One Shot

Questions that I can up with.

These are questions I had in mind.

Why are you homeless?
How did you find the big issue company?
What profit do you get?
What Big Issue do with the profit?
Where do you stay at night?
Where do you normal eat at?
Is there any trouble from locals?

Adobe Premiere Elements 4

I got Adobe Premiere Elements 4 last month, and it has helped me out a lot.

The booklet you get with it helps you use the program to its full use. It is also very similar to Premiere pro at the university. Only difference is that you don’t have to go through the different menus to get one thing, it’s there on the front for you to just right click and use. Also the area isn’t cluttered. You may notice this, but there is no extra video window for you to edit with before dragging it down to the main timeline. That’s because I just have to right click the regular file in the organizer folder and bring it up. This helps make the space less messy and you can se your edits better on a bigger screen.

Here is the anime music video I am working on at the moment to D gray man. It's about 60% done so far.

And here's one I did are a practice with still images from a game.



This helpped me alot for the documentary we did.

Storyboards

Check List

Book out equipment

□ K6 Mic Full Kits
□ Reflector
□ K6 extension cable
□ Sound Recorder
□ VX2000
□ Headphones
□ Standard Tripod
□ Carry case
□ Boom Pole
□ Check all works

checklist on the day of filming

□ Meet at 10.30 am and get to filming location at 11.30am
□ Safety speech
□ Safety check
□ Set up
□ Tell crew how you want it to look and sound
□ Get introduction shot
□ Get Vox pops
□ Meet Leighton at 12pm
□ Ask all specified questions and more
□ Leighton (different angles, with Richard in shot aswell)
□ Big Issue


□ Film ending sequence
□ De-brief crew
□ Pack up


Checklist for editing and finishing

□ Watch footage a few times
□ Edit footage
□ Put voiceover on
□ Transcript
□ Save some cuts
□ Convert for DV AVI
□ Convert or Youtube (WMV)
□ Burn to DVD
□ Make sure all paper work is finished

Outline

The documentary is to get people attention on Big Issue sellers. We follow a typical day of Leighton, who is an issue seller, and see his views on his life and compare them to what the locals say about them. Are the locals right or wrong about these people?
Richard Parr is the presenter of this documentary and will be asking questions to get encouraging answers. We also look in to the story of the Big Issue Seller Company and see why they keep their workers in the dark about the profits. It finishes with the audience deciding if the stereotypes are true?

TALENT/MODEL RELEASE

TALENT/MODEL RELEASE

[Emily Fichna, Richard Parr]

In consideration of the sum of £ [27] and any other good and valuable considerations, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, I, being of legal age, hereby give [Emily Fichna, Richard Parr], their licensees, successors, legal representatives, and assigns the absolute and irrevocable right and permission to use my name and to use, reproduce, edit, exhibit, project, display, copyright, publish and/or resell photography images and/or moving pictures and/or videotaped images of me with or without my voice, or in which I may be included in whole or in part, photographed, taped, videotaped, and/or recorded on [24/11/07] and thereafter, and to circulate the same in all forms and media for art, advertising, trade, competition of every description and/or any other lawful purpose whatsoever. I also consent to the use of any printed matter in conjunction therewith.

I hereby waive any right that I may have to inspect and/or approve the finished product or products or the editorial, advertising, or printed copy or soundtrack that may be used in connection therewith and any right that I may have to control the use to which said product, products, copy and/or soundtrack may be applied.

I hereby release, discharge and agree to save [Emily Fichna, Richard Parr], their licensees, successors, legal representatives and assigns from any liability by virtue of any blurring, distortion, alteration, optical illusion or use in composite form whether intentional or otherwise that may occur or be produced in the making, processing, duplication, projecting or displaying of said picture or images, and from liability for violation of any personal or proprietary right that I may have in conjunction with said pictures or images and with the use thereof.

AGREED AND ACCEPTED this [24th] of [November], 2007.

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Editing

first edit



Second edit



These are the cuts we did and the final edit.

Transcript

Opening

Richard:

Hey, My name is Richard Parr and I’m trying to do a documentary on Big Issue sellers and trying to find out what the public think about them in one work.

Vox 1

Rough

Vox 2

In your face

Vox 3

Polite

Vox 4

As a nu-cense

Vox 5

A con

Richard

Are these opinions correct? I’m going to try and find out and follow a Big Issue Seller named Leighton for the Day.

Leighton

Rich, Hows it going? Are you alright mate?

Richard

Had a good day?

Leighton

Not too bad

Richard

Erm, so where did you stop last night?

Leighton

I stopped last night at an er.. just at er.. somebody’s sofa

Richard

Yeah

Leighton

I was sofa surfing last night

Richard

Yeah

Leighton

You know, just tryi..

Richard

So where do you usually sleep?

Leighton

Air, dair and everywhere (here, there and everywhere), where ever I can get my head down really.

