Problem Solving

Problem Solving
Jake Whattam-Smith

Resources
Equipment Needed Possible Equipment Needed
Costumes Lighting
Props Boom Microphone
Camera/Phone Audio Recorder
Tripod External Hard Drive
Stabilisation Method Different Lenses
Headphones Go Pro
Extra Batteries/Charging Station
Memory Cards
Carrying Bag

Technical Problems
Potential (Technical) Problem - Brief Severity Likelihood Impact Factor
#1 - Internet/Power Goes Out Medium - High Very Unlikely 1
#2 - Storage Corruption/Maximum Capacity Reached High Possible 2
#3 - Camera/Phone Battery Runs Out High Likely 2
#4 - Defective Equipment (i.e. camera or phone) Medium Very Unlikely 2
#5 - Missing/Hidden Files Medium Unlikely 2
#6 - Computer Breaks High Very Unlikely 3
#7 - Software Crashing Low Possible 1
#8 - Can't Export Edited Video Medium Possible 1
#9 - Sound Not Recording Low Unlikely 1
#10 - Forgot Equipment Medium Unlikely 2
#11 - Couldn’t Get Access To Equipment Medium Likely 1
#12 - Working At Home Low Definite 2

Technical Problems
#1 (Internet/Power Cut)
Potential Problem
In the event that the power goes out across the area or house because of whatever reason, this would resultantly cut all power to devices that require a
constant power supply to be used, tehse including things like the lights or wifi router, or in this case when doing production, it would be something like a
desktop computer or certain filming equipment either being used or charged ahead of filming.
Effect On Production
Because this significantely limits the amount of things I can be working on as all power intended devices stop working, which is most things during times like
these where wifi and electricity is dependent on almost everything, this would slow down the process of production significantly, whether intending on shooting
footage or not I won't be able to charge up batteries for the camera/phone, or having already gotten all the footage and now editing it all together, without
power I can't develop anything when acknowledging the fact that all my work is digitally enhanced and generated through PowerPoints and different software's
as such.
Solution/Control
Understanding that in most cases when problems like this occur, it affects the surroundings households in addition to yourself so going across the street or to
your neighbours to avoid this issue isnt possible, especially given the time of writing up this document covid-19 is still very impacting and we're in a national
lockdown so households as such cant mix or be in contact in any way already. Its possible that backup generators can keep a good supply of electricity to keep
you going, but the chances of having one are extremely minimul so the best cause of action here is to wait out the blackout and use a phone or laptop, if it still
has a sufficent amount of charge/battery, to jot down some ideas or a plan of action ahead of whatever tasks your currently doing. Its not an ideal situation to
be in, but when problems like this occur, they usually get onto cases like these immediately because of how impacting it can be, especially at times likes these
with lockdown and still remaining winter season where the temperature is a lot colder on a near constant basis.
Person Responsible
Regarding that this isnt perticularly anyones fault and cause of action that’s deliberately caused this problem from occuring, it remains inconclusive that nobody
is responsible for a blackout/power cut in the vacinity, but getting in contact with the local authoritizes and government in association to the problem, if its not

Technical Problems
#2 (Storage Corruption/Maximum Capacity Reached)
Potential Problem
Mostly present when on shoots gathering the footage needed for whatever products your filming or taking photography for, reaching the maximum capcity
allowance for storage on whatever devices your shooting the film/images on can regularly happen when doing constant re-takes or slight changes to the work
your doing, and similarly getting corrupted footage or data can arise from trying to fit in as much footage possible into a space that just cant fit it all in one,
making it damaged and or lost completely, especially when filming in 4K for instance.
Because you may have reached full storage, this resultantly means that you cant continue with the filming process that you was probably just doing before, and
therefore re-scheduled filming dates as such impacts your overall structure to the production phase as time management techniques and certain schedules you
may have arranged for further things in the future, like other filming arrangements, are all delayed and extended an overdraft for reaching your deadlines.
Solution/Control
Finding out that your storage capacity is full, you would often resort to looking over the footage on-site and start removing the ones that look offputting to what
you intended on establishing, as such with re-takes or shots that generally didn’t work out to what you wanted, and eventhough this does work it is wasting your
time at the location which should be used efficiently for filming and the benefits of your other crew members on set. Understanding that you may have already
started getting rid of some of the pointless files, like I had mentioned, your better off leaving it because theres a higher chance of you deleting something
accidently given your at a point of stressing at the situation, so simply bringing over spare memory cards and external hard drives resolves the need to remove
anything, instead transfering it all over to somewhere else that’s safely stored away; and in addition to this, it often speeds up whatever device your using,
likewise with a phone for example, because less stress is on the cpu and storage capacity. However, at a price, memory cards and external hard drives can be
quite expensive financially, so saving out on some money, planning ahead of the filming taking place by transfering it onto your computer before going out to
film, or deleting some of the unnecessary files in some of your spare time means you can focus your full attention to the filming and shots taking place on set.
Person Responsible
This is totally down to myself (Jake Whattam-Smith) being the director, filmer, and organiser to the film and shootings taking palce as a whole, because its of my

