Last Post of Year 1 Multimedia

Today I finally finished the Visual essay, I had said on here earlier I had already but then I started to change things as I have already finished all my other projects, I have put the visual essay on a disc to give in tomorrow!

Plan for Tomorrow

Put all 3 projects on a disc and check it works in 108a!

Plus get David's help with my videos on flash!

Then everything is DONE and I just need to practice my presentation!!!!!!!!!!

Good luck everyone and have a wicked summer! Year 1 is DONE & OVER! WOOP! :D

Interactive Narrative Images

Moving Image

We finally finished our film in the last seminar and was editing it, we have previously spent about 2 days capturing and editing it together and all we had to do in the seminar was add our erie music. However we managed to lose what we had done SORRY GROUP! So we had to re-edit again which only took an hour but we made some scenes look a lot better as we went through it again so it wasn't all bad plus we did't lose the captured scenes! we then saved it on everybody's USB! On Friday we showed Jools and he gave us some feedback and we also got feedback from the other groups which I have already written up on here.

The zooming in on the phone should be 3 separate shots instead of 1 continous zoomed in shot:

The camera/camera man spent too long re-focusing the shot which added more useless frames that were out of focus. If the scene had been created using 3 shots which when then edited together the shot would be clearer to see and more to the point, but without losing its meaning in the story.

To cut off the zoom in in the bed scene as you already understand what's happening:

This was edited because you knew what was happing and it didn't need to be as long as it was as nothing else was going to happen in that shot. So cutting this down also help kept the viewer interested in the story without becoming bored with overly long scenes.

To repeat the first 2 smoke scenes to the end:

These scenes were shown again to show the audience that they already know what will happen after the room fills with smoke. It explains that the timeline of the film is broken and that it actually starts with the end. These two scenes were also shortened as it wasn't necessary to see the whole shots again as this would make the audience bored, but just as a refresher of what they had seen at the beginning to remind them that the scene they are seeing is in the wrong order.

To add the erie Music to the text message scenes as well:

The erie music that appears during the smoke scenes was added to all the text message scenes as it gave the audience an understanding of how the character was feeling whilst reading the messages and to give it a more erie feel, without the character having to speak. It also added tension and drama to the scene, which without would be boring and dull to watch. It also explained that these messages were from the same person/thing and has some relationship to the first two scene as it shares the same erie music.

Well I sent my Visual Essay to Jools and got some feedback and changed a few things so the visual essay is now complete and ready to give in! I have been working on my presentation and I have finished my powerpoint for it and I have written up a page and a bit of what I am going to be saying relating back to the learning outcomes.

I am going to put some images of my quiz on here as deviant art will not let me upload my project, just have one little problem with it now my videos are not working, so I hopefully am meeting David tomorrow! Once that is fixed well all the projects are completed! So I guess I can relax and just revise for this presentation!

Ambient Vapour

(Moving Image Project)

Visual Essay: Officially DONE! :D

Visual Essay

Today I have been working all day and have basically finished my visual essay woop! :D I am going to go through it another time tomorrow and finish off the bibliography and references.

zooms on the phone should be separate 3 shots instead of one continous zoomed in shot.

to cut off the zoom in the bed as you already get what is going on, so its being dragged out for no need

Moving Image

Today we finished the film! We got some feedback from the other groups, I thought I would put it on here so my group can see it and we can use it for our presentation.

Question 1: Did you understand the story?

• Not really, bit confusing, vague, couldn't tell the signifiance, the scrit was pretty confusing, but was filmed accurately.

Question 2: Is there anything specific that will improce the film?

• Sharper shots, looked a bit blurry, audio in places would improve it, sharper shots not all focused.

Question 3: Did the film remind you of any other film is so what?

• Nothing, Phonebooth

Question 4: Any overall comments?

• Good shots, good ideas, just need to be a bit clearer.

Visual Essay

Today I have been working all day AGAIN on this and I am officially exhausted! I managed to complete my task and finish my voice over, I have asked Jools to check it over tomorrow so there may be more to do yet! I have not put much more together on premiere for the visual essay as it will be easier once the voice over is done so I can put it in the right order then messing around with it now and confusing myself more.

My plan is too hopefully have the voice over completed latest by Sunday, next week possibly monday I want to hire out the sound case so I can record my voice overs and put them in the right place with the pictures, practitioners, interviews and etc.

I have also started to properly write a document out of the bibliography and references and god its annoying!

So Fingers crossed this Visual Essay should be wrapped up soonish as long as I keep putting these long days in.

I am very happy with how its turning out at the moment so let's keep this going! :D

Presentation

I have also started working on my presentation which I am doing on PowerPoint, I have managed to write a evaluation for each of the three projects. I have also imported links of two of the projects, but not the flash one as I plan to open the swf in the presentation for that.

Moving Image

Behind the Scenes

Here are a few pictures to show you all what we got up to!

Visual Essay

Today I worked all day on putting more ideas into my visual essay. I now have 6 practitioners were I have linked them together, I plan to also link my self in with the practitioners. I need to time myself on certain paragraphs I have put together on word for my voice over on premiere. I have decided to only talk in certain parts of the essay as I think talking for the whole movie would be too much. I am working all tomorrow on this visual essay, so maybe my task should be to finish planning what I am saying in the movie and then concentrate on putting it all in the right order.

PLAN: Have voice over ready!

I am very happy to say

3ds Max= DONE

Flash= DONE

Moving Image= DONE

Now to finish off the visual essay and plan my presentation! 13 days to go! :D

Moving Image

Today our group met up to edit our footage of our film, it went very well we managed to edit it all and add sound affects.

THAT'S A WRAP! :D

Thanks guys for all your hard work :D X

Moving Image

Yesterday myself and the group started to capture our film, I however had to leave early, however Helen has informed me that the group finished the rest of capturing the footage. We shall start editing the film on Tuesday! Exciting! :D

Flash

I have finally completed my Pub Quiz! Now just have to put it on deviant art and I will put the link here.

Behind the Scenes

StoryBoards

Here are all the storyboards drawn by our whole group.

Moving Image

Filming has been a success!! Woop! Yesterday we meet up at waverley and found that we needed to give security 24hours notice before using the smoke machine, so annoying as it was we improvised and decided to swop the filming day around with a different location. We ended up going to Simpson's and filming two scenes which went really well with the thanks to Fiona! Today we went back to Waverley and we're able to film use the smoke machine, our 3 actors all turned up and we did those few scenes and we managed to do our lecture scene too in 202 in Waverley. The plan has worked, everything is on time! Tomorrow is the last day for filming and we are going to the warehouse, where we will be using the street outside! Fingers crossed

it goes all well and then Friday we can start editing.

Here are my pictures for my part of the storyboards, once everyone else has posted their's I will link them all together and put them in order.

Flash

I recently met up with David again! I had 3 queries, 1 has been done and he has told me how to do the other two which I am going to try do tonight! Then Flash is COMPLETE!

Visual Essay

The visual essay, it is coming alone slowly, I have been focusing on filming this week but I will be rounded it all up next week. I have my interviews, adverts, pictures, practitioners, I need to plan what I am going to say for my voice over which will properly be about 5 minutes long.

Moving Image

Today is the 1st day of filming so lets see what happens! Good luck! :D