Recycling

My idea for encouraging recycling is a simple short to the point clip. I have filmed different shots of different areas to show how littering is such a common thing, their are shots of litter in a river, park, college, local shopping towns, also in large walking areas. At the end i have found some interesting powerful statistics on recycling and the last clip basically says "RECYCLE".

 How i responded to the Brief: 
The brief i received was a tender brief. This is where you can change certains parts of the brief to be able to improve the final piece. The Recycling brief gave me an understanding of how recycling is so important and why we need to do it, so the good thing was i didn't have any queries about the brief. It was very self-explanatory. The brief gave me a keen interest to promote recycling. In the brief it says how it is aimed at young adults and how the short film is used to increase an emotional attachment to the planet and recycling. My initial and also final idea was to film litter and it being put in bins, also young adults acknowledging litter and the need to recycle. I chose to film at college as why would young adults want to learn in a cluttered environment but also attend a college that does not to its part for the environment. Hopefully seeing it on a screen will make them realise why you would drop it on the floor and litter when it’s so easy to recycle it and keep our planet healthier. The fact that is aimed at 16-20 year olds i decided to make my film short and snappy, as if i made it detailed and a lot of dialogue they would most likely be bored with in the firsts few shots shown. So by making it short and straight to the point it educates them on what littering is doing and how unattractive it looks and how recycling can really help our planet. I also took in to consideration that people may not know where when and what they can recycle so as i said at the end I will have a shot of a recycling bin and a small text detailing how where and what you can recycle. With my other group member James we both initially had different ideas and ended up putting our ideas together to create are final piece. Our idea didn’t change, however when we were filming we added different snippets of footage to add more of an overall effect on the audience (that being at the end of the clip they realise how easy it is to recycle and hopefully do it).Me and James planned the worked together, we did split it between us, James did the risk assessment and short script and i planned where we were going to film, i also thought about the different shots to use to make it more interesting. Nothing really changed between planning and production as we had a keen idea to keep it short and sweet and didn’t want to make anything too long, complicated and most of all boring. We decided to fade in and face out each scene, so you could clearly see the different environments at college and how litter (things that could be recycled) seemed to be every were. Over all I was not to pleased with the final outcome as there was a lack of different camera shots, I think the clip was so short and even though at the end their was information about recycling and where to do it, I think there should of maybe been an introduction on what the clip was about. Also some of the footage looks the same and when I watch it seems a bit pointless filming a bottle from two different angles. If I could change the my work now and re-do the work I would probably to make it more interesting, I could compose a questionnaire to find out how people would like to know about recycling, also think about and use a lot more different camera angles as the clip is mostly filmed from the same angle. I think by filming it from different angles it would make the clip more fun to watch and would not be boring. I have learnt from responding to a brief to make sure before you undertake any pre-production you understand what you need to do and if you don’t ask your client so you understanding it better so you don’t make silly mistakes.

Script of our short film:

Medium close up of bin with rubbish in, High angle shot with no camera movement and fades out.
Fade in. Cup in the road  with cigarettes around it, next to a curb, close up shot with a low angle. Car drives past so there is a shadow then the clip fades out.
Fade in. close up, high angle of a bottle in the road. Fades out.
Fade in. Same clip as before with a different angle of the bottle, close up. Fades out.
Fade in. Extreme close up shot of fence, looking onto a bag of crisps on the grass, eye level shot looking down. Fades out.
Fade in. Low angle, close up shot of bottle on floor inside building. Fades out.
Fade in. Recycling bin with a shot of a card board box, eye level close up shot which fades out.
Fade in. Shot of whole recycling bin, eye level medium shot. Fades out.
Fade in. shot of me walking inside the building seeing a bottle on the floor, walking back and picking up the bottle on the left of the clip and putting it in the bin. This is an eye level shot which starts off from a long distance shot and ends up with a close up of the bin. Fade out.
Fade in. Eye level shot of a poster saying "Your planet needs you. Recycle" with a picture of a soldier pointing on it. Fades out.

Camera Shots:
We dont actually have a wide variety of camera shots they mostly consist of, close ups, extreme close ups and medium close ups. For future filming i will have to take in to consideration using different shots to make my documents or short films more interesting and if i use a variety of shows it will show more ability and will make it more interesting to watch instead of watching the whole clip from the same angle.

Risk assesment

ACTIVITY	HAZARD	RISK H/M/L	PRECAUTIONS	IN PLACE	REVIEW DATE	REVIEWER
Elle had to climb on top of the wall near the recycling bins to get the right camera angle for the video clip. This was for the shot of me putting the rubbish into the recycling bin. One of our Video clips of rubbish was recorded in the middle of the road on the hill opposite the college. James had to put rubbish in the big cycling bins for one of the video clips.	Elle could have fallen off of where she was standing and broken a bone or injured herself. Cars often drive up and down the hill and if they don’t see us we could get hit and injured. If the lid wasn’t secure it could have fallen and caught my hands whilst I was putting the rubbish in which could have cut my hands.	M M/H L	Make sure Elle was standing safely on the wall and secure so she couldn’t slip and hurt herself. Make sure she wasn’t sitting to close to the edge or she could have easily slipped off. Make sure the cars can see us in the road and to make sure the road is clear of cars before we go out into the road and start recording. Make sure the lid of the recycling bin was held up securely and there was no way of it closing shut when James was putting the rubbish in the bin.