Technical Problems
#3 (Camera/Phone Battery Runs Out)
Potential Problem
Increasingly more profound when on long filming shoot locations or generally outside of the vicinity of electronic accesses, your phone or camera, dependant on
what your using, may run out of battery charge to carry one working and being used as a way of capturing the intended footage; similarly, this could also come
under forgetting to bring spare batteries (camera) or a portable electronic charger (phone), or completely forgetting to charge the devices before hand ahead of
going out and filming.
Because the device/s can't technically be used because it needs power to run, this means that it's more the less impossible to gather any sort of recordings,
whether sound or video, resultantly wasting a lot of your time going to and fourth to pickup/charge the devices and then go back out; or in some cases if the
locations isn't easily accessible (i.e. needs a long road trip or permission from somebody), re-scheduling the date is the only option other than not be able to film
there at all, which would impact the whole project and planning elements already made ahead of filming, and more importantly time management
considerations as you would be highly likely to go over deadlines or submissions to stay on track with everything.
Solution/Control
Now the easiest way of controlling this problem is to ensure everything is well organised and managed before going out to film, but in the case your at the
location and the batteries run out, bringing over spare pairs of batteries or charging devices is the most effective way because they're small and portable, easy to
fit into a carrying bag as such I intend on taking for transporting various pieces of other equipment; but in addition to this, most locations require a mode of
transport to accesses because of distance, so even brining some like a charging cable so that you plug the devices into the car to charge on set would work.
Person Responsible
Again, this is truly down to my own organisational and management skills ahead of filming, because I'm the director, filmer, and whole operations organiser
(Jake Whattam-Smith), so ensuring that the equipment is up to its best ability, whilst sustaining a good plan of what's needed on set, remains my own
responsibility in most cases – other than when using somebody's else's equipment and its their job to bring it over for filming (like with college cameras or the
crews belongings).

Technical Problems
#4 (Defective Equipment)
Potential Problem
When shooting something, ensuring the equipment your using is good is your number one priority because without it, it would be impossible to shoot anything that’s
reasonably good in the first place, especially if its something like the camera or sound your relaying on for the video itself, aside from the fact that you can make a film
without lighting equipment as such; but its possible that some of this equipment is sometimes already damaged, or becomes defective when using it vigerously,
something that can be catastrophic to a films progression.
The likely hood of this actually happening is very unlikely, but in the case that some of the equipment was to become defective, it could stop the proggression in that
day completely if it was a significant piece of equipment for filming, likewise with the camera; now in most cases you could avoid stopping production if something
like a tripod had become defective, because you could quite easily adapt shots that a way, but because the equipment you take is mostly needed fro its own
reasonings, you would in msot cases have to re-visit that location on a further date which would evidently impact your time management and development in the
project.
Solution/Control
If the equipment was to become defective from either using it or not on set, its important that alternatives are avaliable to use, especially when considering that some of
the desied shooting locations can be quite far away so going back and fourth isnt an option; the main piece of equipment is the camera, and if this becomes defective then
the situation can become serious because finding another camera as such is quite a big ask for how expensive they can be now-a-days, but phone cameras are a good
alternative, especially when recognising they're usually built up to shooting at 4K surprisingly (or atleast my phone does). Regarding some of the other pieces of equipment,
like with tripods or lighting in most cases, because theyre less technologically driven, physically mending these pieces on set if some tools are to hand can easily be fixed, so
bringing a toolbox is optional, although this doesn’t always work out, so asking a friend is always a really good shout, but evenso a lot of people don’t have lighting
equipment or tripods so re-scehduling to another date will be most necessary, picking up the equipment from college as of before the arrangement.
Person Responsible
I would go as far to say that its whoevers responsibility that broke the equipment or is to use it, because eventhough its possible that it was already broken when
having recoeved it from college for insatnce, it should have been checked before moving over to the filming location, therefore it still remains the filmer's, directors,

Technical Problems
#5 (Missing/Hidden Files)
Potential Problem
Sometimes shoots throughout even a single day can add up to a lot of recordings, whether audio, video, or photography related, the footage can get to an extent
where you start to get confused at the large abunance of things to go through and organise, often making mistakes along the way in the forms of managing
them in the wrong places, or even missings and losing them compltely on your computer and recording device (i.e. camera card or phone).
Remianing still very common in day-to-day productions, finding missing or hidden files is always a struggle as it often takes up a lot of your time in production,
whether using it on finding the missing file/s, or even going back out to shoot and get that footage again; this sometimes leaves out-standing pieces of work to
be finished up after deadlines or in your free time to catchup, but this resultantly means that everything is pushed back and can sometimes imply work that has
been rushed to get it completed on time, evidently achieving lower than expected grades, so its important to try and avoid these scenarios at all costs.
Solution/Control
In most cases its down to a lack of concentration and organisational trhought behind transferrings the files over from whatever device you had used, whether it
be a camera or your phone, so I would definitely consider using a good level of organisation and management in the places you transfer the files, making
numerous named folders, and renaming some of the various files so that you both strategically arrange the footage/documents to whatever best suits you,
whilst making it easier for your future self when following trhough your file explorer and needing a specific set of files whether it be for editing or powerpoint
writing purposes, it make it much easier and less time consuming.
Person Responsible
Because I'm the person organising the whole project, and actively engages in activities around the work I produce through numerous amounts of files, I am
therefore responsible (Jake Whattam-Smith) when considering I'm the one that shoots/makes the files in the first place and is the only one that works with them
continuously.

