hiya,

This is my first respectable post; it took me a while to actually figure out how to post something but anyway. I originally applied do to Graphic Design and sadly I got rejected, however finding half of the students doing Multimedia went through the same thing as me I feel a lot better oops! I read about Multimedia and found it rather interesting and a bit more hands on and it seems it has a lot more opportunities. I decided to give it a shot and go for it. With in my first week of introductions to Multimedia I was introduced to Pinhole camera and White board animation.

Pinhole camera

I found this fascinating that people spend a fortune of cameras and we were learning to take pictures with an emptied bear can! I could not really understand how we were going to take a picture out of a bear can! However a lot of people I saw taking their pictures out of the can had some really good images and I have a black circle which did not seem right! I seemed to have placed the photographic paper over the pinhole giving me a rather embarrassing picture, hence why this has not be posted onto my blog!

White Board Animation

I found this really interesting, I have never done animation before and I was quite intrigued with how it works. My group had a lot of ideas and at first I felt quite shy as I did not know how to do it, but as I started to tell my ideas and see my peers in my group start I slowly became a big part in the drawing and it was really amazing how it all works and comes together. I would never have know you have to take 360 pictures to make a 30second piece!

Currently I am researching ideas for my own pixilation piece, I have taken out 2 interesting books one called Digital creativity by Bruce Wands and another called The Animation Bible by Maureen Furniss. I am hoping by reading these and looking online will give me a few ideas for my own piece.

Today I had my first Tutor Session and something Simon said "what is the world of your story and it’s rules" and if you have that as a guideline it will keep everything to what you wanted to show.