Tutorial Four and Five Technical Descriptions

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.

Youtube allows users to post videos of interest into the webpage where others are able to view them at will. These videos are unable to be downloaded. The types of videos that are available are subjects of humour, news items, pets, educational, health, music videos. Registered users are able to upload an unlimited amount of videos onto the site and unregistered users are able to view unlimited numbers of videos that are available.
Some videos are available only to users of age 18 or older (e.g. videos containing potentially offensive content). The uploading of videos containing pornography, nudity, defamation, harassment, commercial advertisements and material encouraging criminal conduct is prohibited. Related videos, determined by title and tags, appear onscreen to the right of a given video.
The San Bruno-based service uses Adobe Flash technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as videoblogging and short original videos.

Retrieved May 29, 2008, 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.

As I was absent during the tutorial, I did not get to see the actual using of storyboarding or scripting and their use within short film making. However, i have made notes on why these would be helpful with making short films.

Storyboarding would be useful as it will help the recorder to visualise the full film in its entirety and see any potential problems that may occur during filming.
A storyboard provides a visual layout of events as they are to be seen through the camera lens. And in the case of interactive media, it is the layout and sequence in which the user or viewer sees the content or information. In the storyboarding process, most technical details involved in crafting a film or interactive media project can be efficiently described either in picture, or in additional text.

Retrieved May 30, 2008 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyboard

Scripting would allow the members who are visually involved in the film production to visualise what to say and how to say it in order for the film to be successful and follow the plans that are shown through storyboarding.