Technical Problems
#6 (Computer Breaks)
Potential Problem
In the worst possible case scenario, given the current times were living in (covid-19), the computer im using on a near constant daily basis could break. Because
of an abundance of possible reasonings, my computer is by far the most essential component to any project given I use it for everything, so it breaking down on
me during the project could be highly likely, especially when acknowledging that ive had a constant computer message stating that 'the battery needs to be
replaced' because it 'cant provide enough power'.
Whether breaking down because of an overload of use, or as a result of wear and tear over the past few years, the effect is immediately devestating to the
project, stopping all progress and development to move ahead because everything needs to be acessed digitally; either typing up information or
constructing products trhough software, this isnt possible without a computer to perform such tasks on so alternatives are imperative to use under immediate
action.
Solution/Control
This could be resolved under the circumsatnces that I have another laptop/desktop pc to hand at home, which I do have accesability to undersatnding that it
would have to be during the time periods when my parents arnt using them for work (I.e. throughout the night or evening at the earliest), but because this isn't
typically conviniant most of the time, I may have to resort to borrowing a laptop from college or a friend, or working extra hours in the college aslong as its open
having lockdown ended and not extended again. Fortunately I am creating my own desktop pc, building it anytime soon having all the parts bought and readily
avaliable to build, otherthan the graphics card due to short demand online, but seeing through this and buying one before production means I could build and
use it for the purpose of editing and working from home.
Person Responsible
I wouldn’t necessarily say that its anyone's fault if this problem occurred given it would be highly likely down to the fact that ive owened this laptop for a few years
now and that its starting to show some disfunction, but given that ive had a battery issue which hasn’t been resolved, and that I could damage it through overuse and
transportation, this still remains my own repsonsability to take control of (Jake Whattam-Smith/Director and Organiser).

Technical Problems
#7 (Software Crashing)
Potential Problem
Whether using a software like photoshop which is for higher quality proffesional use, or something like photopea (having looked at this during my client vlog
task) which is a much cheaper and lower quality software in comparison, the software crashing in the case of simple things like having a powercut, wifi router
disfunction, laptop battery running out, or its simply crashing because of an overload on the computer programming its use, this means that a lot of your work
(if not saved) could have been lost.
Because
Solution/Control
Person Responsible

Technical Problems - #8
Potential Problem
Solution/Control
Person Responsible

Potential Problem
Solution/Control
Person Responsible

Theoretical Problems
Potential (Technical) Problem - Brief Severity Likelihood Impact Factor
#1 – Crew Falling Out Medium Very Unlikely 1
#2 – Weather Conditions Medium Possible 2
#3 – Unnecessary Sounds Low Unlikely 1
#4 – Time Management/Schedule High Likely 3
#5 – Health And Safety Challenges High Possible 2
#6 – Finance Medium Unlikely 1
#7 – Crew Ability/Effort High Unlikely 3
#8 – Location Access High Unlikely 3
#9 – Crew Accessibility High Possible 3
#10 – Organising Props Or Costumes Ahead Of Filming Medium Possible 1
#11 – Prop Or Costume Damage Low Likely 1
#12 – Unintentional Incidents With The Crew (i.e. getting ill) High Very Likely 3
#13 – Haven't Organised Personnel's Ahead Of Filming Medium Unlikely 2
#14 – Interruptions From The Public Low Unlikely 1

Theoretical Problems - #1
Potential Problem
Solution/Control
Person Responsible

Potential Problem
Solution/Control
Person Responsible

Health and Safety - List
Hazard Present? Severity Likelihood Risk Factor
#1 - Alcohol/Drugs N N/A N/A N/A
#2 - Animals/Insects N N/A N/A N/A
#3 – Audiences N N/A N/A N/A
#4 - Camera cable/grip equipment Y Low Unlikely 1
#5 - Confined spaces Y Medium Likely 2
#6 - Derelict buildings/dangerous structures Y High Unlikely 3
#7 - Electricity/gas (other than normal supplies) N N/A N/A N/A
#8 - Fatigue/long hours Y Low Very Likely 1
#9 - Fire/flammable materials P Medium Very Unlikely 2
#10 - Hazardous substances P High Possible 3
#11 - Heat/cold/extreme weather Y Medium Likely 1
#12 - Laser/strobe effects N N/A N/A N/A
#13 - Machinery/industrial/crane/hoist N N/A N/A N/A
#14 - Materials (glass, non-fire retardant set materials) P High Possible 2
#15 - Night Operation P Medium Likely 1
#16 - Noise (High sound levels) N N/A N/A N/A
#17 - Manual handling Y Medium Very Likely 1
#18 - Public/crowds P Low Very Unlikely 1