Richard

Erm

Leighton

You know what I mean

Richard

How long you been selling the Big Issue?LeightonBeen selling the big issue now… on and off, for 7 years,

Richard

7 years

Leighton

Yeah, as I’ve been homeless, then I had somewhere to live, then I stopped, but then yeah, about 7 years now.

Richard

So, what did you do before then?

Leighton

Before I sold the big issue, I was a bit of a Rogue and I used to get into trouble all the time and er, then yeah you know, I became homeless, then living in hostels. Knocking around with the wrong people. And er I got myself into trouble, I went to prison. When I got out of prison I started selling the big issue and I haven’t looked back ever since. I haven’t been in trouble since.

Richard

You know if you er, didn’t, you know, sell the big issue, what would you want to be?

Leighton

Gosh! I would to have my own market stall or have my own shop. Yeah, I would like my own business.

Richard

What profit do you get from the big issue?

Leighton

I make 80p, from every copy and that’s at £1.50.

Richard

And what do er, the big issue do with the profit.?

Leighton

The Big Issue, what the company?

Richard

YeahLeightonThere profit… well I don’t know what they do with the profit.

Leighton

When, when there’s a vender on the body shop, which is the next pitch down from me, that effects my custom.

Richard

Arrrr

Leighton

Because a lot of people are walking up that way.

Leighton

The money that I used, The Big issues that I sold earliar, They money that I made from them, I had to buy more big issues, spent all of that on big issues, so like I’ve got a load of big issues, then I can start making a bit of profit then, you know what I mean man?

Richard

Yeah, I know what your saying man.

Leighton

So I’ve saved a little bit of money, so I can buy something to eat and er I will be back on my pitch and rearing to go.

Richard

So how can you afford a subway then? Because obviously, you know, you, people, you know, subway is like a big corporate thing. You know what I mean?

Leighton

Yeah, Well I only got a subway because I got the vouchers

Richard

Yeah

Leighton

I see the guy in town every day, handing out the vouchers near where I sell the big issue, so luckily, you know, luckily I seen one of the vouchers on the floor the other day, one of the vouchers, so I picked it up.

Richard

If you had some power in the world, what would you do or er, homeless people?

Leighton

Well, I’d, I’d get all of them, like derelict buildings I walk and see that they’ve just been there, for you know, a couple years, just stood there, nothing done to them. You know, I’d change, turn them into night shelters.

Richard

It was my time to go, so I bid Leighton farewell and wished him good luck, on journey which seemed so uncertain.

Character study 'The Big Issue Sellers'

Our chosen subject is about the people who sell The Big Issue on the streets of Nottingham. When you write ‘The Big Issue Sellers’ in to Google, all you come up with it the bad stuff they have done. Like on this website there was some drug dealing going on back on October 18th 2003 in Liverpool. 52 people were arrested and 30 of them were Big Issue Sellers.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/drugs/Story/0,,1065720,00.html

They have an official website with information about them. It tells you they get 80p from each magazine they sell for £1.40. Also gives links out to people who need help with getting back on their feet.

Link: http://www.bigissue.com/selling.html

Also a few sites have people complaining about the number of big issue sellers there are out on the street or complain about how they react with the public. Like this one posted by James Lark at February 24, 2005.

It's a growing problem on the streets of Cambridge. I don't mind people thrusting the Big Issue in my face every 200 yards, and I'll quite happily buy it from people who are using inventive ways of selling their product - the people who charm you into buying one, or who include a juggling dog as part of their act, or who persuade you to part with your money under the pretence of selling the Radio Times. Quite happy with all of those. (Well, I'd actually be mightily pissed off with anyone who did the last of them to me, but I would also feel a kind of grudging respect for them.)
But what's bothering me is the people who stand making sarcastic comments to passers by, along the lines of "don't all push at once" but repeated with dripping irony and loaded with hatred of humankind for its failure to line up and obediently buy a load of Big Issues. I don't imagine it's easy standing in the cold selling a flimsy magazine, but to chastise people for failing to line up and buy it is frankly quite offensive. God knows, in Cambridge the chances are that half of them have already bought one just around the corner anyway.
You couldn't sell anything else like that - "please, Madam, before you walk away from that dress, consider that it at least looks better than the hideous clothes you're wearing" ... "oh, not going to buy that book after all, Sir? Is the writing too small or something?" ... "I'd recommend this washing product, because you smell."
And anyway, there are so many other options. There is a very charming man outside Great St Mary's who threatens to puncture my tyres whenever I lock up my bike without buying a Big Issue from him - that's the kind of creative approach to salesmanship I'd like to see more of. And I've never dared to say no to him.

Link: http://uncertaintydivision.org/diary/general/archives/000281.html

But now that we finished our filming and I have met the Big Issue Seller named Layton, not all of them are like this. Layton just wanted to get a job and get on with life. He doesn’t have any homeless friends, because he wanted to stay out of trouble from the ones that are in a bad crowd.