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This is fantastic! I love it. The sound is a collection of sound effects but they work with the animation. The jerky swipes across the screen create the sense of hand held, tense scenes.At 0:10 I love how it zooms out and shows the full image, and at 0:13 the overlay of a semi transparent layer that jerks, reminds me of something from a horror movie. The constant beat in the background adds to this tension as well. I think its a really well put together piece. IT builds up to a peak at 1:11, and then calms down, similar to the structure of a horror/thriller film. The jerky over laying of images effect is something similar to what I want to use in my motion.

Kobb Media

This was really tense! I loved the way the music interacted with the motion, the use of special effects with video is really interesting! I want to make work like this!! I would love my CCTV motion graphic to look like this - I know it won't!

CCTV Footage

CCTV compared to normal film: - Blurry - Jittery - Colours are dull - Time/date etc. on bottom. This video is solely for the purpose of analysing the visual of CCTV.

CCTV 'Style'

This is a much more smoother video, however the colours still seem dull, and it is blurry. The time and date are much smaller in the top left corner. It's pretty hard to find footage that isn't going to be too distressing although I am not saying this ordeal wouldn't have terrified the worker. This video is solely for the purpose of analysing the visual of CCTV.

Insert Paranoid Message Here

 This isn't an official poster, but has been designed in response to the Met Police poster on my 23rd October blog post. There was a 'remix challenge' on boingboing.net where people were posting their adaptations of the original like the above one, which I absolutely love! It's true, the original, creates a sense of panic.

This is quite a humourous approach to the poster, a total different way of looking at it compared to the one above which is more serious but satirical.

I found a blog (boingboing) with a series of links showing these different 'remixes' I then stumbled upon a Flickr group of 147 different variations!

From the Flickr group:

Using one of the original images from the campaign - but the text is the individuals's own, quite rightly so.

In terms of concept this is fantastic!!

Not aimed at terrorism/cctv but nonetheless humourous and clever.

My version can be seen here. Click the link to my Design Practice.

More Trouble Than Its Worth?

From a news story today (BBC) this could have potentially been really dangerous:

Dispatches

This is a trailer for Dispatches: Afghanistan's Dirty War, the type used is appropriate as it has that army feel to it, they way it enters and exits the screen is appropriate for the mood being created, also the colour and font is well suited for the piece. The sound as it appears on the screen makes it seem authentic too. The use of still and moving images throughout is effective.

Panorama Trailers

A great example of a series that documents social issues is Panorama. The trailers aren't quite in the style I would like to work in, so I think it will be a one-off documentary.

The above trailer is for the Panorama: Scientology and Me, I watched this as part of my A-Level in Sociology course and it was astounding and slightly sinister. Worth a watch. This trailer is typical of a BBC documentary, but I want to create something darker... After the Breakfast with frost introduction this is a darker, haunting style, the music makes it haunting but the imagery alone is enough to send shivers down anyones spine.

CCTV Documentaries

I know for a fact there have been UK documentaries on CCTV and surveillance, but there appears to be no visual traces of this. There was a documentary on CCTV on Tonight: With Trevor McDonald on ITV, but the only site I could find for it is this. I haven't even been able to find Youtube footage.

There was also a Dispatches episode on CCTV, but again, nothing visual, just the knowledge of its existence from somebody's CV:

Other proof the documentary does exist is this article from: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_19990321/ai_n13936603/

This highlights the issue of a man who felt he was wrongly accused of a robbery as a result of the CCTV footage showing a man who 'resembled' this same man.

 In a documentary about CCTV for the Channel 4 series Dispatches, to be screened on Thursday, an expert witness compares the CCTV footage of Alan Church recorded during the building society raid with mugshots taken at a similar angle. "I don't believe they are the same person," said Alf Linney, of University College London. Ironically, Church's best chance of clearing his name relies on the CCTV image of the raid being treated as the only enduring record of the crime. The prosecution relied on four eyewitnesses, though the video itself shows clear similarities between Church and the image captured by the surveillance cameras. However Bruce's research shows that such images are open to misinterpretation. "There's a need to be cautious about the use of this evidence in court," she said. "I just feel there should be a warning that if an image of the person looks like someone, it isn't necessarily that person."

Another documentary by Panorama on CCTV by the BBC has also been made, but again it is not accessible.

How Is Big Brother Watching You?

Another shocking video releasing statements and facts about CCTV and surveillance I had never thought about. (USA video) Not quite as boring visually as the CCTV Britain post.

CCTV Britain

A documentary on CCTV by A2 students. In terms of content, it's really informative, but I wouldn't say it's well designed.

Every Step You Take: Documentary

This is the poster for the documentary 'Every Step You Take' by Nino Leitner, an Austrian documentary maker. It looks more like a horror film to me, with the eerie yellow against the bluey grey. The colours do actually work well, although I am not sure about the alignment of the text, it looks a bit 'here, there and every where!'

I am currently looking at CCTV documentaries to 'promote'. As it stands, my brief is quite lost and has no direction.

Giving My Research Context

Part of my crit feedback: Give the research some context, instead of just the visuals surrounding the topic.

CCTV = Closed Circuit Television

A few key passages from Wikipedia:

From the Metropolitan Police site:

UK underground centre that is spy capital of the world

From the Guardian, Monday 2 March 2009

This next section was the most significant to me:

This place was completely unknown to me until I read this article! I know that the UK are meant to be quite 'high maintenance' on the topic of CCTV but I did not realise that this 'panopitcon' underground facility existed.

Every Breath You Take...

Smile. You're on CCTV.

Looking at different types of CCTV signs:

Who Watches the Watchers?

Again, quite a horrific design, but I love this idea of men in suits with the CCTV for a head, this is actually quite a creative idea! If designed a little better it could be a really powerful piece of imagery! I also think it brings up a valid point, who does watch the watchers?


18/10/2011 
What's funnier is this has been designed Photography students at a London university! They also created this version too:

Cool concept, but needs more thought on the design.

BEPJ

Bro Emlyn - for Peace and Justice.

In terms of visuals, it's cheap and nasty, but I love what it stands for!

This is BEPJ's visual response to the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 'a group who campaign on peace and justice issues in the Newcastle Emlyn area of West Wales, are calling for action against drone testing at ParcAberporth. Amongst BEPJ's concerns are:

• 50,000 people live under the new 650 sq mile UAV testing zone. Two drones have crashed in the first months of flying out of Parc Aberporth so there are great concerns about safety.
• Operators will have to abide by a "code of practice" on privacy, but the MOD will be the main user and they are unlikely to be accountable in the same way.
• Military drones attacks are calculated to kill 50 civilians for every combatant killed
• The expected hundreds of jobs have not materialised. Only 18 people are currently employed at Parc Aberporth.'
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What Are You Looking At?

This image is from a Facebook page against putting CCTV up in Aylesbury. I am not sure if he created the image or not, but I like how the anti-CCTV attitude has been put cross in the style of a CCTV sign, often seen on fences and perimeters.

'I have set this up, to campaign against the raising CCTV cameras being installed across aylesbury vale. Bucks County Council have started to place more CCTV cameras at various junctions in aylesbury, under the disguise of, traffic management system. These cameras overlook residential areas and this is an invasion of our privacy. Some or these cameras have ANPR capability. The police are going to have access to all of this data and can use and abuse it however they want. It's ment for traffic management we are told, so TVP should not be allowed access to any of it.'


Taken from Danny Dayking's Facebook page.

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