Health and Safety – List (continued)
Hazard Present? Severity Likelihood Risk Factor
#19 – Radiation N N/A N/A N/A
#20 - Scaffold/rostra N N/A N/A N/A
#21 - Smoking on set N N/A N/A N/A
#22 - Special effects/explosives N N/A N/A N/A
#23 - Special needs (elderly, disabled, inexperienced) N N/A N/A N/A
#24 - Specialised rescue/first aid N N/A N/A N/A
#25 - Stunts, dangerous activities P Medium Possible 2
#26 - Tall scenery/suspended ceilings Y Low Very Likely 1
#27 - Vehicles/speed P Low - High Very Unlikely 1
#28 - Water/proximity to water P Low Very Unlikely 2
#29 – Weapons P Low - High Very Unlikely 2
#30 - Working at heights N N/A N/A N/A
#31 – Covid 19 Precautions Y High Very Likely 3

Health and Safety - Assessments
Hazard No. #4 Risk Factor (1-3): 1
Description Camera cable/grip equipment
Person(s) exposed - (detail if cast/crew (C), outside of
company (O), or nearby public (P)
C
Action to take Ensuring all cables and equipment are out of the way/out of reach from others
, exempting the filmer, such as with chargers, lighting, and or tripods, whilst acquiring
a backpack to store these cables/equipment or signage up to warning others.
Person/company responsible for action Jake Whattam-Smith (Director/Organiser and Filmer)
To be completed at agreed later date
Exposed person(s) informed?
(y/n)
Agreed action taken?
(y/n)
Risk removed?
(y/n)
Description Confined spaces
C
Action to take Asking each member of crew who are necessary for filming in the confined space,
find out whether they're comfortable with filming there before production ahead of
schedule to avoid panic attacks as such, whilst ensuring water is available to cool.
Person/company responsible for action Jake Whattam-Smith (Directo/Organiser), and actors themselves
(y/n)
(y/n)
Risk removed?
(y/n)

Description Derelict buildings/dangerous structures
C
Action to take Making sure the location is safe before shoots, location recce's and having only the
necessary people enter, possibly wearing head protection, with exits accessible at all
times makes sure in the case of falling debris everyone stays safe from harm.
Person/company responsible for action Jake Whattam-Smith (Director/Organiser), and Crew.
(y/n)
(y/n)
Risk removed?
(y/n)
Description Fatigue/long hours
C
Action to take Assuring that breaks are present intermitting filming on locations, a schedule should
be made ahead of filming so that people can take breaks regularly, whilst clarifying
some refreshments, drinks and food wise, are available to hand at all times.
Person/company responsible for action Jake Whattam-Smith (Director/Organiser)
(y/n)
(y/n)
Risk removed?
(y/n)

Description Fire/flammable materials
C, O, and P
Action to take Establishing a source of extinguishing a fire should be accessible at all times during
shoots, whether a large bottle of water or extinguisher, it should also be contained in
a small area not near to sources of expanding its flame (like cardboard or wood etc).
(y/n)
(y/n)
Risk removed?
(y/n)
Description Hazardous substances
C
Action to take This isn't particular because I want to use substances in my film, but regarding the
location sometimes being used as a dump, hazardous substances could be there so a
recce before shooting and having gloves to remove it should be conducted if need be.
(y/n)
(y/n)
Risk removed?
(y/n)

Description Heat/cold/extreme weather
C, O, and P
Action to take Making sure that the weather doesn’t affect our progress during production, using
means of transport (aka cars), applying the right amount of clothing adjacent to the
weather, and having things like radiators or coolers if necessary on set.
(y/n)
(y/n)
Risk removed?
(y/n)
Description Materials (glass, non-fire-retardant set materials)
C, and P
Action to take Brining over bins and gloves to shoots, this means I can extinguish the danger of glass
if any is present, and doing recce's of the locations before filming means any dangers
like this should be spotted and sorted beforehand.
(y/n)
(y/n)
Risk removed?
(y/n)

Description Night Operation
C, O, and P
Action to take Brining over equipment like lighting and head torches will mostly be necessary to
avoid accidents like tripping, or the risk of coming into contact with something or
someone by means of covid-19 precautions and hazardous substances.
(y/n)
(y/n)
Risk removed?
(y/n)
Description Manuel Handling
C
Action to take Doing some choreography before hand ensures that both members performing the
operation reduce the risk of mistakes and injuries, whilst ensuring they're both from
the same household for COVID-19 related reasonings.
(y/n)
(y/n)
Risk removed?
(y/n)

