Songs for Opening Sequence

Seeing as my half of the group are taking on the opening sequence I decided to look into some music for our sequence.
Here are some I really like.

 

Opening Sequences

Here are some other opening sequences I really like,

                                         

Contacts

Here are the contact details of some of our guests

Rothar

Email: info@rothar.ie | 

Telephone: Mobile: 086 8956157 | Landline: 01 8602615

The Shop is located at Phibsboro road, number 171. See Location Map below

The Training Centre is located on Upper Dominick street, Unit 3, Dublin 7.

 

Meabh De Búrca

meabh1988@gmail.com

Flea Market

The CO-OP,
12 Newmarket,
Dublin 8.

Aisling / Luca / Sharon
dublinflea(at)gmail(dot)com

Closing Sequences

I personally felt that the closing sequence was more difficult then the opening as, I couldn't really think of many really enjoyable ones. Alot of them are just rolling credits. So I took the time and had a look into some. Here are some......

Stop Motion

I tried my hand at some stop motion to see what it would be like to shoot like this.

Here's my attempt

I don't think I did too bad for a first attempt, but obviously it could have been alot better. I do however really like how the music goes with the piece.

Opening Sequence

For our opening sequence we  had several ideas on how we were going to shoot it. We were thinking about doing stop motion. As none of us have had experience with stop motion I done some research into how to do it.


I found a nice website with a good tutorial on how to, here:
http://content.photojojo.com/tutorials/stop-motion-digital-camera/

These are some stop motion videos I really enjoyed.

Media Watch

This is a beautifully shot video on the stylish older women of New York. I love the colours in this.

Some photos from recording our ENG

Our Advert

 

This is our final advert that we made. We used the song 'At Last' by Etta James, as we thought it fit perfectly with the story we were trying to tell in our advert.

Media Watch

I love this video, it was all done in one shot and only cost them about £100 to make.

Advert Research

We've actually steered clear of the ideas we initially at the start of the year and went for something completely  different. We're doing our advert on Plenty kitchen towels. In our advert we were hoping to come across similar to the old diet coke ads, with the office women ogling the attractive builder.

I also watched some other adverts see what ones I liked and didn't like, here are some that stuck out to me.

Slow Movement

   

In our show we're in some respects trying to channel the ethos of the slow movement. This is when people slow down their fast paced living style and reclaim some of their time back. It's about giving meaning to the areas of our lives that are more important or finding the meanings.  It’s all about balance, time for silence, time for planning, time for observing, time for reflection, time for caring, time for friendship, time for loving.

http://www.slowmovement.com/

There's even an institute for slow living, called "The World Institute of Slowness" This was founded by Geir Berthelsen.

TWIOS work by these 3 values, 

1. Transparency
2. Simplicity
3. Consciousness

If you want to read more about The World Institute of Slowness here's a link to their website;

                            http://www.theworldinstituteofslowness.com/

Life Hacks

Life Hacks are tips and tricks that can help to improve your life. They're also mostly easy to do.  Anything that solves an everyday problem in a clever or non-obvious way might be called a life hack.


Here are some examples of life hacks that I thought were pretty good.


Using extra or old shower curtain hooks in your wardrobe to hold bags,

Using a cheap or old shower cap to keep shoes in when travelling to avoid getting clothes dirty

Using your pillow cases as storage for the same quilt cover, meaning you'll always have matching bed clothes

Using a wine cork to as earring holder

Here are some links to websites that can help to give you some handy tips and tricks.


http://www.realsimple.com/new-uses-for-old-things
http://www.reddit.com/r/lifehacks
http://www.lifehack.org/

There are many more websites out there, just type Life hacks into google and you're sorted.

Media Watch

I love how this video is shot, I also think that the concept is wonderful. It's just an all round nice video. Really enjoyed watching.

Flea Market

    

We decided to include some shots in our ENG of the flea market as we felt that it intertwined well with the other half of our  ENG with Cat and Ellen.

The idea of a flea market also goes well with our show concept of slow living and and fixing up old things to make them new.

Flea markets are places where you can go to sell or buy old good you have like clothes and records etc, it's also a place where people can sell on stuff they've made from scratch.

In Dublin there are several Flea Markets, the one we've chosen to shoot in is the Dublin Flea Market.

