters you need to see through the eyes of them, how they feel and whats its like to be them. If you know this, then you can know how they might instinctively act and react in any given situation. And from this comes your authentic drama and comedy. The best characters are often active, on some kind of journey if thats physical, emotional, psychological or otherwise and are always trying to do get, or reach something. From this comes dilemmas and choices and from that comes dramas and comedy's.

Beginnings

You dont need to know your ending at this moment but it helps. You do however need to know where you are heading towards and what kind of a ending you are trying to reach. Knowing where you are going helps and means you can work out the best, most engaging, captivating and most meaningful place to start.

Starting the story means getting the viewers attention immediately. This means starting the story straight away by showing characters in actions and by showing who the characters who they are and what they do. Dont go to much into back story and dont worry about prefacing the story. You dont have to introduce every character, every theme and every plot right away so dont try to do to much , find a focused way in. Make your character significant in the beginning by making them step outside their comfort zone. have them want something and pursue it. Set them a problem or dilemma  or even a call to action like keeping something safe or saving the world.

Most importantly, plan the story before yo start writing. Make sure you know what the beginning, middle and end are. Plan what goes on in them. work out the order in which you want the audience to see and have. But stand back and look at your characters and ask whether they are driving it all forward.

Middles

With many scripts and stories the middle- the stretch that connects the beginning with the end can often be difficult.

the middle takes up more story than the beginning and the end combined and making this work dramatically or comedically takes thought, planing and effort. Once you have worked out where to begin and where you are trying to get to, you have to work out the most appropriately difficult way for your character to to get from one to the other. Your characters need to get lost in the muddle or otherwise the journey forward would be to easy for them. With this however the witter cant get lost. You need to be in control of the muddle. You need to manipulate characters, events, actions and consequences. You need to make things difficult for the characters whiles keeping up the momentum of the story for the audience. You need to plan the muddle carefully.

Remember to surprise the audience. What do they need to see? What can you leave out? What might make them see the story, characters and events better in a new light? Also remember to engage the viewers. Are the character developing and changing interestingly? Dont let the story become boring and flat line. Remember the peaks, dead ends and the moments of clarity, the butterfly effect of actions and consequences. Otherwise the story will sag and so will your audience.

Endings

Great endings fit and bad endings jar. Great endings bring the story where as bad endings go of target or fizzle out and just stop without any real sense of conclusion/ satisfaction. To leave/ have an impact on the viewers must have a great ending. When doing a ending you need to ask if it follows from where you started with the story and the journey thats taken place. The feeling of inevitability should be felt as if they are what should follow on from everything that has gone before. Keep in mind tho that they mustn't be predictable, their needs to be


Scenes

To show significant moments and events a different scenes are needed so that the story can move on forward. Scenes are different combinations of times, places and different settings. No matter what the size or cause scenes needs things to happen or else they not scenes and end up being expositions. What expositions have different than scenes is that nothing happens with in them, by this I mean if stuff is just explained and or related they cant become nothing more than a exposition. For interesting scenes the story has to be kept moving forward at a steady pace in order to viewers happy and interested, if scenes get slow and boring people will get disinterested. A mixture of conflicts and tensions, dilemmas with decisions, actions and reactions are used to help drive back story's for characters.

Dialogue

Dialogue is what characters express and say. Like people dialogue isn't always natural, by this I mean speech doesn't always come out perfectly or in perfect grammar, so when your writing dialogue for characters it doesn't always have to be correctly said. If an actor is actor

Rewriting

So after an idea has been developed with a solid story, characters created, character voices and brought it to life. Its now that you must stand back if you've got to close and go over it again and be hard on your self and change anything that needs to be changed after a re read has been done. When your reading it back to yourself after you have read it alone for some time to get some space re read it as someone else with no connections with it. Honestly ask your self if it works and if there are any issues figure out where the problems are, does the story say what needs to be said. Through out the time of reading it make notes and comments of anything that doesn't seem right or might not make sense.

Conclusion

After reading all this and finding out all the information I feel confident that I can create a solid script. Reading about all the techniques they will help me a lot especially when I am re reading it through and I now know what I can do to help if I get stuck or if something doesn't seem to fit or feels out of place. I can also feel like I can create better characters and plot lines to en rich a more interesting story.

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