Description Public/crowds
C, O and P
Action to take Always remaining aware of your surroundings, we should keep a distance from
others by either doing the shoots at less busy times/days, or maybe having some
signage to show the activities were undergoing.
(y/n)
(y/n)
Risk removed?
(y/n)
Description Stunts, dangerous activities
C
Action to take Could have somebody whose actively engaged or experienced in dangerous stunts to
do them, or have choreography sessions and practises before in preparation to try
and eliminate any mistakes whilst seeing what the final outcome may be like.
(y/n)
(y/n)
Risk removed?
(y/n)

Description Tall scenery/suspended ceilings
C, O, and P
Action to take Could endorse some sort of head safety clothing is necessary, but understanding that
they'll mainly be trees, the risk is near to minimal.
(y/n)
(y/n)
Risk removed?
(y/n)
Description Vehicles/speed
C, and P
Action to take Making sure an experienced driving is taking the wheel, speed shouldn’t be too
excessive, sticking to the limits set, and if the desired road is busy, then other
considerations should be made, as such moving to somewhere else.
Person/company responsible for action Jake Whattam-Smith (Director/Organiser) and Driver.
(y/n)
(y/n)
Risk removed?
(y/n)

Description Water/proximity to water
C, O and P
Action to take In the case of it raining as such, should have clothing to prevent being drenched and
hypoferremia risk, whereas exposure to lakes or streams, wellies and avoiding those
areas in general is an options, having spare clothes if necessary.
(y/n)
(y/n)
Risk removed?
(y/n)
Description Weapons
C
Action to take Although I wont be using dangerous weapons in particular, making sure they're safely
concealed when not being used, and professionally managed with chorography
practises if necessary should avoid blunders with the weapon/s.
Person/company responsible for action Jake Whattam-Smith
(y/n)
(y/n)
Risk removed?
(y/n)

Description Covid-19 precautions
C, O and P
Action to take Making sure only households are mixing, there should only be the necessary amount
of people on shoots, whilst sustaining a distance from others at all times, and
constantly sanitising hands after contact, maybe having tests beforehand.
Person/company responsible for action Jake Whattam-Smith
(y/n)
(y/n)
Risk removed?
(y/n)

Experiments - #1 (Camera Stabalization)
Link To Experiment On Youtube:
https://youtu.be/vRylVYnw6Zs

Experiments - #1 (Camera Stabilization)
Why
In all film and tv production-based work, whether you have a good structure and or storyline development, ensuring the camera and quality the work gets
across these ideas makes or breaks a project. Because this is what the final audience eventually sees, it gives off the impressions made about myself (the
director/project manager) and whether or not they're going to enjoy watching the film, often only viewing the beginning to set their expectations for the rest of
the film/trailer through the quality it gets across in the visuals (shots) and audio (sound effects/music). Recognising this, it makes the way I get across the
trailer/s more than ever important in the shot quality, and so therefore testing the camera stabalization, mainly for long panning shots I perticualrly want to use
in my trailer/s, we want to achieve maximum stabilization with the limited amount of resources I have to offer given im highly likely to be in lockdown (staying at
home) when gathering the footage; this should make it more stabalized, resultantly making it more engaging, aesthetically pleasing for a low budget film,
intuative, and varied with the different shots types I want to achieve in the visuals.
Process
Using two methods to achieve maximum stabilization with the resources I have to hand at home, this included both practical methods, having elastic bands
attached to the upper-body of the tripods, and technical methods, using a stabilization effect on the footage through my editing software in post-production.
In the porcess to get this stabilization, starting with my elastic band method, I had used two elastic bands that wrapped around the top part of each tripod,
managing them in a specific way to have full control of the tripod when moving around with it. Attaching all the elastic bands correctly, which is shown in the
next slide, these act as a way of stabilizing the camera or phone that is mounted onto the tripod in the first place, holding the tripod by the bands at the top, to
take on the vertical buoyancy when going over bumps, and the tripod handle to direct what your camera will focus on horizontally, giving two points of contact,
but for added stabilization you can have three points of contact to make it even smoother when moving around.
Now having gathered the footage, which should look significantly smoother than being hand-held in the first place, it will still be noticable that slight
fluctuations to the movement of the shot make it somewhat still moving and not the still, smooth movement you desire, so going into Da Vinchi Resolve (the
editing software I used here), we can apply the stabilization effect in the inspector tab when selecting whatever clip you want to stabalize. With a single click on
this effect, using the default settings that should be already set, this takes a couple of minutes to render the clip and remove these fluctuations; this is done by
changing the perspective ever so slightly in the clip so that it remains smooth and unoticable to the eye unless you focus on the certain objects.

Applying the first
elastic band, this
goes around the
base part of the
tripod until going
around the point
where your
camera/phone
would sit
Adding the second
elastic band, this
simply gets attached to
the back of the other
band by looping it
under and then
through the hole of
the band, attaching it
to the other band
Then finishing of the
aplication, the band, in
my case, is wrapped
around the phone holder
at the top giving an
elastic handel to hold
above your camera or
phone. In other cases
where you cant wrap it
around like this, you can
guide it around or
underneath something
to hold it in place.
Using a smaller and larger tripod, they both have their own attributes,
including weight, stabilization, quality, and transportation, and so
because of these different qualities, I applied all experiments to both to
counter which one would be most suiting to whatever environment,
location, or shot I desire to use or film around/within.
Beneath are the two tripods im using with the phone adapter, which is
on the top of the left tripod, that can be transferred between the two .

