Final Movies (figure) The final Movies for the moving image project. After filming two sets of footage, we decided on having two final movies using different locations cast and shots. The orginal movie (figure 1)
Sunday, 23 May 2010
Visual Essay
Visual Essay
My visual essay is coming together great and should be done soon. I hope im doing it right still bit unsure about parts. I havnt managed to find any relevant videos which is a shame as it would of been a good assest to the piece. However, I have managed to add useful quotes and comments surporting the essay and giving it meaning. I like how the essay works and has a jounery/story to why i intend on persuing this area. Still their is parts i would like to improve.
A screenshot of the opening slide.
My visual essay is coming together great and should be done soon. I hope im doing it right still bit unsure about parts. I havnt managed to find any relevant videos which is a shame as it would of been a good assest to the piece. However, I have managed to add useful quotes and comments surporting the essay and giving it meaning. I like how the essay works and has a jounery/story to why i intend on persuing this area. Still their is parts i would like to improve.
A screenshot of the opening slide.
Design Quotes
Design Quotes
Here is two quotes that have inspired me in the field of design, graphics and interactive media.
'Everything is designed few things are designed well' Brain Reed.
'Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent' Joe Sparano.
Here is two quotes that have inspired me in the field of design, graphics and interactive media.
'Everything is designed few things are designed well' Brain Reed.
'Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent' Joe Sparano.
Moving Image - (500)
Filming Project/ Moving Image (500)
This project was the only one out of the three where we would have to work as part of a group for the partical work. In the first seminar i was asigned a role in the group, this was camera operative with lots other roles, such as storyboard and the filming of the production. In the filming we filmed the piece three times for each location giving a variety of shots and angles with tracking and panning to give lots of footage for the editing of the final movie. I enjoyed having this position on the team, as i had done pervious movies and film productions giving me experience and knowledge of the equipment and shots. we where given a script to interpret into a movie. As a group we made a few modifications and twists to the plot. Making the script fit our storyline and end with our own additional scene. I thought of some interpretations and ideas for the script. I proposed a thriller similar to 'I am Legend' , with an award being giving for a vice to aid mankind and changing life as we know it, sadly not for the better ending in the destruction of the world and fall of the human race. With key flashbacks throughout the award ceromony showing the problem esculating, with a contrast between black and white and colour, showing the contrast between past and present.
In the production we had to do various equipment tests and checks. Also pre book the equipment before hand. We filmed the whole script once through in a number of locations. we filmed each set three times to get numerous shots and camera angles such as, point of view, close ups, long shots with tilts and tracking. This gave us a lot to work with in editing the final piece making our film have a varety of shots instead of being plain boring with a single shot for each scene. Once we had made the first cut we decided there was parts of the film we didnt like and weak points. so we chose to film a second variation of the first film giving two final movies at the end. In the second film we used different cast, locations and shots. I believe the second filming and final editing went a lot smoother and was a better piece overall due to the fact we learnt from our mistakes and developed on this to make a stronger piece that flowed well as a movie. I edited the second movie in my spare time to gain experince using the software and make it to how i felt it should look.
This project was the only one out of the three where we would have to work as part of a group for the partical work. In the first seminar i was asigned a role in the group, this was camera operative with lots other roles, such as storyboard and the filming of the production. In the filming we filmed the piece three times for each location giving a variety of shots and angles with tracking and panning to give lots of footage for the editing of the final movie. I enjoyed having this position on the team, as i had done pervious movies and film productions giving me experience and knowledge of the equipment and shots. we where given a script to interpret into a movie. As a group we made a few modifications and twists to the plot. Making the script fit our storyline and end with our own additional scene. I thought of some interpretations and ideas for the script. I proposed a thriller similar to 'I am Legend' , with an award being giving for a vice to aid mankind and changing life as we know it, sadly not for the better ending in the destruction of the world and fall of the human race. With key flashbacks throughout the award ceromony showing the problem esculating, with a contrast between black and white and colour, showing the contrast between past and present.
