Showreel/Progress

I've decided to start collecting footage for a showreel from past projects that I have done. I have found footage that shows both my skill with the camera and my directing skills.
Another thing I have noticed is how much my camera skills and editing skills have improved since last year. My most recent projects contain no camera jerks and the composition of my shots has improved a lot. Editing wise colour correcting has made a big improvement to the quality of my projects. In addition to this I have also improved from 3 years ago in the sense of using After Effects which i have used when necessary this last year and a half.
I now am also more capable of setting up and checking equipment something that has let me down when I first started studying video production. I noticed this as in a video a made 3 years ago the footage was glitchy due to the camera having dirty tape heads when filming and capturing.
Overall I didn't realize how much all aspects of my video production have improved the last 3 years due to experience and what I have learned from college/university.

Editing foundations to employment

I have now done everything that i can with the audio. I found that the best solution was for me to lower the volume of the clip and put a constant grain sound on the clip which masks the annoying background noise.
Another thing that i have found very useful which I had not used before is the RGB Curves tool in Premiere Pro for colour correcting. A tool i will be using again in future with the Levels tool.
Below are before and after pictures of the colour correcting I have done.

Before

After

As you can see in the second picture the shadows on the subjects face and background have been reduced and the light in whole looks a lot more natural.

Editing (foundations to employment)

My Edit for Staffordshire County Coucil's Foundations to Employment is nearly complete
one thing I am tampering is editing the sound in Soundbooth as there is an annoying dog barking sound in the background. unfortunately isolating the sound and deleting it leaves me with choppy unsynced footage.

Filming for Staffordshire County Council

Today I have filmed at a children's nursery in Oldbury, an Equestrian center in Tamworth and a car mechanics in Hednesford, this was for the project I am doing for Staffordshire County Council's Foundations to Employment program.
Below are some pictures of both me and Ashley taken throughout the day including pictures of us setting up equipment and filming.

Pre-Production (Foundations to Employment)

Finished pre production including proposal and shooting schedule. In addition to this i have researched corporate videos online which I want this project to look like, to give me more of an insight in to how I want to go about production and different shots that I may want to use.

Meeting with Client

Met with Alan from Staffordshire County Council to talk about an upcoming project I am doing for him.
set the outlines of the video including the style and length that he wants the video to be as well as setting filming dates of the 5th and 6th of March with a rough editing being done for the 12th of March.

Location Recce The Old Court House

Today Olly and I did a location recce for an upcoming drama we are filming on the 8th of November as a group. While at the old court house we decided conduct a risk assessment for the location. We decided to take pictures of the location to show to the rest of the group and so that we could document some of the hazards such as a high balcony, sharp railings on the set, narrow spaces to work in and steps.

picture of one of 2 plugs located on one side of the court room

sharp railings which are part of the set in the court room

shot of Olly on balcony

Olly on balcony 2

Narrow walkway which we will have to use equipment in

small space could be used for filming

steps up to the balcony a possible hazard

Side stalls as seen from balcony

shot of the court from balcony

As the pictures of the court house show lighting is going to be an issue in this location. With big windows one side of the room and florescent lighting attached to the high ceiling. This means we will have to experiment with lighting in the location before filming.