Strengths (Elastic Bands)
• The use of elastic bands make it extremely budget friendly and available to use for something like what I'm producing, a near to low if not zero money spent
film trailer that needs to remain DIY given the current situation in lockdown and Covid-19 in general.
• Using the elastic band methods is extremely easy to use once the bands have been attached to your tripod/methods of holding your camera or
phone, because all you have to do is hold the bands from above, and direct the camera with your tripod arm to focus on particular things.
Strengths (Editing Software)
• The process of adding the stabilization effect is seamless, with one click and a couple minutes of rendering, the effect is done to an amazing standard which
significantly improves the quality of your work.
• Because of how easy it is to use, anyone from somebody's whose experienced with editing or not can use it to their liking, making it very user friendly,
especially considering that its free to use.
Weaknesses (Elastic Bands)
• Although you would think that its fairly easy to get elastic bands, the ones I had particularly used were thicker and the perfect length for the job, when in
most situations this wouldn’t be the case, and it'd take more time than you think to get the right bands.
• Because your holding the weight of the tripod and camera/phone by an elastic band, there's an increasingly high chances of it crippling under the weight
and snapping, which resultantly doesn’t compliment the difficulty at finding the elastic bands in the first place.
• Even though the bands act as a very good and cheap way of stabilizing your footage, a lot of the work is through your own footwork when shooting and
going over rough terrain, so having some experience or insight to camera movement would definitely be helpful to the situation.
• Applying the elastic bands to the tripod can also be of difficulty, whether having too much or not enough length to the bands, or the shape of you tripod
prevents yourself from attaching the bands correctly to evenly distribute the weight, it can also be a little complex to understand when doing it for your first
time or working around the difficulties mentioned.
Weaknesses (Editing Software)
• Although free, Da Vinchi Resolve requires a lot of power to be used without damaging you laptop or desktop pc from over-heating, and in addition to this
the effect, when applied, will slow down your processing and editing a lot, so doing this last in the editing post-production may be necessary.

Project Influence
The process of finding DIY ways, like with elastic bands, to make my footage stabilized makes my project extremely budget friendly and free to an extent,
especially when considering the software used is also free for use and download; because of this, not only can I achieve very proffesional looking shots given its
much more fluid in the camera movement, that in addition to this opens up a lot more oppertunities in teh development of what im working with, but during
these unprecidented times where covid-19 remains present in day-to-day life, finding such obscure methods means I can work almost similarly to my
full potential from home as opposed to in college with the equipment they offer. Whether having the option to acess equipment that can stabalize my footage or
not, I think using the elastic bands and software is capable enough to be used throughout the filming production process instead, especially when seeing teh
end results with their use and how effectively it works with my aspirations in the project, because its both very cost and time efficeint when cosnidering that
picking up and dropping off the equipment, with the addition to signing off safety forms etc, means a lot of time would be wasted moving from place to place
when elastic bands are easily transportable and inexpensive, whilst of course sustaining similarly amazing results in the outcomes of each.
Audience Influence
Having now the capabilities to produce smoother motion footage for certain shots, this in itself makes it increasingly more aestehtically pleasing, engaging, and
reflective of other similar porducts in the film indsutry where a more porffesional approach is disinguished. Implying a well-put together porduct, using camera
stabilization keeps an audience hooked because of how much more proffesional it looks, upping the expectations and judgement immediately throughout the
audiences given 'proper equipment' had been used to create it. From this, it also conveys a higher budget production in relation to big films and TV screenings,
and so therefore people stay attentive and focused more intentively from these interpretations being made, when in reality im using elastic bands and default
stabilization effects in an editing software as opposed to high-end production equipment.
In addition to refelcting a professional, high-end budget appraoch, camera satbilization also works well in adapting an atmopshere in the scenes or speed at
which it is used/moves. Because it is often used for much slower paced scenarios, like with panning or long shots tracking soemthing, this can give off a lot of the
atmosphere being created in relation to the genre that’s being exemplified, which makes it resultantly more emotionally drawing and engaging on-top of other
things; for instance, in a thriller film like mine, having a stabalized long shot tracking someone could be in anticipation of someone or something happening
because a lot is being shown shot, making the audience more aware of whatever is happening and therefore effective at getting across the suspenseful, fearful
at all times intentions being made.

