Photos from the week

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A fine drama

An absolutely awesome drama from a group who mainly got on with it themselves and a little post-production magic from Alun.  Have a look at these performances!

Kemri SLAS 2014 Future self Film

After much trial and error Sonate Pictures came up with this video. It
is directed by Nakiya Zoheir, the sound engineer and narrator being
Solomon Kombe and with Teddy Karisa staring. Hope you enjoy.

Special thanks to Chris High for the dedicated work and the many
hours he spent with us. Our appreciation is also extended to Alun
Davies, Nancy Mwangome, Betty Yeri Kanze and Bethwell Onyando
 for making the entire project a sucess.

Great appreciation to the Amazing Lens Goup

Congratulation to the Amazing lens for their effort in coming up with a film on the promotion of the school leavers attachment scheme.

I pass my regards to our supervisor Alun for his towards this program in conjunction with his colleague Chris High. He spent most of his time with us even after his wife had a problem.We do appreciate that.
Goodbye.

May God shower all those who made this project a successful one  with his unlimited blessings.

 By Bernard

My new favourite PV exercise

A lot of what I use in workshops goes back to a group I got going at the Open University called the PV-OU Research Circle.  Often we'd find ourselvs trying things out without quite knowing where we were going.  Getting stuck and improvising was extremely productive and many fine ideas like 'evil interviews' were born.

The video logo exercise dates from a little later, but had the same quality.  At a departmental training for making new media I found myself with a very short patch to fill and came up with the idea of asking the same simple question to a set of people talking directly to camera with pretty much the same shot.  The result sat on the front page of the departmental web page for a good two years and I still enjoy showing it as an example of what's possible in a very short time.

It works by following a sequence of short questions, and editing so the answers are almost superimposed.
This time around we combined it with a title sequence from the disappearing game, which has the same punchy feel to make something that quickly gets across a feel for the who the group are and some of the energy and feelings at work.

Being a sound girl

Being a sound girl was the most fascinating role that I played during the one week course. I had never before imagined how exciting it would be. Listening to nature through the connections I made was one of the things I enjoyed besides the fact that I was one of the important people behind the scenes. This, however, does not eliminate the fact that it was not all rosy balancing the sound  from the environment and that of interest. The co-operation offered by my team mates played a key role in ensuring that the activity was  a towering success. Neither do I forget the guidelines offered by Chris in a bid to ensure that my output especially on the sound systems was high up on the Richter scale.

All the way through

An important part of learning video is that it's hard to carry out parts of the production cycle until you've seen the whole thing.  Thinking about filming or scripting like an editor makes for better films and is hard to do until you've seen an edit.

So if there's time it's good to take groups through a whole production cycle before they get onto films they really care about.  The important thing is not the quality, but rather the opportunity to work on everything.  In this case we also used it to introduce post-production.  Here're the results: