Interactive Narrative

Well today I have started my new project called Interactive Narrative, my idea is to create a game based on a spooky house and you have to go explore so that you can find the key to get out, otherwise you'll end up being trapped forever. I Have created some of the pictures and here are a few to show:

The Meal Project

Last week in my tutor group we decided to do this project called the meal project, where is it a collaboration between students at Nottingham Trent and Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts.

Today my first task is to take photographs of every minute for each hour of my waking day. However everyone realised that would be nearly impossible so we are taking relevant photographs for the things we do in one day, otherwise we would end up with too many images of the same thing.

In the Blink of an Eye

Chapter 7- Most with the least

• You can never judge the quality of a sound mix simply by counting the number of tracks it took to produce it.
• Always try to do the most with the least! - attempt to produce the greatest effect in the viewer's mind by the least number of things on screen.
• You only want what is necessary to engage the imagination of the audience- suggestion is always more effective than exposition.
• The more effort you put into wealth of detail the more you encourage the audience to become spectators rather than participants.
• Film is cut for practical reasons and film is cut because cutting that sudden disruption of reality can be an effective took in itself.

Chapter 8- The Rule of Six

• Film is all about how the audience feel/
• EMOTION- it is true to the emotion of the moment
• STORY- it advances the story
• RHYTHM- it occurs at a moment that is rhythmically interesting and right.
• EYE-TRACE- it acknowledges what you might call eye-trace- the concern with the location and movement of the audience's focus of interest within the frame.
• TWO-DIMENSIONAL PLANE OF SCREEN- it respects planarity- the grammar of 3 dimensions transposed by photography of two.
• THREE-DIMENSIONAL PLANE OF ACTION- it respects the 3-dimensional continuity of the actual space.
• Never accept less when more is available to you.

Evaluation

One shot short film

As you have seen earlier on in my blog our tape for our group got destroyed by the machine, so we were unable to do anything. As an outcome of it we had to go and re-film and here is the real stuff! It was a good thing and bad thing that we had to re-film, bad because it is time consuming and we were thinking oh no we wont have enough time to edit it! it was also a good thing due to listening to the first video before it was eaten and the sound was very poor and the overall lighting was poor. In our 2nd footage we ended up not needing to use the microphone and just using more light. I feel this project went very well, all of our team members always turned up and we never argued, we all had ideas and all shared them and made it into one amazing piece.

TEAMWORK!!!!! =)

In the Blink of an Eye

Chapter 5- Why do cuts work?

• Every other theatrical film is made up of many different pieces of film joined together into a mosaic of images.
• In the states, films is cut which puts the emphasis on separation.
• In Great Britain, film is joined with the emphasis on bringing together.
• Film is being cut 24 times a second, each frame is a displacement from the previous one.
• European film makers tend to shoot more complex master shots than the americans.
• The longer the take, of course, the greater the chances of a mistake.
• We would want to cut even if discontinuity were not of such great practical value.

Chapter 6- Cut out the bad bits

• Editing is STRUCTURE, COLOUR, DYNAMICS & MANIPULATION OF TIME.
• Editing if cutting out the bad bits, what are bad bits?
• When you are shooting a home movie and the camera wanders, that's obviously a bad bit, and it's clear that you want to cut it out.
• Information in the DNA can be seen as uncut film and the mysterious sequencing code as the editor.

Research

Oren Lavie

I had found this video by looking onto other people's blogs and when

I watched it I loved it! It has made me realise how much work goes into

advertising, I mean when I did my two pixilation pieces one was about

340 images and the other was about 864. I can not even imagine how

much work went into this project. It's weird how its really a simply idea

thats turned out to be great, I mean the setting is not amazing but all the

little bitsthey have put together has made this a very interesting piece.

This piece was created by a man called Oren Lavie, this man is a very

creative person and has a lot of talent he is a singer, songwriter,

playwright and theatre director.

Pixar

Lifted, For the Birds & Presto

These 3 short films above, I found very funny and interesting.

Pixar has some amazing talented people one whom is called

Gini Santos, she is working for one of the biggest animation

studios known as PIXAR. She is the one who started to work

on the video below called Lifted and ever since that she

has been working on every single Pixar piece. Santos at the

beginning studied advertising however this did not fulfil her

enough so she went back and studied animation in New York

and she sent her final work to the following companies Disney, PDI,

Blue Sky and Pixar. Where she received offers from 3 of them, she

choose to go with Pixar. She was also involved with the amazing

film Ratatouille.

Billys Ballon

Don Hertzfeldt

Hertzfeldt is the creator of many short animated films,

his animated films have received over 100 awards and

have been presented in over 1000 film festivals and venues

worldwide. I really enjoyed watching Billys Ballon, the drawings

are not great they are very childlike, however the simplicity of it

makes it work and makes it humorous.

DISASTER

Well after myself and the group did a amazingly great one shot short film, we went to our class on tuesday and as you can see the tape got destroyed! the machine had literally eaten it! So to our distraught we had to leave the class as we could do nothing about it and had to go re-film the next evening. This was a good and bad thing due to being pushed for time and it being a general pain but then we got a chance to go over it again and make it even better!