In the production we had to do various equipment tests and checks. Also pre book the equipment before hand. We filmed the whole script once through in a number of locations. we filmed each set three times to get numerous shots and camera angles such as, point of view, close ups, long shots with tilts and tracking. This gave us a lot to work with in editing the final piece making our film have a varety of shots instead of being plain boring with a single shot for each scene. Once we had made the first cut we decided there was parts of the film we didnt like and weak points. so we chose to film a second variation of the first film giving two final movies at the end. In the second film we used different cast, locations and shots. I believe the second filming and final editing went a lot smoother and was a better piece overall due to the fact we learnt from our mistakes and developed on this to make a stronger piece that flowed well as a movie. I edited the second movie in my spare time to gain experince using the software and make it to how i felt it should look.
Interactive Media - (500 words)
Interactive Narrative (500 words)
Adobe flash was the software we would be using in this project. after reading the brief i had some unique ideas on how to approach it. I decided to begin the project by extending my knowledge of the software using tutorials and making notes at the seminars. This helped to refresh my memory and learn new methods. I wanted to create not just a quiz but something that would grab the attention of the audience and keep the particapant interested throughout playing the game. I mindmaped my intail ideas and plans, this helped inspire more ideas which i developed on. This lead onto me gathering some pirmary and secondary sources for the quiz whilst making a structure on flash. The intention was to ask 20 questions. I planned to have two video clips, one sound clip, motion and tweening to keep the viewer interested. I chose the topic of general knowledge for my quiz giving me a wide variety to work with when making the questions. After this i made some template slides for the background of each slides. I used photoshop to create these from scratch, inspired by popart and 80's style artists. This included bold shapes and primary colours structured so that thekey focus is the question in the foreground, almost leaping out, appealing to the particpant satraight away. Once i had created the quiz and got it working, i got a few canndidates to test it as a demo/trail to see if there was any glitches or parts that didnt work. From this i got some constructive critism which inspired ways to improve and develop the quiz. Other slight problems which where brought to attention was overlapping on a slide where part of the text was unreadable and a grammar mistake.
The part of the project i found most challenging and had to try a few attempts with numerous methods was getting video to function in the correct manner. Interactive media is the area i want to study next year as i found it a challenge as well as enjoyable, i would like to get a future carer in this area maybe something along the lines of web design.
Adobe flash was the software we would be using in this project. after reading the brief i had some unique ideas on how to approach it. I decided to begin the project by extending my knowledge of the software using tutorials and making notes at the seminars. This helped to refresh my memory and learn new methods. I wanted to create not just a quiz but something that would grab the attention of the audience and keep the particapant interested throughout playing the game. I mindmaped my intail ideas and plans, this helped inspire more ideas which i developed on. This lead onto me gathering some pirmary and secondary sources for the quiz whilst making a structure on flash. The intention was to ask 20 questions. I planned to have two video clips, one sound clip, motion and tweening to keep the viewer interested. I chose the topic of general knowledge for my quiz giving me a wide variety to work with when making the questions. After this i made some template slides for the background of each slides. I used photoshop to create these from scratch, inspired by popart and 80's style artists. This included bold shapes and primary colours structured so that thekey focus is the question in the foreground, almost leaping out, appealing to the particpant satraight away. Once i had created the quiz and got it working, i got a few canndidates to test it as a demo/trail to see if there was any glitches or parts that didnt work. From this i got some constructive critism which inspired ways to improve and develop the quiz. Other slight problems which where brought to attention was overlapping on a slide where part of the text was unreadable and a grammar mistake.
The part of the project i found most challenging and had to try a few attempts with numerous methods was getting video to function in the correct manner. Interactive media is the area i want to study next year as i found it a challenge as well as enjoyable, i would like to get a future carer in this area maybe something along the lines of web design.