Here are two interesting clips I found on youtube, it reminds me of how Honda created their advert called the cog!

Seminar's 9th March

Jools: we had been set a task the week before to write an abstract of what pathway we wanted to do and then we brought them to class yesterday. We went around reading other peoples and writing down if there pathway was clear, if the research process was clear if so why and if not why not and also if they talked of any practitioners. After that we started to make a visual essay from the abstract people had written. I got some interesting feedback which was fair most people said I had stated my pathway but that my research process was not very clear and that i had stated practitioners.

Thing is I am stuck with choosing between Animation and Moving Image so I am finding it a bit hard. I really want to go into advertising like the adverts on the TV for example the rollacoster for Barclays, but i'm unsure if i want to film it or make it. I am not a strong drawer and i believe you need to be for animation and I do not enjoy being on the computer all the time. There fore film seems for appropriate for me but we will see.

Interactive Media

Today I managed to put my two videos in Flash which I made for what happens if you get one of the pub questions right or wrong. I have all my 20 questions and I plan to take some pictures of a pub this week to use in my flash. I am going to play the game Beat the Landlord too, to get some ideas to what keeps the person keen to play. I need some more interesting things in it to make it seem fun.

Lecture 9th March

(film)

Homicide Squad was written and directed by David Mamet. It is about an old Jewish lady who lived in New York, who was an owner of a candy store and has been gunned down for apparently having her fortune hidden in her basement. A Jewish homicide detective investigates the minor murder as he thinks but then he falls in with a Zionist group as a result.

A Zionist is " a worldwide Jewish movement that results in the establishment and development of the sate of Israel".

Final 3d Animation Picture of "My Secret Lair"

Animation- My Secret Lair

I decided to go back to my last project "My Secret Lair" and to make a few changes to the bits I was not happy with. My lair was based on the power-puff girls and I realised I did not include many toys or girly things. I was also un-happy with the lighting in the open kitchen area you could not even tell that was a kitchen and finally in my lab I felt that you would not know it was a lab. Therefore I have included some bunny rabbit teddy bears, a phone which was the hotline in the series of the power-puff girls. Also I sorted the lighting in the kitchen and made a few more objects in the lab. I also on my television screen had a picture but it was not relevant so I put the power-puff girls on i. I also hung a picture of the professor and the girls in the lair too to make it seem more homey. I was also un-happy with the video layout out at the end where it seemed to go through the television so I made it hover over now which looks a lot better. I then rendered it but realised there was a few more things I was not happy with. Here are some pictures of the changes I did however:

Further on going

I am going to make a few more changes then I will post my final pictures up and the video. I am not happy with the lighting where the tea pot is and also behind the television and in the entrance of the lair. Also the picture on the television seems to be wonky and my lamp in the lab seems to be being eaten by the floor. The rug in the lab seems to be a little too high off the floor and finally one of the steps in the playroom is too close the the big cushioned pillows.

Seminars 2nd March

Today Jools introduced us to Sketchup 7 which is a really easy way of creating houses or anything you want really, I have downloaded it on my laptop and think it is really useful and kind of a fun software.

Online Environments

Yesterday I had an interesting lesson, learning how to make a series of questions and be able to click on them and they take you to the right page. I have put together a bunch of questions for my pub quiz but I am basing it on a new game I recently played at a pub called Beat the Landlord. My questions are based on music, cities, characters, drugs, old facts, transport, animals, a real general sense of knowledge, there are going to be 20 questions. I have written out a rough idea of how the score system would work at the end of the game.

End of the Game

0 Points- Barred

1-3 Points- Buy the round

4-6 Points- Buy a pint for the Landlord

7-10 Points- Average Drinker

11-15 Points- Weekly Drinker

16-19 Points- Happy Hour

20 Points- The pub landlord.

I also plan to use a bit of animation in my quiz too which I learnt from last term in animation, I want to do some pixilation of a beer pouring. Basically if you got a question wrong your beer would get lower and if you got a question right you would get more beer. I also plan to put sound affects with this too to make it more realistic and exciting.

Lecture 2nd March

What is technology?

• Broad definition.
• A way of speeding up and improving things.
• A practical application from research to industry.
• A continuous development.
• A structure of knowledge which relates to a bit of equipment.
• Multimedia.
• Enhances us as human beings.

What is History? who writes it? who makes it?

• Anything that has happened in the past.
• Anyone can make history.
• History is not always planned, it can just happen.
• Old Times.
• A recording of the past from their own perspective times, events.
• Human interpretation of past events.
• Not necessarily a recording.
• Anyone makes, writes it from this point in time.

David Hockney- Secret Knowledge 1990- Imagination (BBC Film)

To be really honest I felt this film was not in any way helpful to me, I feel as of lately I am taking a fine art course. The week before this we analysed a bunch of pictures which was really boring and unhelpful too. I feel since being put together with theatre students they are benefitting more from these lectures than multimedia students. I have talked to a bunch of people and they too also feel the same anyone else?