Hands Pixilation

Finished my solo pixilation project today. Here it is...



I am very pleased with the outcome. I used a tripod in order to improve on the camera shakiness that caused a problem with the first pixilation piece. I found the idea of paper and writing to be very effective in the group piece, so i have concentrated wholly on this. I think the music in this piece compliments the animation nicely.

One problem i encountered was the bad lighting, however i have done my best to improve through the editing of the photos.

Paper Pixilation

Here is my completed pixilation piece, done as a group, which i completed today by editing it and adding music. . .



I am very pleased with the overall outcome of the video. I think the music (Good Shoes - Nazanin) works very well and compliments the piece. I added a black and white, film grained effect on Photoshop that gives it a unique and somewhat old fashioned feel, however the animation itself gives it a modern twist.

To improve the piece, a tripod should have been used to hold the camera still as it is very shaky in parts. Also, there are parts where more pictures should have been taken as it seems all too quick and can get quite confusing as to what is happening. I will reflect on this when doing my solo pixilation project.

One Shot Take 2

After reflecting on our first One Shot film, we decided as a group it would be best to redo it due to a very long and boring narrative, and bad lighting. Although filming it in a lift gave it some originality, it did bring up these problems. So we got together as a group today and decided to do it again, with a completely different storyline.

Here is the outcome...



I am reasonbly more pleased with this, however i feel with more time and knowledge it could have been edited to a higher standard, but compared to our first piece i think this one is much better.

Interactive Narrative - Evaluation

Overall, i am very pleased with the way my interactive narrative turned out and on the whole i enjoyed making it, after finally working out how to use Flash. I now find it quite easy to use and for further work i would like to experiment by including sounds and animations.

Frightened Rabbit - Bright Pink Bookmark

Frightened Rabbit - Bright Pink Bookmark (from The Midnight Organ Fight) Animated by Mark Charlton at Bluestar Animation.

I think this video is really cleverly done and well animated.

Frightened Rabbit - I Feel Better

Directed and Animated by Sam Molleur Featuring Trevor Byrne Visual FX by Mike Humphrey.

A really cool video. I like the combination of the drawings crossed with the realistic animations.

Essay

Finally got round to starting my design process essay today. I have written about 500 words and finally it's starting to make some sense.

Interactive Narrative - Finished

Finished my interactive narrative project on friday afternoon.

Here it is..



http://alexm1.deviantart.com/art/Where-s-My-Wallet-144193344

I will post my personal evaluation on it at a later date.

Addictive

After the first lecture on interactive narrative on friday, it reminded me of this game..

http://www.ig.ns.ac.yu/fun.html

After spending quite a while playing this, i have found it to be a very effective idea and i will hopefully make my own project something similar to this.

One Shot - Design Process

Discovering. . .
This involved looking on youtube at existing videos of similar one shot films, which gave me inspiration and got me thinking about my own project.

Developing. . .
Making notes and brainstorming some of the best ideas. Meeting up as a group in order to put together some of the better storylines that were thought up.

Defining. . .
This involved piloting ideas with a video camera to get an idea of what worked well and what did not. It helped to get an idea of lighting and the way which the camera could be moved without removing it from the tripod.

Delivering. . .
Showing the film to others and getting a personal evaluation of how effective the film was.

Wasted?!

One Shot Project

The first project of the year required us to make a short film, in just one shot, without moving the tripod.

We got put into small groups, and started brainstorming ideas for the film. We thought up many ideas and eventually decided on the idea of putting the camera on a lift with different things happening on each floor as the lift goes up.

The problem was what the storyline could be from this though..

So we decided that the camera would be acting as a drunk student on the lift, and each floor would involve events that happened on a drunken night.

I will put the video on here when it decides to upload itself onto youtube. I don't know why the file is so big. Madness.

The Maccabees - Precious Time

I like this video too.

Post-it Stop Motion

Saw this video on 'Rude Tube' the other night and thought it was really cleverly done. I thought i should post it on here so i have more than 1 post.

Week 1

I have only just got round to writing my first post. This is the work that we did in the first week, looking at stop motion animation. I found it very interesting, however i realised it would be very hard work in order to create a successful piece of work.



I will upload something more interesting soon. maybe.