Experiments - #2 (Colour Grading)
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Experiments - #2 (Color Grading)
Why
Despite the fact that you may have gotten some amazing shots, good quality practical productionn outcomes, and a stroyline that’s perfectly suited to what you
have filmed already, these are all key elements to consider and do well during the production phase, but color grading is as important, if not more eleborate and
inclusive of the auidence than most other things. Whether its used to establish something in the narrative, a change of focus, or a greater understanding of the
atmosphere being created, color grading can really make a product pop-out for the rest of the competition as it gives you that leading edge in the engagement
of your auidence as it often conveys a lot of meaning and feelings; this is something that ive come to realise over the past few years when working closely with
the media in a lot of my hobbies and education, because it just works well when wanting to get across certain ideals or tones to create judgement and thought
behind your work as it includes the auidence, making symbolic referances and interpretatoins towards things, and this is not exception. I really want to look into
this effect for the numerous things already mentioned because I really think it will benefit the 'thriller' genre im wanting to get across, and so therefore looking
into this more, unedrstanding how it is done, and why/where it should be used is key having not looked into something like for previous projects.
Process
When doing the color grading process, this usually involves either a color grading apllication being added during production, so with the device I would be
recording with (phone/dslr camera), or in post-prooduction during the editing phase where effects can then be applied to individual clips or across the board.
Starting with my phone device, this was fairly simplistic and easily understood having gone into your standard video camera role there is a symbol present (retro
video reel) across the top halve when portrait, upon being selected a drop down of various amounts of options appear which can be used by a single tap to
change the coloring of your image being perceived; there are about 15 options here, each with distinct differentiations for the rest with some including
suspense, sentimental, and blue which give off extremely threatening and cold conventions in comparison to something like fresh, dawn, and velencia which are
almost the complete opposite.
Whereas, when using a software in post-production, more specifically Da Vinchi Resolve which I have also used across all of my experiments, there is a
numerous amount of different options when wanting the change certain aspects through the color tab across the bottom halve of the main page, these consist
of things like the brightness, contrasts, significant colors, temperature, and etc more to offer a great insight into the porcesses involved to envelope something to
a good standard, especislly when undertsanding how much more complex and time consuming this can be to get the right adjustemnets; this resolves around
slight changes using various wheels and dragging elements to get the specific detail perfectly alligned with the effect you desire, but theres also the ability to
select already made presets and add nodes using the color dropdown tab along the top, whilst being able to grab whatever clip you had color graded, grabbing
the 'still' and applying this across other various clips that don’t have to aplicant by right clicking the color graded vversion, selecting 'grab still', and the going to

Process of using phone
Here we have the most likely source
of recording my footage, using
my personal phone (the Huawei Mate
20 Pro), as it offers anything up to 4K
recording, both 30 and 60fps for a
soother recording.
Here we can see the initial page when
opening the camera application, and
the page necessary to color grading
once having selected the 'retro film
roll' symbol to re-direct myself
according to what I want (the color
grading options page in this scenario).
Offering many additional elements to
the video recording process, we see a
flashlight, settings, alligner, zooming,
and slider when switching between
video, photo, and specific recording
styles, whilst for the color grading
page we have all the pre-made
presets for adjusting the colors, in
addition to the same features
previosuly shown.

Strengths
Weaknesses

Project Infleunce
Audience Infleunce

Experiments - #3 (Double Exposure Effect)
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Experiments - #3 (**print**)
Process

Strengths
Weaknesses

Project Infleunce
Audience Infleunce

Experiments - #4 (Text Opacity Effect)
Link To Experiment On YouTube:
https://youtu.be/vooCmszBgf8

Experiments - #4 (Transparent Text Effect)
Why
Ive really come to realise over the past month and a bit Ive been working and developing my project since starting it, that not only does thriller films/trailers rely
on audio a lot of the time to create interpretations and the suspenseful atmosphere you see in this genre, but the visuals, more specifically visual effects, are
something, aside from other genres of films, that are used to an extensive amount because of how effective and unique they pose to the audience
watching; often following through with the conventions of anticipation, curiosity, and psychological thrillers in general, because they're usually very singular and
juxtaposed against the common use of visual effects, they place the audience in unfamiliar situations that bring out the audiences feelings and awareness more
vividly, this remaining something that I would really like to emphasise because I truly believe, having looked and analysed a varied range of products that use this
technique, would suit my own project and the intentions I desire throughout.
Process
Adding in a background node and then text node to the fusion tab in the da vinchi reoslve software, here we can enlargen, size, or change to text font to suit
your own style in the inspector tab beside, ensuring that before moving on with the effect your text is what you want or intend on demonstrating for this
perticular technique – this can be changed at any time but its better off getting it done so its out of the way from impacting your time management in the
editing process. Its also worth mentioning that if you want your text bigger than the limit in the inspector tab (which is typically located to right hand side of the
page), then adding a transform node when having selected the text node gives you’re the ability to change its position, transforming it much more specifically,
whether you want it enlarged, angled, or even pivoted here you can do this.
Selecting the merge node and moving across to the inspector tab, here we can see an 'operator' option, chossing 'XOr' in the drop down makes it transparent for
the first 'black outline' effect as the text becomes surrounded by coloured solid color once attaching this merge node to another merge node in the actual clip;
removing the background node and replacing it with a clip of your choice, this makes it the 'video overlay' effect, where as keeping the background node and
changing the 'apply mode' drop down to 'overlay', this makes the text overlay effect over the background clip.
Aside from 'video overlay', 'overlay', and 'black outline' title effects, which focus on using the operator dropdown from the inspector tab, the 'black outline
zoom' final effect needs more care due attention to create it well. Using now two separate video clips instead of just the 1, we need the desired clip you want to
use and a plain solid out black video clip which you can get through the software or recording something extremely up-close; doing the same process as before
in the fusion tab making whatever text you want transparent, you apply this over the top of your clip, then using a range of keyframes on the text (black video)