"The Dublin Flea Market opened its doors for the first time in November 2008 and since then it has grown into one of Dublin's most loved markets. It takes place on the last Sunday of every month in The Co-op on Newmarket square, Dublin 8 and being indoors means it is safe from the unpredictable Irish weather. Taking place just once a month there's always a great buzz at the Flea. As well as a great day out for bargain hunters, the market gives people to take a stall, hone in on their haggling skills and play shop for th day. The Flea community is ever growing." For more information on Dublin Flea Market, here's a link to their website and their blog,                                                http://dublinflea.ie/index.html                                                http://dublinflea.blogspot.com/

Róthar

Rothar is the Irish word for bike. It's also the name of the shop where we'll be doing part of our ENG  piece. 


We feel that Rothar not only fit in with our concept but also covers the topic of fixed gear bikes within our ENG.  They take old bikes into their shops, any bikes at all, broken or not and attempt to fix them up and sell them on or use the parts for other bikes. They also have workshops in which they teach people how to fix their own bikes up. They have and eco friendly mentality that is prevalent in our 'throwawayism' society.


There's more information about the bike shops and it's other services on their website
                                 http://www.rothar.ie/index.html

Media Watch

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, Mini Documentary, from their 5 day stint in the Old Vic Tunnels in March 2011.


I like the band itself and I also enjoy the way that this documentary was shot. 

Research on kids tv show...

As it was my idea to do a kids tv show I did a little research into kids tv shows, I also sat down and thought about elements we could include in the show. Some ideas I came up with were,  sing a longs and read a longs and make and do. I also came up with  the idea to call the show “when I grow up....” as then we could have focused each show on one profession.

For my research I watched some children's tv shows aimed at younger kids such as old episodes of Barney and Friends, Blues Clues Sesame Street etc.
All of these tv shows have non human characters to convey some of their messages, which I can assume that kids find comforting as most would have teddies etc since they were quite young. In Blues Clues and sesame street there are enthusiastic upbeat human hosts. All 3 of the shows have really bright colours. Each of the three shows are not only fun for kids to watch but they're educational too.

 In thinking about this and the options we have for talent and the studio we have, I think we could pull it off quite well.

Interview Questions

As throughout our show we will have 4 different guests we will be asking different questions. Here are some questions I've thought of for the interviews
As we've learned it's better to asked open ended questions so we can gain more information from an interview. Using What Where How Why questions will help gather this information.

Interview at Rothar (bike shop)
1. What are the advantages of using a fixed gear bike?
2.Why do you think fixed gear bikes have become popular?
3.What kind of events take place around the fixed bike culture?
4. How can one get involved in said events?

Ellen Ronayne Interview (Clothes renewal)
1. Why did you first start this?
2. How do you propose to further this hobbie?
3. Who do you look to for inspiration? Why?
4. Why have you not attended flea  Markets with your stuff yet?

Catriona O'Rourke ( Furniture Renewal)

1. How do you decide on what pictures to put on the furniture?

2. Why have you not tried to sell your products at the likes of Dublin Flea Market?

3. What or Who inspires you to make these pieces?

4. If someone wanted to try this out what would they need? 

Meabh De Burca

1. What inspired you to make these pieces?

2. Tell us about some of your other work...

3. Tell us about the places your work has taken you.....

4. How can people find out more information about your work?

Final Final Idea

The final idea we had chosen was a show on fixed gear bikes, after discussing this with Leticia, we came to the conclusion that although our idea was good it was lacking in content. We were given advice and ideas, and have decided to base our show on frugal living, taking it back to the easy life, incorporating many things into our show. Our show will include the following components;

 Life Hacks- How to improve your life with the simple things, e.g. turning a hoody into a laptop bag.  http://www.lifehack.org/ helped us with this topic, it gave us some ideas of things that we would be able to do live in studio with our presenter.


Fixed Gear Bikes- As this had been part of our original idea we decided to keep it in, even though we had shortened what we could do with it. Gareth has a great interest into this and has taken it to look up information on it.


The next part I can't think of a title to use, but essentially we're using the means we have to fill our show. We have friends involved in the art scene who take old things and renew them into better things. 2 of the 3 don't have information up online about the things that they do. 
However our studio guest Meabh De Burca will be talking to us about her projects in which she takes old rubbish and transforms it into beautiful things, such as turning old plastic bottles into lampshades.
http://meabhdeburca.posterous.com/
This is her website some examples of her work are on here.
"I aim to show the endless possibilites of these everyday overlooked material, to reclaim them from becoming waste and to give them a new significance."
This qoute in some ways helps to describe our show, it's also the qoute Meabh uses to describe her work.

Final Ideas

The final three Ideas that we've narrowed down to are

1. Fixie Bike show

2.Gardening show

3.Kids show

In the end we decided to go for choice number 1, a show on fixie bikes. Before we came to this decision I had done some research and gathered some ideas for a kids tv show.