New Project-ONE TAKE MOVIE

Im really intrigued with this new project that we have been giving. the whole idea of shooting a two minute movie using one take really intrigues and make me ask a 101 question such as, "is this possible with out making mistakes?" lol. its going to be a enjoyable challenge that I cant wait to get my teeth stuck into. Im in the same group as the on efor the pixilation project, I think weve the creative and technical no how to create something that will be really good.

http://www.single-shot.co.uk this is a very good website for inspiration my favorite video on this is Surprise by Ben Dodd.

Pixilation Evaluation

This project a feel went really well. The planning process of the whole project went really well. It started with us coming up with the idea of the chair taking one of us on a journey the university campus. Then we came up with the idea of the chair coming after one of us to take us back to work, because we are sat in the student union having a drink instead of going to a lecture. So the chair represents the guilt of not going to the lecture, so that’s why I ran away from the chair because I want to get away from the guilt of not going my lecture.

When we shot the piece we had to take the piece and edit it because there were some shots that we were not happy with and some section were the order needed to be re-organised. There is a problem with shooting a video sequence with a stills camera because there is no sound, so a sound track needs to be considered when editing it.

I think the shooting of this sequence went really well, but there were some aspects that I would change, such as when we were outside where the chair catches me and takes me through the doors of the waeverly building there are a few to may shots where my feet touch the floor this was something we did not pick up on when we finished shooting on the. I noticed this when it came editing. In a sense I think this error on my part could play to our advantage because it looks like I could actually
Be trying to stop the chair from taking me back to work.

Before we could transfer the pictures over to an editing facility we had to do a thing in Photoshop called batch processing were we had to edit the size of each photograph to a standard 720-576, which is a standard DVi PAL format? This represents the frame size of the picture.

For the final Edit I wanted to go for a silent movie style to the picture because its done on a stills camera there was no sound only a soundtrack and because sequence was quite sketchy and fast paced this reminded me of old silent movies that I have seen such “Fatty Arbuckle” and “Charlie Chaplin” because the camera capture frame rate is a lot less than modern day cameras they a are quite sketchy. I also got the idea of using title appearing in between scenes the set the scene from old silent movies because this was used to compensate for the complete lack of sound in film of the era. Whilst looking at old films I seen that some had dark edges, so I used this effect on my edit of the sequence.

When shooting this piece we wanted to use different camera angles because we thought it would be good to experiment. I we using different camera angles add to the style we were wanted to go for. We wanted to use humour as a tool to attract the audience to the movie. There is section where I running away from the camera and the it cuts to running towards the camera. I feel that this give the movie sequence depth and a feel of travelling a distance to escape the chair. There are also panning shots that follow the movement of the chair though out the sequence, an example of this is when the chair has got me and it takes me around a corner, the camera follows my movement on the chair.

For the audio of the final sequence I came across the song by accident, because it started playing when I was playing back the video. I decided to go for the Song ‘Inside” by slipknot. This isa metal song and I choose to use this because of the Reebook ad that i look at during research and planing. I thought this really suited the pace of the whole video the song seems to make it go even faster. Especially when the chairs catches me the lyric kick and its give a sort a aggressiveness to the chair as if it is mad at me for running away from. I also choose this song because the Intro last 45 seconds the exact time of my video so I thought using this song really fits in well and the timing of the audio and the video is done well and matches the actions on screen.

All in all I think this video is done quite well. It took me quite some time to get used editing the sequences and feel it is a trial and improvement process that will take a while but I feel quite confident that I know what to do and have basic skills that will improve over time. If I could do it again I would like to have a bit more time to shot the sequence again and may be have more fluentness to the sequence but with the time we had I feel it as come out quite successful.

Hey this is my aniamtion that i had to. Ill talk more about it in the next blog. Ina bit of a hurry at the moment. If anyone watches it leave me a comment. I would like to see what people think.

THIS IS ADSOLUTELY AMAZING!

Im on about the new advert by Sony for their range of LCD tv's. It is done entirely using istop motion animtion. they actually did this in on a busy New York street with people walking around. Apparently for each shot they had a different rabbit for each pose, i cant even begin to think how much plasterscene they must have used to do this advert. The prodution crew apperently rehersed each section of this advert before going out on to the streets of New York so that the animation of each section would be quick and wont cause much chaos within the city. the crew consisted of over40 animators to make thi happen. Once again It is amazing what can be done with a bit creavtiviy can do. So sit back and enjoy.

Pixilation part 2

I feel quite bad has Ive not really made a post since last week. I just kept holding it off. Any way been experimenting with my pixilation project we were set to do has a group. I was really pleased with the shots we had and the narrative that we came up with. I thought it was really creative. I seem to write itself has we went along and shot the piece. I really like the idea of the of us sat in the Student union when we should be doing work and the chair from where we should be as come to get one of us and take us back to work. I just like the way the sketchy style of the way I run adds to the comedy value.

Hopefully I want people at first to ask and wonder why a chair is chasing a student around a university campus then they later realise that the reason this is happening is that, the should be in a class doing work but in fact sat down is the SU bar having a drink with friends.

We got the whole idea for the chase from an old advert "Bellys Gonna Get Ya" is about a jogger getting chased by a huge beer belly. The music on this would be class as metal, I think the music ads to the aggresiveness of the advert.

Pixilation

WOW! I've learnt so much in this past week. I especially enjoyed the stopmation animation we did in groups. Not editted it yet, seen what it looks like on the camera though. It looks a bit sketchy but I think that adds to the character of this tpye of animation. It also adds to the comedy of the sequence. Not too sure what music should be added to it yet, have to see what other people in the group say. But as soon as its edited its deffienately going to be posted on you tube.

I adsolutley love this animation. I was amazed at the fluentness of the sequence. I cant even contemplate how long this must of took.

Just been on youtube and viewed the whiteboard board animations we did last week. I could not believe how effective it looks when its all editted and set up. I'm defienatly going to try it myself. got my dry wipes ready to go. I thought I might aswell post the link to youtube here.

FIRST EVER BLOG

I've never really used a blog before. Only really got into facebook in the summer, only because of the dismal wether we had. But what an amazing tool that was, I found my self finding people I had not spoken to in years, not to mention how easy it is to contact friends for free whilst I'm at uni. So I was advised by my tutors to start a blog because it would be an easy way of getting my work noticed and saving my thoughts. I will deffinately make good use of this blog in the years to come. Oh just thought I would add the pin hole picture I did in the first week.