Video Overlay - https://youtu.be/L2AMkCvkhiQ
Overlay - https://youtu.be/xv1tlE7rdyE Black Outline Zoom - https://youtu.be/J2rlYGXXwp0
Black Outline - https://youtu.be/RX6gDub48cg

Strengths
• Refining most of the time to working in the fusion tab, everything is compact and easily managable meaning it takes only about 2 – 5 minutes dependaing on
what title effect your doing (I.e. the black outline zoom takes longer because there's more technical thought behind creating it in comparison).
• Using Da Vinchi Resolve in this case is always a good advantage, given it’s a good quality professional software and free to use, so anybody can get to grips
with using it in their own project whilst financial investment is also kept to a minimum.
• Because the effect itself draws your attention to whatever has been typed in or is being mentioned, it can make a lot of interpretations and atmospheres
about things, confining the audiences view to something in particular that may make themselves think more about it and therefore involve themselves in
addition to making it generally more engaging.
Weaknesses
• Using the Da Vinchi Resolve software in the first-place means having a decent enough computer/laptop is required, as it draws out a lot of power to use, and
so people who may not have these capabilities to run the application or can run it with a lot of constant buffering and loading reconciliations, prevents
people from using it to their full potential and efficiency.
• Without some sort of experience in editing software as such means it's more difficult for beginners looking to learn, but using YouTube in this situation is
always a good alternative rather than going into it not-knowing what everything does and their individual purposes, as they are relatively clear and
understanding about everything you need to know.
• Unless the effect is done to a good amount of quality, it can sometimes look abit tacky and cheesy, or even off-putting, so making sure that whatever clips
your using, or effect and text in this case goes will with your intentions for the project, it's probably better off leaving it out and keeping it to a minimum.

Project Influence
I definitely thinking using this effect would be great for both the time management throughout, and the supportive unique style that it represents myself across
the project. Only taking what seems a matter of seconds to do to a good level of quality, this effect in itself is really good and easily achievable through what was
abouts 1 - 2 minutes each (exempting the fact that the first time it had taken me about 7 minutes); this is greatly beneficial in the timing of the project as I could
therefore build up some spare time to improve and look back at certain aspects in the editing (where I would use this technique), but I would also go as far to
say that because of how compact the process of creating this 'text' effect is, only ever staying in the fusion tab, this also gives the opportunity to attach and
expand other techniques further onto this. Following up on that, because this is extremely unique having not seen it in any others existing products, it almost
acts as a way of breaking up the video, speeding it up or slowing it down as it creates a main point of focus which could therefore be used as a way of
transitioning into something effectively - I.e. a date or time could work well to emphasise the point that we're moving either ahead or back in time to make it
more understandable, or the title could be repeated (as I had seen in the run trailer) to remind them to take actions as a part of AIDA.
Audience Influence
Because each of these effects typically limit what you can visually see to the text you have chosen, they're extremely helpful when wanting to focus in on
soemthing in perticular, perhaps an object or person, but because it focuses in on the text and video behind, this confines what the audience can see; this often
emphasises the fearful (almost castrophobic) intentions and atmospheres being created because of this effect, making them think about the situation and
therefore involving/engaging them fully, following through the thoughts and expectations set across thriller films to remain suspensful, unpredictable, and in
anticipation of whats to come.
I would also like to say that because this is quite a unique way in which text is visually demonstrated in a film, whether to state the title or drive the narrative,
because its very exclusive to mine if not very little other film trailers, it makes it much more intreguing and visibly captivating to carry on watching, hooking the
audience as an immediate sense of proffesionalism and dominating atmosphere are created when hindering the audiences perception, hence supporting the
desired emotions and moods being set for a thriller film as its meant to break down the auidence, making them fragile and exposed to the rousing suspiocious
and anticipation of whats to come.

Bibliography
Problem Solving
. Unknown. (Unknown). Video Production Equipment.
Available: https://www.desktop-documentaries.com/video-production-equipment.html. Last accessed 04/02/2021.
Experiments
. Tracking Stabalization - That Modern Dude. (2019). LOCKED-ON STABILISATION Effect in Davinci Resolve 16.
Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC00484WyWE. Last accessed 04/02/2021.
. Transparent Text Effect - Billy Rybka. (2019). 5 super SIMPLE, EASY & COOL Text / title effects for Davinci Resolve.
Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmXuPYhpsfU&t=168s. Last accessed 04/02/2021.

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