All About Jimmy - Evaluation



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The song that I ultimately selected for this intro is Destroyer of all Things by Blue Stahli, and the footage I used was exclusively from Jimmy Vee's various roles in Doctor Who. I found finding footage a struggle, as there are very few high quality uploads of his scenes in Doctor Who, as a result, I had to resort to using low quality clips (360p / 480p), which resulted in some jarring edits in which the quality would dramatically drop or the resolution would change. To try and counteract this, I put focus on his scenes as the Skovox Blitzer, as it aired only a year ago, so the footage is higher quality than most of what I could find.


Jimmy Vee was recently cast as the new actor for R2-D2 in Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi after the passing of Kenny Baker. I am unsure as to under who's request, but they are not able to discuss it during the interview, however I did want to address it, as it is very big news, and I thing should be touched upon. As a result of this. I included a scene from Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, in which BB8 pulls a sheet off the dormant R2-D2, which I then censored, having some fun with the silence around the subject.

I think the video turned our well. the music works well with the imagery, and works as an almost quick-fire portfolio. Its likely some won't know who he is, as he hasn't had a large role without wearing heavy make-up / prosthetics - so this should help people get up to speed in a quick and entertaining way before he's interviewed.

All About Jimmy - Planning

The next intro I will be working on is for an interview with Jimmy Vee, called 'All About Jimmy' on the running order. Jimmy Vee has played roles almost exclusively in heavy prosthetics or costumes, most of his portfolio made up of playing various monsters in Doctor Who - the most recent being the Skovox Blitzer seen in series 8 of the show. I will likely put focus on this particular monster. As I am likely to find more footage of this than any of his other characters - plus I remember watching the episode which featured this monster when it aired, and I thought it was one of the coolest Doctor Who designs I'd seen. Even better than it was entirely practical effects.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p027b6vn/p027b5yt
(behind the scenes photo)


Other monsters in Doctor Who he has played include various young Slitheen, the Moxx of Balhoon and the Grask.

 

At the time of writing I can't find any footage of his roles outside of Doctor Who as they are very minor.

Despite most (if not all) of the footage that will be used being from Doctor Who, I won't use a song from that shows soundtrack, as there are already two other Doctor Who focussed shows which will be using songs from that soundtrack. I've instead gathered a few songs which I think would be more fitting, one of with will be used in the final video.


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Descent Into Cerberon - Sonic Mayhem [Quake II Soundtrack].


Something that I want to give to the intro is a sense of fun but also 'epicness' which I think this song includes somewhat. It also has a tune that I think would be fun to edit to, which is a fairly important factor into the result of the video - I think its possible to tell if the editor is enjoying what they're doing just by how creative they're being with the tools at their disposal.


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Try This - Pegboard Nerds.


This is a very upbeat song, as is a musical style that is really entertaining to edit to because is skips around so often. I actually used this song for my A2 Art proposal video, and would like to use it again. My only slight concern is that when Area51 were discussing songs to use for a dance routine which would be featured in the opening ceremony of 2016's SFW, I suggested this song and they loved it - ending up using it. Now, if they use it again this year, I don't want to use the same song, as I think each show should have a unique feel to it.


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The Destroyer of All things - Blue Stahli.


This song very much has an epic battle scene feel to it, like a space or sky battle between thousands of warships. That description may sound a bit to epic for this show, but I like that. There isn't really a sense of 'fun' to it, so that is something I would have to implement via the clips and editing style.

Video Running Order / Lineup

After looking at the running order for the Sci Fi Weekender, I have created a list of video intros which I will be doing, followed by the guests and interviewers (if applicable).

My current plan is to edit the videos in the same order as seen below.


Those highlighted are the ones I will be discussing on this blog.

FRIDAY

Doctor Who: The Companions

Frazer Hines, Wendy Padbury, Daphne Ashbrock, Yee Jee Tso, Peter Purves

Interviewer: David J Howe

Buffy Tales

Nicholas Brendon

Interviewer: Sam Stone

All About Jimmy

Jimmy Vee

Interviewer: Prof. Elemental

Outlander Panel

Duncan Lacroux, Steven Cree, Frazer Hines

Interviewer: Emma Potthast

Comics - Vive La Revolution

Interviewer: Dez Skinn

Darren Shan: A Master Class In Honor

Interviewer: Sam Stone

The Rise Of Cosplay

Tabitha Lyons, Nic Samiotis, David Roth, Alice Drun

Interviewer: Jim Credible

SATURDAY

Doctor Who The Troughton Years

Frazer Hines, Wendy Padbury

Interviewer: Robin Pierce

Torchwood And Beyond

Gareth David-Lloyd

Interviewer: Ed Fortune

The Many Voices Of...

Chris Barrie

Interviewer: Professor Elemental

Monster Tales

Jimmy Vee

Interviewer: Robin Pierce

Just A Minute - Panel Game

Wendy Padbury, Peter Purves, Daphe Ashbrook, Yee Jee Tso

Moderator: David J Howe

Project Plan

Something I would like to improve on this time around is my planning. While working on the videos I found myself running out of time towards the end, resulting in a dip in quality for the final videos I produced. Concurrently, my annotation and evaluation of the videos fell behind as a result of the looming deadline.


For this project I have created a basic spread sheet that is intended to help me manage my time more efficiently, in order to prevent me from falling behind on my written work.

It is likely that the plan will be adjusted under certain circumstances, but sticking roughly to this timetable will help me to keep on top of the written work I'll need to produce. Due to the deadline and requirement of the videos, it is important that the videos take priority.

'Create an experience from an experience.'

Last year, for my A2 Art exam, I was given the opportunity to create a series of videos to be used at a North Wales based sci-fi convention - the Sci-Fi Weekender. These videos were used as introductions for the various guests and shows that occurred during the weekend, and were projected onto a screen above the main stage before each corresponding event.

The videos went down well with the guests and the managers of the event, and so I was invited back this year to create another series of videos for the same purpose. I have decided to document the process of making these videos as part of my new project, 'Create an experience from an experience.'
The videos I produce for the event will be build up to the final piece, which will be a video produced using video recorded at the event, edited in the style of a promotional video / advertisement.

Below are some examples of the work I produced for last years event.






These I felt were the most successful of the 12 videos I produced, my personal favourite being the 'Evolution of Video Games', due to the past paced style of editing and the complexity of visuals on screen. This was also the first one I produced, and was the one I spend most time with. This year I would like to make sure that all of the intro's are of this quality.